#Alexandre_de_Marenches

Organizations (2)

• Safari Club The Safari Club was a 1976 informal intelligence alliance organized by SDECE director Alexandre de Marenches to conduct anti-Soviet operations in Africa and the Middle East when the CIA was constrained by Church Committee oversight, with France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, and Iran as core members.
• SDECE The SDECE was France's foreign intelligence service from 1946 to 1982, reconstituted as the DGSE under Mitterrand, whose director Alexandre de Marenches (1970-1981) organized the Safari Club anti-Soviet intelligence alliance.