Radovan Savatier

Radovan "Radu" Savatier was a Franco-Romanian former intelligence officer with AIX, the Allied Intelligence Executive. He and Dr. David Blackwood travelled the world between 1921 and 1924.

Savatier was born in 1894 in Marseille, France. His father, Arnaud Savatier, owned a small shoemaker's shop, while his mother, Stefana Ionescu, worked intermittently as a laundress and in a canning factory. The fourth of six siblings, Savatier received no formal education, but learned to read and write in several languages after his oldest brother found him a job in a casino catering primarily to sailors and merchants from around the Mediterranean.