Alexandre de Marenches

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Alexandre de Marenches
de Marenches (right) in a 1983 meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office
Born(1921-06-07)7 June 1921
Paris, French Third Republic
Died2 June 1995(1995-06-02) (aged 73)
France
AllegianceFrance
Other workDirector of the SDECE

Alexandre de Marenches, also known as ′Comte de Marenches′, (7 June 1921 – 2 June 1995) was a French military officer, a director of the SDECE French external intelligence services (6 November 1970 – 12 June 1981), special advisor to US President Ronald Reagan, and a member of the Academy of Morocco and the initiated the clandestine Safari Club that ran covert operations around Africa. From the late 1970s onwards, he was one of the founding fathers of the concept of an Islamic bulwark against the ″spread of communism″. He was the driving force behind the secret war in Afghanistan.

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