Alexandre de Marenches initiated the pact with messages to the four other countries — and to newly independent Algeria, which declined to participate.(1965-1968)
The original charter was signed in 1976 by leaders and intelligence directors from the five countries:
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Alexandre de Marenches, of le Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage, France's external intelligence agency
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Kamal Adham of Saudi Arabia's Al Mukhabarat Al A'amah
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The Egyptian Director of Intelligence
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Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan Director of Intelligence and commander of the Moroccan Army.
General Nematollah Nassiri of Iran's SAVAK
As the Safari Club was beginning operations, former CIA Director Richard Helms and agent Theodore Shackley were under scrutiny from Congress and feared that new covert operations could be quickly exposed. Peter Dale Scott has classified the Safari Club as part of the "second CIA"—an extension of the organization's reach maintained by an autonomous group of key agents. Thus even as Carter's new CIA director Stansfield Turner attempted to limit the scope of the agency's operations, Shackley, his deputy Thomas Clines, and agent Edwin P. Wilson (executor of the "Arms for Libya" weapons deal) secretly maintained their connections with the Safari Club and the BCCI.
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