In 2002, he was hired[7] at the Centre for International Security Policy (CPSI) at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, a newly created Swiss institution. In 2005, the United Nations asked him[8] to direct[9] the first multidisciplinary civilian-military intelligence centre (JMAC) of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (Khartoum).[10] In 2009-2011, he was called to New York as Head of Policy and Doctrine.[11][12][13] at the Office of Military Affairs of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). He works on civil-military operations, improving operational intelligence, integrating women in peacekeeping operations and protecting civilians. In 2011, he was called by the African Union to head the Research Department[14] of English (IPSTC) in Nairobi (Kenya). At the end of his term of office, he was appointed[15] Chief of Small Arms and Light Weapons and Mine Control[16] of the Political Affairs and Security Policy Division of the NATO in Brussels.[17]
Jacques Baud publishes on the website of the pro-Kremlin think tank CF2R, headed by Éric Dénécé.[18][19] He is also the subject of criticism for his positions favourable to Vladimir Putin,[20] his relay of disinformation[21] and his conspiracy theories,[22] including within the CF2R.
In December 2025, Baud was blacklisted by the European Union as a person spreading Russia's propaganda and targeted by European sanctions, which included an asset freeze and a travel ban in the EU.[24][25][26] At the time the sanctions were imposed, Baud was residing in Brussels and was not allowed to leave the EU or travel within the Schengen Area (to the Swiss embassy in The Hague); it was impossible for him to return to Switzerland.[27]
Even today, it is impossible to demonstrate that Bin Laden was indeed at the origin of September 11. Today, the Americans still do not classify the Taliban as a terrorist organization and have officially abandoned the hunt for Bin Laden.
He still maintained this theory in 2016: "There is no evidence that he played any role in the organization of attacks".[29] In addition, after the elimination of Bin Laden by American special forces in 2011, Jacques Baud states in his book Terrorism, Political Lies and Fatal Strategies of the West, that the leader of Al-Qaeda was in fact already a prisoner of the Pakistanis since 2006 and that the United States knew it.[30]
According to journalist Antoine Hasday, published by Conspiracy Watch, an interview with Jacques Baud given to RT France.[31][32] The latter, who was regularly invited until 2020 by the traditional Swiss media,[33] also appeared on the web-television TV Libertés, as well as previously on RT France.[31] Interviewed on the latter channel by Frédéric Taddeï in September 2020, he minimized the human toll of the Darfur war and denied the responsibility of the Syrian army in the massacres in Homs in 2011 and in the chemical attacks of the Ghouta, Khan Sheikhoun and Douma between 2013 and 2018.[31] Echoing the official arguments of the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, he also claims that the photographs taken by the military photographer "Caesar" are not those of political opponents who died under torture, but of soldiers of the Syrian army.[31] Jacques Baud also clears Russia by considering that the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal was caused by "food poisoning" and that the poisoning of Alexei Navalny is probably "the act of the mafia".[31] The journalist Élie Guckert also ranks him among the "well-known actors of disinformation".[34]
multiple passages where the author [...] goes [...] too far", also adding that "the author's desire to deny the involvement of Bashar [al-Assad] in the use of chemical weapons [...] seems very questionable.
After the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022, Jacques Baud published Putin, master of the game? The book was accused by the media of "systematically defending Vladimir Putin".[36] The journalist Ian Hamel wrote, that "for most specialists on Russia and Ukraine, Jacques Baud has sadly sunk into conspiracy theories. Some go so far as to accuse him of being in the pay of the Kremlin".[36] The journalist Mattia Pillonel writes that Jacques Baud seeks to "exonerate Russia in Ukraine" and that he himself "amputates the truth of the facts that do not serve his point of view".[20] Jacques Baud claims that Vladimir Putin did not want to conquer Ukraine but simply to "demilitarize", which is, according to journalist Julien Pain, a classic argument of the Kremlin.[21] Questioning Russian responsibility in the Bucha massacre, Jacques Baud asserts in particular that "the Bucha massacre has already been largely defeated" and that it could in fact have "been planned by the British intelligence services and implemented by the SBU Ukrainian".[citation needed]
Jacques Baud rejects the accusations of conspiracy theory against him, accusing his detractors, who according to him "are paid by foreigners", in particular Conspiracy Watch, who denies: "for a former intelligence officer, Baud is misinformed, Conspiracy Watch not being and never having been "paid by abroad".[37]
In February 2023, "Conspiracy Watch" wrote that it "is both in the denial of war crimes and in the systematic defense of Vladimir Putin".[23]
Publications
Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Secret Services. Paris: Lavauzelle. 1997. p.524. ISBN2-7025-0406-X. (republished and expanded in 1998 and 2002)
Encyclopedia of terrorism. Paris: Lavauzelle. 1999. p.270. ISBN2-7025-0449-3.
The Special Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization, 1917-2000. Paris: L'Harmattan. 2002. p.219. ISBN2-7475-2266-0.
Encyclopedia of Terrorism and Political Violence. Panazol: Lavauzelle. 2003. p.752. ISBN2-7025-1135-X.
↑Cedric de Coning; Andreas Øien Stensland; Thierry Tardy. Beyond the 'New Horizon' - Proceedings from the UN Peacekeeping Future Challenges Seminar, Geneva, 23–24 June 2010. p.101.
↑Exchange of ideas on internal security, Swiss Federation of Police Officers, Lucerne, 23 September 2011
↑"Peace and Security Research". Swiss Peace Supporter. June 2012. p.14.
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