French intelligence mapped the F.L.N. hierarchy through an evolving blackboard pyramid

Evidence

Under his supervision, a complex organigramme began to take shape on a large blackboard, a kind of skeleton pyramid in which, as each fresh piece of information came from the interrogation centres, another name (and not always necessarily the right name) would be entered. Until the actual capture of Ben M’hidi the name at the summit of the pyramid remained blank. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 576

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: The Algiers FLN network replaced pyramidal cells with friend-to-friend recruitment — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1267; The SYL nationalized politics by reversing Italian colonial clan-based social engineering

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