Clermont Set
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Clermont Set | |
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Formation | 1962 |
Founder | John Aspinall |
Membership | • Gianni Agnelli • Richard John Bingham • Bob Boothby • Andrew Cavendish • Ian Fleming • Lucian Freud • James Goldsmith • Dai Llewellyn • Victor Lownes • Kerry Packer • Tiny Rowland • Edward John Stanley • David Stirling • Peter Sellers • Jim Slater |
"If the original Clermont set were defined by one quality, it was a reckless taste for taking risks." |
The Clermont Club was a group which met at the Clermont Club (founded in 1960 by John Aspinall). Gambling and womanising was a common pastime. "If the original Clermont set were defined by one quality, it was a reckless taste for taking risks."[1]
Contents
Exposure
Adam Curtis mentioned the group in his film The Mayfair Set.
Group
Group | Start | Description |
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Clermont Set | 1962 | "If the original Clermont set were defined by one quality, it was a reckless taste for taking risks." Many members had many connections to other deep state milieux including Le Cercle and The Bilderberg. |
Known members
8 of the 15 of the members already have pages here:
Member | Description |
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Gianni Agnelli | Italian industrialist, 37 Bilderbergs |
Robert Boothby | British politician and UK deep state operative, Clermont Set, Bilderberg |
Ian Fleming | "A womaniser of outrageous proportions", spook and author who created the James Bond character |
James Goldsmith | an Anglo-French billionaire financier and businessman, possible deep state operative. |
Kerry Packer | Australian Clermont Set media magnate |
Tiny Rowland | "The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism" (PM Edward Heath in 1973) |
Peter Sellers | |
David Stirling | Founded the SAS. "If there hadn’t been a global war for survival taking place, Major David Stirling is the type of British Officer who would have been thrown out of the army, if not court-martialed." |
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