258:, especially during the later part when he commanded the Algiers sector, supervising links between the Army and the Police, and serving as the chief of staff to Massu. At the suggestion of Captain Paul-Alain LĂ©ger, a former SAS-trained Jedburgh and a veteran of Indochina, he authorised the bleus-de-chauffe system, by which paratroopers and loyal Algerians disguised as young workers roamed the Casbah and arrested FLN militants. These tactics led to other complex infiltration operations. By planting believable evidence of fake betrayals, internal purges within the FLN emerged, spread and became viral. These purges resulted in hundreds, perhaps thousands, of self inflicted tortures and executions. Some claim that these tactics were responsible for more FLN victims than those from conventional warfare operations. Godard notably declared:
309:, helping model it after the structure of the FLN, but left Algeria in the summer of 1962 and stayed underground until 1967. Godard was sentenced to death for his part in the putsch and OAS. He settled in Belgium, and unlike his OAS colleagues, he did not return to France after the 1968 amnesty. Godard died in 1975 at Lessines, Belgium, at 63.
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