Paris received precise warnings of the putsch but ignored them

Evidence

Early in March Louis Joxe had heard disquieting rumours in Paris and had passed these on to Jean Morin in Algiers. Snippets of information had flowed into French Intelligence from a variety of sources. These included François Coulet, Morin’s political adviser and de Gaulle’s private listening-post in Algiers; Herr Blankenhorn, the West German Ambassador in Paris; and Lucien Bitterlin, leader of the Mouvement pour la Communauté in Algeria (whose informant was found floating in a river a few days later). The G.P.R.A. itself allegedly filtered back to the French Ministry of the Interior the names of the four generals as well as the precise date of the expected putsch. But, as so often happens, virtually nothing seems to have been done to act on the information received. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1361

Categorization

• XREF: The GPRA leaking the date reinforces the surprising FLN-parallel thread of the reader’s interest. — connects to: French intelligence warnings were dismissed during the holiday season; French intelligence learned of the plot months early but ignored the tip-off — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 259

Related

• French intelligence warnings were dismissed during the holiday season (similarity 0.93)
• French intelligence learned of the plot months early but ignored the tip-off (similarity 0.89)
• The 13 May coup was widely forewarned yet nothing was done to prevent it. (similarity 0.79)
• The 13 May coup was widely foreknown yet nobody stopped it (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• French intelligence learned of the plot months early but ignored the tip-off #corroborates (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 259