Norman Lamont
Norman Lamont was the British Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1990 to 1993. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Lamont of Lerwick, of Lerwick in the Shetland Islands in 1998.[1]
Before entering Parliament he worked for N M Rothschild & Sons, the investment bank, and became director of Rothschild Asset Management.[2]
Le Cercle
According to his former profile at Benador Associates:
- Since 1996 Lamont has been Chairman of Le Cercle, a foreign policy Club founded by German Chancellor Adenauer after the War with members from over twenty-five countries. This group, which meets bi-annually in Washington DC, includes many senior intelligence experts and has a particular interest in the War against Terrorism.[3]
His involvement with Le Cercle is covered in detail by The Institute for the Study of Globalisation and Covert Politics in a comprehensive study: "Le Cercle and the struggle for the European continent which it subtitles a "Private bridge between Vatican-Paneuropean and Anglo-American intelligence". The study includes membership list back to its original foundation [4]:
.... Other important members of Le Cercle were-are Lord Julian Amery, his protege Jonathan Aitken and Lord Norman Lamont, all three members of the Privy Council. In 1985, Amery was picked by Brian Crozier as his follow up as president of Le Cercle (53). Aitken was Amery's protege and is known to have chaired at least some meetings in the early 1990s. Lord Lamont, the Rothschild employee, has repeatedly been named chairman of Le Cercle since 1996
The Evening Standard reported in 2003 that Lamont was attending a Le Cercle gathering in Salzburg.
- Britain is represented by, among others, spy writer and former Tory MP Rupert Allason, Tory Deputy Leader Michael Ancram, Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Alan Duncan, former GEC and Warburg director Sir Ronald Grierson, Lord Lamont, Lt Col Tim Spicer of Aegis Defence Services and Sir Stephen Lander, former head of MI5. Is this a new Bilderberg Group in the making?[5]
Affiliations
- Bow Group Chairman 1971-72
- Bruges Group Vice-President
- British Iranian Chamber of Commerce Chairman
- British Romanian Chamber of Commerce President
- Iran Heritage Foundation Member, Advisory Board
- Consensus Business Group (formerly Rotch Property) Consultant
- MerchantBridge & Co (investment company) Member, Advisory Board,
- Hermitage Global Fund Member, Advisory Board
- Le Cercle Chairman as of 13 October 2008.[6]
Directorships
- Small Companies Dividend Trust Chairman
- Jupiter Adria plc chairman
- Balli Group plc (steel and commodity trading house) Director
- Compagnie Internationale de Participations Bancaires et Financieres (Investment Company) Director
- Jupiter Second Split Trust plc Director
- RAB Capital plc Director
- Phorm Inc (personalisation technologies) Director
- Stanhope Gate Developments Director
External Resources
- TheyWorkForYou, Mr Norman Lamont - Former MP for Kingston upon Thames
References
- ↑ Lord Lamont of Lerwick, www.parliament.uk, accessed 1 June 2010.
- ↑
{{URL|example.com|optional display text}} - ↑ Lord Lamont of Lerwick, Benador Associates, via the Internet Archive, archived 22 August 2008, accessed 1 June 2010.
- ↑ Le Cercle and the struggle for the European continent - ISGP website
- ↑ Damien McCrystal, Spooky Tale from Salzburg, Evening Standard, 25 September 2003.
- ↑ REGISTER OF LORDS' INTERESTS, www.parliament.uk, 13 October 2008.
