With the Affaire K you thought you were introducing a Trojan horse into the heart of the Algerian resistance. You were deceived. Those whom you took for traitors to the Algerian nation were pure patriots…. We thank you for having procured us arms that will help us to liberate our country.

XREF: Echoes other historical counterintelligence failures where double agents were actually loyal all along, like Operation Mincemeat inversions or KGB-operated British agents.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 798