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What evidence is there that the CIA backed the "The General's Putsch"? The link to another Wikipedia article does provide any backing for that claim. From what I understand CIA involvement was alleged but evidence was never produced.
If I don't get a reply in a week I'll edit the sentance.
It states clearly in the text of the article that "no definitive evidence" has been found of Gladio involvement. If this is true why is the possible Gladio involvement mentioned? I don't think this meets the standards for continued inclusion in the article.
Well I think it can go too, because the Ganser source only says "In Algeria members of the French stay-behind and officers from the French War in Vietnam found the illegal Organisation Armee Secrete (OAS) and with CIA support stage a coup in Algiers against the French government of de Gaulle which fails," without giving any further factual information. Let's wait for
User:Tazmaniacs before removing it though.
Intangible21:54, 15 July 2006 (UTC)reply
Terrorists, resistants, liberation group ? How qualifying the OAS ? An emission of Arte TV ("les mercredis de l'histoire", if i remember) has showed video documents attesting of exactions against innocent arab civilians by OAS. They also threatened pied noirs which wanted to flee the territory, in order to not recognize the victory of ALN. The same document showed that ALN was not more moralistic. Resistants threat occupant militar goals inside their own boundaries. That's the generic definition. However, if you ask to ex-member of OAS, they claim they are resistants. - —The preceding
unsigned comment was added by
87.88.218.237 (
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contribs) 1 September 2006.
I take it that means, "No I do not have a citation calling them that, I just happen to like them and like the word." I will remove it. Someone beat me to it. -
Jmabel |
Talk20:44, 2 September 2006 (UTC)reply
Title & name: Organisation de l'Armée secrète
Someone has claimed that the OAS stands for Organisation armée secrète and has made changes all over Wiki according to this. He is required to provide various reliable sources for this assertion, as the common name used by the press and history books is Organisation de l'armée secrète.
Tazmaniacs22:28, 30 September 2006 (UTC)reply
Sorry but you're wrong. Real name is Organisation armée secrète. I made the same correction on
french wiki some month ago. In doubt, I opened many books. All of them says Organisation armée secrète. I'm french and student in history, so I think you can trust me. Thank you.
Jeanfi07:52, 23 October 2006 (UTC)reply
Sorry Jeanfi, but I think you misunderstood the request. I personally "trust" you, but that's not of much use here on Wikipedia. The point is that you most surely are correct, but it would be nice of you to present some reference, on-line &/or off-line, concerning this. The reason is quite simple: a quick search on-line will lead you to find many "Organisation de l'armée secrète" and very few "Organisation armée secrète" (for example: HISTOIRE DE L'ORGANISATION DE L'ARMEE SECRETE, BARNAGE MARTINEZ M., JULLIARD, 1964
[1]). As far as I know, French newspapers usually write "Organisation de l'armée secrète" (
[2]: PIERRE CHÂTEAU-JOBERT, compagnon de la Libération devenu un des dirigeants de l'Organisation de l'armée secrète (OAS). As you see, it is quite easy finding
reliable sources using "Organisation de l'armée secrète". Please prove us that Le Monde & co are wrong. Thanks.
Tazmaniacs20:51, 8 November 2006 (UTC)reply
You can see my note on french wiki. Larousse is one of the most famous encyclopedia of France. One other is the Quid. Look
this note (end of page). You can also see an history book like the Dictionnaire encylopédique d'histoire by Mourre who write Organisation Armée Secrète (the book is open in front of me).
Jeanfi08:56, 10 November 2006 (UTC)reply
In front of the wide variety of sources which use Organisation de l'armée secrète (from Le Figaro to L'Humanité passing by Le Monde and Libération, not to mention Histoire magazine, etc.), Larousse is not a reliable enough source. Mourre is better; could you find some other reliable sources - from historians, not general encyclopedias or dictionaries, which are not that reliable (Wikipedia is not the only unreliable encyclopedia...) Thanks!
Tazmaniacs15:05, 4 December 2006 (UTC)reply
I am sorry, but it's been over a month, and you have not provided sufficient sources. As said before, general dictionnaries like Larousse is not a reliable enough source. Mourre, which is a historical encyclopedia, is lot better. But still, the over-all usage in history books and medias is "Organisation de l'armée secrète". Wikipedia is not there to tell the truth to historians. If Mourre is your only source, it's not enough compared to the many others sources.
Tazmaniacs16:54, 6 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Again, someone thought it legitimate to
WP:Move the page again without achieving previous consensus. At least, he tentatively added a "
source", stating that "Often mistaken with « organisation de l'armée secrète » cf.
French Defense website ECPAD". This "source" in no way gives us the "real name" of OAS, as it does not speak about the issue at stakes here. Again, the most common name used, ASFAIK, is "Organisation de l'armée secrète", and it is not because one or two Wikipedians like better "Organisation armée secrète" that we should endorse their POV. Please find sources to back-up this claim.
Tazmaniacs01:46, 3 September 2007 (UTC)reply
I researched "Le Monde" (famous French newspaper). Here are copies of some extracts from its archives:
3 - Ce que fut l'Organisation armée secrète (OAS)
SUPPLEMENT SPECIAL | 28 octobre 2004 | 179 mots
Référence. L'OAS se veut l'héritière de l'Armée secrète de l'Occupation. Ses membres se voient comme des résistants et usent, comme eux, de pseudonymes (Raoul Salan est « Soleil » dans la clandestinité).
1 - Les ultimes jours de l'Algérie française €
LE MONDE | 15 juin 1997 | BERTRAND LEGENDRE | 1405 mots
DANS quelques jours, l'Algérie ne sera plus française et Oran est en flammes. L'après-midi du 25 juin 1962, les desperados de l'OAS (Organisation armée secrète) se sont emparés d'un immeuble du front de mer.
"Organisation armée secrète" is the proper name for the OAS.
Michael T. Hertz (mmmickey55@yahoo.com)
Several articles in Le Monde are referring to the name "Organisation de l'armée secrète" instead:
[3],
[4], etc.
Searches with the titles "Organisation armée secrète" or "Organisation de l'armée secrète" return almost the same number of results (Google Books Search:
[5] -
[6] /
[7] -
[8] ; Google News Archive Search:
[9] -
[10] /
[11] -
[12]).
It would be interesting to know the origin of the name. On the French Wikipedia, two edits by a user might be interesting:
[13],
[14]. If someone can have a look at the book he/she was referring to (Morland, Barangé, Martinez, Histoire de l'Organisation de l'Armée Secrète, Julliard, 1964), or other history books mentioning the origin of the name... Thanks,
Korg (
talk)
18:48, 17 March 2008 (UTC)reply
State of article
I've made some edits just now, mostly either to improve the English or to provide small pieces of context that will be useful to people who are not so knowledgable on France.
This is still quite undercited, and could use a lot of work, but I think in general it is much improved from a month or two ago.
One passage was a mess; I tried to fix it, but I'm not sure that I succeeded because it outright contradicts itself, both before and after my edits. Before:
Despite the OAS bombing campaign, the FLN remained resolute in its agreement to the ceasefire and on
June 17,
1962 the OAS also began a ceasefire. However machine-gunning of public places by ALN in all areas of
Oran and missings were reported in early July 1962 by remaining Pieds-Noirs witnesses, the Algerian authority granted the security of the remaining Europeans though.
After:
Despite the OAS bombing campaign, the FLN remained resolute in its agreement to the ceasefire and on
June 17,
1962 the OAS also began a ceasefire. The Algerian authority guaranteed the security of the remaining Europeans, but in early July 1962, remaining Pieds-Noirs witnesses reported machine-gunning of public places in all areas of
Oran by the
ALN—the armed wing of the FLN, at the time evolving into the
Algerian Army—and that people had gone missing.
President DeGaulle elicited the OAS's help during the
May 1968 uprising, as a last resort if the students and workers were to take control of Paris. Can anyone find the proper citation for this and include it in the article, as I am too busy right now? If not, I'll get around to it soon. --
Dialecticas (
talk) —Preceding
comment was added at
18:50, 30 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Popular Culture
in On Her Majesties Secret Service(i think thats it) the james bond book he is aided by the OAS in a way.. and General Salan is mentioned... coould put it in? —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
81.155.176.84 (
talk)
00:35, 7 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Ethnicity?
Were the ranks of the organisation just ethnic French people or were there any Arab/Berber Algerians? I was thinking about how many Morrocans fought against communism/anarchism in the Spanish Civil War, and when considering the Marxist nature of the conspiracies against the colonies in Africa of recent centuries, perhaps some fought for this too? -
Yorkshirian (
talk)
16:49, 15 August 2009 (UTC)reply
Oran massacre of 1962
The entry "...resulting in 3,000 missing people." under The March 1962 Evian agreements and the struggle of the OAS does not seem consistent with "Estimates of the death toll are 95 killed (a minority — 20 — of whom were European) and 453 disappeared." on the Wikipedia page Oran massacre of 1962.Dick Kimball (
talk)
15:40, 23 February 2013 (UTC)reply
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