Philippe Rondot

Philippe Rondot ( , ; 5 October 1936 – 31 December 2017) was a French general, formerly an important personality of the French intelligence. He worked for both the domestic intelligence DST and the foreign intelligence DGSE (traditionally rival services) and was an aide to several Defence Ministers.

Early life Philippe Rondot was born in Nancy in 1936. He graduated from the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1965, and he earned a PhD in political sociology.

Career Rondot joined the "special services" in 1965 as an officer of the "action" branch of the SDECE (ancestor of the present DGSE). In the late 1970s, he joined the DST. In 1994, he was active in the capture of terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (aka "Carlos the Jackal") in Sudan.

Works La Syrie, Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1978 . L'Irak, Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1979 . La Jordanie, Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1980 . Les projets de paix arabo-israéliens, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 1980 (thèse universitaire). Le Proche-Orient à la recherche de la paix, 1973-1982, Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1982 . With , Le Parti Ba'th, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Louvain-la-Neuve, Centre de Recherches sur le monde arabe contemporain, 1984.