Ahmed al-Boukhari, a former agent of Cab-1, the political cell of Morocco’s internal intelligence service DST, claimed he processed information connected to the 1960s abduction and murder of dissident Mehdi Ben Barka. Boukhari said CIA personnel, including an alleged Colonel Martin, were involved and that Ben Barka’s body was secretly taken to Morocco and dissolved in acid. He acknowledged he was not present at the crime scene, and Moroccan pro-government newspapers disputed his account, describing him as a fraud and liar; the claims therefore remain contested rather than established fact.
Boukhari published Le Secret and Raisons d’état, the latter in 2005, describing DST operations and repression of socialist-left dissidents from the 1960s through the 1980s. Former DST employees and Interior Ministry officials named in his books filed defamation suits, while authorities also pursued him over ordinary matters including dishonoured cheques—actions he and supporters characterized as harassment. Morocco refused his passport request in 2001, preventing him from testifying in France; after an administrative lawsuit, he received a passport in early 2006. Boukhari died in Casablanca on 16 February 2025, leaving his disclosures as a rare insider account of alleged state repression, but not a definitive judicial resolution of the Ben Barka affair.
