PARIS, June 24: France’s principal counter-espionage agency, the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) says, in a secret report, that the People’s Mujahedeen activists who were arrested here on June 17 during an early-morning roundup were preparing a series of targeted assassinations and armed operations throughout Europe, that may have included a terrorist attack against the US embassy here.

French police say that is the conclusion they’ve drawn from a Paris city map, found at People’s Mujahedeen headquarters here on which two streets near the embassy, Rues Royale and Boissy d’Anglas, are highlighted.

According to police sources quoted in Tuesday morning’s issue of Le Figaro, “it’s a document that leads us to believe that the Mudahedeen were preparing something with regard to this objective,” i.e., the US embassy.

Although originally DST head Pierre de Bousquet de Florian had noted that the attacks had not targeted France, but “other European countries,” the information revealed on Monday by police would seem to indicate that the Mujahedeen had in fact been preparing an attack to go off in central Paris, not far from the well-protected site of the US embassy compound.