Martin Antonenko
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The "OAS": Military And Politicians Found A Terrorist Organization!
On January 20, 1961, three prominent Frenchmen meet in a hotel in fascist Madrid under extremely conspiratorial circumstances:
Jean-Jacques Susini (on the left in the picture, in a suit)...
...an important ideologue of the neo-fascist party "RPF" (Rassemblement du peuple français, "Rallying Movement of the French People"), in which he leads the far right wing...
Raoul Salan...
...a General of the French Army, Inspector General of the Army, who previously fought as Deputy Commander in French Indochina, where he earned the Grand Cross of the Légion d'Honneur...
..and Pierre Lagaillarde...
Lawyer (and previously paratrooper officer) and non-party member of the French Parliament for the then department of Algeria, nationalist activist against Algerian independence and supporter of the status quo of the Algerian department during the Algerian War.
All three have a strong connection to the department of Algeria: Susini was born there, as was Lagaillarde - both are therefore among the so-called "Pieds noirs" (black feet), as the Algerian French are generally called in France, Salan and Lagaillarde have in Algeria commanded troops and fought against the independence movement.
And all three participants in this secret meeting share the fear that General de Gaulle's French government could grant Algeria independence.
When the three separate again after a few hours, they have founded the "Organisation de l'armée secrète" (OAS), which is preventing Algeria's independence through terrorist actions in France and, if possible, de Gaulle, whom they believe to be the driving force behind a free Algeria keep killing.
The tasks are also distributed:
Jean-Jacques Susini takes over the propaganda work of the underground terrorists, General Raoul Salan the "military planning" (he should keep his army post, which gives him valuable information!) and Pierre Lagaillarde, a pure desparado, is supposed to carry out the execution of Command acts of terrorism on the ground.
As a result, the "OAS" will have an extremely bloody effect, since many members who are ready for anything will flock to it - almost all of them belong to the "Pieds Noirs", who are driven by fear of the future and hatred of the government.
President de Gaulle will narrowly survive two assassination attempts by the OAS...
...one in front only because his Citroen DS manages to escape on three wheels despite a shot-out tire thanks to its hydropneumatic suspension...
In French Algeria, at the height of the terror in 1961, an average of 120 OAS bombs per week (!) go off...:
In the Algerian coastal town of Oran in May 1962, ten to fifteen people - mostly Algerians - die in bomb attacks by the OAS...:
Whoever the OAS terrorists identify among the French as the enemy of their cause lives no less dangerously:
On May 31, 1962, the French chief of police in Algiers, Roger Gavoury...
... by Albert Dovecar and Claude Piegds...
... two paratroopers and members of the OAS is murdered...:
**continued next post**
On January 20, 1961, three prominent Frenchmen meet in a hotel in fascist Madrid under extremely conspiratorial circumstances:
Jean-Jacques Susini (on the left in the picture, in a suit)...
...an important ideologue of the neo-fascist party "RPF" (Rassemblement du peuple français, "Rallying Movement of the French People"), in which he leads the far right wing...
Raoul Salan...
...a General of the French Army, Inspector General of the Army, who previously fought as Deputy Commander in French Indochina, where he earned the Grand Cross of the Légion d'Honneur...
..and Pierre Lagaillarde...
Lawyer (and previously paratrooper officer) and non-party member of the French Parliament for the then department of Algeria, nationalist activist against Algerian independence and supporter of the status quo of the Algerian department during the Algerian War.
All three have a strong connection to the department of Algeria: Susini was born there, as was Lagaillarde - both are therefore among the so-called "Pieds noirs" (black feet), as the Algerian French are generally called in France, Salan and Lagaillarde have in Algeria commanded troops and fought against the independence movement.
And all three participants in this secret meeting share the fear that General de Gaulle's French government could grant Algeria independence.
When the three separate again after a few hours, they have founded the "Organisation de l'armée secrète" (OAS), which is preventing Algeria's independence through terrorist actions in France and, if possible, de Gaulle, whom they believe to be the driving force behind a free Algeria keep killing.
The tasks are also distributed:
Jean-Jacques Susini takes over the propaganda work of the underground terrorists, General Raoul Salan the "military planning" (he should keep his army post, which gives him valuable information!) and Pierre Lagaillarde, a pure desparado, is supposed to carry out the execution of Command acts of terrorism on the ground.
As a result, the "OAS" will have an extremely bloody effect, since many members who are ready for anything will flock to it - almost all of them belong to the "Pieds Noirs", who are driven by fear of the future and hatred of the government.
President de Gaulle will narrowly survive two assassination attempts by the OAS...
...one in front only because his Citroen DS manages to escape on three wheels despite a shot-out tire thanks to its hydropneumatic suspension...
In French Algeria, at the height of the terror in 1961, an average of 120 OAS bombs per week (!) go off...:
In the Algerian coastal town of Oran in May 1962, ten to fifteen people - mostly Algerians - die in bomb attacks by the OAS...:
Whoever the OAS terrorists identify among the French as the enemy of their cause lives no less dangerously:
On May 31, 1962, the French chief of police in Algiers, Roger Gavoury...
... by Albert Dovecar and Claude Piegds...
... two paratroopers and members of the OAS is murdered...:
**continued next post**
