European Atlantic Group
The European-Atlantic Group was founded in London in 1954 by Michael John Layton, 2nd Baron Layton (1912 - 1989) (then a Vice-President of the Council of Europe), Elma Dangerfield (then a journalist for the Guardian), together with other members of both Houses of Parliament, Industrialists, Bankers, Economists, and Journalists. Its main object was to promote closer relations between the European and Atlantic countries by providing a regular forum in Britain for informed discussion of their problems and possibilities for better economic and political co-operation.
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Overview
The Founders stated that their purpose was to disseminate authoritative information concerning the work of International Organizations such as the Council of Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Western European Union, the European Coal and Steel Community, Euratom, the European Economic Community, as well as the European Free Trade Association, the Association for General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs, and the Economic Commission for Europe.
In addition to holding monthly dinners and meetings in London, the group sent many delegations abroad to study at first hand the European and NATO institutions in Brussels, Paris and Luxembourg, as well as visiting Germany, Italy, Turkey and Greece, as the guests of governments and International Organizations. Group representatives have also visited the United States, the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc with the object of improving relations between West and East.
The Group has also held Discussions on European-Atlantic relations with the rest of the world, including the Middle East, Far East and Latin American countries.
At their Banquet (24 April 1989) in the Guildhall, London, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of NATO, the guests-of-honour and speakers were HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, K.G., Herr Manfred Woerner, Secretary-General of NATO, and General John Galvin, US Army, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.
People
Trustees, Directors, Vice Chairmen, and Committee members as of 2005[1][2][3]
In 1989 the Group's London office was at 6 Gertrude Street, Chelsea. The President was The Earl of Bessborough, D.L.,(a Founder), and there was an impressive list of Vice-Presidents, including the Marquess of Lansdowne, the Earl of Limerick, the Earl Jellicoe, The Lord Carrington, The Lord Chalfont, The Lord Shawcross, The Lord Granchester. Sir Nicholas Henderson, Sir Frederic Bennett, Sir Fitzroy Maclean, Bt., General Sir Harry Tuzo, and Douglas Fairbanks junior. The Chairman was the Rt.Hon. Geoffrey Rippon, Lord Rippon of Hexham, Q.C., Vice-Chairmen were Sir Antony Buck, Q.C., M.P., and Sir W Hugh-Jones. The Hon.Director was Mrs Elma Dangerfield, O.B.E.
Corporate members and sponsors 2005
A-M
Adolphe Bentinck Memorial Prize | Advanced Systems International Ltd | AEA Industrial Technology | Alvis Plc | Berrymans Lace Mawer | British Aerospace | British Nuclear Industry Forum | B.S.C. Consulting | C.A.L. Futures Ltd | C.M.A. Hotel Group | Clyde & Co | Cooper Gay Holdings | Coopers & Lybrand | Crowell & Moring | De Verney Brooke Taylor | Deep Sea Seals | Deloitte & Touche | Deutsche Bank AG | DMC Equipment Ltd | Dresdner Bank AG | EPPA UK | Equitable Life Assurance Society | Firmin & Sons Plc | Ferranti Thomson Sonar Systems UK Ltd | Fred Olsen Ltd | G.C. Lucas & Co Ltd | G.E.C. Marconi | G.K.N. | G.P.Wild (International) Ltd | Hombesco UK Ltd | Invesco Europe Ltd | J. Henry Shroder & Co. | Joseph Miller & Sons | KPMG Peat Marwick McLintock | Marshall Ross & Prevezer | Merrill Lynch Group | Multiservice Properties Ltd
N-Z
National Westminster Bank | National Geographic Channel | NATO Northwood | Oxford Analytica | P & JB & Co | Phibro Energy | Production Inc | Polar Shipping | Pridie Brewster | QinetiQ Ltd (Formerly DERA) | Racal Group Services | Raychem Ltd | Regent House Properties | Rigden and Associates | Rolls Royce | Royal College of Defence Studies | Sal Oppenheim Jr & Cie | Sambar International | Samuel Montagu & Co | SBC Warburg | Schroder Charity Trust | Smurfit Ltd | STC Technology Ltd | The Tokyo Electric Power Co | The Uranium Institute | Toshiba Medical Systems | Turner International Network Sales | United Kingdom Nirex Ltd | W.F. Marshall & Partners | W.K. Webster & Co | W.S. Atkins Manufacturing & Process Industries | WestLB (UK) Ltd | World Nuclear Association[4]
Resources
Elma Dangerfield A Brief History of The European-Atlantic Group EAG Website (from the Web Archive).
- European-Atlantic Group Reports, 1954-1989, London. 1989.
Known members
9 of the 41 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Frederic Bennett | Parliamentary Private Secretary to Reginald Maudling, Privy Counsellor, Bilderberg Steering committee |
| Elma Dangerfield | British journalist and Liberal Party politician. She also was an intelligence operative during and after World War 2, working especially with Eastern European exiles. |
| Philip Goodhart | UK deep state actor. Attended Le Cercle. |
| George Jellicoe | UK spook who founded Hakluyt & Company Ltd. |
| Alun Gwynne Jones | UK politician, Cercle visitor, the only person who spoke more than once at the JCIT |
| Julian Oswald | First Sea Lord and Chief of UK Naval Staff in the early 1990s. |
| Giles Radice | A template for Tony Blair arguing for "modernization" of the Labour Party. A leading member of the European Movement in the UK. |
| Geoffrey Rippon | Attended the 1974 Bilderberg as Shadow Foreign Secretary |
| Hartley Shawcross |
Sponsors
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| British Aerospace | |
| Defence Academy of the United Kingdom | Provides higher education for personnel in the British Armed Forces, Civil Service, other UK Government Departments and personnel from other nations. |
| Deutsche Bank | German bank |
| Merrill Lynch | |
| NATO | The world's largest military alliance. "Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all." |
| Oxford Analytica | Spooky international analysis/consulting firm. |
| Qinetiq | |
| S. G. Warburg |
