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The International
Bodyguard Association was founded in Paris in December 1957 by Major
Lucien Victor Ott, a much decorated French Para-commando veteran.
Lucien Ott was born and brought up within the French Foreign Legion
in Algeria. His grandfather killed in WW1 in the Dardanelles campaign
served in the elite Chasseurs d'Afrique. Lucien's father Victor served
in the Spahi before joining the French Foreign Legion. Victor Ott
became a senior NCO in the 1st Foreign Legion Cavalry Regiment , wounded
in the Riff wars he was invalided out on pension.
Lucien joined the newly formed French Para-commandos serving in the
2nd Demi-Brigade SAS in Indochina, then with the 8 BCCP under Col
Bigeard. He volunteered to parachute into Dien Bien Phu where he was
wounded and captured by the Viet Minh. He escaped and joined the GCMA
a military intelligence operation organising Montagnard resistance
groups. After the war he transferred to the Deuxieme Bureau (Military
Intelligence). In Marseillaise his friend Jim Alcheik (of the French
Secret Service) introduced him to Karate and Aiki Ju Jutsu training
of the Yoseikan school under Tetsuki Murikami
Also in 1956 he was tasked with reviewing operational protective methods
for French military VIPs. His review found that the methods used internationally
in bodyguarding were ineffective and outmoded. From this was born
the Lucien Ott protection method he called 'Defense & Security'
He coined the phrase "protection rapprochée" which the UK's
Royal Military Police mistranslated as Close Protection.
Lucien Ott founded the International Bodyguard Association as a think-tank
for bodyguards and as their Association. Lucien was working against
terrorism in Algeria when he was selected by M. Tinet to form a personal
bodyguard for President de Gaulle at the height of the OAS crisis.
Under the authority of General de Monssabert a group of ex-special
forces veterans were formed as "Les Gorilles". When Pompidou
succeeded De Gaulle as President 'Les Gorilles' were given the option
of being absorbed by the Gendarmerie or leaving. Constant absence
from his family while on duty led to a divorce and seperation from
his two children Veronique and Didier.
Lucien moved to Munich where he tried his hand as a 'Cascador' or
stunt man and he established a Cascador school. Soon, Lucien returned
to bodyguarding celebrities from the world of the cinema. He was in
demand from both Military and Law Enforcement as a bodyguard instructor.
In the mid-1970s he moved to Bruxelles and established his IBA Acadmey
'Defence & Security' in Rue de l'Etoile in Uccle. In December
1989, Lucien was diagnosed with terminal cancer and admitted to the
Erasmus Institute in Anderlecht where he dies in February 1980. At
Lucien Ott's wish, he was succeeded after his death in 1990 by his
deputy who is the current Director General tasked with ensuring that
the IBA fulfills it's mission in training bodyguards in modern effective
techniques.
He became the first outsider to train KGB (Crimea 1991) and started
training for bodyguards (Government and Corporate) in Poland (1988)
Estonia (1989) Latvia and Lithuania (1990). He pioneered the IBA method
in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. To date he has trained
bodyguards on 5 continents including 36 countries.
The Baron of Castleshort is the hereditary Colonel commandant of one
of the oldest existing bodyguard formation in the world. The Royal
Galloglas Guard. Galloglas originated in Western Scotland and its
isles from the warlike offspring of mixed Celtic and Viking marriages.
Following their success against the Anglo-Normans under Sir William
Wallace and King Robert the Bruce, they were established in Ireland
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