A member of the French Resistance from autumn 1940, thereafter officer in the French Secret Army, then officer with the Intelligence services assigned to the countries which had fallen under Soviet Communist rule. He was a member of the National Defence's Association of former special agents. As an intelligence officer, he is the only specialist to have met Hitler’s key deputy Martin Bormann in 1949, when Bormann went into permanent exile in South America.

Mr. Villemarest has been a professional journalist since the fifties. Between 1962 and 2006 he has published about 30 works. He is the author of the new book: Untouchable, Who Protected Bormann and 'Gestapo' Muller after 1945.