Le Cercle/1984 (Bonn)

 Le Cercle/1984 (Bonn)(Le Cercle/Meeting)

Date	July 1984
Location	Bonn,  West Germany
Participants	Julian Amery, Philip Goodhart, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, John Wodehouse, Nicholas Elliott, Neil McLean, Robert Close, Armand de Decker, Luc Beyer de Rycke, Paul Vankerkhoven, Jacques Jonet, Jürgen Warnke, Alois Mertes, Karl-Heinz Narjes, Hans Graf Huyn, Otto von Habsburg, Hans Rühle, Franz-Josef Schulze, Günter Poser, Franz Josef Bach, Peter Jungen, Monique Garnier-Lançon, François d'Orcival, Pierre Joannon, Philippe Malaud, William Schneider, Robert J. Hanks, John Carbaugh, Arnold Silver, Margo Carlisle, Jeffrey B. Gaynor, Jaime Nogueira Pinto, Hans van Dalsen, Robert du Plooy, Alfredo Sánchez Bella, Eymen Topbaş

Le Cercle met in Bonn, West Germany, in July 1984.

Exposure

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

 

Known Participants

33 of the 36 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 Carbaugh	Cercle attendee linked to political double dealing, arms deals and Iran-Contra.
Margaret Carlisle	Legislative aide to Iran-contra insider, James McClure. Le Cercle
Robert Close	Belgian Anti-Communist spook who attended Le Cercle.
Hans van Dalsen	As South Africa's foreign affairs secretary, attended a meeting of Le Cercle in there in 1984.
Armand de Decker	Belgian lawyer politician who attended Le Cercle
Nicholas Elliott	A key spook with a wide range of connections.
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
Philip Goodhart	UK deep state actor. Attended Le Cercle.
Otto von Habsburg	Austrian deep politician, connected to Le Cercle, Opus Dei, Knights of Malta ...
Robert J. Hanks	Cercle regular, rear admiral,Cold War hardliner
Hans Graf Huyn	German deep politician who attended Le Cercle
Pierre Joannon	Historian invited to the 1984 meeting of Le Cercle in Bonn
Jacques Jonet	Founded the European Institute for Peace and Security with 3 fellow members of Le Cercle to counter pacifist groups.
Peter Jungen	At least 4 visits to Le Cercle... Personal assistant to Otto Wolff von Amerongen
Philippe Malaud	Le Cercle, French diplomat
Neil McLean	Member of the Special Operations Executive in World War II who attended several meetings of Le Cercle during the 1980s.
Alois Mertes	Spooky German who attended the Bilderberg and Le Cercle. Aide to German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Karl-Heinz Narjes	German EEC politician who attended Le Cercle
Robert du Plooy	South African deep state operative/diplomat who attended Le Cercle in South Africa in 1984.
Günter Poser	Attended Le Cercle in Bonn in 1984 as a retired admiral.
Luc Beyer de Rycke	Cercle visitor.
Hans Rühle	German deep state operative. Attended Le Cercle as head of the planning staff of the German Minister of Defense.
William Schneider	An advocate use of the first-strike use of nuclear weapons. Attendee of Le Cercle
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.
Eymen Topbaş
Paul Vankerkhoven	A spook who worked with three other Cercle members, founding the European Institute for Peace and Security to counter pacifist groups.
Jürgen Warnke	A German lawyer and politician who attended Le Cercle.
François d'Orcival	French editor. Le Cercle

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