Le Cercle/1982 (Wildbad Kreuth)
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Le Cercle met in Wildbad Kreuth, West Germany from 11-13 June, 1982. The participants were guests of Franz-Josef Strauss. The conference was organised by Franz Josef Bach.
Agenda
Unknown.
Exposure
In 2011 Joel Van der Reijden discovered the first page of the attendee list for this conference amongst the papers of Monique Garnier-Lançon at Stanford University, and published it online.[1]
Known Participants
All 39 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Pat Balestreri | Worked as Staff Director in the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Attended Le Cercle 1982-1984 |
| Alfredo Sánchez Bella | Spanish spook and possible deep politician |
| John Biggs-Davison | UK politician who attended Le Cercle |
| Benoît de Bonvoisin | "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. |
| John Browne | Spooky UK businessman, Morgan Stanley, Le Cercle, Chatham house ... |
| Margaret Carlisle | Legislative aide to Iran-contra insider, James McClure. Le Cercle |
| Robert Close | Belgian Anti-Communist spook who attended Le Cercle. |
| Miles Costick | President and founder of the Institute on Strategic Trade, attended Le Cercle in 1982 |
| Brian Crozier | Arch espionage insider who founded his own intelligence agency |
| Nicholas Elliott | A key spook with a wide range of connections. |
| William François | French economist who attended at least two Cercle meetings |
| Pop Fraser | South African military commander who attended Le Cercle. |
| 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. |
| Robert Gascoyne-Cecil | Bilderberg, Le Cercle, The Other Club, Ditchley Governor |
| Enrique Gomez-Hurtado | Cercle regular. "One of the best bootlicker[s] of Bush" |
| Álvaro Gomez-Hurtado | Spooky Colombian diplomat who attended Le Cercle. Assassinated in 1995 |
| 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 |
| Hans Graf Huyn | German deep politician who attended Le Cercle |
| Donald Jameson | Attended multiple Cercle meetings and worked for the CIA. Vice-president of the Jamestown Foundation |
| Jacques Jonet | Founded the European Institute for Peace and Security with 3 fellow members of Le Cercle to counter pacifist groups. |
| Nicholas de Kerchove | A spook who attended Le Cercle on multiple occasions. |
| James Lucier | Cercle attendee, "inside man in the skunk works," as he calls himself, or Lucifer as others sometimes refer to him. |
| Daniel Mazuera | A former Colombian trade minister and Cercle visitor |
| Richard McCormack | Deep politician a long history and connections back to Vietnam, Nixon administration, succeeded Ted Shackley as US Chair of Le Cercle. |
| Karl-Heinz Narjes | German EEC politician who attended Le Cercle |
| Jaime Nogueira Pinto | 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. |
| Jues Pujo | Unknown Cercle visitor. |
| Henri Renard | |
| Dieter A. Schmidt | Head of the Franz Josef Strauss Symposium. |
| Franz-Josef Schulze | Transitioned from the Luftwaffe to NATO. Attended Le Cercle |
| Arnold Silver | CIA Chief of Station in Luxembourg from 1957-1960. Attended Le Cercle. |
| Frank Steele | 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. |
| Franz Josef Strauß | A deep politician and politician, a known attendee of Le Cercle, accused in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals. |
| Peter Tennant | UK deep state operative, probably a deep politician, founded The 61 |
| Paul Weyrich | 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. |
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