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Safari Club network
The historical Safari Club was a covert alliance of intelligence services formed in 1976, initiated by Alexandre de Marenches, head of France's Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE), in response to U.S. congressional restrictions on CIA activities following the Church Committee revelations.
The group included the intelligence agencies of France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and pre-revolutionary Iran, with a headquarters established in Cairo, Egypt.
It was named after the Mount Kenya Safari Club, a luxury resort owned by Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, where early meetings took place.
The network coordinated covert operations against Soviet-backed actors in Africa during the Cold War, such as supporting Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko during the Shaba crises and aiding Somalia in the Ogaden War.
Although not formally including the United States, the Safari Club maintained close coordination with CIA elements, including operative Theodore Shackley, allowing deniable continuation of proxy warfare while evading post-Watergate scrutiny.
The group's operations were funded primarily through Saudi petrodollars, with Kamal Adham, Saudi intelligence chief, facilitating off-the-books financing through a network of banks, including the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), which was transformed into a global money-laundering machine with the tacit approval of CIA Director George H. W. Bush.
The network effectively dissolved after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which overthrew the Shah and severed Iran's participation.
he group's operations were funded primarily through Saudi petrodollars, with Kamal Adham, Saudi intelligence chief, facilitating off-the-books financing through a network of banks, including the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), which was transformed into a global money-laundering machine with the tacit approval of CIA Director George H. W. Bush.
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