CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005672250
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-01522
• Publication Date: May 9, 1961

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affect the key foreign-owned oil industry, and a reduction in
expenditures of the government-owned economic enterprises
*France -Al eria: De Gaulle's 8 May speech, which was
partly an effort o set the April military insurrection in per-
spective and turn French public attention to the possibilities
of future progress, contained a hint of French official appre-
hension over tension among the European settlers in Algeria.
He appealed to the settlers to "renounce absurd and.agitated
dreams." To reinforce Pe Gaulle's appeal, units of the French
Mediterranean fleet appeared off Algiers, and the Algiers po-
lice repeatedly broadcast warnings that settlers should
\"play the game of the extremists on both sides."
with "Algerian elements, primarily those fighting us," was
made against a background of frequent reports that the rebel
government in Tunis is ready to begin whenever the French
set a date. Presumably for tactical reasons, he coupled this
with the usual reminder that France would build a "new Algeria