What the records say
- When
- Apr 1956
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 36.73° N, 4.06° E
- Description
- 1956 French Algerian War operation
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Operation Blue Bird
1956 French Algerian War operation
Operation Blue Bird was a mission carried out by France's foreign intelligence service, the SDECE, in 1956 during the second year of the Algerian War of Independence. Its aim was to turn several hundred Kabyle people against the Algerian resistance known as the National Liberation Front (FLN), with the hope of creating a clandestine counter-resistance force. These Kabyle fighters were known as Force K.
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