Le Cercle/1982 (Wildbad Kreuth)

 Le Cercle/1982 (Wildbad Kreuth)(Le Cercle/Meeting)

Date	11 June 1982 - 13 June 1982
Location	Wildbad Kreuth,  West Germany
Participants	Julian Amery, John Browne, John Biggs-Davison, Brian Crozier, Nicholas Elliot, Frank Steele, Peter Tennant, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Karl-Heinz Narjes, Franz-Josef Schulze, Hans Graf Huyn, Bruno Heck, Franz Josef Bach, Monique Garnier-Lançon, William François, Henri Renard, Jues Pujo, Robert J. Hanks, Paul Weyrich, Pat Balestreri, James Lucier, Donald Jameson, Miles Costick, Margaret Carlisle, Arnold M. Silver, Richard McCormack, Aline Griffith, Alfredo Sánchez Bella, Jaime Nogueira Pinto, Álvaro Gomez-Hurtado, Enrique Gomez-Hurtado, Daniel Mazuera, Robert Close, Jacques Jonet, Nicholas de Kerchove, Benoît de Bonvoisin, Charles Alan 'Pop' Fraser, Dieter Schmidt, Franz-Josef Strauss
Perpetrators	Franz Josef Bach
Description	1982 conference organised by Franz Josef Bach. The participants were guests of Franz-Josef Strauss. The first page of the attendee list was published online in 2011

Le Cercle met in Wildbad Kreuth, West Germany from 11-13 June, 1982. The participants were guests of Franz-Josef Strauss. The conference was organised by Franz Josef Bach.

Agenda

Unknown.

Exposure

In 2011 Joel Van der Reijden discovered the first page of the attendee list for this conference amongst the papers of Monique Garnier-Lançon at Stanford University, and published it online.

 

Known Participants

33 of the 39 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Julian Amery	MI6, deep politician who chaired Le Cercle for several years.
Franz Josef Bach	A leading German member of the Cercle, who organised the 1982 meeting in Wildbad Kreuth.
Alfredo Sánchez Bella	Spanish spook and possible deep politician
John Biggs-Davison	UK politician who attended Le Cercle
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.
John Browne	Spooky UK businessman, Morgan Stanley, Le Cercle, Chatham house ...
Margaret Carlisle	Legislative aide to Iran-contra insider, James McClure. Le Cercle
Robert Close	Belgian Anti-Communist spook who attended Le Cercle.
Miles Costick	President and founder of the Institute on Strategic Trade, attended Le Cercle in 1982
Brian Crozier	Arch espionage insider who founded his own intelligence agency
Nicholas Elliott	A key spook with a wide range of connections.
William François	French economist who attended at least two Cercle meetings
Monique Garnier-Lançon	Deep state operative whose papers lead to a major exposure of Le Cercle. French convenor of Le Cercle in the first half of the 1980s.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil	Bilderberg, Le Cercle, The Other Club, Ditchley Governor
Enrique Gomez-Hurtado	Cercle regular. "One of the best bootlicker[s] of Bush"
Álvaro Gomez-Hurtado	Spooky Colombian diplomat who attended Le Cercle. Assassinated in 1995
Aline Griffith	US born Spanish spook who was a regular attender at Le Cercle in the 1980s.
Robert J. Hanks	Cercle regular, rear admiral,Cold War hardliner
Bruno Heck	Founder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, member of Le Cercle
Hans Graf Huyn	German deep politician who attended Le Cercle
Donald Jameson	Attended multiple Cercle meetings and worked for the CIA. Vice-president of the Jamestown Foundation
Jacques Jonet	Founded the European Institute for Peace and Security with 3 fellow members of Le Cercle to counter pacifist groups.
Nicholas de Kerchove	A spook who attended Le Cercle on multiple occasions.
James Lucier	Cercle attendee, "inside man in the skunk works," as he calls himself, or Lucifer as others sometimes refer to him.
Daniel Mazuera	A former Colombian trade minister and Cercle visitor
Richard McCormack	Deep politician a long history and connections back to Vietnam, Nixon administration, succeeded Ted Shackley as US Chair of Le Cercle.
Karl-Heinz Narjes	German EEC politician who attended Le Cercle
Dieter A. Schmidt	Head of the Franz Josef Strauss Symposium.
Franz-Josef Schulze	Transitioned from the Luftwaffe to NATO. Attended Le Cercle
Arnold Silver	CIA Chief of Station in Luxembourg from 1957-1960. Attended Le Cercle.
Frank Steele	An MI6 officer with African connections who opened contacts with the IRA in the early 1970s. He later moved into banking and attended more than one meeting of Le Cercle.
Peter Tennant	UK deep state operative, probably a deep politician, founded The 61
Paul Weyrich	A driving force behind the creation of a populist Religious Right in the US in the 1970s and 1980s. He convinced Jerry Falwell to found Moral Majority in 1979. Weyrich attended Le Cercle in 1982.

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