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 A photo of the December 2016 meeting of Le Cercle in Washington DC that Václav Klaus published on his website. | |
| Description | A list of the known Cercle meetings. |
|---|---|
Le Cercle Meetings strictly follow the Chatham House rule,[1] i.e. they are off the record. This presents a problem for the below list, which is very far from complete. The current schedule is believed to be (as stated on their short lived website) "semiannually"[2], but David Rockefeller states in his autobiography that their meetings used to be thrice yearly.[3] Little is known of most of these meetings, although some guest lists from the mid 1980s have been leaked (e.g. Le Cercle/1982 (Wildbad Kreuth), Le Cercle/1983 (Bonn), Le Cercle/1984 (Capetown)).
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History
For its first 15 years, Le Cercle was an exclusively European affair. However, after involvement with figures from the US deep state, a US meeting first took place in the Rockefeller Center in New York on 6th December 1968.[4] The current pattern is to alternate between Washington DC and Europe (or occasionally elsewhere).
Other meetings
Other conferences have been held in Bucharest and Frankfurt.[5]
Examples
| Page name | Start | End | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Cercle/1958 (Cadenabbia) | 15 August 1958 | 18 August 1958 | Italy Lombardy Cadenabbia | A secret meeting Franco-German in Konrad Adenauer's Villa La Collina in Cadenabbia, Italy |
| Le Cercle/1968 (New York) | 6 December 1968 | 6 December 1968 | New York US Rockefeller Center | The first meeting of Le Cercle in America. End date uncertain |
| Le Cercle/1968 (Rome) | May 1968 | May 1968 | Italy Rome | Precise dates uncertain |
| Le Cercle/1969 (Bavaria) | 2 July 1969 | 2 July 1969 | Germany Bavaria | start/date uncertain, but included 2 July 1969 |
| Le Cercle/1970 (Washington) | 2 December 1970 | 2 December 1970 | US Washington DC Rockefeller family mansion | Exact dates uncertain |
| Le Cercle/1972 (Washington) | 11 December 1972 | 11 December 1972 | US Washington DC | Start/End dates uncertain |
| Le Cercle/1973 (Washington) | 13 December 1973 | 13 December 1973 | US Washington DC | Exact dates uncertain |
| Le Cercle/1974 | May 1974 | May 1974 | ||
| Le Cercle/1975 (Washington) | December 1975 | December 1975 | US Washington DC | Start/End dates & Location uncertain |
| Le Cercle/1976 (Madrid) | 25 November 1976 | 28 November 1976 | Madrid UK | Unusually, the group met in the framework of the 25th anniversary congress of the CEDI in November 1976 |
| Le Cercle/1976 (Wildbad Kreuth) | November 1976 | November 1976 | Germany Hanns Seidel Foundation Bavaria | |
| Le Cercle/1977 (South Africa) | 13 May 1977 | 16 May 1977 | South Africa | 4 day Cercle meeting, exposed in 2017 after a report surfaced on the internet |
| Le Cercle/1977 (Washington) | 9 November 1977 | 13 November 1977 | US Washington DC | Detailed in a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks in 2009 as the 'Carlo Pesenti Group' |
| Le Cercle/1978 (Tehran) | 3 September 1978 | 3 September 1978 | Iran Tehran | In August 1978 the Shah invited Le Cercle to Tehran |
| Le Cercle/1978 (Washington) | December 1978 | December 1978 | US Washington DC | Includes the 12 December |
| Le Cercle/1979 (Washington) | 1 December 1979 | 1 December 1979 | US Washington DC Madison Hotel | start/end dates uncertain |
| Le Cercle/1979 (Wildbad Kreuth) | 1979 | 1979 | Germany Hanns Seidel Foundation Bavaria | First half of 1979 |
| Le Cercle/1980 (Washington) | 5 December 1980 | 7 December 1980 | US Washington DC Madison Hotel | Detailed in a telegram to the South African Embassy in Madrid that was posted to the internet in 2017. |
| Le Cercle/1980 (Zurich) | 28 June 1980 | 29 June 1980 | Switzerland Zurich | One of their shorter meetings, the minutes of which were in the Langemann Papers. |
| Le Cercle/1982 (Washington) | 1982 | 1982 | US Washington DC | Le Cercle met in 1982 in Washington, DC |
| Le Cercle/1982 (Wildbad Kreuth) | 11 June 1982 | 13 June 1982 | Germany Hanns Seidel Foundation | 1982 conference organised by Franz Josef Bach. The participants were guests of Franz-Josef Strauss. The first page of the attendee list was published online in 2011 |
| Le Cercle/1983 (Bonn) | 30 June 1983 | 3 July 1983 | Germany Bonn | The June 1983 Cercle meeting was held in Bonn, West Germany |
| Le Cercle/1984 (Bonn) | 5 July 1984 | 7 July 1984 | Germany Bonn | Held in Bonn, West Germany, the list of the 36 visitors was published online in 2011. |
| Le Cercle/1984 (Cape Town) | 12 January 1984 | 15 January 1984 | South Africa Stellenbosch Capetown | 4 day meeting of Le Cercle in Capetown exposed after Joel Van der Reijden discovered the attendee list for this conference and published it online in 2011 |
| Le Cercle/1985 (Bonn) | 27 June 1985 | 30 June 1984 | Germany Bonn | Documents pertaining to this meeting are indexed in the papers of Monique Garnier-Lançon |
| Le Cercle/1985 (Washington) | 7 February 1985 | 10 February 1985 | US Washington DC | 4 day meeting of Le Cercle in Washington exposed after Joel Van der Reijden discovered the attendee list for this conference and published it online in 2011 |
| Le Cercle/1986 (Nice) | October 1986 | October 1986 | France Nice Hotel Negresco | Little known Cercle meeting |
| Le Cercle/1986 (Washington) | 27 February 1986 | 2 March 1986 | US Washington DC | The 1986 Cercle meeting in Washington DC |
| Le Cercle/1987 (Interlaken) | 22 October 1987 | 25 October 1987 | Switzerland Interlaken | Cercle meeting in Interlaken, Switzerland in 1987 |
| Le Cercle/1987 (Washington) | February 1986 | March 1986 | US Washington DC | Little known Cercle meeting |
| Le Cercle/1988 (Cape Town) | March 1988 | March 1988 | South Africa Cape Town | Little known Cercle meeting in Cape Town |
| Le Cercle/1989 (Washington) | 20 November 1989 | 3 December 1989 | US Washington DC | Cercle meeting in Washington in late 1989 |
| Le Cercle/1990 (Berlin) | 28 June 1990 | 1 July 1990 | Germany Berlin | The first Cercle meeting in Berlin |
| Le Cercle/1990 (Muscat) | 28 November 1990 | 1 December 1990 | Oman Al Bustan Hotel & Al-Baraka Palace Muscat | A Cercle Meeting in Muscat, Oman. |
| Le Cercle/1991 (Cape Town) | 1991 | 1991 | South Africa Kapstadt Lord Charles Hotel Somerset West | Cercle meeting in Kapstadt, South Africa |
| Le Cercle/1991 (Washington) | 24 October 1991 | 27 October 1991 | US Washington DC | The Cercle meeting in Washington in 1991 |
| Le Cercle/1992 (Vienna) | 14 May 1992 | 17 May 1992 | Austria Vienna | Cercle meeting in Austria |
| Le Cercle/1993 (Muscat) | 15 April 1993 | 19 April 1993 | Oman Muscat | Cercle meeting in Muscat, Oman in 1993 |
| Le Cercle/1993 (Washington) | 14 October 1993 | 17 October 1993 | US Washington DC | The Cercle meeting in Washington in 1993 |
| Le Cercle/1994 (Athens) | 14 April 1994 | 17 April 1994 | Greece Athens | Cercle meeting in Athens |
| Le Cercle/1996 (Amman) | 9 May 1996 | 12 May 1996 | Jordan Amman | Cercle meeting in Jordan |
| Le Cercle/1997 (Berlin) | 1997 | 1997 | Germany Berlin | Dates uncertain |
| Le Cercle/1998 (Istanbul) | 23 May 1998 | 23 May 1998 | Turkey Istanbul | Other dates uncertain |
| Le Cercle/1999 (London) | 1999 | 1999 | London Conrad Hilton | Largely unknown Cercle meeting |
| Le Cercle/1999 (Washington) | 1999 | 1999 | US Washington DC Watergate Hotel | Largely unknown Cercle meeting |
| Le Cercle/2000 (Lisbon) | June 2000 | June 2000 | Portugal Lisbon | Largely unknown Cercle meeting, including 18 June |
| Le Cercle/2000 (Washington) | 2000 | 2000 | US Washington DC Watergate Hotel | Largely unknown Cercle meeting |
| Le Cercle/2001 (Washington) | 2001 | 2001 | US Washington DC Watergate Hotel | Largely unknown Cercle meeting |
| Le Cercle/2002 (Morocco) | 27 June 2002 | 1 July 2002 | Morocco | William Hague attended |
| Le Cercle/2002 (Washington) | 2002 | 2002 | US Washington DC Watergate Hotel | Largely unknown Cercle meeting |
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References
- ↑ https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/conservative-party/news/105448/excl-top-tories-face-questions-over-links
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20010428032018/http://www.atlanticcircle.com:80/
- ↑ Memoirs, David Rockefeller, pp. 412-413
- ↑ File:Rogue Agents - the Cercle and the 6I in the Private Cold War 1951 - 1991 by David Teacher (5th edn, 2017).pdf
- ↑ the Independent of June 29, 1997
