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...willingness to accept the standing mediation offer of Tunisia's Premier Habib Bourguiba and Morocco's moderate Sultan Mohammed V. Quick to understand the significance of the FLN move, French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau dispatched young (31) Foreign Affairs Ministry Aide Jean-Yves Goëau-Brissonnière to a trade-union congress in Tunis, ostensibly to act as an "observer," actually to sound out FLN leaders...
...rebels were ready to talk. According to Paris, the young French diplomat met three rebel leaders: Mohammed Yazid, the FLN's representative at the U.N., Abane Ramdane, who reportedly runs the FLN military operation, and Dr. Lamine-Debaghine, FLN political leader. They reportedly assured Goëau-Brissonnière that they did not want the Algerian conflict to be "internationalized" (as may happen when the Algerian problem comes before the U.N. General Assembly in September), knowing that for years to come Algeria must live in some kind of economic and political relationship to France. Goëau-Brissonni...
Unknown to each other, Observer Goëau-Brissonnière and Lawyer Chaker caught the same Air France plane. At Paris' Orly Airport the French diplomat was greeted with a message that his car was waiting for him. Chaker was stopped by a plainclothesman who flashed papers and said, "Follow me." Interrogated that night, Chaker was charged next morning with "threatening the foreign security of the state." Unaware that a representative of the Paris government had been secretly talking with the FLN, somebody in French intelligence had got wind of Chaker's mission to Ben Bella...
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