Mehdi Ben Barka

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Mehdi Ben Barka
المهدي بن بركة
Born	January 1920 (1920) Rabat, Morocco
Disappeared	29 October 1965 (aged 45) Paris, France
Status	Missing for 59 years and 13 days
Nationality	Moroccan
Education	Lycée Lyautey
Occupation(s)	Nationalism, Politician, Revolutionary, Writer.
Political party	Istiqlal Party (1944–1959) National Union of Popular Forces (1959–?)

Mehdi Ben Barka (Arabic: المهدي بن بركة, romanized: al-Mahdī bin Baraka; 1920 – disappeared 29 October 1965) was a Moroccan nationalist, Arab socialist,^[1] politician, revolutionary, anti-imperialist, head of the left-wing National Union of Popular Forces (UNFP) and secretary of the Tricontinental Conference. An opponent of French imperialism and King Hassan II, he "disappeared" in Paris in 1965.

Many theories attempting to explain what happened to him were put forward over the years; in 2018 new claims regarding his disappearance were made by Israeli journalist and author Ronen Bergman in his book Rise And Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations. Based on research and interviews with Israeli intelligence operatives who were involved in planning the kidnapping of Barka, Bergman concluded that he was located by the Mossad on behalf of Moroccan intelligence, who assisted the latter in planning the murder ultimately committed by Moroccan agents and French police, after which the Mossad disposed of his body.^[2]