Le Cercle/1990 (Oman)

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

Le Cercle met in Muscat, Oman on November 30, 1990, according to Alan Clark.^[1]

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.^[2]

Aitken, Clarke and Channon have all been heavily implicated in the arms to Iraq affair examined by Lord Justice Richard Scott.^[2]

Participant	Description
AIVD/Director General
Jonathan Aitken	UK deep politician, Cercle chair, convicted perjurer
Julian Amery	MI6, deep politician who chaired Le Cercle for several years.
Andrew Cavendish
Paul Channon
Alan Clark
Norman Schwarzkopf	As CENTCOM commander led 1990-91 Gulf War; Le Cercle