Le Cercle/1990 (Oman)

 Le Cercle/1990 (Oman)(Le Cercle/Meeting)

Date	November 30, 1990
Location	Al Bustan Hotel & Al-Baraka Palace,  Muscat,  Oman
Description	Start/End dates uncertain
Participants	Jonathan Aitken, Julian Amery, Andrew Cavendish, Paul Channon, Alan Clark, Sheikh Qaboos, Norman Schwarzkopf, AIVD/Director General

Le Cercle met in Muscat, Oman on November 30, 1990, according to Alan Clark.

Attendees

Attendees included

• Jonathan Aitken (Minister of Defence procurement)
• Alan Clark (Minister of State for Defence)
• Julian Amery (joint Chairman)
• Sheikh Qaboos (Ruler of Oman)
• General Norman Schwarzkopf
• Paul Channon (former secretary of State at the Dept. of Trade & Industry)
• the Head of the Dutch Secret Service
• An unnamed French Naval Admiral plus other serving or former intelligence operatives and VIP’s.

Activities

Aitken, Clarke and Channon have all been heavily implicated in the arms to Iraq affair examined by Lord Justice Richard Scott.

 

Known Participants

4 of the 8 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Jonathan Aitken	UK deep politician, Cercle chair, convicted perjurer
Julian Amery	MI6, deep politician who chaired Le Cercle for several years.
Paul Channon	US-born UK politician who attended and was involved in the Arms-to-Iraq deal together with fellow Cercle members Jonathan Aitken and Alan Clark.
Alan Clark	Bullingdon Club, Le Cercle, Minister for Defence Procurement...

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