Le Cercle/Guests/Born

Le Cercle/Guests/Born
A list of Le Cercle visitors by birth year

 

1876

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Konrad Adenauer	5 January 1876	19 April 1967	Germany	German (deep?) politician, CDU leader

 

1891

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Antoine Pinay	30 December 1891	13 December 1994	France	Multi-Bilderberg French deep politician, chairman and eponymous head of the Pinay Cercle

 

1900

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Antonio Sanchez de Larragoiti	14 September 1900	Brazil	Brazilian visitor to a 1970 meeting of Le Cercle

 

1905

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Francis Lacoste	27 November 1905	28 June 1993	France	French diplomat and visitor to Le Cercle

 

1907

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Alphons Horten	9 November 1907	1 December 2003	Germany	Member of Le Cercle and The Stauffenberg Service
Carlo Pesenti	1907	20 September 1984	Italy	By inviting David Rockefeller, Pesenti lead to Le Cercle to having regular US meetings.

 

1910

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Harold Taswell	14 February 1910	1992	South Africa	South African diplomat who attended Le Cercle
Peter Tennant	29 November 1910	22 December 1996	UK	UK deep state operative, probably a deep politician, founded The 61

 

1911

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Georges Albertini	13 May 1911	30 March 1983	France	French deep state operative. Man-behind-the-scenes for many politicians.
Christian Freiherr von Stauffenberg	7 October 1911	28 November 2005	Germany	Played a key role in the conspiracy to topple Willy Brandt.

 

1912

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Otto von Habsburg	20 November 1912	4 July 2011	Germany Austria-Hungary	Austrian deep politician, connected to Le Cercle, Opus Dei, Knights of Malta ...
Thomas Moorer	9 February 1912	5 February 2004		Headed up the Moorer Commission to investigate the USS Liberty incident. He concluded that the 1967 attack was a deliberate false flag attack

 

1913

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Richard Nixon	9 January 1913	22 April 1994	US	A relatively independent US president who may have been removed from power because he was planning to expose the conspiracy to assassinate JFK.

 

1914

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Dirk W. R. Hertzog	1 December 1914	1991		Manager in the tobacco and industrial conglomerate Rembrandt Group
Luis María Otero Monsegur	9 February 1914	26 April 2002	Argentina	Argentinian banker who attended the 1970 Cercle meeting in Washington DC

 

1915

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Alexandre Ribeiro da Cunha	13 January 1915	1983	Portugal	A Portuguese diplomat who went to a meeting of Le Cercle in US in December 1973.
Pop Fraser	6 April 1915	18 December 1994	South Africa	South African military commander who attended Le Cercle.
David Rockefeller	12 June 1915	20 March 2017	US	US deep politician. CFR founder. Only person to attend over 50 Bilderberg meetings.
Franz Josef Strauß	6 September 1915	3 October 1988	Germany	A deep politician and politician, a known attendee of Le Cercle, accused in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.

 

1916

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Alfredo Sánchez Bella	2 October 1916	24 April 1999	Spain	Spanish spook and possible deep politician
Nicholas Elliott	15 November 1916	13 April 1994	UK	A key spook with a wide range of connections.
Brand Fourie	1916	July 2008	South Africa	"One of the most remarkable diplomats South Africa ever produced"
Günter Poser	23 September 1916	3 June 2003	Germany	Attended Le Cercle in Bonn in 1984 as a retired admiral.

 

1917

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Franz Josef Bach	4 February 1917	3 August 2001	Germany	A leading German member of the Cercle, who organised the 1982 meeting in Wildbad Kreuth.
Francisco Bulnes	8 August 1917	28 October 1999	Chile	Cercle member active in the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende
James Critchfield	30 January 1917	22 April 2003		Senior CIA spook who handled Reinhard Gehlen. Then Near East Division Chief from 1959 to 1969 where he arranged a coup in Iraq. Le Cercle
Bruno Heck	20 January 1917	16 September 1989	Germany	Founder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, member of Le Cercle
Richard Stilwell	24 February 1917	25 December 1991	US

 

1918

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
John Biggs-Davison	7 June 1918	17 September 1988	UK	UK politician who attended Le Cercle
Brian Crozier	4 August 1918	4 August 2012	UK	Arch espionage insider who founded his own intelligence agency
François de Grossouvre	29 March 1918	7 April 1994	France	The spook in charge of Operation Gladio in France.
Crosby Kelly	1918	1986	US	Spooky US businessman known as a public relations pioneer. Attended Le Cercle
Neil McLean	28 November 1918	17 November 1986	UK	Member of the Special Operations Executive in World War II who attended several meetings of Le Cercle during the 1980s.
Franz-Josef Schulze	18 September 1918	31 January 2005	Germany	Transitioned from the Luftwaffe to NATO. Attended Le Cercle

 

1919

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Julian Amery	27 March 1919	3 September 1996	UK	MI6, deep politician who chaired Le Cercle for several years.
Giulio Andreotti	14 January 1919	6 May 2013	Italy	"The ultimate insider of Italian political life", who as Italian Prime Minister publicly confirmed the existence of Operation Gladio
Álvaro Gomez-Hurtado	8 May 1919	2 November 1995	Colombia	Spooky Colombian diplomat who attended Le Cercle. Assassinated in 1995
John Killick	18 November 1919	12 February 2004		Spooky UK diplomat
Robert H. Knight	27 February 1919	28 September 2006	US	Chair of the New York Fed, Le Cercle.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	6 October 1919	27 July 1980		The Shah of Iran. "I don't believe the tortures attributed to the SAVAK are as common as people say, but I can't run everything. "

 

1920

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Andrew Cavendish	2 January 1920	3 May 2004	UK	Clermont Set member who attended a meeting of Le Cercle in Oman in 1990
Jost Pfeiffer	29 December 1920	14 January 2010	Germany	German industrialist who attended Le Cercle in 1983

 

1921

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Fred Luchsinger	9 July 1921	9 May 2009	Switzerland	Newspaper editor, Le Cercle
Alois Mertes	29 October 1921	16 June 1985	Germany	Spooky German who attended the Bilderberg and Le Cercle. Aide to German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Robert du Plooy	5 July 1921		South Africa	South African deep state operative/diplomat who attended Le Cercle in South Africa in 1984.
William Roth	22 July 1921	13 December 2003	US	Spooky US lawyer, Le Cercle

 

1922

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Umberto Cappuzzo	30 April 1922	13 May 2014	Italy	Senior Italian military leader and Le Cercle attendee.
Robert Close	30 April 1922	6 December 2003	Belgium	Belgian Anti-Communist spook who attended Le Cercle.
Manuel Fraga Iribarne	23 November 1922	15 January 2012	Spain	Member of both Le Cercle and the 1001 Club.
Gerhard Löwenthal	8 December 1922	6 December 2002	Germany	German deep state operative

 

1923

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Peter van der Byl	11 November 1923	15 November 1999	Rhodesia	Spooky Rhodesian politician
Aline Griffith	22 May 1923	11 December 2017	Spain	US born Spanish spook who was a regular attender at Le Cercle in the 1980s.
Henry Kissinger	27 May 1923	29 November 2023	US	US deep politician, 40+ Bilderbergs, Nobel peace prize, war criminal
Frank Steele	1923	November 1997	UK	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.

 

1924

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Robert J. Hanks	1924	8 July 2001		Cercle regular, rear admiral,Cold War hardliner
Franz Heubl	19 March 1924	21 December 2001	Germany	German politician who attended le Cercle
Fred C. Iklé	21 August 1924	10 November 2011	US	US deep state operative in the Reagan Administration, where he was proponent of psyops and supporting insurgencies. Attended Le Cercle RAND Corporation, Smith Richardson Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy , Center for Strategic and International Studies...
Werner Marx	15 November 1924	12 July 1985	Germany	Spooky German politician, Le Cercle, Psychological warfare specialist, later leader of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee
Karl-Heinz Narjes	30 January 1924	26 January 2015	Germany	German EEC politician who attended Le Cercle
John Wodehouse	12 May 1924	26 May 2002	UK	UK Peer who attended at least 3 meetings of Le Cercle

 

1925

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Raymond Bourgine	9 March 1925	29 November 1990	France	French journalist and editor who attended Le Cercle.
Philip Goodhart	3 November 1925	5 July 2015	UK	UK deep state actor. Attended Le Cercle.
Eldon Griffiths	25 May 1925	3 June 2014	UK	British Conservative politician and journalist. Attended Le Cercle.
Donald Jameson	1925	5 September 2007	US	Attended multiple Cercle meetings and worked for the CIA. Vice-president of the Jamestown Foundation
Philippe Malaud	2 October 1925	14 October 2007	France	Le Cercle, French diplomat
Robert McKinney	7 November 1925			Indiana Businessman who attended Le Cercle in 1983, 1984 and 1985
Carlos Robles Piquer	13 October 1925	8 February 2018	Spain	Cercle visitor.

 

1926

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Alfredo Alcaino	10 January 1926	2018	US Chile	Chile born Cercle visitor, deep state connected lawyer
Basil Hersov	18 August 1926		South Africa	"A man with considerable influence". Banker, Le Cercle, Patron of The Institute Of Directors in Southern Africa
Peter Petersen	30 October 1926	17 March 2005	Germany	German politician from the CDU who attended the January 1984 Le Cercle meeting.
Gavin W. H. Relly	1926	10 January 1999	South Africa	South African businessman and chairman of Anglo American. He was also private secretary to Harry Oppenheimer.

 

1927

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Harold Brown	19 September 1927	4 January 2019	US	United States Secretary of Defense.
Enrique Gomez-Hurtado	10 April 1927	13 July 2019	Colombia	Cercle regular. "One of the best bootlicker[s] of Bush"
Charles Pasqua	18 April 1927	29 June 2015	France	French interior minister who attended Le Cercle
Theodore Shackley	16 July 1927	9 December 2002	US	A key member of the US deep state, involved in a huge list of deep events from the JFK assassination, Iran Contra, Arms for Libya and possibly also 9-11

 

1928

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Zbigniew Brzezinski	28 March 1928	26 May 2017	US	A central US Deep politician, Cercle, Bilderberg, ...
Alan Clark	13 April 1928	5 September 1999	UK	Bullingdon Club, Le Cercle, Minister for Defence Procurement...
Jean-François Deniau	31 October 1928	24 January 2007	France	A diplomat who wrote the foreword of the Treaty of Rome. Le Cercle
Monique Garnier-Lançon	12 July 1928		France	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.

 

1929

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Walter Raymond Jr	1929	16 April 2003	US	Second generation Cercle visitor

 

1930

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
John Barron	26 January 1930	24 February 2005	US	A spooky journalist who wrote on the evils of the KGB.
Hans Graf Huyn	3 July 1930	22 January 2011	Germany	German deep politician who attended Le Cercle
Arkady Shevchenko	11 October 1930	28 February 1998	US Soviet Union	Soviet diplomat, the highest-ranking Soviet official to defect to the West.
Bernhard Worms	14 March 1930		Germany	German politician who attended Le Cercle in Bonn in 1983.

 

1931

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Norman Bailey	1931	US	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

 

1932

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Jacques Chirac	29 November 1932		France	French PM. 2 year suspended sentence for embezzlement in 2011. His mayoral security assistant, Monique Garnier-Lançon, convened the French meetings of Le Cercle.
Lee Edwards	1932		US	Anti-communist advisor for Nixon and others. Cercle attendee.
Philipp Jenninger	10 June 1932	4 January 2018	Germany	Spooky german politician
Jürgen Warnke	20 March 1932	27 April 2013	Germany	A German lawyer and politician who attended Le Cercle.

 

1933

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Frans Alphons Maria Alting von Geusau	26 June 1933		Netherlands	A Dutch diplomat and scholar in international law. Von Geusau was also an advisor to the Dutch government from 1968 to 1998.
Friedrich König	19 March 1933	8 April 2022	Austria	Former Austrian politician and attendee of Le Cercle.
George Mitchell	20 August 1933		US	Le Cercle
Luc Beyer de Rycke	9 September 1933	18 January 2018	Belgium	Cercle visitor.

 

1934

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Nicholas de Kerchove	11 October 1934		Belgium	A spook who attended Le Cercle on multiple occasions.
James Lucier	1934			Cercle attendee, "inside man in the skunk works," as he calls himself, or Lucifer as others sometimes refer to him.
Norman Schwarzkopf	22 August 1934	27 December 2012	US	As CENTCOM commander led 1990-91 Gulf War; Le Cercle

 

1935

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Mario Buscemi	1935		Italian?
Paul Channon	9 October 1935	27 January 2007	UK	US-born UK politician who attended and was involved in the Arms-to-Iraq deal together with fellow Cercle members Jonathan Aitken and Alan Clark.
Etienne Copel	14 September 1935			Former chief of France's air force, Le Cercle.

 

1936

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Richard Allen	1 January 1936	US	US National Security Advisor, Cercle, Iran-Contra...
David Howell	18 January 1936	UK	Spooky UK politician

 

1937

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Guillermo Kirkpatrick	1937			Little known Cercle visitor.
Winston Lord	14 August 1937		US	Former Bilderberg Steering committee, bonesman, CFR
Joseph Verner Reed	17 December 1937	29 September 2016	US	Protege of David Rockefeller
Frances Stockdale Symms	1937	28 March 2018

 

1938

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
John Browne	17 October 1938		UK	Spooky UK businessman, Morgan Stanley, Le Cercle, Chatham house ...
Robert Pfaltzgraff	January 1938		US	Hawkish "terror expert" who in the 1980s visited both the Bilderberg and Le Cercle.
Steven Symms	23 April 1938		US	US politician who attended Le Cercle in 1984 in South Africa with his first wife, Frances Stockdale Symms.
Eymen Topbaş	1938	1991	Turkey

 

1939

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Benoît de Bonvoisin	14 March 1939		Belgium	"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.
Peter Jungen	21 August 1939		Germany	At least 4 visits to Le Cercle... Personal assistant to Otto Wolff von Amerongen
Constantin Menges	1 September 1939	11 July 2004	US	Latin American specialist for the National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency. At RAND in the 1960s, he laid the foundations for the Reagan doctrine of support to insurgent groups to destabilize communist governments. Deeply involved in the support for the Nicaraguan contras. Nicknamed "Menges Khan", he attended Le Cercle in 1985.
Pierre Méhaignerie	4 May 1939		France	French politician who attended Le Cercle in Bonn in 1983.
Hans Rühle	31 December 1939		Germany	German deep state operative. Attended Le Cercle as head of the planning staff of the German Minister of Defense.

 

1940

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Wyche Fowler	6 October 1940		US	US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia 1996-2001
Gerd Schulte-Hillen	1 October 1940		Germany	German media executive who attended Le Cercle.
John Wilkinson	23 September 1940	1 March 2014	UK	UK Conservative politician who visited Le Cercle

 

1941

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Václav Klaus	19 June 1941	Czech Republic	The first Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. Cercle repeated visitor
Michael Ledeen	1 August 1941	US	"Washington's neoconservative guru", Bilderberg, Le Cercle...
Richard McCormack	6 March 1941	US	Deep politician a long history and connections back to Vietnam, Nixon administration, succeeded Ted Shackley as US Chair of Le Cercle.
William Schneider	20 November 1941	US	An advocate use of the first-strike use of nuclear weapons. Attendee of Le Cercle

 

1942

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Jonathan Aitken	30 August 1942		UK	UK deep politician, Cercle chair, convicted perjurer
Brian Binley	1 April 1942	25 December 2020	UK	Ex-conservative MP. Le Cercle.
Norman Lamont	8 May 1942		UK	Long time Chairman of Le Cercle, financier, politician and deep politician, involved in arms and financial deals.
Paul Weyrich	7 October 1942	18 December 2008	US	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.
François d'Orcival	11 February 1942		France	French editor. Le Cercle

 

1943

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Margaret Beckett	15 January 1943	UK	UK foreign secretary, Le Cercle attendee
Charles Freeman	2 March 1943	US	Long time president of the Middle East Policy Council. Close relations to Saudi Arabia and Iran. Le Cercle, Bilderberg
Pierre Joannon	1943	France	Historian invited to the 1984 meeting of Le Cercle in Bonn

 

1944

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Evo Fernandes	1944	April 1988	French?	Le Cercle attendee, Murdered in unclear circumstances.

 

1945

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Michael Ancram	7 July 1945		UK	Likely took over from Norman Lamont as European chair of Le Cercle.
Richard Armitage	26 April 1945		US	"A sophisticated member of the top echelons of the U.S. government"
John Carbaugh	1945	19 March 2006	US	Cercle attendee linked to political double dealing, arms deals and Iran-Contra.
Alain Juppé	15 August 1945		France	French PM, suspected deep state operative, Bilderberg, Le Cercle
Alexander Karageorgevitch	17 July 1945		Serbia UK	Pretender to Serbian Crown with close ties to British royal family and military
Turki bin Faisal al-Saud	15 February 1945		Saudi Arabia	Georgetown alumnus who resigned suddenly as director general of the Saudi Intelligence Agency 10 days before the 9/11 attacks.

 

1946

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil	30 September 1946		UK	Bilderberg, Le Cercle, The Other Club, Ditchley Governor
Chuck Hagel	4 October 1946		US	US Secretary of Defense, Chairperson of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board
Herbert Meyer	1946	2019		Cold War hardliner, Le Cercle visitor who mused on assassinating Putin
Jaime Nogueira Pinto	4 February 1946		Portugal	Deep state actor who has been described as "the Great Father of the Portuguese extreme right since the end of the Salazar dictatorship". Attended several meetings of Le Cercle in the 1980s.

 

1947

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Hooshang Amirahmadi	24 May 1947	US	Iranian American spook who attended Le Cercle.
Dan Meridor	23 April 1947	Israel	Le Cercle

 

1948

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Armand de Decker	8 October 1948	12 June 2019	Belgium	Belgian lawyer politician who attended Le Cercle

 

1949

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Jean-François Probst	8 March 1949	12 June 2014	France	Cercle visitor.
Philippe de Villiers	25 March 1949		France	French Cercle diplomat

 

1950

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Edward Leigh	20 July 1950	UK	Spooky UK Lawyer politician
John Lenczowski	20 July 1950	US	Spooky founder of the IWP

 

1951

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Julian Lewis	26 September 1951	UK	British Conservative Party politician. Lewis has attended Le Cercle, and has been Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee since 2020.

 

1952

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Tim Spicer	12 October 1952	UK	UK soldier and arms dealer. Founded Sandline International, former CEO of Aegis Defence Services

 

1955

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Mykola Malomuzh	23 September 1955	Ukraine	Spooky Ukrainian politician, Le Cercle

 

1956

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
David Lidington	30 June 1956	UK	UK politician who attended Le Cercle.
Pierre de Villiers	26 July 1956	France	French Cercle soldier

 

1957

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Alan Duncan	31 March 1957	UK	Called Julian Assange a “miserable little worm” in Parliament. UK visitor to Le Cercle. As UK Minister, Alan Duncan organised the oil blockade of Libya in 2011.
Jeffrey B. Gaynor	1957	US	Little known regular of Le Cercle

 

1960

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Crispin Blunt	15 July 1960	UK	Sandhurst, Le Cercle, MP, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee

 

1961

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
William Hague	26 March 1961	UK	Described sinister Le Cercle as "a political group which organises conferences."

 

1963

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz	1963		Spooky Saudi deputy minister and fourth son of King Abdullah who attended Le Cercle in 2012, during the attempt at regime change in Syria
Mark Garnier	26 February 1963	UK	UK MP who attended Le Cercle in Washington DC in 2018

 

1965

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Greg Hands	14 November 1965	UK	UK politician who attended Le Cercle in Washington in 2018.

 

1967

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Nadhim Zahawi	2 June 1967	UK	Cercle chair, UK minister of COVID-19 vaccine deployment, explicitly denied that the UK government was planning on introducing vaccine passports although leaked documents contradict this, penalised by HMRC - whilst Chancellor of the Exchequer - for not paying his taxes.

 

1969

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Dušan Babac	8 September 1969	Serbia	Organised parts of Le Cercle meeting in Serbia in June 2004

 

1974

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Urmas Paet	20 April 1974	Estonia	Estonian politician. Le Cercle

 

1975

Name	Born	Nationality	Description
Kwasi Kwarteng	26 May 1975	UK	British Chancellor and suspected deep state operative who reportedly chaired Le Cercle from 2017.

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