Pied noir settlers plotted repeatedly to kill de Gaulle over Algeria

Evidence

Already the previous month word had reached French security of a crazy plot to kidnap de Gaulle from the Elysée, hatched by a highly decorated sergeant-major of the Indo-China war who headed a group called the National Revolutionary Committee. Now there were recurrent warnings of an assassination attempt, and not least one from the ubiquitous and well-informed Israeli Intelligence Service, based, no doubt, on information supplied by Algeria’s divided Jewish community. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1299

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the trajectory toward the O.A.S. killings later in the volume; Israeli intelligence sourcing is a striking detail. — connects to: De Gaulle publicly declared Papa’s Algeria dead to challenge pied noir delusions — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1029; De Gaulle relocated his Algerian government to escape pied noir mobs — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1290; Ultra settlers mounted multiple improvised assassination attempts on de Gaulle’s tour — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1301 (+1 more)

Related

• De Gaulle relocated his Algerian government to escape pied noir mobs (similarity 0.87)
• The O.A.S. continued assassinating de Gaulle long after Algeria fell. (similarity 0.86)
• De Gaulle publicly declared Papa’s Algeria dead to challenge pied noir delusions (similarity 0.82)
• Ultras believed they could depose de Gaulle as they had raised him (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle relocated Algeria’s command to Rocher-Noir to escape ultra mobs, but too late. (similarity 0.81)
• De Gaulle declared pied noir colonial nostalgia politically dead in 1959. (similarity 0.81)
• Ultra settlers mounted multiple improvised assassination attempts on de Gaulle’s tour (similarity 0.80)
• A bodyguard assigned to protect de Gaulle nearly assassinated him in Oranie (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria was only one element of de Gaulle’s larger ambitions. (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle declared nostalgia for colonial Algeria was a death sentence. (similarity 0.79)
• The O.A.S. extorted pieds noirs with surveillance and threats (similarity 0.79)
• Algiers ultras harbored deep Pétainist loyalties and distrust of de Gaulle (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle’s allies saw Algeria as subordinate to the French state’s crisis (similarity 0.78)
• De Gaulle’s true intentions on Algeria remain a fundamentally contested riddle. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Ultra settlers mounted multiple improvised assassination attempts on de Gaulle’s tour #corroborates (0.90) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1301
• The O.A.S. continued assassinating de Gaulle long after Algeria fell. #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1645