The F.L.N. infiltrated and neutralized Camus’s ‘civil truce’ from within

Evidence

With the Affaire K you thought you were introducing a Trojan horse into the heart of the Algerian resistance. You were deceived. Those whom you took for traitors to the Algerian nation were pure patriots…. We thank you for having procured us arms that will help us to liberate our country. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 798 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Under the inspiration of Captain Léger, an Arabic expert with the 11th Shock, selected turncoats clad inconspicuously in workers’ dungarees, or bleus de chauffe, were unleashed in the Casbah to mingle with their former terrorist associates and lead Godard’s intelligence operatives to the bosses’ lairs. The technique was to achieve such success that the expression la bleuite, or “the blues”, later assumed a particularly sinister connotation in the war as a whole. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 661 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

But at the same time the A.L.N.’s losses had been twice that number, and in trained djounoud it could ill spare. Morale among the combatants in some units was shakier than it had perhaps ever been; following the mysterious “liquidation” of Ramdane Abane, the atmosphere in the higher echelons of the C.C.E. was far from happy; inside the country war-weariness, ever latent, showed signs of taking a greater hold as the “exterior” proved increasingly incapable of supplying the “interior” with the arms it so badly needed. There was more talk about a “compromise” peace, and as morale waned within so did enthusiasm among the Muslim “brothers” abroad upon whom the F.L.N. relied for arms and support. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 962 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Camus’s civil truce campaign was secretly infiltrated by the F.L.N.; 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 counterinsurgency used turned F.L.N. members as infiltrators in the Casbah — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 661 (+2 more)

Related

• Camus’s civil truce campaign was secretly infiltrated by the F.L.N. (similarity 0.93)
• The F.L.N. infiltrated and turned the French-made Force K against them (similarity 0.86)
• French counterinsurgency used turned F.L.N. members as infiltrators in the Casbah (similarity 0.83)
• War-weariness and compromise talk spread inside the F.L.N. after 13 May (similarity 0.81)
• The F.L.N. framed a French proxy for attacks to destroy his credibility (similarity 0.79)
• Algerian informers for the colonial police were highly dangerous to the F.L.N. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The F.L.N. infiltrated and turned the French-made Force K against them #exemplifies (0.45) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 798
• French counterinsurgency used turned F.L.N. members as infiltrators in the Casbah #exemplifies (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 661
• War-weariness and compromise talk spread inside the F.L.N. after 13 May #complicates (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 962
• Ramadan reads Camus to argue doubt animates the West but not Islam #responds-to (0.35)