French intelligence secretly controlled European factories to sabotage FLN arms shipments

Evidence

A consignment of plastic explosive from Sweden would turn out to have been mysteriously transformed into casein somewhere along the way. Two arms factories in Switzerland and Spain actually became “controlled” by Bureau 24 in much the same way that Léger had played the recrudescent F.L.N. network in Algiers, and busied themselves fabricating faulty firearms and instantaneous fused grenades for the arms salesmen. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 811

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors Léger’s double-agent technique in Algiers described earlier in this chapter — the sabotage is industrial espionage applied behind enemy supply lines. — connects to: French signals intelligence impersonated dead FLN commanders to lure reinforcements into ambushes — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1219

Related

• French agents staged their own side’s bombings to win the F.L.N.’s trust (similarity 0.80)
• French signals intelligence impersonated dead FLN commanders to lure reinforcements into ambushes (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• French signals intelligence impersonated dead FLN commanders to lure reinforcements into ambushes #expands (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1219