In the maquis were also operating, with extraordinary fearlessness, Captain Léger and a section of his bleus; their double-agent activities, as usual, were so successful that villagers refused any longer to give food supplies to the A.L.N., not knowing whether they were true moudjahiddine or Léger’s turncoats. Conditions in the field became terrible, with men dying as often from hunger as from enemy bullets.

XREF: Parallels to counterinsurgency tactics in other colonial wars, where deception by agents undermines population support for irregular forces.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1014