Olivier Schmidt is an associate of the ADI (Association de droit a l'information), for which he founded and directed all publications, including Parapolitics, Intelligence Newsletter and the current ADI journal, Intelligence. He was guest speaker at a "Datanet Security" conference in Miami along with former NSA Counsel Stewart Baker and the first woman CIA Deputy Director, Ruth Davis, and "designated contradictor" at the Western Europe Union intelligence conference in Paris with the former French DGSE foreign intelligence chief Admiral Pierre Lacoste and the "political father" of the French atomic bomb, Jacques Baumel. He holds US, British and French degrees in logic and information sciences, and enjoys dual nationality, American and French. His family members served in the armed forces of both countries.