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    The Organisation armée secrète (OAS, "Secret Army Organisation") was a far-right French dissident paramilitary and terrorist organisation during the Algerian...
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  • The Day of the Jackal (film) (category Fiction about the Organisation armée secrète)
    film of the 20th century. On 22 August 1962, the militant underground organisation OAS, infuriated by the French government granting independence to Algeria...
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    French Army general and the founder of the Organisation armée secrète, a clandestine terrorist organisation that sought to maintain French Algeria by preventing...
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  • Jackal (The Day of the Jackal) (category Fiction about the Organisation armée secrète)
    The Jackal is a fictional character, the principal antagonist of the novel The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth. He is an assassin who is contracted...
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  • was a French political figure, militant and cofounder of the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), a paramilitary organization opposing Algerian independence...
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    at military coups. Most of the former were carried out by the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), an underground organization formed mainly from French military...
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  • an organisation in the French Resistance during WW II Organisation armée secrète, a French dissident paramilitary organization during the Algerian War...
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    SDECE (French intelligence agency), and a founding member of the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), a French terrorist group that fought against Algerian independence...
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  • The Day of the Jackal (category Fiction about the Organisation armée secrète)
    incurred the wrath of the anti-decolonisation paramilitary group Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) which then vowed to assassinate him. Forsyth befriended...
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  • Petit-Clamart attack (category Organisation armée secrète)
    attempt organized by Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Bastien-Thiry with the Organisation armée secrète (OAS) that aimed to kill Charles de Gaulle, president of France...
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  • Georges Watin (category Fiction about the Organisation armée secrète)
    agricultural manager and militant activist of the counter-revolutionary Organisation armée secrète. He was involved in torture, murder, bombings and assassination...
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    The armée secrète was a French military organization active during World War II. The collective grouped the paramilitary formations of the three most...
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    Georges Bidault (category Members of the Organisation armée secrète)
    minister and premier on several occasions. He apparently joined the Organisation armée secrète; however he always denied his involvement. Bidault was born in...
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  • archaeology within the Province of Ontario, Canada Organisation Armée Secrète, French dissident terrorist organisation, active during the Algerian War (1954–62)...
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  • Battle of Bab El Oued (category Organisation armée secrète)
    the Algerian War (1954–1962) between the French Army and the Organisation armée secrète (OAS) which opposed Algerian independence. It took place in Bab...
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    was involved with the mysterious organisation Vieil État-Major, tried to make contact with the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), a paramilitary group opposed...
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  • January 1934 – 7 June 1962) was a pied-noir and a member of the Organisation armée secrète (OAS). As a member of the OAS's Commando Delta, Piegts participated...
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    the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. In this story, the Organisation armée secrète hires an assassin to kill then–French President Charles de Gaulle...
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  • 1961 Vitry-Le-François train bombing (category Organisation armée secrète)
    a bomb attack on a Strasbourg–Paris train carried out by the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), a far-right paramilitary organization opposed to the independence...
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  • Le petit soldat (category Fiction about the Organisation armée secrète)
    Le petit soldat (transl. The Little Soldier) is a French film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1960, but its release was delayed until 1963 by...
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  • historian, journalist, and essayist. Venner was a member of the Organisation armée secrète and later became a European nationalist, founding the neo-fascist...
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  • French Navy. He took part in the Algiers putsch of 1961 and in the Organisation armée secrète, which opposed what it regarded as De Gaulle's treacherous abandonment...
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    Commando Delta (category Organisation armée secrète)
    The Commando Delta were death squads of the Organisation armée secrète (OAS) active in French Algeria during the early 1960s. They "interdicted" European...
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    17 August 2014) was a French politician, and a founder of the Organisation armée secrète (OAS). Lagaillarde was a lawyer at Blida in Algeria, a reserve...
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  • Jean-Pierre Maïone-Libaude (category Members of the Organisation armée secrète)
    frère de l'ombre, Seuil, 2005, 298 p. List of assassinated people Organisation armée secrète Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) Grupos Antiterroristas...
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  • Algerian independence from France resulted in his joining of the Organisation armée secrète (OAS) and support for its use of violence in opposition to this...
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    Dominique Borella (category Members of the Organisation armée secrète)
    Algerian War, both as a soldier and an illegal fighter in the Organisation armée secrète, the Cambodian Civil War and the Lebanese Civil War. He was killed...
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  • counterinsurgents established with the purpose of suppressing the Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) in Algeria from 1961 to 1962, when they were defeated by...
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    1961, he established a force called the Delta Commandos of the Organisation armée secrète (OAS). On 15 March 1962 the group attacked Chateau-Royale in El-Biar...
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    France had faced bomb attacks by the Secret Armed Organization (Organisation armée secrète or OAS) which opposed the independence of Algeria, negotiated...
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