French para raids dismantled Yacef’s entire Algiers bomb network by February 1957

Evidence

On 19 February a jubilant Bigeard announced that his 3rd R.P.C. had seized eighty-seven bombs, seventy kilos of explosive, 5,120 fulminate of mercury detonators, 309 electric detonators, etc.; many of the bomb network were either identified or already under lock and key. Yacef’s organisation, which had taken eighteen months to construct, had all but fallen apart. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 575

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The French government’s secret parley with Yacef deepened army distrust of civil rule — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 680; French double agents inside the F.L.N. betrayed Yacef and Ali la Pointe — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 804

Related

• The French government’s secret parley with Yacef deepened army distrust of civil rule (similarity 0.86)
• French double agents inside the F.L.N. betrayed Yacef and Ali la Pointe (similarity 0.83)
• French agents staged their own side’s bombings to win the F.L.N.’s trust (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The French government’s secret parley with Yacef deepened army distrust of civil rule #expands (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 680
• French double agents inside the F.L.N. betrayed Yacef and Ali la Pointe #corroborates (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 804