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Arnaud de Borchgrave (1926 –) is an American journalist who specializes in international politics.
Born in Belgium to a Belgian count, Baudouin de Borchgrave d’Altena, who was head of Belgium's military intelligence for the government-in-exile, during World War II. Arnaud de Borchgrave was educated in Belgium, Britain and the United States. He served in the British Royal Navy from 1942 to 1946, from the age of 15, after running away from home and using falsified papers on his age to enlist in the service. He gave up his title of nobility in 1951.
In 1947, he was appointed Brussels bureau chief for United Press International, and three years later he became Newsweek's bureau chief in Paris and then chief correspondent. In 1953 he became a senior editor for the magazine. The Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek once said that: