INFORMATION WARS BETWEEN ALGERIA AND FRANCE 1954-1962

Abstract: Intelligence is considered one of the most important security agencies in the contemporary period, and it emerged clearly during the liberation wars waged by the Afro-Asian peoples in the mid-twentieth century. In this regard, the Algerian Liberation War is considered a clear example of the intelligence war that took place between the National Liberation Front and French colonialism. The colonial administration employed all its intelligence capabilities to eliminate the liberation revolution, as it worked to organize its intelligence agencies and create new interests and offices affiliated with the French intelligence apparatus in all the security forces, which enabled it to achieve strong penetrations into the army and the National Liberation Front and the Algerian people as a whole. On the other side of the war, Abdelhafid Boussouf, Houari Boumediene, Si El Ghouthi and Abu El Fath were able to establish a communications school that paved the way for a strong intelligence network through which the historical Fifth Province was able to provide political and military leaders with all the information they needed through the eavesdropping networks of the Directorate of Documentation and Research (DDR) and the Directorate of Vigilance and Counter-Espionage (DVCR), which achieved a strong penetration of the colonial administration and the French army. This intelligence war represented the front of the conflict between Algeria and France, especially after the decline of combat operations after 1958. Keywords: Algeria, France, inquiry, intelligence, liberation, revolution, war