 He financed the defense of Bruno Breguet during the 1970s after a bombing mission in Israel in 1970.The PFLP called for the release of both Breguet and Leila Khalid, part of the Che Guevara Commando Unit of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, together in 1970.Genoud helped Ilich Ramírez Sánchez in 1994, after playing a key role in the success of his missions in the previous decades.He was closely associated with Ali Hassan Salameh, providing him medical care, and he also bankrolled Ayatollah Khomeini's exile in France when Iran was governed by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.