# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexandre-de-marenches
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:35:02.754Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexandre-de-marenches"
name: "Alexandre de Marenches"
slug: "alexandre-de-marenches"
description: "Alexandre de Marenches, also known as ′Comte de Marenches′, was a French military officer, a director of the SDECE French external intelligence services, 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."
tagline: "French intelligence officer (1921–1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ronald_Reagan_with_Alexandre_de_Marenches.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1921-06-07"
deathDate: "1995-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.59
  momentum:             1.169305724725944
  historical:           8.365702666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Олександр де Маранш"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "الكسندر دى مارينش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_de_Marenches"
    title: "Alexandre de Marenches"
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    title: "الکساندر دومارانش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_de_Marenches"
    title: "Alexandre de Marenches"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_de_Marenches"
    title: "Alexandre de Marenches"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_de_Marenches"
    title: "Alexandre de Marenches"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_de_Marenches"
    title: "Alexandre de Marenches"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%88%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80"
    title: "Де Маранш, Александр"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2834206"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump