Le Cercle

Early Cercle members representing the Paneuropa Union, the European Coal and Steel Community, France, Germany and Italy. Andreotti was not a founding member; the others were.

Le Cercle is a foreign policy think-tank specialising in international security. Set up after World War II, the group has members from twenty-five countries and meets at least bi-annually, in Washington, D.C. and maybe other places. The group includes many senior intelligence experts. The group's current chairman is Norman Lamont, former British Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lamont worked at Rothschild's and is a member of the Privy Council. He also is chairman of the Oil Club.

Origins

Le Cercle used be known as the Pinay Circle, or Cercle Pinay by its original French founders. Although the group was named after a French statesman who was prime minister from March to December 1952, the real organizer of this group was a person named Jean Violet, a close associate of Pinay since 1951.

Membership

Full article: Le Cercle membership lists
Le Cercle is a secretive, privately-funded and transnational discussion group which meets regularly. It is attended by a mixture of politicians, ambassadors, bankers, shady businessmen, oil experts, editors, publishers, military officers and intelligence agents, who may or may not have retired from their official functions. The participants come from western or western-oriented countries. Many important members tend to be affiliated with the aristocratic circles in London or obscure elements within the Vatican, and accusations of links to fascism and Synarchism are anything but uncommon in this milieu. The group's current has been recorded as Norman Lamont, former British Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Media Attention

Le Cercle has operated in almost complete anonymity since its creation with only a handful of articles having been written about it. As of this writing, no American sources have been identified. Le Cercle was mentioned in the early 1980s by the German magazine Der Spiegel as a result of the controversy surrounding Franz Josef Strauß, a regular attendant. In the late 1990s, Le Cercle received some attention after a scandal broke out involving Jonathan Aitken, who was then chairman of Le Cercle . Members that were contacted by newspapers refused to answer any questions about the group and sometimes simply put down the phone.

Although Le Cercle has been mentioned (very briefly) a number of times in the British press since 1997, it has mainly been internet researchers who have been responsible for bringing an increased amount of attention to this group. The most comprehensive study known first appeared in 2005 on the internet, published on the ISGP website.

Promotion of European Integration

Le Cercle (like the Bilderberg Group, to which it is often compared) is strongly focused on European integration, going back to the efforts of its early members to bring about a Franco-German rapprochement. The significant presence of Paneuropa-affiliated Opus Dei members and Knights of Malta, together with statements of the Vatican and Otto von Habsburg, clearly indicate there's an agenda in the background to some day bring about a new Holy Roman Empire with its borders stretching from the Atlantic to the Black Sea and from the Baltic Sea to North Africa. Interestingly, the latest generation of British Cercle members, whose predecessors were keen on joining the European Union, now do everything in their power to keep Britain out of the emerging European superstate, having lost faith they can become a significant force within Europe. Their American associates, however, would like for them to continue the effort of breaking into the Franco-German alliance and possibly to establish a new Anglo-German alliance.

It seems like a cold war is raging in Europe. One that doesn't directly involve the Soviets.

Funding

In 1971, Shell contributed a lump sum of £30,000. The Ford Foundation also donated £20,000 over three years.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Deep state actor	“Crozier himself makes the point that many of the prominent politicians invited to sit in on Cercle strategic sessions had no knowledge of their hosts' more clandestine operational activities – if only because of the "need to know" principle. Nonetheless, a stalwart multi-functionary on the Boards of several groups linked to the Cercle can be presumed to have some deeper involvement beyond just lending his name to the cause.”	David Teacher
Hans Langemann	“the Circle consists of a loose gathering of various conservative and anti-Communist politicians, publicists, bankers and VIPs that meets some twice a year in various parts of the world. Its origins stem from the former French Prime Minister Antoine Pinay. The Circle, which still exists today, also invites guest speakers... One recent development is the establishment within the Circle of a command staff or of an inner circle which then works out particularly suitable means for action on current political questions.”	Hans Langemann	1980
Le Cercle/Exposure	“For instance, in the late 1970s Le Cercle supported NATO's decision to station new medium-range nuclear weapons — Cruise and Pershing II missiles — in Britain, Germany, Belgium and Holland targeted against the USSR. Le Cercle helped to discredit the European peace protest movement which emerged against the backdrop of the nuclearization of Europe through aggressive counter-intelligence, provocations and disinformation.”	Ekaterina Blinova	8 August 2015
Helmut Schmidt	“Participants at Le Cercle meetings report that a major issue has been how to bring about the demise of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government. This issue dominated the last biannual meeting of Le Cercle that was hosted by the Hanns Seidel Foundation, the official think tank of opposition leader Franz Josef Strauss's Christian Social Union, in Munich last May. Le Cercle's participants have been able to carry out an inside-outside job to destroy the Schmidt coalition government since then. While Strauss's CSU carried out a heavy-handed wrecking job that included an implicit alliance with the Strasserite fascist Green Party, sources report that Helmut Sonnenfeldt and Henry Kissinger took the inside track since the ouster of Secretary of State Alexander Haig, threatening, cajoling, and misleading Schmidt into his disastrous pragmatic political course.”	Helmut Schmidt Scott Thompson	1982

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job
Geoffrey Tantum	Le Cercle/UK secretary

 

Known members

281 of the 318 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
James Abrahamson	U.S. Air Force general responsible for space imaging and the Strategic Defence Intiative. Abrahamson later directed Stratesec, a company which had unparalleled access to the World Trade Center prior to 2001. He was a member of the deep state intelligence coordinating conference Le Cercle.
Konrad Adenauer	German (deep?) politician, CDU leader
Jonathan Aitken	UK deep politician, Cercle chair, convicted perjurer
Georges Albertini	French deep state operative. Man-behind-the-scenes for many politicians.
Alfredo Alcaino	Chile born Cercle visitor, deep state connected lawyer
Rupert Allason	Writer of books and articles on the subject of espionage. Attended Le Cercle.
Richard Allen	US National Security Advisor, Cercle, Iran-Contra...
Julian Amery	MI6, deep politician who chaired Le Cercle for several years.
Hooshang Amirahmadi	Iranian American spook who attended Le Cercle.
Michael Ancram	Likely took over from Norman Lamont as European chair of Le Cercle.
Bruce Anderson	UK pro-torture spooky journalist, Le Cercle, attended a "terrorism" related conference chaired by Harold Elletson in 2009.
Robert Anderson	Le Cercle, Bilderberg,
Giulio Andreotti	"The ultimate insider of Italian political life", who as Italian Prime Minister publicly confirmed the existence of Operation Gladio
Magdeleine Anglade	French member of Le Cercle who took over the role of Monique Garnier-Lançon
Richard Armitage	"A sophisticated member of the top echelons of the U.S. government"
Kaúlza de Arriaga	Portuguese soldier politician who attended a November 1977 meeting of Le Cercle with his aide
Bernard Asso	Spooky French lawyer
Nadhmi Auchi	Cercle-connected fraudster
Shaukat Aziz	Tri-national Citibank executive with "close ties" to the US deep state. Parachuted in to become Prime Minister of Pakistan. Cercle member.
Franz Josef Bach	A leading German member of the Cercle, who organised the 1982 meeting in Wildbad Kreuth.
Norman Bailey	Spooky economist who taught "Economics for Foreign Policy Makers." Admitted on the record that the PROMIS database and search application has been given to the NSA
John Barron	A spooky journalist who wrote on the evils of the KGB.
Margaret Beckett	UK foreign secretary, Le Cercle attendee
Alfredo Sánchez Bella	Spanish spook and possible deep politician
Erik Bennett	A secretive UK military advisor in Oman and a Cercle attendee.
Jeff Bergner	Cercle attendee. Project for the New American Century. German Marshall Fund. Hudson Institute
Wayne Lee Berman	US Businessman with deep political connections.
Benazir Bhutto	Prime Minister of Pakistan. YGL. Assassinated in 2007.
John Biggs-Davison	UK politician who attended Le Cercle
Brian Binley	Ex-conservative MP. Le Cercle.
W. Michael Blumenthal	US/Secretary of the Treasury in the 1970s, Bilderberg, Le Cercle, CFR
Crispin Blunt	Sandhurst, Le Cercle, MP, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee
John Bolton	Neocon US deep state operative who was Trump's National Security Advisor until September 2019
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.
Cornelis Bossers	Le Cercle. Major businessman in the Philips group.
Pik Botha	South African deep state operative
Colonel Botta	Very little known Cercle visitor.
Raymond Bourgine	French journalist and editor who attended Le Cercle.
Paul Bremer	Executive of Marsh & McLennan, a company whose offices were hit by a plane on 9/11, "Coordinator for Counterterrorism", Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq ...
Harold Brown	United States Secretary of Defense.
John Browne	Spooky UK businessman, Morgan Stanley, Le Cercle, Chatham house ...
Aristide Brunello	Little known Cercle visitor. Vatican prelate and spy for the BND under Reinhard Gehlen. Attended a meeting of the Le Cercle.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a>
Zbigniew Brzezinski	A central US Deep politician, Cercle, Bilderberg, ...
Maurice Brébart	Belgian right-wing newspaper owner who attended Le Cercle in the 1970s.
Francisco Bulnes	Cercle member active in the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende
David Burnside	Northern Ireland politician
Ian Butterfield	Spooky MICC consultant, Le Cercle
Peter van der Byl	Spooky Rhodesian politician
Umberto Cappuzzo	Senior Italian military leader and Le Cercle attendee.
John Carbaugh	Cercle attendee linked to political double dealing, arms deals and Iran-Contra.
... further results

 

Events Planned

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Australia/1975 coup d'état	15 October 1975	11 November 1975	Australia Canberra	A UK/US deep state-backed covert "constitutional coup" to remove Gough Whitlam whom they saw as a loose cannon.
Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism	2 July 1979	5 July 1979	Israel Jerusalem	The birthplace of the "War on Terror" doctrine, "a major international forum for the movement against détente".

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Circle of Power	article	1999	David Guyatt
Document:The Pinay Circle	article	1989	David Teacher
Document:The Secret Society That Rules The World	Article	7 November 2018	Bas Spliet	In his 1999 campaign autobiography, President George W. Bush mentioned his membership in passing: "My senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can’t say anything more."
File:Rogue Agents (3rd edition, 2011, full).pdf	book	2011	David Teacher	A book about the activities of the covert European groupings responsible for the realisation of the European Union between the end of World War II and the mid 1990's.
File:Rogue Agents (4th edition, 2015, full).pdf	book	2014	David Teacher	A book about the activities of the covert European groupings responsible for the realisation of the European Union between the end of World War II and the mid 1990's
File:Rogue Agents - the Cercle and the 6I in the Private Cold War 1951 - 1991 by David Teacher (5th edn, 2017).pdf	book	2017	David Teacher	A book about the activities of the covert European groupings responsible for the realisation of the European Union between the end of World War II and the mid 1990's.

Ratings

10 April 2016 Robin  A good summary of a hugely under-reported deep state milieu.
Le Cercle is a good deal more secretive than the Bilderberg, and is still very little known. This page showcases the excellent work of Joël van der Reijden in exposing this group.

4 April 2021 Terje 

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Main Articles

• Le Cercle and the Struggle for the European Continent. Subtitled "Private bridge between Vatican-Paneuropean and Anglo-American intelligence" - Joel Van der Reijden - Wikispooks ISGP archive. Probably the most comprehensive study available on Le Cercle]], which fills in many of the blanks surrounding the apparent dual loyalties of the UK viz-a-viz Europe and the US and how they were - and continue to be - addressed and more-or-less successfully resolved. UK readers will find the sections on the involvement of Brian Crozier, Julian Amery, Norman Lamont and Jonathan Aitken particularly illuminating.
• Le Cercle and the Struggle for the Eurasian Continent. A June 2010 update of the above article subtitled: "New information: Notorious CIA ghost owned Atlantic Cercle, Inc. from 1994 to 2002" - Joel Van der Reijden - Wikispooks ISGP archive.