In their embarrassment over the mutiny, some Frenchmen looked hard for some scapegoat who was not French. Much of the French press, egged on by some French officials, tried at length to implicate the U.S., zeroing in on that favorite target of recent weeks, the Central Intelligence Agency.
The story, as printed in even such reputable papers as Le Monde, was that CIA agents urged Challe on in hopes of preventing an independent Algeria that they feared would go Communist. Adding credibility to the story was the fact that Challe was an articulate supporter of NATO and a critic of De Gaulle's...
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