65. Editorial Note
The Organization Armee Secrete (OAS) renewed its campaign of terrorism in Algeria following the signature of the Evian accords. On May 24, 1962, the Department of State expressed the hope that Gavin would find the opportunity to tell De Gaulle that the United States was watching with sympathy the efforts of the French Government to bring the situation in Algeria under control and that it was concerned about the extent to which conditions there might endanger the Evian accords, which had its full support. (Telegram 6320 to Paris; Department of State, Central Files, 751S.00/5-2462) A temporary truce was agreed upon in Algiers between the OAS and the Algerian authorities on June 1.
On June 4, after the OAS announced that it intended to resume terrorist attacks at midnight on June 5, the Department of State issued a [Page 95] statement supporting the Evian accords as “the charter of the new Algeria” and condemning the OAS threat of renewed violence. For text, see American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1962, page 810. The Department of State had previously informed the Consulate in Algiers that it felt that the OAS threat required strong and specific denunciation. (Telegram 526 to Algiers, June 4; Department of State, Central Files, 751S.00/6-462)