Alexandre de Marenches

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.