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The group states simply that it is "privately funded". Funding for the group has changed over the years. Multinational companies including [[Philips]] and [[Standard Elektrik Lorenz]] have given the group money.<ref name=haenni/> In 1971, [[Shell]] contributed a lump sum of £30,000. [[The Ford Foundation]] also donated £20,000 over three years{{when}}.<ref name='R000033'>{{cite book | last = Teacher | first = David | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Rogue Agents: The Cercle Pinay complex 1951-1991 | publisher = | date = 2008-01-06 | location = | pages = 233 | url = https://isgp-studies.com/david-teacher | doi = | id = | isbn = }}</ref> In the [[1980s]], the South African government was a major source of funds.<ref name=haenni/>
 
The group states simply that it is "privately funded". Funding for the group has changed over the years. Multinational companies including [[Philips]] and [[Standard Elektrik Lorenz]] have given the group money.<ref name=haenni/> In 1971, [[Shell]] contributed a lump sum of £30,000. [[The Ford Foundation]] also donated £20,000 over three years{{when}}.<ref name='R000033'>{{cite book | last = Teacher | first = David | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Rogue Agents: The Cercle Pinay complex 1951-1991 | publisher = | date = 2008-01-06 | location = | pages = 233 | url = https://isgp-studies.com/david-teacher | doi = | id = | isbn = }}</ref> In the [[1980s]], the South African government was a major source of funds.<ref name=haenni/>
  
In 1997, the ''[[Independent]]'' suggested that the group is [[CIA]] funded.<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/aitken-dropped-by-the-rights-secret-club-1258522.html</ref> [[Robin Ramsay]], editor of [[Lobster Magazine]], [[John E Lewis]] author of ''The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups''<ref>https://rightedition.com/2017/09/05/le-cercle-meet-secret-cia-funded-group-behind-war-terror/</ref> and [[Alan Clark]], whose claims as much in his diaries.  
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In 1997, the ''[[Independent]]'' suggested that the group is [[CIA]] funded.<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/aitken-dropped-by-the-rights-secret-club-1258522.html</ref> [[Robin Ramsay]], editor of [[Lobster Magazine]] and [[John E. Lewis]] author of ''The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups''<ref>https://rightedition.com/2017/09/05/le-cercle-meet-secret-cia-funded-group-behind-war-terror/</ref> and [[Alan Clark]], whose claims as much in his diaries.  
 
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Early Cercle members representing the Paneuropean Union, the European Coal and Steel Community, France, Germany, Italy & the CIA.
Formation1952
FounderJean Violet
LeaderLe Cercle/Chairman (Europe)‎
Type• secret society
• international
• think tank
Interests“War on Terror”, “Counter-terrorism”, National Security, Strategy of Tension, Deep politics
Interest ofPhilippe Brewaeys, Tony Gosling, Johannes Großmann, Adrian Hänni, Joël van der Reijden, David Teacher
Exposed byHans Langemann, Pierre Péan, Joël van der Reijden
SubpageLe Cercle/1958
Le Cercle/1968 (New York)
Le Cercle/1968 (Rome)
Le Cercle/1969 (Bavaria)
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Le Cercle/1980 (Zurich)
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Le Cercle/1996 (Amman)
Le Cercle/1997 (Berlin)
Le Cercle/1998 (Istanbul)
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Membership• James Alan Abrahamson
• Konrad Adenauer
• Jonathan Aitken
• Georges Albertini
• Alfredo Alcaino
• Rupert Allason
• Richard Allen
• Julian Amery
• Hooshang Amirahmadi
• Michael Ancram
• Bruce Anderson
• Robert Anderson
• Giulio Andreotti
• Magdeleine Anglade
• Richard Armitage
• Kaulza de Arriaga
• Bernard Asso
• Nadhmi Auchi
• Shaukat Aziz
• Franz Josef Bach
• Norman Bailey
• Pat Balestreri
• John Barron
• Margaret Beckett
• Alfredo Sánchez Bella
• Erik Bennett
• Jeff Bergner
• Wayne Lee Berman
• Benazir Bhutto
• John Biggs-Davison
• Brian Binley
• W. Michael Blumenthal
• Crispin Blunt
• John Bolton
• Benoît de Bonvoisin
• Cornelis Bossers
• Pik Botha
• Colonel Botta
• Raymond Bourgine
• Maurice Brebart
• Paul Bremer
• Harold Brown
• John Browne
• Monsignor Brunello
• Zbigniew Brzezinski
• Francisco Bulnes
• David Burnside
• Mario Buschemi
• Ian Butterfield
• Peter van der Byl
• Umberto Cappuzzo
• John Carbaugh
• Margaret Carlisle
• William Casey
• Anthony Cavendish
• Andrew Cavendish
• Paul Channon
• Winston Churchill II
• James W. Cicconi
• Alan Clark
• William P. Clark Jr.
• Marcel Clement
• Robert Close
• William Colby
• Etienne Copel
• Miles Costick
• Percy Cradock
• James Critchfield
• Brian Crozier
• Alexandre Ribeiro da Cunha
• Florimond Damman
• Hans van Dalsen
• Armand de Decker
• Jean-François Deniau
• Paul Dietrich
• Laura Jordan Dietrich
• Hans-Lothar Domröse
• Alan Duncan
• Lee Edwards
• Iain Elliott
• Nicholas Elliot
• Philipp Vander Elst
• Audna England
• Fritz Ermarth
• Evo Fernandes
• Edwin J. Feulner
• Charles Fincham
• Brand Fourie
• Wyche Fowler
• William François
• Charles Alan 'Pop' Fraser
• Louis Freeh
• Charles Freeman
• Yegor Gaidar
• Pierre Marie Gallois
• Indira Gandhi
• Marie-France Garaud
• Monique Garnier-Lançon
• Jean-Claude Gaudin
• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
• Rolf Gärtner
• Jeffrey B. Gaynor
• Reinhard Gehlen
• Conrad Gerber
• Frans Alphons Maria Alting von Geusau
• Alberto Giovannetti
• Álvaro Gomez-Hurtado
• Enrique Gomez-Hurtado
• Philip Goodhart
• Rolf Graage
• Alan Greenspan
• Ronald Grierson
• Aline Griffith
• Eldon Griffiths
• Alain Griotteray
• François de Grossouvre
• Otto von Habsburg
• Chuck Hagel
• William Hague
• Stefan Halper
• Robert J. Hanks
• Stephen Hastings
• Tsutomu Hata
• Bruno Heck
• Neil Peter Van Heerden
• Basil E. Hersov
• Dirk W. R. Hertzog
• Franz Heubl
• Alistair Horne
• Alfons Horten
• Samuel Hoskinson
• Michael Howard
• David Howell
• Hans Graf Huyn
• Rosemary Graf Huyn
• Fred Iklé
• Ion Iliescu
• Manuel Fraga-Iribarne
• Henry Jackson
• Donald Jameson
• Lisa Jameson
• Tedo Japaridze
• Philipp Jenninger
• Pierre Joannon
• Alun Gwynne Jones
• Jacques Jonet
• Peter Jungen
• Alain Juppe
• Alexander Karageorgevitch
• Crosby Kelly
• Nicholas de Kerchove
• John Killick
• Lane Kirkland
• Guillermo Kirkpatrick
• Jeane Kirkpatrick
• Henry Kissinger
• Václav Klaus
• Robert H. Knight
• Friedrich König
• Sven Kraemer
• Victor Kuvaldin
• Francis Lacoste
• Norman Lamont
• Stephen Lander
• Timothy Landon
• John Leahy
• Michael Ledeen
• Ronald Lehman
• Edward Leigh
• Julian Lewis
• John Lichowski
• David Lidington
• Gerhard Löwenthal
• Fred Luchsinger
• James Lucier
• Philippe Malaud
• Charles Malik
• Nikolai Malomuzh
• Alexandre de Marenches
• Werner Marx
• Daniel Mazuera
• Richard McCormack
• Robert McKinney
• Neil McLean
• George Meany
• Pierre Méhaignerie
• Constantin Menges
• Dan Meridor
• Alois Mertes
• Herbert Meyer
• George Mitchell
• Jean Monnet
• George Montgomery
• Thomas E. Moorer
• Robert Moss
• Federico Silva Muñoz‎
• Chester A. Nagle
• Karl-Heinz Narjes
• John Negroponte
• Richard Nixon
• François d'Orcival
• Frans Otten
• Urmas Paet
• Filippo Maria Pandolfi
• Charles Pasqua
• Richard Perle
• Carlo Pesenti
• Peter Petersen
• Robert Pfaltzgraff
• Jost Pfeiffer
• Antoine Pinay
• Jaime Nogueira Pinto
• Carlos Robles Piquer
• Fritz Pirkl
• Giulia du Plooy
• Robert du Plooy
• Alain Poher
• Günter Poser
• Charles Powell
• Jean-François Probst
• Jues Pujo
• Sultan Qaboos
• Walter Raymond Jr
• Walter Raymond Sr
• Gavin W. H. Relly
• Henri Renard
• David Rockefeller
• Nelson Rockefeller
• William V. Roth
• Anton Rupert
• Luc Beyer de Rycke
• Hans Rühle
• Donald Rumsfeld
• Jan Sabbe
• Captain Santino
• Turki bin Faisal al-Saud
• Antonin Scalia
• Dieter A. Schmidt
• Adolf W. Schmidt
• 'Schmidthuber'
• William Schneider
• Joseph Schuchert
• Gerd Schulte-Hillen
• Franz-Josef Schulze
• Robert Schuman
• Christian Schwarz-Schilling
• Norman Schwarzkopf
• Ted Shackley
• Natan Sharansky
• Arkady Shevchenko
• Marshall Shulman
• Arnold M. Silver
• Ron Silver
• Manmohan Singh
• Thomas Roy Spencer
• Tim Spicer
• Antonio de Spinola
• Christian Freiherr von Stauffenberg
• Frank Steele
• Richard Stilwell
• Franz Josef Strauss
• Steven Symms
• Frances Stockdale Symms
• Hussein bin Talal
• Geoffrey Tantum
• H. L. T. Taswell
• Peter Tennant
• Margaret Thatcher
• Hugh Thomas
• Eymen Topbaş
• Thomas A. Twetten
• Jean-François Vallet
• Giancarlo Elia Valori
• Paul Vankerkhoven
• Jean Violet
• Paul Violet
• Paul Volcker
• Jürgen Warnke
• Philippe de Weck
• Paul M. Weyrich
• John Wilkinson
• William Wilson
• John Wodehouse
• Paul Wolfowitz
• Bernhard Worms
• Ardeshir Zahedi
• Robert Zoelly
Le Cercle is a deep state milieu which was set up around the same time as the Bilderberg, but is smaller and more secretive. It is attended especially by idealogues including spooks, deep politicians and editors. Members promote their hawkish agenda by otherwise subverting the democratic process, possibly going as far as brokering weapons deals and setting up false flag attacks. Their warmaking is also ideological - distributing propaganda to stoke fear of communism, promoting the "war on terror" etc.

Le Cercle (formerly Pinay Group[1], also called the Pinay Circle[2] or the Cercle Pinay[3]) is a deep state milieu which is about as old as the Bilderberg, but considerably smaller and much more secretive. Members from around 15 countries meet yearly in both Washington DC and Europe. Leaked documents[4] suggest that the group's activities include political subversion - especially using Gladio-style "terrorism" and assassination - and the clandestine arrangement of business transactions, especially arms deals and fraud.

Official narrative

In 2000, a single webpage at www.atlanticcircle.com described Le Cercle as "an informal group of European and American professionals - politicians, retired Ambassadors, former Generals, lawyers, bankers and active participants in banking, oil, shipping, publishing and trading companies - who are interested in preserving a positive Atlantic dialogue."[5] To the UK House of Lords, this group has been described as an "informal group meeting to discuss world affairs."[6] William Hague described it as "a political group which organises conferences." In 2007 the Washington Post termed it a "foreign policy think tank established during the Cold War that reportedly included senior politicians, diplomats and intelligence agents worldwide."[7] Inviting the banker Jean-Maxime Leveque in 1983, Monique Garnier-Lançon wrote that at The Cercle "The leaders of the free world can now examine the very grave problems which we face in order to determine together possible solutions and then to try to implement them, each in their respective sphere."[8]

David Teacher, by contrast, writes that "the Cercle complex can be seen to be an international coalition of right-wing intelligence veterans, working internationally to promote top conservative politicians who would shape the world in the 1970s and 1980s."

Konrad Adenauer meets with Antoine Pinay and Jean Violet at a Cercle meeting on 18th August 1958

Origins

Although named after Antoine Pinay (French prime minister in 1952)[9] the group is believed to have been organised by Jean Violet, a close associate of his since 1951. The group arose from a Franco-German alliance an originally its anti-communism had a catholic Christian flavour. In the 1970s, it assumed a transatlantic secular flavour,[10] especially with the involvement of Ted Shackley, under whose influence meetings were held on alternate sides of the Atlantic, with Shackley chairing the US meetings.

Leadership

Full articles: Le Cercle/Chairman (Europe), Le Cercle/Chairman (USA)

The group has had separate US and European chairs for some years[11] - one for the Autumn meeting in the USA, one for the Spring meeting in Europe. The US chairman is less publicised (and is currently unidentified) so unqualified references to "The Chairman" will very probably be references to the European chairman. European chairs include Brian Crozier (1980-1985), Julian Amery (1985 - early 1990s)[12], Christian Schwarz-Schilling (1 year), Jonathan Aitken (1993-1996), Norman Lamont (over 10 years) and most recently, Michael Ancram. Only two US chairmen are known: Ted Shackley and his successor, Richard T. McCormack.[11]

Geoffrey Tantum was named by The Telegraph as the Cercle's UK secretary.[13]

Meetings

Full article: Le Cercle/Meetings

The group currently meets biannually, in Washington DC every Autumn and in Spring across the Atlantic, usually in Europe, although David Rockefeller's autobiography states that it used to meet "thrice yearly".[14] Meetings last (3-)4 days and nowadays there are "about 70"[15] guests, although meetings used to be smaller, perhaps just 35 participants.[11] Guests are almost all male, and sometimes bring their wives, though it is unknown to what extent (if any) they are involved in the meetings.[16] Membership is much less fluid than a milieu such as the Bilderberg.

Ideology

Most Cercle attendees have a hawkish orientation, which could be summarised as 'extreme right wing' and anti-communist. Many have been closely involved in establishing a range of institutions to promote first "anti-communism" and later "terrorism". These have been used to promote cold war paranoia and lay the ideological groundwork for a "global war on terror".[17]

Attendance

The identity of attendees was largely a matter of conjecture until 2011 when ISGP researcher, Joël van der Reijden obtained and published 5 guest lists for Le Cercle meetings, gleaned from the private papers of French Cercle visitor Monique Garnier-Lançon at Stanford University,[18] which led him to create a list which inspired the list on the right.[19]

These lists detail deep politicians - i.e. politicians, spooks, bankers, diplomats, deep political actors, military officers, oil experts, editors and publishers who may or may not have retired from their official functions. The participants come almost exclusively from western or western-oriented countries. Many important members tend to be affiliated with the aristocratic circles in London or obscure elements within the Vatican, and accusations of links to fascism and synarchism are anything but uncommon in this milieu.

Exposure

The first known print reference to Le Cercle was probably in Time Out magazine's 1975 leaked documents from the Institute for the Study of Conflict, which referenced the "Pinay Committee". No American commercially-controlled media sources are known to have mentioned the group.[20] Le Cercle was mentioned in 1980[21] in Der Spiegel (which also published the first article on the Bilderberg group) as a result of the controversy surrounding Franz Josef Strauss, a regular attendant. In the late 1990s, Le Cercle received more attention after a scandal broke out involving Jonathan Aitken, who was then European chairman[15]. Members who were contacted by newspapers refused to answer any questions about the group.

The Cercle has had minimal attntion from the commercially-controlled media. The most comprehensive study online was carried out by ISGP researcher, Joël van der Reijden, who has been writing about the Cercle since 2005.[22] Van der Reijden's work prompted David Teacher to pursue his study of the group and republish an updated edition of his work on the group Rogue Agents. A couple of researchers have published Ph.D. theses on the group which deserve wider publication. As of June 2017, neither Spartacus nor History Commons had a page on this group. A research proposal by Adrian Hänni noted that "the Cercle is virtually nonexistent in academic research to this day... There are, as of yet, very few studies of the Cercle that are based on primary sources and meet basic academic standards."[10]

South African diplomatic documents relating to the Cercle emerged on the internet in 2017.[23][24][25]

Activities

The 1982 Langemann Papers were the first significant exposure of Le Cercle's activities, confirming that the group was actively involved in influencing Western European elections. Evidence of their involvement in other matters such weapons dealing and covert military action remains circumstantial.

Support for Conservative Politicians

David Teacher reports that "throughout the 1970s the Cercle Pinay complex was active [influencing elections in the UK,] France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Belgium." He writes that "the Cercle complex can be seen to be an international coalition of right-wing intelligence veterans, working internationally to promote top conservative politicians who would shape the world in the 1970s and 1980s."

The Langemann Papers (November 1979) quote a planning paper by Brian Crozier about a Cercle complex operation "to affect a change of government in the United Kingdom (accomplished)".[26] This may be a reference to the success of the "Shield" group which Crozier set up in 1976, probably with the express purpose of getting Margaret Thatcher elected, a year after she was invited to the Bilderberg meeting by Labour's Dennis Healey.

Disruption of Left Wing Governments

Le Cercle has also been accused of actively destabilizing governments which opposed a conservative economic agenda, such as Gough Whitlam's Australian government.[27][28] Cercle member Robert Gascoyne-Cecil chaired the conservative Monday Club which prepared a coup against Labour government of Harold Wilson.[29]

Promotion of European Integration

Le Cercle (like the Bilderberg Group, to which it is often compared) is strongly focused on European integration, going back to the efforts of its early members to bring about a Franco-German rapprochement. The significant presence of Paneuropa-affiliated Opus Dei members and Knights of Malta, together with statements of the Vatican and Otto von Habsburg, suggest an agenda of creating a new "Holy Roman Empire" with borders from the Atlantic to the Black Sea and from the Baltic Sea to North Africa.[citation needed] Interestingly, the latest generation of British Cercle members, whose predecessors were keen on joining the European Union, now seem to want to keep Britain out of the emerging European superstate, perhaps having lost faith they can become a significant force within Europe. Their American associates, however, would like for them to continue the effort of breaking into the Franco-German alliance and possibly to establish a new Anglo-German alliance.

"War on Terror"

Full article: Rated 4/5 “War on Terror”

The group's interest in "counter-terrorism" and arms dealing suggests that it may have been important in devising the "War on Terror" narrative, as does the fact that at least four members of this group (Brian Crozier, Robert Moss, Gerhard Lowenthal, Alun Gwynne Jones) gave presentations at the seminal 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism. Some of the other speakers were connected to known members and may themselves have attended meetings of Le Cercle. Many members set up "terrorism research" organisations, which sheds new light on the "anti-communist" think tanks they also set up, such as Interdoc. Joël van der Reijden infers that Le Cercle may be connected to the Strategy of Tension. Noting the presence of Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin in the group, he remarks that "That's major news, because Baron de Bonvoisin, besides a key Belgian figure in the Strategy of Tension, is the most key name in the Belgian X-Dossiers."

Covert Military Intervention

Following a Nasserite coup in Yemen in September 1962, Julian Amery (later Cercle chairman) met with King Hussein of Jordan and agreed to send Cercle attendee Neil McLean to report on the situation[30] after which Amery met with McLean, David Stirling, Col Brian Franks and UK Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home to organise an unofficial mercenary operation.[31]

Weapons dealing

Full articles: Iran-Contra, Arms-to-Iraq

Cercle visitor John Carbaugh worked for GeoMiliTech Consultants Corporation, an arms dealing group directly involved in Iran-Contra.[32] Others such as Margaret Carlisle were aides to Iran-Contra insiders. Cercle members Paul Channon and Alan Clark are connected through their involvement in the Arms-to-Iraq affair, also to the later chairman Jonathan Aitken, who himself was involved in the Al-Yamamah arms deal as well, as was another later chairman, Norman Lamont.[33] Nadhmi Auchi is widely reported as having made a lot of money from arms deals to Saddam Hussein, amongst others.[34][35]

Other activities

Lacking documents or testimony from Cercle members, inferences about Cercle activities remain unconfirmed. Ted Shackley was involved in oil deals after he left the CIA in 1979, facilitated by his close friend and fellow Cercle member, Conrad Gerber and oil smuggler John Deuss. Joël van der Reijden has suggested that Le Cercle was important in the organization of the 9/11 attacks.[36]

Funding

The group states simply that it is "privately funded". Funding for the group has changed over the years. Multinational companies including Philips and Standard Elektrik Lorenz have given the group money.[10] In 1971, Shell contributed a lump sum of £30,000. The Ford Foundation also donated £20,000 over three years[When?].[37] In the 1980s, the South African government was a major source of funds.[10]

In 1997, the Independent suggested that the group is CIA funded.[38] Robin Ramsay, editor of Lobster Magazine and John E. Lewis author of The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups[39] and Alan Clark, whose claims as much in his diaries.

 

Related Quotations

PageQuoteAuthorDate
Deep state actor“Crozier himself makes the point that many of the prominent politicians invited to sit in on Cercle strategic sessions had no knowledge of their hosts' more clandestine operational activities – if only because of the "need to know" principle. Nonetheless, a stalwart multi-functionary on the Boards of several groups linked to the Cercle can be presumed to have some deeper involvement beyond just lending his name to the cause.”David Teacher
Hans Langemannthe Circle consists of a loose gathering of various conservative and anti-Communist politicians, publicists, bankers and VIPs that meets some twice a year in various parts of the world. Its origins stem from the former French Prime Minister Antoine Pinay. The Circle, which still exists today, also invites guest speakers... One recent development is the establishment within the Circle of a command staff or of an inner circle which then works out particularly suitable means for action on current political questions.”Hans Langemann1980
Le Cercle/Exposure“For instance, in the late 1970s Le Cercle supported NATO's decision to station new medium-range nuclear weapons — Cruise and Pershing II missiles — in Britain, Germany, Belgium and Holland targeted against the USSR. Le Cercle helped to discredit the European peace protest movement which emerged against the backdrop of the nuclearization of Europe through aggressive counter-intelligence, provocations and disinformation.”Ekaterina Blinova8 August 2015
Helmut Schmidt“Participants at Le Cercle meetings report that a major issue has been how to bring about the demise of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government. This issue dominated the last biannual meeting of Le Cercle that was hosted by the Hanns Seidel Foundation, the official think tank of opposition leader Franz Josef Strauss's Christian Social Union, in Munich last May. Le Cercle's participants have been able to carry out an inside-outside job to destroy the Schmidt coalition government since then. While Strauss's CSU carried out a heavy-handed wrecking job that included an implicit alliance with the Strasserite fascist Green Party, sources report that Helmut Sonnenfeldt and Henry Kissinger took the inside track since the ouster of Secretary of State Alexander Haig, threatening, cajoling, and misleading Schmidt into his disastrous pragmatic political course.”Helmut Schmidt
Scott Thompson
1982

 

Employee on Wikispooks

EmployeeJob
Geoffrey TantumLe Cercle/UK secretary

 

Known members

280 of the 319 of the members already have pages here:

MemberDescription
James AbrahamsonU.S. Air Force general responsible for space imaging and the Strategic Defence Intiative. Abrahamson later directed Stratesec, a company which had unparalleled access to the World Trade Center prior to 2001. He was a member of the deep state intelligence coordinating conference Le Cercle.
Konrad AdenauerGerman (deep?) politician, CDU leader
Jonathan AitkenUK deep politician, Cercle chair, convicted perjurer
Georges AlbertiniFrench deep state operative. Man-behind-the-scenes for many politicians.
Alfredo AlcainoChile born Cercle visitor, deep state connected lawyer
Rupert AllasonWriter of books and articles on the subject of espionage. Attended Le Cercle.
Richard AllenUS National Security Advisor, Cercle, Iran-Contra...
Julian AmeryMI6, deep politician who chaired Le Cercle for several years.
Hooshang AmirahmadiIranian American spook who attended Le Cercle.
Michael AncramLikely took over from Norman Lamont as European chair of Le Cercle.
Bruce AndersonUK pro-torture spooky journalist, Le Cercle, attended a "terrorism" related conference chaired by Harold Elletson in 2009.
Robert AndersonLe Cercle, Bilderberg,
Giulio Andreotti"The ultimate insider of Italian political life", who as Italian Prime Minister publicly confirmed the existence of Operation Gladio
Magdeleine AngladeFrench member of Le Cercle who took over the role of Monique Garnier-Lançon
Richard Armitage"A sophisticated member of the top echelons of the U.S. government"
Kaúlza de ArriagaPortuguese soldier politician who attended a November 1977 meeting of Le Cercle with his aide
Bernard AssoSpooky French lawyer
Nadhmi AuchiCercle-connected fraudster
Shaukat AzizTri-national Citibank executive with "close ties" to the US deep state. Parachuted in to become Prime Minister of Pakistan. Cercle member.
Franz Josef BachA leading German member of the Cercle, who organised the 1982 meeting in Wildbad Kreuth.
Norman BaileySpooky economist who taught "Economics for Foreign Policy Makers." Admitted on the record that the PROMIS database and search application has been given to the NSA
John BarronA spooky journalist who wrote on the evils of the KGB.
Margaret BeckettUK foreign secretary, Le Cercle attendee
Alfredo Sánchez BellaSpanish spook and possible deep politician
Erik BennettA secretive UK military advisor in Oman and a Cercle attendee.
Jeff BergnerCercle attendee. Project for the New American Century. German Marshall Fund. Hudson Institute
Wayne Lee BermanUS Businessman with deep political connections.
Benazir BhuttoPrime Minister of Pakistan. YGL. Assassinated in 2007.
John Biggs-DavisonUK politician who attended Le Cercle
Brian BinleyEx-conservative MP. Le Cercle.
W. Michael BlumenthalUS/Secretary of the Treasury in the 1970s, Bilderberg, Le Cercle, CFR
Crispin BluntSandhurst, Le Cercle, MP, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee
John BoltonNeocon US deep state operative who was Trump's National Security Advisor until September 2019
Benoît de Bonvoisin"A key Belgian figure in the Strategy of Tension", as well as the most key name in the Belgian X-Dossiers. Member of Le Cercle. His father attended the first Bilderberg.
Cornelis BossersLe Cercle. Major businessman in the Philips group.
Pik BothaSouth African deep state operative
Colonel BottaVery little known Cercle visitor.
Raymond BourgineFrench journalist and editor who attended Le Cercle.
Paul BremerExecutive of Marsh & McLennan, a company whose offices were hit by a plane on 9/11, "Coordinator for Counterterrorism", Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq ...
Harold BrownUnited States Secretary of Defense.
John BrowneSpooky UK businessman, Morgan Stanley, Le Cercle, Chatham house ...
Aristide BrunelloLittle known Cercle visitor. Vatican prelate and spy for the BND under Reinhard Gehlen. Attended a meeting of the Le Cercle.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a>
Zbigniew BrzezinskiA central US Deep politician, Cercle, Bilderberg, ...
Maurice BrébartBelgian right-wing newspaper owner who attended Le Cercle in the 1970s.
Francisco BulnesCercle member active in the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende
David BurnsideNorthern Ireland politician
Ian ButterfieldSpooky MICC consultant, Le Cercle
Peter van der BylSpooky Rhodesian politician
Umberto CappuzzoSenior Italian military leader and Le Cercle attendee.
John CarbaughCercle attendee linked to political double dealing, arms deals and Iran-Contra.
... further results

 

Events Planned

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Australia/1975 coup d'état15 October 197511 November 1975Australia
Canberra
A UK/US deep state-backed covert "constitutional coup" to remove Gough Whitlam whom they saw as a loose cannon.
Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism2 July 19795 July 1979Israel
Jerusalem
The birthplace of the "War on Terror" doctrine, "a major international forum for the movement against détente".

 

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5star.png 10 April 2016 Robin  A good summary of a hugely under-reported deep state milieu.
Le Cercle is a good deal more secretive than the Bilderberg, and is still very little known. This page showcases the excellent work of Joël van der Reijden in exposing this group.
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  1. https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973LISBON04406_b.html
  2. Document:The Pinay Circle
  3. A 2003 obituary in the Observer established this equivalence
  4. Most notably, the Langemann Papers
  5. http://web.archive.org/web/20001017205434/http://atlanticcircle.com/
  6. http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-interests/register-of-lords-interests/register-of-interests-of-lords-members-staff/?letter=L
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  11. a b c http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/McCORMACK,%20Richard%20T.toc.pdf p.112
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  13. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/aitken-dropped-by-the-rights-secret-club-1258522.html
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  15. a b Aitken dropped by the Right's secret club
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  17. Note, for example the connections to the 1979 JCIT; at least 3 Cercle members gave presentations and many started groups focusing on "terrorism research".
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  35. April 6, 2003, The Observer, 'So, Norman, any regrets this time?';
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