The Alphen Group
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The Alphen Group described itself as "an informal network of leading strategic thinkers who have come together to consider the future of the transatlantic relationship and European security and defence and do something about it."
Membership
The group is reportedly chaired by Julian Lindley-French (formerly of the Institute for Statecraft). It contains several confirmed or suspected deep state operatives, including two from the IfS[1]. Mostly male, the members are overwhelmingly drawn from Canada/US and Western Europe, with a few from aligned Eastern European nations.[2]
Known members
20 of the 87 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| John Allen | A Retired US Marine Corps 4 star General |
| Anne Bader | Senior Associate Fellow of the Institute for Statecraft |
| Rob Bertholee | Former Director General of the AIVD. |
| Hans Binnendijk | Dutch born academic and US deep state functionary, a member of Atlantic Council and RAND corporation, deeply involved with NATO. |
| Yves Boyer | Co-edited the The Oxford Handbook of War with Institute for Statecraft member Julian Lindley-French |
| Ian Brzezinski | Son of Zbigniew Brzezinski, member of the Integrity Initiative's US Cluster. |
| Ivo Daalder | USDSO who co-authored Protecting the American Homeland - A Preliminary Analysis, a book published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution about 9/11 |
| Marta Dassù | Deep state connected general director of the international activities of Aspen Institute Italy. NATO, Trilateral Commission, European Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies... |
| Keir Giles | Russophobic UK deep state operative, member of Integrity Initiative. |
| Ben Hodges | Retired United States Army officer who was commanding general, United States Army Europe, where he pushed for a "military Schengen area" to allow the rapid freedom of movement of US troops and equipment in Europe. Attended his first Bilderberg in 2022. |
| Robert Hunter | Has played a national policy role in eight U.S. presidential election campaigns and written speeches and articles for presidential candidates, three U.S. Presidents four Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State and Defense, Senators, Representatives and other political figures. As United States Ambassador to NATO during the Clinton Administration, he was principal architect and negotiator of the post-Cold War "new NATO" and of the NATO airstrike decisions in the Bosnian War. |
| Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff | Vice President and Executive Director of the Berlin office at the German Marshall Fund, attender of a lot of deep staste events. The Alphen Group |
| Julian Lindley-French | UK Deep state operative. Senior fellow at the Institute for Statecraft and directed their "Strategic Partnerships" project. Chatham House |
| Edward Lucas | NATO/II journalist |
| Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo | Former acting Secretary General of NATO. |
| David Richards | Leader of British army during wars in Libya and Syria. |
| Jaap de Hoop Scheffer | Bilderberger, ex Secretary General of NATO. He held an "anti-terrorist exercise" in Madrid 3 days before the 2004 Madrid train bombings. |
| Richard Shirreff | UK general who was Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe 2011-2014 |
| Alexander Vershbow | SDS connected regular at the Brussels Forum |
| Tomonori Yoshizaki | The only Asian member of The Alphen Group as of 2024 |
Sponsors
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| Airbus | Produces 50% of all jet aircraft in the world. Largest airliner manufacturer during the 2020s. Accused of bribery of multiple countries. Received a ban from a group of dozens of banks for "involvement in nuclear weapons production". |
| BAE Systems | A global arms company, with interests also in civilian avionics and engineering. Its subsidiaries are also involved in providing intelligence, personnel and logistics support to US/UK military. |
| NATO | The world's largest military alliance. "Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all." |
| UK/FCO | The UK government department dealing with foreign policy. |
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- ↑ Keir Giles and Anne Bader
- ↑ Exceptions as of June 2024 were Konstantin Eggert (Russia), Tomonori Yoshizaki (Japan), John Bruni, Mick Ryan and Elizabeth Buchanan (Australia).
