Mohamed Mediène, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Head of algerian secret service
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Place of Birth: Casbah of Algiers, Algiers Province, Algeria
About Mohamed Mediène
- General Mohamed Mediène (Arabic: ??????? ???? ?????), also known as Toufik (?????), was head of the Algerian secret services, the Intelligence and Security Department (Département du renseignement et de la sécurité, DRS), from 1990 to 2015.
- He was described as the world's longest serving "intelligence chief".He was born in 1939 to a Kabyle family from Guenzet (Sétif Province), but grew up near Algiers at Saint-Eugene (Bologhine).
- He joined the National Liberation Army in 1961, a few months before Algeria's independence.
- He was an officer for the NLA.Little is known of him, but he was regarded as a leading power behind the scenes and a leading general in the "eradicator" military faction.
- Only two known public photos of him exist; they are both unclear.
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