Raoul Salan

Born 10 June 1899 in Roquecourbe, France

Died 3 July 1984 (aged 85)

Raoul Albin Louis Salan was a French Army general and the founder of the Organisation armée secrète, a clandestine terrorist organisation that sought to maintain French Algeria by preventing Algerian independence. He served as the fourth French commanding general during the First Indochina War.