Le Cercle/1983 (Bonn)

 Le Cercle/1983 (Bonn)(Le Cercle/Meeting)

Date	30 June 1983 - 3 July 1983
Location	Bonn,  West Germany
Participants	Friedrich König, Robert Close, Jacques Jonet, Luc Beyer de Rycke, Nicholas de Kerchove, Pierre Joannon, Robert du Plooy, Aline Griffith, Alfredo Sánchez Bella, Carlos Robles Piquer, John Lichowski, Donald Jameson, Ted Shackley, Lee Edwards, William Schneider, Jaime Nogueira Pinto, Bruno Heck, Alois Mertes, Karl-Heinz Narjes, Franz-Josef Schulze, Hans Graf Huyn, Alfons Horten, Franz Josef Bach, Christian Freiherr von Stauffenberg, Bernhard Worms, Hans Rühle, Philipp Jenninger, Peter Jungen, Werner Marx, Enrique Gomez-Hurtado, Monique Garnier-Lançon, Jean-François Deniau, Pierre Méhaignerie, William François, Francis Lacoste, Julian Amery, John Browne, Peter Tennant, Edward Leigh, Brian Crozier, Nicholas Elliott, Neil McLean, Iain Elliott, Philipp Vander Elst, Julian Lewis, Richard McCormack, Robert J. Hanks, Robert McKinney, John Barron, Robert Pfaltzgraff, Richard Allen, William V. Roth, Ian Butterfield, Pat Balestreri, Richard Nixon, John Biggs-Davison, Frank Steele, Peter Petersen, Franz-Joseph Schulze, Jost Pfeiffer, Schmidthuber, Franz Heubl, Dieter Schmidt, Karl-Heinz Narjes, Manuel Fraga-Iribarne, Guillermo Kirkpatrick, Frans Otten, Charles Alan 'Pop' Fraser

The June 1983 Cercle meeting was held in Bonn, West Germany.

Attendance

The guest list for this was discovered amongst the papers of Monique Garnier-Lançon at Stanford University, and published online in 2011. It is unknown whether or not the list is complete, and it is made up of two components, one in German, one in English - with somewhat differing names.

Pseudonym?

German guest #8 has a single name 'Schmidthuber' and a designation 'Minister of State of Bavaria'. This may be a reference to Peter Schmidhuber who was in the private office of Franz Josef Strauss, or this may be an alias of Strauss himself, who was indeed Minister President of Bavaria and was a regular of Le Cercle.

 

Known Participants

60 of the 65 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Richard Allen	US National Security Advisor, Cercle, Iran-Contra...
Julian Amery	MI6, deep politician who chaired Le Cercle for several years.
Franz Josef Bach	A leading German member of the Cercle, who organised the 1982 meeting in Wildbad Kreuth.
John Barron	A spooky journalist who wrote on the evils of the KGB.
Alfredo Sánchez Bella	Spanish spook and possible deep politician
John Biggs-Davison	UK politician who attended Le Cercle
John Browne	Spooky UK businessman, Morgan Stanley, Le Cercle, Chatham house ...
Ian Butterfield	Spooky MICC consultant, Le Cercle
Robert Close	Belgian Anti-Communist spook who attended Le Cercle.
Brian Crozier	Arch espionage insider who founded his own intelligence agency
Jean-François Deniau	A diplomat who wrote the foreword of the Treaty of Rome. Le Cercle
Lee Edwards	Anti-communist advisor for Nixon and others. Cercle attendee.
Iain Elliot	Associate Director of Radio Liberty and also worked in other intelligence-connected organizations. Attended 3 meetings of Le Cercle
Nicholas Elliott	A key spook with a wide range of connections.
Philipp Vander Elst
William François	French economist who attended at least two Cercle meetings
Monique Garnier-Lançon	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.
Enrique Gomez-Hurtado	Cercle regular. "One of the best bootlicker[s] of Bush"
Aline Griffith	US born Spanish spook who was a regular attender at Le Cercle in the 1980s.
Robert J. Hanks	Cercle regular, rear admiral,Cold War hardliner
Bruno Heck	Founder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, member of Le Cercle
Franz Heubl	German politician who attended le Cercle
Alphons Horten	Member of Le Cercle and The Stauffenberg Service
Hans Graf Huyn	German deep politician who attended Le Cercle
Manuel Fraga Iribarne	Member of both Le Cercle and the 1001 Club.
Donald Jameson	Attended multiple Cercle meetings and worked for the CIA. Vice-president of the Jamestown Foundation
Philipp Jenninger	Spooky german politician
Pierre Joannon	Historian invited to the 1984 meeting of Le Cercle in Bonn
Jacques Jonet
Peter Jungen	At least 4 visits to Le Cercle... Personal assistant to Otto Wolff von Amerongen
Nicholas de Kerchove	A spook who attended Le Cercle on multiple occasions.
Guillermo Kirkpatrick	Little known Cercle visitor.
Friedrich König	Former Austrian politician and attendee of Le Cercle.
Francis Lacoste	French diplomat and visitor to Le Cercle
Edward Leigh	Spooky UK Lawyer politician
John Lenczowski	Spooky founder of the IWP
Julian Lewis	British Conservative Party politician. Lewis has attended Le Cercle, and has been Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee since 2020.
Werner Marx	Spooky German politician, Le Cercle, Psychological warfare specialist, later leader of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee
Richard McCormack	Deep politician a long history and connections back to Vietnam, Nixon administration, succeeded Ted Shackley as US Chair of Le Cercle.
Robert McKinney	Indiana Businessman who attended Le Cercle in 1983, 1984 and 1985
Neil McLean	Member of the Special Operations Executive in World War II who attended several meetings of Le Cercle during the 1980s.
Alois Mertes	Spooky German who attended the Bilderberg and Le Cercle. Aide to German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Karl-Heinz Narjes	German EEC politician who attended Le Cercle
Richard Nixon	A relatively independent US president who may have been removed from power because he was planning to expose the conspiracy to assassinate JFK.
Peter Petersen	German politician from the CDU who attended the January 1984 Le Cercle meeting.
Robert Pfaltzgraff	Hawkish "terror expert" who in the 1980s visited both the Bilderberg and Le Cercle.
Jost Pfeiffer	German industrialist who attended Le Cercle in 1983
Carlos Robles Piquer	Cercle visitor.
Robert du Plooy	South African deep state operative/diplomat who attended Le Cercle in South Africa in 1984.
William Roth	Spooky US lawyer, Le Cercle
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