Algerian informers for the colonial police were highly dangerous to the F.L.N.

Evidence

Under the inspiration of Captain Léger, an Arabic expert with the 11th Shock, selected turncoats clad inconspicuously in workers’ dungarees, or bleus de chauffe, were unleashed in the Casbah to mingle with their former terrorist associates and lead Godard’s intelligence operatives to the bosses’ lairs. The technique was to achieve such success that the expression la bleuite, or “the blues”, later assumed a particularly sinister connotation in the war as a whole. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 661 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The FLN targeted native police to cripple French counterinsurgency.; French counterinsurgency used turned F.L.N. members as infiltrators in the Casbah — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 661

Related

• French counterinsurgency used turned F.L.N. members as infiltrators in the Casbah (similarity 0.90)
• French penetration of the F.L.N. netted a whole zone’s general staff (similarity 0.80)
• The F.L.N. infiltrated and neutralized Camus’s ‘civil truce’ from within (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The FLN targeted native police to cripple French counterinsurgency. #expands (0.85)
• French counterinsurgency used turned F.L.N. members as infiltrators in the Casbah #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 661