Yves Bonnet

Yves Bonnet (; born 20 November 1935) is a senior French civil servant and politician. He was prefect and director of the DST from 1982 to 1985. A member of the UDF, he served as deputy for the unified party from 1993 to 1997, before joining the National Rally during the regional elections of 2021.

Early life Yves Bonnet was born on November 20, 1935, in Chartres, France. He is the son of Henri Bonnet, Diplomat and former mayor of Châteaudun. Yves Bonnet lived his childhood in this city, doing all his schooling there. He studied political science and graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies in the late 1950s. During the Algerian war, he was an officer of the contingent. He is responsible for dismantling several terrorist networks. He also initiated relations with several Arab security and intelligence services, including Algerian Military Security, and doubled the number of foreign liaisons. It computerizes the central file of the DST.

Yves Bonnet left his post as regional prefect to establish himself politically in Cherbourg, where he was an opposition municipal councilor representing the UDF.

He was the MP for Manche's 5th constituency between 1993 and 1997. In the National Assembly, he was a member of the National Defence and Armed Forces Committee as well as rapporteur for the navy budget.

In 2021, he joined the National Rally during the French regional elections on the list led by Nicolas Bay.

Works He is the author of numerous books, ranging from investigative documents to spy novels, and regularly speaks in the press about Iranian and Middle Eastern issues and terrorism.

La Liberté surveillée, Thésaurus, 1993 La Trahison des ayatollahs, Jean Picollec, 1995 Mission ou Démission, Jean Picollec, 1996 Contre-espionnage, mémoires d'un patron de la DST, Calmann-Lévy, 1998 Lettre à une Algérienne, La Boite à documents, 1998 De qui se moquent-ils ?, Flammarion, 2001 La Cour des miracles, Flammarion, 2002 Impondérables, Calmann-Lévy, 2003, thriller Top Secret, Timée Éditions, 2006 Les Veuves blanches, La société des écrivains, 2006, roman Tube, Éditions Des Idées & Des Hommes, avril 2007, thriller Nucléaire iranien, une hypocrisie internationale, Michel Lafon, 2008 Liban : les otages du mensonge, Michel Lafon, 2008 Vevak, au service des ayatollahs, Timée Éditions, April 2009 Gaza, au cœur de la tragédieavec Albert Farhat, Timée Éditions, June 2009 Le Grand Complot, Jean-Claude Gawsewitch Éditeur, 544 pages, 2012 Le berger de Touggourt, Vérités sur les moines de Tibhirine, 2016 La deuxième guerre d'Algérie, VA éditions, March 2017