Le Cercle/1982 (Wildbad Kreuth)

Le Cercle/1982 (Wildbad Kreuth)(Le Cercle/Meeting)
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.

Agenda

Unknown.

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]

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
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