Yugoslavia agreed to hand over 870 Classified Documents about Algeria's Revolution, official says

Head of the National Archive Center, Abdelmadjid Chikhi, said that Algeria started the process of retrieving a number of films and more than 870 classified documents from Yugoslavia, which are chronicling an important stage of the liberation revolution, adding that they are subject to translation in Belgrade, as the General Manager of the Turkish Archives in Algeria will visit Algiers here on Tuesday carrying a considerable number ‭of Archives‬. ‬

Abdelmadjid Chikhi told Echorouk; “Translators in Belgrade are currently working on the translation of 870 classified documents, concerning especially the French colonialism period in Algeria, as the Yugoslav authorities agreed, in the framework of cooperation agreements with Algeria, to give them a considerable number of films ‭ ‬about the same stage”‭. ‬

The Algerian authorities started in the last few months to recover more than about 320 secret documents related to the secrets of the leaders and icons of the Algerian Revolution, and the period related to it, from South Africa, as the U.S. and France holds a copy of them, but refused to hand them over to Algeria because they are dangerous, as this step comes under an agreement held by the Algerian authorities with their counterparts in South Africa because these documents information and precise details of all the movements of the leaders of the liberation revolution during the period between 1954 and 1962, that were transfered by secret agents from South Africa in the form of reports for the CIA, which in turn transfered them to its French counterpart to be exploited‭ in weakening the Liberation revolution, and spoiling ‭determination ‭and power of its leaders and icons. ‬