Le Cercle/Meetings

 Le Cercle/Meetings(meetings)

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, 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", but David Rockefeller states in his autobiography that their meetings used to be thrice yearly. 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)).

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. 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.

 

Examples

Page name	Start	End	Location	Description
Le Cercle/1958	18 August 1958	18 August 1958	Europe	Exact dates uncertain
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/1973 (Washington)	13 December 1973	13 December 1973	US Washington DC	Exact dates uncertain
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)	10 November 1977	13 November 1977	US Washington DC
Le Cercle/1978 (Tehran)	3 September 1978	3 September 1978	Iran 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
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/1982 (Wildbad Kreuth)	11 June 1982	13 June 1982	Germany Hanns Seidel Foundation
Le Cercle/1983 (Bonn)	30 June 1983	3 July 1983	Germany Bonn
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 (Capetown)	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
Le Cercle/1985 (Washington)	7 January 1985	10 January 1985	US Washington DC
Le Cercle/1986 (Nice)	October 1986	October 1986	France Nice Hotel Negresco
Le Cercle/1986 (Washington)	February 1986	March 1986	US Washington DC
Le Cercle/1987 (Washington)	February 1986	March 1986	US Washington DC
Le Cercle/1988 (South Africa)	1988	1988	South Africa	Little known Cercle meeting
Le Cercle/1990 (Oman)	30 November 1990	30 November 1990	Oman Al Bustan Hotel & Al-Baraka Palace Muscat	Start/End dates uncertain
Le Cercle/1991 (South Africa)	1991	1991	South Africa	Little known Cercle meeting
Le Cercle/1996 (Amman)	October 1996	October 1996	Jordan Amman
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
Le Cercle/1999 (Washington)	1999	1999	US Washington DC Watergate Hotel
Le Cercle/2000 (Lisbon)	2000	2000	Portugal Lisbon
Le Cercle/2000 (Washington)	2000	2000	US Washington DC Watergate Hotel
Le Cercle/2001 (Washington)	2001	2001	US Washington DC Watergate Hotel
Le Cercle/2002 (Morocco)	27 June 2002	1 July 2002	Morocco
Le Cercle/2002 (Washington)	2002	2002	US Washington DC Watergate Hotel
Le Cercle/2003 (Salzburg)	2003	2003	Austria Salzburg
Le Cercle/2004 (Belgrade)	17 June 2004	19 June 2004	Serbia Belgrade Royal Palace	"A dinner held in Belgrade on 18 June 2004, "in honor of the “Le Cercle” conference taking place in Belgrade from 17th to 19th June."
Le Cercle/2004 (Washington)	September 2004	September 2004	US Washington DC Watergate Hotel
Le Cercle/2005 (Paris)	16 June 2005	19 June 2005	France Paris	Exposed 2 days later by the Saudi Embassy in London
Le Cercle/2006 (Delhi)	7 December 2006	11 December 2006	India Delhi
Le Cercle/2007 (Madrid)	29 November 2007	2 December 2007	Spain Madrid	A little known Cercle meeting
Le Cercle/2007 (Washington)	June 2007	June 2007	US Washington DC Watergate Hotel
Le Cercle/2008 (Washington)	14 November 2008	14 November 2008	US Washington DC Watergate Hotel	Other dates uncertain
Le Cercle/2009 (Washington)	19 November 2009	22 November 2009	US Washington DC
Le Cercle/2011				Only known info about this meeting is a later invitation letter
Le Cercle/2012 (Morocco)	28 June 2012	1 July 2012	Morocco Amphitrite Palace Resort and Spa Skhiral	An invitation letter of this meeting was leaked online
Le Cercle/2013 (London)	20 June 2013	23 June 2013	London UK Hotel Crowne Plaza St James	Slightly exposed meeting of Le Cercle attended by Václav Klaus
Le Cercle/2014 (London)	20 June 2014	20 June 2014	London UK	Dates include June 20 but are uncertain
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