Secret negotiations eroded French military trust in political leaders. [causal]
Under extreme pressure Djamal gave away the secret of No. 3 Rue Caton; at the same time he revealed all the details he knew of the parleys that had taken place between Germaine Tillion and Yacef with the blessing of the French government. News of this association with the arch-enemy, Yacef, was regarded by the para leaders as a piece of sheer duplicity on the part of a civil government they were already growing increasingly to distrust and despise.
XREF: Connects to the broader pattern of civil-military discord during the Algerian War, and to similar tensions in other colonial conflicts.
Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 680