The Day of the Jackal
Spy-fi at its best: The Day of the Jackal
The Day of the Jackal When French president Charles de Gaulle agreed to Algerian self-determination in 1961, his right-wing supporters were appalled. They had returned the general to power only three years earlier so he could put down the bloody uprising in France’s most prized colony. Some of the pieds-noirs, the Algerian French, and their sympathizers in the army banded together in the…