France deliberately sacrificed its barbouze operatives to distract the O.A.S.
Evidence
Thus died the last of Bitterlin’s barbouzes. The operation had been a disastrous failure; on the other hand, information provided by it had enabled Hacq’s professionals to arrest some 600 members of the O.A.S., including sixty-nine killers. Later, Pérez himself admitted that attacking the barbouzes had been a big tactical error: “They were too easy. They were sent to Algiers specifically to be killed — to distract the O.A.S. from getting on with its main job…. We fell into the trap … Godard in fact warned us against it. He was right.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1505
Categorization
- QUESTION: If the barbouzes were knowingly sacrificial bait, how much of the tally of deaths was a calculated French intel decision?
- XREF: connects to: The sacrificial barbouzes served as a decoy that exposed the OAS; The anti-O.A.S. barbouzes were amateur amateurs outmatched by the Deltas — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1499; The O.A.S. killed France’s secret counter-terrorists by booby-trapping their own printing press — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1503 (+2 more)
Related
- The sacrificial barbouzes served as a decoy that exposed the OAS (similarity 0.92)
- The O.A.S. killed France’s secret counter-terrorists by booby-trapping their own printing press (similarity 0.84)
- The anti-O.A.S. barbouzes were amateur amateurs outmatched by the Deltas (similarity 0.83)
- The O.A.S. extorted pieds noirs with surveillance and threats (similarity 0.80)
- The O.A.S. terror campaign backfired and sped French withdrawal from Algeria. (similarity 0.80)
- Killing French conscripts turned the army decisively against the O.A.S. (similarity 0.78)
- The O.A.S. continued assassinating de Gaulle long after Algeria fell. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Killing French conscripts turned the army decisively against the O.A.S.
#corroborates(0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1601 - The O.A.S. terror campaign backfired and sped French withdrawal from Algeria.
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