The F.L.N. framed a French proxy for attacks to destroy his credibility

Evidence

An expert in changing sides and treachery, he is described by Yves Courrière as an arrant liar; nevertheless, he too was encouraged (also under the aegis of the D.S.T.) to set up a counter-guerrilla in the Orléansville area, on the western fringes of the F.L.N.’s Wilaya 4. Although Kobus appears not to have betrayed the French, the Wilaya 4 leaders—the astute Si M’hamed and Omar Oussedik—cunningly created a series of incidents against the French which were made to look as if Kobus were the author. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 800

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how a resistance movement neutralizes collaborators by discrediting rather than killing them.
• XREF: connects to: The F.L.N. infiltrated and turned the French-made Force K against them — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 798; 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; The F.L.N. leadership’s internal liquidation replicated the French Revolution’s terror against its own

Related

• The F.L.N. infiltrated and turned the French-made Force K against them (similarity 0.86)
• French agents staged their own side’s bombings to win the F.L.N.’s trust (similarity 0.82)
• The F.L.N. infiltrated and neutralized Camus’s ‘civil truce’ from within (similarity 0.79)
• French double agents inside the F.L.N. betrayed Yacef and Ali la Pointe (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The F.L.N. leadership’s internal liquidation replicated the French Revolution’s terror against its own #complicates (0.35)