French counterinsurgency used turned F.L.N. members as infiltrators in the Casbah

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

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines la bleuite, the sinister name for the French penetration technique.
• XREF: Connects to the broader story of French intelligence penetration tactics against urban guerrilla networks. — connects to: Algerian informers for the colonial police were highly dangerous to the F.L.N.; The F.L.N. infiltrated and neutralized Camus’s ‘civil truce’ from within; The F.L.N. recruited Casbah criminals through prison politicization and initiation tests — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 562 (+3 more)

Related

• Algerian informers for the colonial police were highly dangerous to the F.L.N. (similarity 0.90)
• French penetration of the F.L.N. netted a whole zone’s general staff (similarity 0.83)
• The F.L.N. infiltrated and neutralized Camus’s ‘civil truce’ from within (similarity 0.83)
• The F.L.N. recruited Casbah criminals through prison politicization and initiation tests (similarity 0.80)
• The F.L.N. infiltrated and turned the French-made Force K against them (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The F.L.N. infiltrated and turned the French-made Force K against them #corroborates (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 798
• The F.L.N. mirrored French collective responsibility with collective reprisals #corroborates (0.30)