Jean Sassi is a French Army colonel and intelligence service officer, former "Jedburgh" (BCRA) of France and Far East. Commando chief of the SDECE's 11th Shock Parachutist Regiment (11e Régiment Parachutiste de Choc). Maquis chief in French Indochina through the GCMA (1953-1955).

During the siege of Dien Bien Phu in April 1954 Jean Sassi led Mèo partisans (GCMA) in Operation Condor.

[edit] See also

• Operation Jedburgh
• SDECE
• GCMA
• First Indochina War
• Operation Condor (1954)

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