The Algiers FLN network replaced pyramidal cells with friend-to-friend recruitment

Evidence

Its leader, Larbi Alilat, son of a Kabyle caid from the Soummam valley and a veteran of the 1957 Battle of Algiers, renounced the old rigid pyramidal structure of Yacef’s Z.A.A. which had become so disastrously susceptible to bleuite penetration. Instead, each trusted member of the network was instructed to recruit one lifelong friend. Co-ordinated under the aegis of a newly reconstructed Wilaya 4, a minimum of carefully chosen operations was attempted in the course of the year. Thus the growth of Alilat’s force went on largely undisturbed by the French security forces. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1267

Categorization

• QUESTION: The friend-to-friend cell design was a direct response to bleuite penetration — worth comparing to other counter-intelligence-resistant structures.
• XREF: connects to: French intelligence mapped the F.L.N. hierarchy through an evolving blackboard pyramid — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 576; FLN cell structure and targeting rules borrowed from French resistance and Viet-Minh — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 254

Related

• FLN cell structure and targeting rules borrowed from French resistance and Viet-Minh (similarity 0.89)
• F.L.N. borrowed its cell structure and tactics from French resistance and Viet-Minh (similarity 0.84)
• French intelligence mapped the F.L.N. hierarchy through an evolving blackboard pyramid (similarity 0.84)
• FLN gained most from French brutal strike-breaking methods. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• FLN cell structure and targeting rules borrowed from French resistance and Viet-Minh #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 254