OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES
 
               WASHINGTON, D.C.
 
                    19 June 1944
 
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
 
                           Our Bern representative has recently sent us reports relating to the Comite 
 
National des Corps Elus de la Republique. The source of the material, whose reliability is rated 
 
very highly, has had a great deal of army, political and business (railroad) experience under the 
 
Third Republique. Although you may already have read some of this material (it has been made 
 
available to Admiral Leahy and the White House Map Room), because of its relevance on the de 
 
Gaulle problem, I pass a summary of it on to you without comment.
 
                           The Comite is a resistance movement headed by fourteen deputies and senators 
 
under Laurent-Eynac, a former Senator. The backbone of the Comite consists of 300 
 
parliamentarians chiefly drawn from the Radical Socialist party. It considers itself the 
 
constitutional representative of France until elections can be held,