Le Cercle/1985 (Washington)
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The January 1985 Cercle meeting was held in Washington, DC.
Timing
The conference occurred 6 months after the June 1984 Washington Conference on International Terrorism.
Exposure
In 2011 Joel Van der Reijden discovered the attendee list for this conference amongst the papers of Monique Garnier-Lançon at Stanford University, and published it online.[1]
Known Participants
45 of the 52 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| Alfredo Alcaino | Chile born Cercle visitor, deep state connected lawyer |
| 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. |
| Norman Bailey | Spooky economist who taught "Economics for Foreign Policy Makers." Admitted on the record that the PROMIS database and search application has been given to the NSA |
| Alfredo Sánchez Bella | Spanish spook and possible deep politician |
| Jeff Bergner | Cercle attendee. Project for the New American Century. German Marshall Fund. Hudson Institute |
| Raymond Bourgine | French journalist and editor who attended Le Cercle. |
| John Browne | Spooky UK businessman, Morgan Stanley, Le Cercle, Chatham house ... |
| Francisco Bulnes | Cercle member active in the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende |
| Umberto Cappuzzo | Senior Italian military leader and Le Cercle attendee. |
| Etienne Copel | Former chief of France's air force, Le Cercle. |
| James Critchfield | Senior CIA spook who handled Reinhard Gehlen. Then Near East Division Chief from 1959 to 1969 where he arranged a coup in Iraq. Le Cercle |
| Nicholas Elliott | A key spook with a wide range of connections. |
| Brand Fourie | "One of the most remarkable diplomats South Africa ever produced" |
| 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. |
| Frans Alphons Maria Alting von Geusau | A Dutch diplomat and scholar in international law. Von Geusau was also an advisor to the Dutch government from 1968 to 1998. |
| 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 |
| Rolf Graage | Arms dealer, Le Cercle... |
| Aline Griffith | US born Spanish spook who was a regular attender at Le Cercle in the 1980s. |
| Eldon Griffiths | British Conservative politician and journalist. Attended Le Cercle. |
| Robert J. Hanks | Cercle regular, rear admiral,Cold War hardliner |
| Hans Graf Huyn | German deep politician who attended Le Cercle |
| Fred C. Iklé | US deep state operative in the Reagan Administration, where he was proponent of psyops and supporting insurgencies. Attended Le Cercle RAND Corporation, Smith Richardson Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy , Center for Strategic and International Studies... |
| Donald Jameson | Attended multiple Cercle meetings and worked for the CIA. Vice-president of the Jamestown Foundation |
| Walter Raymond Jr | Second generation Cercle visitor |
| Peter Jungen | At least 4 visits to Le Cercle... Personal assistant to Otto Wolff von Amerongen |
| Robert H. Knight | Chair of the New York Fed, Le Cercle. |
| Sven Kraemer | Policy advisor to Douglas J. Feith |
| James Lucier | Cercle attendee, "inside man in the skunk works," as he calls himself, or Lucifer as others sometimes refer to him. |
| Gerhard Löwenthal | German deep state operative |
| 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. |
| Constantin Menges | Latin American specialist for the National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency. At RAND in the 1960s, he laid the foundations for the Reagan doctrine of support to insurgent groups to destabilize communist governments. Deeply involved in the support for the Nicaraguan contras. Nicknamed "Menges Khan", he attended Le Cercle in 1985. |
| Herbert Meyer | Cold War hardliner, Le Cercle visitor who mused on assassinating Putin |
| Thomas Moorer | Headed up the Moorer Commission to investigate the USS Liberty incident. He concluded that the 1967 attack was a deliberate false flag attack |
| Charles Pasqua | French interior minister who attended Le Cercle |
| Jean-François Probst | Cercle visitor. |
| Gerd Schulte-Hillen | German media executive who attended Le Cercle. |
| Arkady Shevchenko | Soviet diplomat, the highest-ranking Soviet official to defect to the West. |
| 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. |
| Richard Stilwell | |
| Eymen Topbaş | |
| John Wilkinson | UK Conservative politician who visited Le Cercle |
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