#Safari_Club
3 entries tagged Safari_Club.
People (2)
- Alexandre de Marenches Alexandre de Marenches (1921-1995) served as SDECE director from 1970 to 1981, organized the Safari Club anti-Soviet intelligence alliance, and whose co-author David Andelman testified that de Marenches had told him off the record of arranging an alleged October Surprise Paris meeting between William Casey and Iranian representatives.
- Ted Shackley Ted Shackley (1927-2002), ‘The Blond Ghost,’ was a CIA operations officer who served as station chief at JMWAVE, Laos, and Saigon, rose to Associate Deputy Director for Operations, was forced out by DCI Turner in 1979, and became a central node in the Safari Club and Iran-Contra private network.
Organizations (1)
- 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.