MALAGASY NATIONAL POLICE

Biographical data on Victor Ramanitra -
1. Victor Ramanitra, former Director General.of the-National Police
and at present Procureur Gen ta1(Attorpey General) since .-l- October
1961, was born in 1923 in Tananarive.
2. He is married, with seven children. Hamanitra-and his wife are
both of noble Merina ancestry and live in a palatial residence now a
Justice Department building, but formerly the home -qf a noble and rela­
tive of Ramanitra's spouse.
3. He is very suave,. poised, with excellent manners which reflect'
education and money not of recent date.
4. He was educated entirely in Madagascar but visited France sev­
eral times on pleasure trips. He is reputed to be -an outstanding law­
yer and teaches law at the Tananarive Law School. He speaks excellent
French and very limited English. He is a good conversationalist, with
a good sense of humor.
5. He is a quiet and expensive dresser, drives a personal car, an
ID-Citroen of late model. He receives 15,000 CFA per month subsidy for
the car regardless of how much he uses it for official business.
6. He is well aware of the lack of education and administrative ex­
perienc6 of many Malagasy Government officials, and cautions against
haste in replacement of French nationals in the Judicial and Police or­
ganizations by Malagasy. ,
- 7. He appears to be pro-American and has stated several times that
he would like to visit the United States and Attorney General Kennedy
for whom he has great admiration.
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