Guillaume Dasquié

Who is Guillaume Dasquié?

Guillaume Dasquié is a French journalist and writer who specialises in matters of intelligence and terrorism.

Dasquié graduated in Law in Paris in 1990. The next year he obtained a masters in political science in Paris-I, and later worked for Canal + and BFM.

In February 1999, he became chief editor of Intelligence Online, a magazine specialising in politics and economic intelligence. Between 1999 and 2002, he taught at the University of Marne-la-Vallée about privatisation of intelligence and closed source intelligence; in March 1999, he published Secrètes affaires, a book about the subject.

In November 2001, along with Jean-Charles Brisard and Wayne Madsen, he co-authored Forbidden Truth, arguing that the Saudis play a double game, dealing with the West and financing radical Islamism.

The next year, along with Jean Guisnel, he co-authored L'Effroyable mensonge a point-by-point rebuttal of Meyssan's book 9/11: The Big Lie.

In 2003, he resigned from Intelligence Online, and published Les nouveaux pouvoirs about lobbies. He became research director at the IRIS, working on alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destructions. He also joined Flammarion to develop its investigation book line, an office he held until 2005.