Le Cercle/1982 (Wildbad Kreuth)
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| Date | 11 June 1982 - 13 June 1982 |
|---|---|
| Participants | Julian Amery, John Browne, John Biggs-Davison, Brian Crozier, Nicholas Elliot, Frank Steele, Peter Tennant, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Karl-Heinz Narjes, Franz-Josef Schulze, Hans Graf Huyn, Bruno Heck, Franz Josef Bach, Monique Garnier-Lançon, William François, Henri Renard, Jues Pujo, Robert J. Hanks, Paul Weyrich, Pat Balestreri, James Lucier, Donald Jameson, Miles Costick, Margaret Carlisle, Arnold M. Silver, Richard McCormack, Aline Griffith, Alfredo Sánchez Bella, Jaime Nogueira Pinto, Álvaro Gomez-Hurtado, Enrique Gomez-Hurtado, Daniel Mazuera, Robert Close, Jacques Jonet, Nicholas de Kerchove, Benoît de Bonvoisin, Charles Alan 'Pop' Fraser, Dieter Schmidt, Franz-Josef Strauss |
| Description | Wildbad Kreuth, West Germany |
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.
Contents
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]
Participants
| 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 | An unknown Cercle attendee. |
| Alfredo Sánchez Bella | |
| John Biggs-Davison | |
| Benoît de Bonvoisin | |
| John Browne | |
| Margaret Carlisle | |
| Robert Close | Belgian Anti-Communist spook who attended Le Cercle. |
| Miles Costick | |
| Brian Crozier | Arch espionage insider who founded his own intelligence agency |
| Nicholas Elliott | A key spook with a wide range of connections. |
| William François | |
| Charles Alan 'Pop' Fraser | |
| Monique Garnier-Lançon | |
| Robert Gascoyne-Cecil | |
| Enrique Gomez-Hurtado | |
| Álvaro Gomez-Hurtado | |
| Aline Griffith | |
| Robert J. Hanks | Cercle regular, rear admiral |
| Bruno Heck | |
| Hans Graf Huyn | |
| Donald Jameson | |
| Jacques Jonet | |
| Nicholas de Kerchove | |
| James Lucier | Cercle attendee |
| Daniel Mazuera | |
| 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 | |
| Jaime Nogueira Pinto | |
| Jues Pujo | Unknown Cercle visitor. |
| Henri Renard | |
| Dieter A. Schmidt | |
| Franz-Josef Schulze | |
| Arnold Silver | |
| 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. |
| Peter Tennant | |
| Paul Weyrich |
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