The Organisation armée secrète (OAS, "Secret Army Organisation") was a far-right [2][3][4] dissident French paramilitary and terrorist organisation during the Algerian War, founded in 1961 by Raoul Salan, Pierre Lagaillarde and Jean-Jacques Susini.

In Algeria: The Algerian War of Independence …a body calling itself the Secret Army Organization (Organisation de l’Armée Secrète; OAS), which began to employ random acts of terror in an effort to disrupt peace negotiations.

On June 7, 1962, a right wing French Nationalist terror group, the Organisation Armée Secrète, usually referred to as the OAS, set fire to and burned the library at the University of Algiers in Algeria, destroying half a million books.

2021年11月16日 · A former member of the Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS), a French dissident paramilitary group chiefly active in the early 1960s before disbanding a few years later, offers an insider’s account of several of OAS’s covert operations in Algeria.

Using a Foreign Legion parachute regiment as its main instrument, the OAS seized control of all key governmental, communications, and security facilities in Algiers and detained many officials, including the commanding general and governor general.

While the terrorism of the O.A.S. verges on the unbelievable (recent estimates of the toll during the first two months of this year have reached 1500 killed and 1900 wounded, in Algiers, Bone and...

2012年9月12日 · Formed in January 1961, the OAS became an FLN-like guerrilla element in the fight against de Gaulle and the French government, using all means necessary—including terrorism—to keep Algeria French. The OAS targeted anyone inside Algeria devoted to an “Algerian Algeria,” setting off a series of strong explosions and targeted ...

2 May: a terrorist attack on the port of Algiers by members of the OAS causes terror in Algeria. 10 May: murder in Algiers of seven Algerian cleaners working for European families; in retaliation, Si Azzedine, commander of the Autonomous Zone of Algiers, …

During the three months between the cease-fire and the French referendum on Algeria, the OAS unleashed a new terrorist campaign. The OAS sought to provoke a major breach in the ceasefire by the FLN but the terrorism now was aimed also against the French army and police enforcing the accords as well as against Muslims.

organisation arm é e secr è te (oas) a movement of french colons and renegade army officers that sought to block algeria's independence. The Secret Army Organization (Organisation Arm é e Secr è te; OAS) was created in February 1961 under the leadership of Colon activists Pierre Lagaillarde and Jean-Jacques Susini.