THE SITUATION IN FRANCE AND ALGERIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79S00427A000500030008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 24, 1961
• Content Type: MF

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24 April 1961
Y EMORAt )UM FOR THE PRESIDENT
SLBJ$CI. The "47 is Cr in F,.abice and Algeria.
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In Algeria, insurgent leaders remain in control of most of
the territory though it seems clear that largge'elewents of the military
there, as in France itself, have not fully declared themselvem. There.
in yet no indication, however, that more ]oy ,t.'br' i4seive eleseats
would challenge the Legion and parmitroopers '? i' -, attle
In Frwe, the government actions on t f 6
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April sppd.ar ' to -have reduced the prospeot
g`raaee by, the insurgent leaders--if indeed.;'
*f tnv*siigrn,' These measures also seems' tc
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.p of i 1.ta r ? - - iet= cc,z.t nLes~. other emergency measures
being relaxed, Bowe=er--`anks and armored cars are being withdrawn
from the city, roadblocks and airport barrioadee removed and commercial
1 _ - ar ?,'.c 1&rly among younger groups. The call
flights resumed at Paris airports.
De Gaulle is unlikely to give any ground to the demands of the
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