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History influenced The Day of the Jackal
Added by Media Influence Map · 14 October 2026
- OAS plots against Charles de Gaulle
The evidence
An assassin is hired by the OAS, the French paramilitary group that really tried to kill de Gaulle over Algerian independence.
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