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| Adenauer,
Konrad |
One source. The Observer
in April 2003 named Adenauer as a co-founder of Le
Cercle in the 1950s (which was established much later
according to other sources). Konrad Adenauer was a
lawyer and a member of the Catholic Center party, he was
lord mayor of Cologne and a member of the provincial
diet of Rhine province from 1917 until 1933, when he was
dismissed by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime. He
was twice imprisoned (1933, 1944) by the Nazis.
Cofounder of the Christian Democratic Union (1945) and
its president from 1946 to 1966. He was elected
chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West
Germany) in 1949 and was reelected in 1953, 1957, and
1961. He served (1951–55) as his own foreign minister,
negotiating the West German peace treaty (1952) with the
Western Allies and obtaining recognition of West
Germany's full sovereignty through the Paris Pacts and
through an agreement with the USSR in 1955. In 1956,
Adenauer chose former Nazi General Gehlen as the initial
chief of the BND (to replace the Gehlen Org), West
Germany's post-war intelligence agency. This was
probably not only done on the "recommendation" of the
CIA, but also to safeguard Europe from the communists.
The political architect of the astounding West German
recovery, he saw the solution of German problems in
terms of European integration, and he helped secure West
Germany's membership in the various organizations of
what has become the European Union. In 1961 his party
lost its absolute majority in the Bundestag, and he
formed a coalition cabinet with the Free Democrats. In
1962 a cabinet crisis arose over the government's raid
of the offices of the magazine Der Spiegel, which had
attacked the Adenauer regime for military unpreparedness.
Adenauer seems to be far less controversial than the
average visitor of Le Cercle. Adenauer received the
Magistral Grand Cross personally from SMOM (The
Sovereign Military Order of Malta) Grand Master Prince
Chigi. |
| Aitken,
Jonathan |
Great nephew of Lord
Beaverbrook. Attended the 1990 Pinay meeting in Oman and
the June 2000 meeting in Lisbon. He served as a war
correspondent (and MI6 agent) during the 1960s in the
Middle-East, Vietnam, and Biafra (short-lived state next
to Nigeria). For 18 years he was on the backbenches.
Jonathan then became a Conservative Member of Parliament
in 1974. In the 1980s Aitkin was a director of BMARC, a
company which exported weapons to intermediary
countries, who sold these weapons again to the intended
countries (Iraq in that case). CEO of TV-Am and chairman
of Aitken Hume Plc, a banking and investment group. In
1992 he was appointed as Minister of State for Defense.
During this time he stood in close contact with co-Le
Cercle member and MI6 head of Middle-East affairs
Geoffrey Tantum. Aitken has been a chairman of Le Cercle.
Protege of Lord Julian Amery, another former head of Le
Cercle with a very significant zionist family history.
In 1994, he joined the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the
Treasury, but resigned in 1995 to defend himself against
accusations that whilst Minister of Defence Procurement
(1993) he violated ministerial rules by allowing an Arab
businessman to pay for his stay in the Ritz Hotel Paris
(and a stay in Geneva). After telling lie, after lie,
after lie, he was jailed in 1999 for 18 months
(eventually he served 7), supposedly because he told a
lie under oath about a 1500 pound bill. In the end it
turns out that Aitken was lobbying for 3 arms
contractors, GEC, Marconi and VSEL, in an effort to sell
many, many millions worth of arms to Saudi-Arabia. His
Saudi business contact was Said Ayas, who worked for
Prince Mohammed, son of King Fahd. Through multiple
offshore companies in Switserland and Panama,
submarines, howitsers, medium-range laser guided bombs,
Black Hawks, and EH101 helicopters were sold and
shipped. Said suffered a minor stroke in early 1999,
which impaired his vision in his left eye. Jonathan has
chaired many Parliamentary committees and business
groups including The British Saudi Arabian Parliamentary
Group. Aitken is one of the few people who had to resign
from the Privy Council. These days he has become a
devoted Christian author and lecturer. |
|
Al-Faisal, HRH Prince Turki |
Son of King Faisal
(assassinated in 1975), grandson of King Ibn Saud. His
father King Faisal was a major force behind the Arab oil
embargo against the United States in 1973. Faisal
studied at Princeton, Cambridge, and Georgetown
Universities. Chairman King Faisal Center for Research
and Islamic Studies. Co-Founder King Faisal Foundation.
Saudi ambassador to the UK who is promoting a peaceful
version of Islam and is a big fan of expensive cars. He
is a visitor of DAVOS and has headed the Saudi foreign
intelligence services from 1977 to September 1, 2001,
which is when he "asked" to be replaced. As the head of
Saudi intelligence during the 1980s, Prince Turki had
several meetings with bin Laden, although he rejects any
suggestion that he has had dealings with the al-Qa'eda
leader since he founded the terror group in the early
1990s. Faisal also defends western intelligence agencies
by never mentioning the role of the CIA or MI6 in
financing the Bin Laden network (The UK Telegraph, who
conducted the first interview of a British newspaper
with him 14 after he had arrived in Britain, never
mentioned the role of the CIA or MI6 too). The Saudi
ambassador is named in a huge law suit that has been
launched by the families of those killed in the
September 11 attacks against a number of Saudi princes,
banks and charities that are alleged to have helped fund
the terrorists responsible for the attack. Faisal,
together with the ISI and the CIA, played a major role
in bringing the Taliban to power.
Wolf Blitzer of CNN
interviewes Faisal in January 2001 (aired February 1,
2001):
"The last time I met him [Osama Bin Laden] was perhaps
early 1990. It was after the soviets withdrew and he was
back in the Kingdom, and he came to say hello, and he
had other projects in mind which I turned down at the
time, because they were so extraordinary and
unacceptable." (what kinds of projects, Blitzer
didn't ask)
The New Yorker,
November 05, 2001:
"Both Al-Fagih and Abdel Bari Atwan claim
that bin Laden's mother has twice met with her son since
he moved to Afghanistan, in 1996. Atwan said that a trip
in the spring of 1998 was arranged by Prince Turki
al-Faisal, then the head of Saudi intelligence. Turki
was in charge of the "Afghanistan file," and had
long-standing ties to bin Laden and the Taliban. Indeed,
Osama, before becoming an enemy of the state, had been
something of a Turki protégé, according to his
biographers. Prince Turki, Al-Fagih said, "made
arrangements for Osama's mother and his stepfather to
visit him and persuade him to stop what he was
doing...he didn't promise anything.
The second trip,
according to Al-Fagih, occurred last spring
[2001]...They wanted to find out his intentions
concerning the royal family. They gave him the
impression that they wouldn't crack down on his
followers in Saudi Arabia" as long as he set his sights
on targets outside the desert kingdom."
The Guardian,
November 1, 2001:
"Two months before September 11 Osama bin
Laden flew to Dubai for 10 days for treatment at the
American hospital, where he was visited by the local CIA
agent, according to the French newspaper Le Figaro...
[French] Intelligence sources say that another CIA agent
was also present; and that Bin Laden was also visited by
Prince Turki al Faisal, then head of Saudi intelligence,
who had long had links with the Taliban, and Bin Laden.
Soon afterwards Turki resigned, and more recently he has
publicly attacked him..."
In the 1990s Faisal
worked closely with western intelligence trying to
estimate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and his
weapons of mass destruction. He spoke to Le Cercle in
June 2005, where he gave his full support for the Bush
Administration's agenda and denounced Al-Qaeda and the
Israelis. At other occations he has said that the
Zionists in combination with Al-Qaeda are behind the
many terrorist attacks in his own kingdom and thinks
that the same group is behind 9/11. He fully supports
the Iraq invasion and thinks the Iraqis are now "masters
of their fate".
Back in 1988, BCCI
investor and Bin Laden's older brother Saleem was a
member of the equally secretive 1001 Club. Look for his
bio in that membership list. |
| Amery,
Lord Julian |
Son of Leopold Amery
(1873-1955), who concealed his whole life the fact that
he was a Jew. However, Leopold was extremely
pro-Zionist. As political secretary to the War Cabinet
(appointed by Lord Milner) he was the author of the
final draft of the Balfour Declaration which committed
Britain to establishing a Jewish 'National Home' in
Palestine (this letter was sent to Lord Lionel Walter
Rothschild). He was highly significant in helping to
create the Jewish Legion, the forerunner of what later
became the Israeli army. As Dominions Secretary in the
mid-1920s, he sympathetically presided over a seminal
period in the growth of the Jewish community in
Palestine. The senior Leopold Amery is described as "a
passionate advocate of British imperialism"; he was on
the staff of the Times, and wrote a 7 vol. history of
the South African War for the Times; served in the
Cabinet from 1916-1922, MP 1911-1945, first Lord of
Admiralty 1922-1924, Secretary of State for India
1940-1945, and arranged for India to have independence.
He was a trustee of the Rhodes Trust.
His second son, Julian
Amery, attended the 1990 Le Cercle meeting in Oman and
has also been a chairman of the Circle. During this time
he was a consultant to the extremely corrupt Bank of
Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) and a mentor to
Jonathan Aitken, a later chairman of Le Cercle and
another member of the Privy Council. Julian was educated
at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, before starting
work as a left wing war correspondent in the Spanish
Civil War from 1938 to 1939. Worked as an attaché for
the British Foreign Office and, after the outbreak of
the war, served in both the RAF and the British army.
Churchill’s personal representative to Chiang Kai-Shek
in 1945 (at the time that Baron Robert Rothschild was
present there, at his own request, as secretary at the
embassy in Chungking, the headquarters of Chiang
Kai-shek's government). In 1950 he became a Conservative
member of parliament and served in the cabinets of
Harold Macmillan and Edward Heath. He also married
Harold Macmillan's daughter in 1950, although
politically he was at odds with him. Representative to
the Round Table Conference on Malta in 1955.
Representative to the Council of Europe 1950-1956. Amery
was made a member of the Privy Council of the United
Kingdom in 1960, and for over 20 years until standing
down in 1992 was an active member and Patron of the
Conservative Monday Club, where he became friendly with
General Sir Walter Walker, subsequently writing the
foreword for Walker's anti-Soviet book, "The Next
Domino". Julian was an MI6 operative, although it isn't
really known what he has been doing in this function.
From different reports it seems that Julian was an avid
empire-builder.
The older brother of
Julian, John Amery, was a gun-runner for General Franco
(Knight of Malta) and an Italian intelligence officer.
He met with Jacques Doriot, a French Fascist leader and
was recruited by the Nazis. In November 1942, he began
making pro Adolf Hitler broadcasts in Berlin. In April
1943 Amery established the Legion of St. George and
attempted to persuade British prisoners to fight for
Germany against the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front.
In the final months of the war Amery moved to Italy
where he made propaganda speeches on behalf of Benito
Mussolini. He also made broadcasts on Italian radio.
Amery was captured by Italian partisans in Milan in
April 1945, and soon afterwards was handed over to the
British authorities. After being interviewed by MI5 John
Amery was tried for high treason and hanged.
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Andreotti, Giulio |
Former Italian prime
minister and Knight of Malta. A member of the Christian
Democratic party, Andreotti held a variety of
ministerial posts throughout the 1950s and 1960s and
first served as premier in 1972–1973. He subsequently
held the premiership again (1976-1979), was minister for
foreign affairs (1983-1989), and returned for a third
period as premier (1989-1991). In March 1981, Italian
police raided the villa of Licio Gelli, the ultra-right
leader of P2. Although his files had vanished the index
was discovered. Some of the headings included the Giulio
Andreotti. Roberto Calvi's (Knight of Malta, "God's
banker", and found hanging below a bridge in the City of
London) widow fingered Giulio Andreotti as the true head
of P2. Others fingered another Knight of Malta, Count
Umberto Ortolani as the mastermind behind P2 (In
December 1969 he met with Licio Gelli, Roberto Calvi,
and others in Rome). Andreotti is also alleged to be a
member of the Priory of Sion (one of the more secret
monarchist Templar organizations). On August 3, 1990,
after having been put under pressure by Italian judge
Felice Casson, Andreotti was the first person to admit
that there existed a secret army of "stay-behind" units
in Italy. In the case of Italy this unit was called
"Gladio" and it had been involved in terrorist attacks
on its own citizens, while blaming it on left-wing
groups. This is how the unknown control group (Le Cercle
or similar) kept the communist influence out of Europe.
Turned out that these were hidden away in the secret
services of most western countries. In 1993, Andreotti
was investigated for corruption and accused of
protecting the Mafia. Indicted in 1995, he also went to
trial in 1996 for ordering the murder of a journalist
said to have incriminating information. In 1999, he was
acquitted of both sets of charges, a decision that
ultimately was upheld on appeal. |
| Auchi,
Nadhmi |
Auchi's business empire,
which has assets worth more than £1bn, is held offshore
in structures whose ownership is difficult to penetrate.
His holding firm, General Mediterranean Holdings SA, is
registered in Luxembourg, and the Luxembourg and EU
politician Jacques Santer is on its board (In 1999, the
Santer Commission resigned from their posts at the head
of the European Commission, because they were charged
with corruption. Santer is a Bilderberger). Billionaire
Nadhmi Auchi is widely regarded as a corrupt supporter
of Saddam Hussein's regime who got his money from doing
deals, especially illegal arms transfers for Saddam.
Auchi is a central figure in the U.N. oil-for-food
program where both U.S. Congress and a special U.N.
investigation are looking into massive corruption and a
missing $10 billion. Auchi is a member of Saddam
Hussein's inner circle and was tried alongside Saddam
Hussein for his involvement in a conspiracy to
assassinate an Iraqi prime minister in the 1950s. Auchi
used money from military contracts in Iraq to establish
close political, business and banking contacts in
Britain, Luxembourg, and the U.S. The Observer has
discovered that Auchi met Saddam's number two, Tariq
Aziz, as recently as October 2002 at a gala dinner in
Beirut. But Auchi also has links with British
intelligence, through the former senior MI6 officer
Anthony Cavendish (Le Cercle), who acts a consultant to
Auchi's business empire. During the Gulf War II, Auchi
was reported to have full run of the palace in the Green
Zone and met with "everyone important," including CPA
top leader Paul Bremer. Attempts by a French
investigating magistrate to have Mr Auchi arrested
during corruption inquiries had been blocked by Britain
since July 2001. In April 2004 he was briefly arrested.
In November Auchi, 66, was given a 15-month suspended
sentence and fined £1.4m by a French court for receiving
illegal commissions to help Elf build an oil refinery in
Spain. Despite this setback, Auchi, a British citizen
who lives in London, is forging ahead with the
rebuilding of Iraq, his birthplace. The May 2004 Defense
Department report said: "His first business coup was
to broker a deal to sell Italian frigates to the Iraqi
defense ministry, for which he received millions of
dollars in commission. The deal to buy the ships and
other military equipment from the Italian naval
shipyards, Catiri Navali Riunit, sparked an Italian
parliamentary investigation into alleged bribes.
Investigators discovered that a Panamanian company owned
by Auchi, the Dowal Corporation, was used to funnel
alleged illegal payments." In the 1980s, he was
investigated for his part in alleged bribes to the
corrupt leaders of post-war Italy. In the 1990s, the
Belgium Ambassador to Luxembourg claimed that Auchi's
bank held money Saddam and Colonel Gadaffi had stolen
from their luckless peoples.
Auchi is chairman of
Anglo-Arab Organization (AAO). The July 2004 meeting was
attended by Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, Michael
Howard (Le Cercle), the Conservative Party leader and
leader of the opposition, king Abdullah of Jordan,
Sheikh Badawi (Islamic College of London), together with
many political, business and media elite. During the
2004 AAO conference Auchi said: " [the organisation,
at its core] is the desire to build on, and further
enhance, the fruitful, warm and productive relations
which have existed over so many centuries between the
United Kingdom and the Arab world." Auchi stressed
AAO's important role in furthering interfaith dialogue
as well as supporting initiatives aimed at "further
integration of the welcomed British Arab community into
mainstream society." On one of the pictures Auchi
is shaking hands with Prince Andrew and king Abdullah.
Another ambiguity of his
relations with the UK is demonstrated by one of his
mementos, hanging in pride of place in his office - a
portrait of the houses of parliament which 130 MPs of
all parties have signed. It was presented to him by the
science minister, Lord Sainsbury, "on behalf of Tony
Blair" at the 20th anniversary ceremony of his GMH
company. |
|
Brzezinski, Zbigniew |
Zbigniew Brzezinski is a
trustee and counselor at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies and cochairs the CSIS Advisory
Board (located at the Jesuit Georgetown University from
which Brzezinski holds honorary degrees). He is cochair
of the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya.
Earlier, he was a member of the Policy Planning Council
of the Department of State from 1966 to 1968. Jimmy
Carter’s National Security Advisor and an advisor to
Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and 1980s. Zbigniew has
always been violently anti-communist. He was a director
of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1972 to 1977.
In 1973, he set up the Trilateral Commission at the
request of David Rockefeller. He was a member of the
President's Chemical Warfare Commission (1985); member
of the NSC-Defense Department Commission on Integrated
Long-Term Strategy (1987-1988); and member of the
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
(1987-1989). In 1988, he was co-chairman of the Bush
National Security Advisory Task Force. Today, he is
still one of the major influences in Washington. In
1997, Zbigniew wrote a book called 'The Grand
Chessboard', which describes a kind of upcoming 'Clash
of Civilizations'. His main points:
1.
”About 75 per cent of the world's people live in
Eurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth is
there as well, both in its enterprises and underneath
its soil. Eurasia accounts for 60 per cent of the
world's GNP and about three-fourths of the world's known
energy resources.”
2. “The most immediate task is to
make certain that no state or combination of states
gains the capacity to expel the United States from
Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive
arbitration role.”
3. ”It is also a fact that America
is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This
limits the use of America's power, especially its
capacity for military intimidation… Democracy is
inimical to imperial mobilization.”
4. “Moreover, as America becomes an
increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more
difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy
issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive
and widely perceived direct external threat.”
Mark Brzezinski, his son,
was accused of undermining Ukrainian elections in 2004
(together with the NDI, Eurasia Society, and George
Soros). Soros has been accused of doing the same in
Georgia and Russia. |
| Brunello,
Monsignor |
Vatican prelate and BNG
agent. Can't find anything about this person, besides
what has been claimed by the original author. |
| Burnside,
David Wilson Boyd |
A Northern Ireland
politician, and was Ulster Unionist Party Member of
Parliament for South Antrim. In the 1970s Burnside
served as Press Officer for the Vanguard Progressive
Unionist Party. After the collapse of Vanguard he joined
the Ulster Unionists. In 1984 David Burnside was
recruited by the British Airways Chairman Lord King to
become the company's head of public relations. In this
role Burnside is widely acknowledged to have become one
of the most powerful PR men in Britain, speaking for
King, administering a £5 million budget and receiving
numerous PR awards both in the UK and around the world.
British Airways was witnessing the emergence of a
dangerous rival, Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic.
Virgin, which began with one route and one Boeing 747 in
1984 was beginning to emerge as a serious threat on some
of BA's most lucrative routes. In 1991, King is reported
to have told Burnside and CEO Colin Marshall to "do
something about Branson". This began the campaign of
dirty tricks, masterminded by Burnside, which ended in
Branson suing King and British Airways for libel in
1992. In January 1993, following the settlement and
investigations by BA's lawyers the board decided to sack
Burnside. He was awarded a settlement of approximately
£400,000 and free first class travel on BA for four
years. He later reentered politics and had some
criticism on the IRA. He was invited to Le Cercle in
1997. |
|
Cavendish, Anthony |
Former senior MI6
officer Anthony Cavendish, acted as a consultant to
Nadhmi Auchi's business empire. He was still acting as a
consultant in 2003 and could easily still do that today.
In the past he worked with George Kennedy Young and
James Goldsmith. Unison Committee for Action. He has
been a long time friend of the former MI6 Director
General (1973-1978) Sir Maurice Oldfield. In his
memoirs, that have been partly censored by the British
government, he defends Oldfield from charges that he was
a Soviet mole. Supposedly, he also made the claim that
50% of MI6 is gay (In any case, Maurice Oldfield
admitted that he "from time to time engaged in
homosexual activities."). Granta Magazine, issue
24:
"In 19--, Anthony
Cavendish was made the -------------- officer of -----,
the British ------. In 194-, he personally oversaw the
illegal invasion of ------- that resulted in the deaths
of ----------- of --------------. What did Cavendish
finally see that we are not allowed to know now—over
forty years later? And why has the British government
spent hundreds of thousands of pounds trying to keep us
from finding out?" |
| Cecil,
Robert Gascoyne |
Member of the very
powerful Cecil family that has produced numerous members
of the Order of Garter and the Privy Council, starting
with Sir William Cecil in the 1500s. They intermarried
with elite blue blood families as de Vere, Arundel,
Plantagenet, and Cavendish. William Cecil and his
protégé Sir Francis Walsingham devised an intricate spy
network during the latter years of Elizabeth I's reign
that succeeded in uncovering numerous Catholic plots
against the monarch. Sir William Cecil’s daughter, Anne,
married Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford and a
member of what was quite possibly the bluest of blue
blood families in existence. De Vere had worked for
William Cecil and the throne since a young age and was
later rumored to have written the works of Shakespeare.
Lady Diana Cecil married the 18th Earl of Oxford.
The 3rd Marquess of
Salisbury was the Chancellor of Oxford University from
1869 to 1903, a fellow of All Souls, a British prime
minister for 14 years, a member of the Order of the
Garter, and a member of the Privy Council. Carrol
Quigley described the Rhodes secret society and the
Round Table Group (All Souls, Oxford) as the 'Cecil
Bloc'. The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury and his family were
really the prime movers behind this network. The 3rd
Marquess of Salisbury grew to like Benjamin Disraeli,
who he had previously distrusted as a Jew. Disraeli
eventually became a housefriend to the Cecils and was
invested into the Order of the Garter. Baron Lionel de
Rothschild was another close friend of Disraeli. One of
Cecil's sisters was the mother of Arthur J. Balfour (An
occultist who wrote a letter to Lionel de Rothschild in
November 1917 declaring that the British government
stood behind zionist plans to build a Jewish national
home in Palestine) and Gerald W. Balfour. Even today,
the Hatfield House is the Hertfordshire home of the
family, built between 1609 and 1611 by the1st Earl of
Salisbury; a Privy Councillor and Knight of the Garter
who was the Chief Minister to James I.
Lord Cranborne, 7th
Marquess of Salisbury. Born in 1946. Attended Eton
College and Christ Church, Oxford and became a merchant
banker before going to work on the family estates. He
began using Robert as his preferred Christian name from
his 21st birthday. In 1970, aged 23, he married Hannah
Stirling, niece of Lt Col David Stirling. Stirling was
the co-founder of the SAS, founder of GB 75 (seemingly a
short-lived psyop in 1974), worked with MI6 at times,
ran Television International Enterprises which ran a
security service for overseas heads of state, and headed
Operation Lock, an assassination program in Southern
Africa. Cecil was selected, unexpectedly, as
Conservative candidate for South Dorset in 1976, where
his family owned lands, despite the presence of several
former MPs on the shortlist. He spoke at the 1978
Conservative Party conference to oppose sanctions on
Rhodesia. He won the seat in the 1979 general election,
the seventh consecutive generation of his family to sit
in the Commons, and in his first speech urged Ian Smith
to stand aside in favour of Abel Muzorewa. He attracted
a general reputation as a right-winger, especially on
matters affecting the Church of England, but confounded
this reputation when he co-wrote a pamphlet in 1981
which said that the fight against unemployment ought to
be given more priority than the fight against inflation.
He took an interest in Northern Ireland, and when Jim
Prior announced his policy of 'Rolling Devolution',
resigned an unpaid job as assistant to Douglas Hurd.
Lord Cranborne became known as an anti-communist through
activities in support of Afghan refugees in Pakistan in
the early 1980s, and sending food parcels to Poland. He
was involved in efforts to fund the Afghan resistance.
His strong opposition to any involvement by the Republic
of Ireland in Northern Ireland led him to oppose the
Anglo-Irish Agreement and contributed to his decision to
retire from Parliament in 1987. However, he had made a
useful friendship with John Major while in Parliament.
After the 1992 general election, Major utilised a
rarely-used process known as a writ of acceleration, to
call Lord Cranborne up to the House of Lords in one of
his father's junior baronies. Lord Cranborne was
summoned as Baron Cecil of Essendon (his father's most
junior dignity), though continued to be known by his
courtesy style of Viscount Cranborne. He served for two
years as a junior Defence Minister before being
appointed as Leader of the House of Lords. In 1994, he
became a member of the Queen's Privy Council. When Major
resigned to fight for re-election as Conservative Party
Leader in July 1995, Lord Cranborne led his re-election
campaign. He was recognised as one of the few members of
the Cabinet who were personally loyal to Major, but
continued to lead the Conservative Peers after Labour
won the 1997 general election. When the new Prime
Minister Tony Blair proposed the removal of the
hereditary element in the House of Lords, Lord Cranborne
negotiated a pact with the government to retain a small
number (later set at ninety-two) of hereditary peers for
the interim period. For the sake of form this amendment
was formally proposed by Lord Weatherill, Convenor of
the Cross-Bench Peers. However, Lord Cranborne gave his
party's approval without consulting the Leader, William
Hague, who knew nothing and was embarrassed when Blair
told him of it in the House of Commons. Hague then
sacked Lord Cranborne, who accepted his error, saying
that he had "rushed in, like an ill-trained spaniel".
All former Leaders of the House of Lords who were
hereditary peers accepted Life Peerages to keep them in
the House in 1999. Lord Cranborne, who had received the
life Barony of Gascoyne-Cecil, remained active on the
backbenches, until the House adopted new rules for
declaration of financial interests which he believed
were too onerous. Cranborne attended the June 2001
meeting of Le Cercle in Lisbon, Portugal. He took 'Leave
of Absence' on November 1, 2001. He was therefore out of
the House when he succeeded his father as 7th Marquess
on July 11, 2003. His uncle and namesake was chairman of
the Supreme Economic Council of the Versailles Peace
Treaty, member of the Pilgrims Society, first chairman
of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and a
principal draftsmen of the League of Nations Covenant in
1919. The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury was possibly the
most important founder of Quigley's Round Table. An
older generation Robert Cecil, either the 1th Viscount
of Chelwood or the 5th Marquess of Salisbury, is
supposed to have said: "The Blood of Christ was
replaced by the blood of the German war dead. From the
Mayas to the Nazis, the shedding of blood to attract the
attention of indifferent powers was the magic
significance of human sacrifice. He would have
sacrificed the happiness of the whole human race if
ordered to do so by the mysterious Force whose commands
he obeyed." This is very similar to what Lord
Lothian said to the New York Pilgrims on the eve of
WWII: "At bottom we are fighting a defensive war. We
are trying to prevent the hordes of paganism and
barbarism destroying what is left of civilized Europe."
It is also similar to what Fritz Kramer supposedly
said according to his son: "[He] publicly denounced
Hitler's National Socialists as barbarian pagans and
their communist rivals as proletarian thugs. He
sometimes carried his small German imperial flag with
its Christian cross of Malta into their street
demonstrations..." |
| Channon,
Paul |
Born in 1935, Channon
was conservative member of parliament for Southend West
until 1997 at which time, he stood down and was created
a Life Peer. He served in the government as president of
the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and
Industry from January 1986 to June 1987 and as Secretary
of State for Transport from June 1987 to July 1989.
Seems to be a willing servant of the lockerbie coverup
and during his time as trade minister he allowed a
chlorine plant secretly to be sold to Iraq by the
British company Uhde Ltd, in the knowledge that it was
likely to be used to make mustard and nerve gas, which
was used in the war with Iran. He attended the 1990
Pinay meeting in Oman. Additional note: Sir Richard
Loose, Sir Adam Butler and Paul Channon had been at
university together and they were the ministers of state
at the foreign office, the defence ministry and the
department of trade during the same time. |
| Chiaie,
Stefano Delle |
Leading member of P2 and
Italy's Secred Service, SID. Delle Chiaie collected
information on people with anti-fascist and leftist
ideas and sent this data to 'Avanguardia Nazionale', a
secret agency he helped to establish. Delle Chiaie's
name is inextricably linked to General de Lorenzo's
attempted seizure of power in 1964, and to a long string
of right-wing scandals and fascist outrages which
plagued Italy for more than a decade. They include the
abortive coup attempt by the "Black Prince" Valario
Borghese in December 1970, the bombing of the
Rome-Munich express in August 1974 which killed 12 and
injured 48, and the murder of the magistrate
investigating the bombing. Delle Chiaie also is
inextricably linked to the Piazza Fontana bombing in
Milan which killed 16 people, seriously injured 88 more,
and directly led to the death of the anarchist Guiseppe
Pinelli. The fascists elements in Italy were working
together with those in Greece, which let to a fascist
coup there in 1967. Delle Chiaie was eventually indicted
for the 1969 bombing of the Bologna railway station,
which claimed 85 dead and more than 200 injured, but was
released in 1989. This media immediately blamed this
attack on the communists and socialists, although it
turned out that there was no evidence of this.
|
| Chirac,
Jacques |
Roman Catholic. Prime
Minister under Giscard from 1974 on and liaised with
Marenches. Giscard's spymaster on many matters,
including the sale of nuclear technology to Iraq. By
1970, France was one of Iraq's main trading partners.
Diplomatic and economic ties were given a crucial boost
in 1974, when the then French Prime Minister, and
current President, Jacques Chirac, called Saddam Hussein
a personal friend. In December 1974, then Vice President
Saddam Hussein invited then French Prime Minister
Jacques Chirac to Baghdad. Chirac accepted and visited
Iraq in 1975. Chirac is the only Western leader to have
a personal knowledge of the Iraqi president. Saddam
Hussein approved a deal granting French oil companies a
number of privileges plus a 23 percent share of Iraqi
oil. Chirac agreed to sell two reactors to Iraq. The
Iraqis purchased a 70-megawatt reactor, along with six
charges of 26 points of uranium enriched to 93 percent
-- in other words, enough weapons-grade uranium to
produce three to four nuclear devices. Iraq also
purchased a one-megawatt research reactor, and France
agreed to train 600 Iraqi nuclear technicians and
scientists -- the core of Iraq’s nuclear capability in
later years. 'French industry stands to lose',
International Herald Tribune, March 7, 2003:
"The first, Jacques
Chirac, described the second, Saddam Hussein, as a
personal friend, showed him around a French nuclear
reactor and invited him to his home for the weekend. It
was about this time that the prime minister was
nicknamed Jacques Iraq."
Mayor of Paris 1977-1995.
Marenches and Chirac can be linked to each other through
various dealings. Paul Violet, Jean Violet's son, would
become one of Chirac's closest advisors. By at least one
source it is claimed that Chirac closed down the quite
similar Safari Club, probably after its existence became
known when the Shah of Iran fell. |
| Clark,
Alan |
Studied law. He did not
practice however, and instead became a military
historian. Controversial, irreverent, charming and vain,
Alan Clark was one of the most colourful British
politicians during the 1980s and 90s. Clark entered
Parliament as MP for Plymouth Sutton in 1974 and served
in various junior ministerial posts at the departments
of Employment, Trade and Defence during the Thatcher
governments of the 1980s. He attended the 1990 Pinay
meeting in Oman. Clark was involved in the Arms-for-Iraq
scandal, which eventually caused a landslide towards
Tony Blair. At the same time he has cited in a divorce
case in South Africa where it was revealed he had
affairs with both the wife and his daughter. He
temporarily left politics, but he returned to Parliament
as member for Kensington and Chelsea in the election of
1997. He died in 1999 of a brain tumor, a year before
his book 'Diaries' was published, in which he revealed
that the Pinay Circle was funded by the Central
Intelligence Agency. To date he is the only Member of
Parliament to be accused of being drunk at the despatch
box. To journalist Frank Johnson, Alan Clark is supposed
to have said that: "Yes, I told him, I was a Nazi; I
really believed it to be the ideal system, and that it
was a disaster for the Anglo-Saxon races and for the
world that it was extinguished. Oh yes, I told him, I
was completely committed to the whole philosophy. The
blood and violence was an essential ingredient of its
strength, the heroic tradition of cruelty every bit as
powerful and a thousand times more ancient than the
Judaeo-Christian ethic." |
| Colby,
William E. |
William E. Colby, the
son of an army officer, was born in St. Paul, Minnesota,
on 4th January, 1920. He attended Princeton University
and graduated in 1940. In 1941 Colby joined the United
States Army and in 1943 the Office of Strategic Services
(OSS). The OSS trained him for special missions, and he
served behind enemy lines in France and on one
occupation helped to destroy a German communication
centre in Norway. After the war Colby obtained a law
degree from Columbia University in 1947. After working
for a short time in a law firm, Colby joined the CIA. He
served in Stockholm (1951-1953) and then in Rome
(1953-1958), where he helped to arrange the defeat of
the Communist Party in the Italian general election. In
his 1978 autobiography, Honorable Men, Colby explains
that he was sent to Scandinavia by Gerry Miller, chief
of the CIA Western Europe desk, to build the Stay-Behind
(better known as Gladio as this network was called in
Italy) networks in Scandinavia. Some of his own words:
"[After WWII there was]
undertaken a major program of building, throughout those
Western European countries that seemed likely targets
for Soviet attack, what in the parlance of the
intelligence trade were known as 'stay-behind nets',
clandestine infrastructures of leaders and equipment
trained and ready to be called into action as sabotage
and espionage forces when the time came... [This was
carried out] with the utmost secrecy...Therefore I was
instructed to limit access to information about what I
was doing to the smallest possible coterie of the most
reliable people, in Washington, in NATO, and in
Scandinavia."
Colby was CIA station
chief in Saigon from 1959 to 1962 and headed the
agency's Far East division from 1962 to 1967. Then from
1968 to 1971 he directed the Phoenix program during the
Vietnam War. It is estimated that as many 60,000
supporters of the National Liberation Front were killed
during the Phoenix program, although Colby put the
number at 20,587. Colby also maintained that the deaths
arose in combat and were not the result of a criminal
assassination program, as critics of Project Phoenix
labeled it. On 4 September 1973 President Richard Nixon
appointed Colby as director of the CIA. When in 1975
both houses of Congress set up inquiries into the
activities of the intelligence community, Colby handed
over to the Senate committee chaired by Frank Church
details of the CIA's recent operations against the
left-leaning government in Chile. The agency's attempts
to sabotage the Chilean economy had contributed to the
downfall of South America's oldest democracy and to the
installation of a military dictatorship. His testimony
resulted in his predecessor, Richard Helms, being
indicted for perjury. Colby was attacked by right-wing
figures such as Barry Goldwater for supplying this
information to the Frank Church and on 30 January 1976,
President Gerald Ford replaced him with Admiral
Stansfield Turner. In retirement Colby published his
memoirs Honorable Men (mentioned earlier). This resulted
in him being accused of making unauthorized disclosures,
and was forced to pay a $10,000 fine in an out-of-court
settlement. In 1996 (age 76), after reportedly going out
canoeing in the middle of the night, Colby died under
suspicious circumstances near his home in Rock Point,
Maryland. He did not mention any canoeing plans to his
wife, which he usually did, nor was it normal for him to
go boating at night. Colby was found with no lifejacket,
but according to his wife, he always wore one when on
the water. Some people claim that Colby was preparing to
leak sensitive information to them. Steven Greer of the
Disclosure Project and Catherine Griggs of Colonel
George Griggs were among those who claimed that. Colby
had just lent its name to a small magazine called
'Strategic Investment', which did research into the
death of Clinton-friend Vince Foster. The editors of
this magazine think that Colby was murdered for giving
the magazine credence. |
| Crozier,
Brian Rossiter |
London-based historian
and strategist, intelligence chief, psyop and
disinformation specialist, and violently anti-communist.
Worked as a journalist for many different papers since
1936 and according to Der Spiegel, the Langemann papers,
and other sources he was employed by the CIA. In 1954
Crozier joined The Economist, which, according to
Lobster Magazine in 1986, increasingly looked like an
outpost of British intelligence. In 1958, he became
editor of the Economist Foreign Report. Distinguished
Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution (Right wing
institute. Very prominent at the Bohemian Grove).
Crozier worked for the secretive Information Research
Department (IRD, existed from 1948 to 1977), a
disinformation service tied to British Intelligence. In
their book on the IRD, Lashmar and Oliver note that
"the vast IRD enterprise had one sole aim: To spread its
ceaseless propaganda output (i.e. a mixture of outright
lies and distorted facts) among top-ranking journalists
who worked for major agencies, papers and magazines,
including Reuters and the BBC, as well as every other
available channel. It worked abroad to discredit
communist parties in Western Europe which might gain a
share of power by entirely democratic means, and at home
to discredit the British Left". Crozier was the
founder and chairman of the London Institute for the
Study of Conflict up to 1979. The Institute for the
Study of Conflict was set up to study urban terrorism,
guerrilla warfare, and the threat of communism. It
received assignments from the Pinay Circle. In 1976,
Brian Crozier set up a covert advisory committee called
'Shield', in order to secretly brief Margaret Thatcher
(Order of the Garter) and her closest colleagues on
security and intelligence. The papers he wrote became
Thatcher's election campaign, who was elected in 1979,
1983, and 1987 as Prime Minister. Lord Carrington (Order
of the Garter, Privy Council, Pilgrims Society, chairman
Bilderberg) was also privy to the information. The
Shield Committee was composed of Crozier, MI6 agent
Stephen Hastings MP, Conservative backbencher Nicholas
Elliott and Harry Sporborg of Hambros Bank. In February
of 1977, Crozier created 'The 61' and included Nicholas
Elliott, General Vernon Walters (former Deputy Director
of the CIA and later to emerge as President Reagan's
ambassador to the UN) and "a leading figure in a major
City of London bank". They met to create a 'Private
Sector Operational Intelligence' agency whose main aims
would be "to provide reliable intelligence in areas
which governments are barred from investigating, either
through legislation or because political circumstances
make such enquiries difficult or potentially
embarrassing, and to conduct secret counter-subversive
operations in any country in which such actions are
deemed feasible." The initial budget of the group was $5
million a year. In another secret memorandum dated 8th
November 1979 and addressed "Personal for the state
minister only". The National Review writes about
Crozier's book, 'The Rise and Fall of the Soviet
Empire': "What the sweep of Crozier's text brings
out most clearly is how real the Soviet empire was.
Lenin may have conceived it originally in ideological
terms as a secular Catholicism with the Kremlin as its
Vatican. But centralized power very soon became the
primary goal, and his successors, Stalin, Khrushchev,
and Brezhnev, pursued an imperial strategy in the most
brutal and unambiguous way... The Brezhnev Doctrine
claimed the Soviet Union's right to intervene in the
affairs of any Communist country that moved "in the
direction of the restoration of the capitalist system." |
| Duncan,
Alan |
Before beginning his
political career he became a millionaire as a trader of
oil and refined products first with Shell and then with
an independent commodity company, but he remained
involved in politics as an active member of Battersea
Conservative Association. Between the years of 1984 and
1986 he lived in Singapore. Member of Parliament for
Rutland and Melton. since 1992. From 1993 to 1995 he sat
on the Social Security Select Committee, his first
governmental position was as Parliamentary Private
Secretary to the Minister of Health, a position he
obtained in December 1993 and resigned from in January
1994 after it was revealed that he had made a 50,000
pound profit exploiting right-to-buy legislation to buy
his neighbour's council house in Westminster. When co-Le
Cercle member and arms dealer Jonathan Aitken sued the
Guardian two years ago, Alan Duncan defended Aitken by
stating he was a "good and honourable man. I think
he has struck a rich vein and good for him for taking a
stand. There is not enough courage around and he has
shown he's got it" (another Circle member, Michael
Howard, did the same). In July of 1995 he was appointed
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chairman of the
Conservative Party, Dr Brian Mawhinney. In June 1997 he
was entrusted with the positions of Vice Chairman of the
Conservative Party and Parliamentary Political Secretary
to the Party Leader. In June 1999 he was made Shadow
Trade and Industry Spokesman. Attended the June 2001
meeting of Le Cercle in Lisbon, Portugal. In September
2001, he was appointed a Frontbench Spokesman for
Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs. In November 2003, he
became Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional
Affairs. In September 2004, he was appointed Shadow
Secretary of State for International Development. He now
sits on the front bench as Shadow Secretary of State for
Transport, a position he has held since May 2005.
Described as a libertarian, wishing to minimise the role
of the state and abolish laws against drugs. He is on
the council of the Conservative Way Forward group.
Duncan is a passionate fighter against AIDS. In 2004 he
said: "The poor of the world need deeper debt
relief, better aid, and freer and fairer trade."
Duncan is openly gay since July 2002. Together with
Nadhmi Auchi and Prince Andrew he is a member of the
Anglo-Arab Organization. Auchi is the chairman.
|
| Elliot,
Nicholas |
Elliot was an officer in
MI6's 'Section D', which was created when WWII broke
out. It's purpose was to perform more violent operations
than usual, like sabotage and unconventional warfare. In
1962 / 1963, MI5 head Arthur Martin, after having
interviewed the Russian defector Anatoli Golitsin,
arranged for Kim Philby (MI6 officer - head of Soviet
Affairs who turned out to be a communist spy) to be
interviewed in Beirut in 1963 by Nicholas Elliot. Due to
some of the comments made by Philby during the
interview, Elliott got the impression that he had been
tipped off to expect a visit from MI5. In turn, this led
Arthur Martin to believe there still was a high-level
communist spy within MI5. In January 1963, Philby fled
to the USSR, a very short time after his interview with
Elliot. Elliot also sat on the board of directors of
Lonrho during the time that MI5 agent Alan Ball (son of
Pilgrim and Bilderberger George Ball) was chairman.
Edward Du Cann, some time Chairman of the Conservative
Party, Chairman of the Party's 1922 Committee, and,
until 1991, Chairman of Lonrho, published an
autobiography in 1995, Two Lives, which received little
attention. He writes:
"Yet another dissident was Nicholas Elliot, a
director of MI6, the man who botched Commander Crabb's
underwater investigation of the Soviet cruiser
Ordzhonikidze at the time of Kruschev's visit to the UK
in 1956. A former head of station in Beirut, he
travelled there in 1963 to obtain the traitor Kim
Philby's confession. He succeeded in this, but then
allowed his old friend from MI6 to escape to Soviet
Russia. On the face of it these were two of the most
monumental blunders perpetrated by British Intelligence
since the War. Presumably the reality must have been
different from the way in which the public perceived
these events or he would surely have been dismissed in
disgrace. For a while, until the shareholders of Lonrho
dismissed him for his disloyalty to Rowland by an
overwhelming majority, we were both directors of Lonrho.
I never heard him make a single contribution of
substance at any of our Board meetings. I always sat as
far away from him as possible: he suffered badly from
halitosis." Elliott has also been a Council Member
of the Wilkinson / McWhirter / Ivens group, the Research
Foundation for the Study of Terrorism. Elliot worked
closely with co-Le Cercle member Brian Crozier, who
included him in Margaret Thatcher's Shield committee and
in 'The 61'. |
| Feulner,
Edwin J., Jr. |
Dr. Feulner has studied
at the University of Edinburgh, the London School of
Economics, the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, and Regis
University. Feulner is the President of enormously
influential right-wing Heritage Foundation, Washington’s
leading public policy organization or think tank. Unlike
most other think tanks, Heritage not only suggests ideas
but actively pushes them in Congress. If you have any
doubt that the Heritage Foundation is engaged in
systematic lobbying, consider the words of Heritage vice
presidents Stuart Butler and Kim Holmes, published in
the 1995 Annual Report issued in spring 1996:
Butler: Heritage now works very
closely with the congressional leadership.... Heritage
has been involved in crafting almost every piece of
major legislation to move through Congress.
Holmes: Without exaggeration,
I think we've in effect become Congress's unofficial
research arm.... We truly have become an extension of
the congressional staff, but on our own terms and
according to our own agenda.
Butler: That's right. As Kim
knows, things have been happening so fast on Capitol
Hill we've had to sharpen our management skills to take
full advantage of the opportunities. There has also been
an unprecedented demand on us to "crunch the numbers"
for the new congressional leadership.
On January 18, 1989 President Reagan conferred the
Presidential Citizens Medal on Feulner as "a leader of
the conservative movement." Feulner also serves as
Treasurer and Trustee of The Mont Pelerin Society;
Trustee and former Chairman of the Board of The
Intercollegiate Studies Institute; member of the Board
of the National Chamber Foundation; member of the Board
of Visitors of George Mason University; a Trustee of the
Acton Institute, and the International Republican
Institute. He is past president of various organizations
including The Philadelphia Society and the Mont Pelerin
Society, and past Director of Sequoia Bank, Regis
University and the Council for National Policy. Feulner
served on the Congressional Commission on International
Financial Institutions ("Meltzer Commission,"
1999-2000). He was the Vice Chairman of the National
Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform ("Kemp
Commission," 1995-1996), Counselor to Vice Presidential
candidate Jack Kemp (1996), Chairman of the U.S.
Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (1982-91), a
Consultant for Domestic Policy to President Reagan, and
an advisor to several government departments and
agencies. He was a member of the President’s Commission
on White House Fellows (1981-83), of the Secretary of
State’s UNESCO Review Observation Panel (1985-89), and
of the Carlucci Commission on Foreign Aid (1983). In the
summer of 1982, he served as a United States
Representative to the United Nations Second Special
Session on Disarmament (with the rank of Ambassador)
where he delivered the final United States address to
the General Assembly. During the transition from the
Carter Administration to the Reagan Administration,
Feulner served on the Executive Committee of the
Presidential Transition. He remains involved in various
aspects of foreign policy, particularly public
diplomacy, international communications issues and
international economic policy. He has served on the
United States delegations to several meetings of the
IMF/World Bank group. Feulner is a member of the
Bohemian Grove and a former chairman of the Institute
for European Defense and Strategic Studies in London. By
Georges Magazine he was ranked nr 45 in a list of the 50
most influential politicians. Greenspan was one, Cheney
was two. |
| Franks,
Sir Arthur "Dick" Temple |
Director-General of MI6
1979-1982. Franks was reportedly a hardliner at odds
with his boss, Maurice Oldfield (Director-General of MI6
1973-1978) who was, by the standards of the intelligence
world, something of a liberal. During his time as head
of MI6, Alexandre de Marenches, also a member of The
Circle, was head of French foreign intelligence. |
| Fraser,
Charles Alan |
South African General.
Chief of the South African Army and G.O.C. Joint Combat
Forces back in the 1960s and 1970s. Has written a
dissertation on 'counter-insurgency measures' and how to
avoid a communist revolution. The book he wrote around
1968 has set South-Africa's general counter-revolution
policy up until the wall came down. Fraser believed that
this counter-revolution "war" had to be fought by
politicians for at least 80%. People who had a better
lifestyle than the communists could offer, wouldn't be
interested in a revolution. |
|
Goldsmith, Sir James |
His first wife was the
18 year old daughter of 1001 Club member Antenor Patiño
and a Spanish Royal. Patiño didn't want his daughter to
marry with a Jew so the couple ran off. His wife died of
massive cerebral hemorrhage some time later. Goldsmith
was nicknamed the 'Green Billionaire'. Deeply involved
with British intelligence. Financed the founding of the
radical Friends of the Earth movement in 1970. Accused
of smuggling his friend Lord Lucan out of the country
after this person was investigated for the murder on his
children's nanny and the attempted murder on his wife in
1974. From 1980 to 1982 Goldsmith was involved in a
Circle coordinated propaganda effort in order to get the
right-wing Franz Joseph Strauss elected as Chancellor of
Germany. In 1989 Goldsmith joined forces with Lord Jacob
Rothschild and Kerry Packer in an unsuccessful bid for
British American Tobacco. According to EIR, Goldsmith
bought KAS Enterprises in 1990, a private SAS front
company that had been running Operation Lock under the
supervision of David Stirling (his niece married Lord
Cranborne of Le Cercle). Operation Lock was an
assassination program in the whole of Southern Africa
which targetted anti-apartheid leaders. This operation
was closely associated with the WWF's 1001 Club. David
Stirling, Lord Lucan, James Goldsmith, and Tiny Rowland,
were all members of The Clermont gambling club in the
1960's. It has been claimed that during this time these
people were thinking about committing a facist coup
agaist the labour government. Some of Goldsmith's other
friends included Circle members Kermit Roosevelt and
George Soros. In the 1990s he founded the Euro-sceptic
Referendum Party. In 2003, his son Benjamin, married
Kate Rothschild of the Rothschild family. |
| Habsburg,
Otto von |
Otto was born in Lower
Austria in 1912. During WWI his family lost the throne
of the Habsburg kingdom. The Austrian parliament had
officially expelled the Habsburg dynasty and confiscated
all the official property. It has been said by some
researchers that the impoverished Otto von Habsburg was
subsidised to the tune of £50,000 a month by MI6 chief
Stewart Menzies (1939-1953). Otto spent most of the war
years in Washington, D.C. (1940-1944), after escaping
from Austria to Portugal with a visa issued by the
Portuguese consul in Bordeaux Aristides Sousa Mendes. A
fervent patriot, he had opposed the Nazi "Anschluss" of
Austria of 1938 and also fought Hitler's regime from
America. After the war, he lived in exile in France and
Spain. Well after the end of the Second World War, Otto
finally renounced all claims to the Austrian throne
(1961) and was eventually allowed to return to his home
country in 1966. An early advocate of a unified Europe,
he served from 1979 to 1999 as a member of the European
Parliament for the conservative German CSU party. He
married the daughter of Baron Hans Heinrich
Thyssen-Bornemisza (1001 Club). During the Habsburg
dynasty they were extremely close with the Thurn und
Taxis family (1001 Club, Mont Pelerin Society, seems to
have been involved with intelligence). It is said he
helped to erect the Pinay Circle together with Jean
Violet and Antoine Pinay, although the date this
happened is disputed. Other sources say Konrad Adenauer
helped to establish the Circle. Otto von Habsburg has
been a long time president of the anti-communist
European Council of Princes until 1992, when the Stewart
dynasty took over (Prince Michael Stewart - Order of
Malta, Grand Protector of the Order of the Dragon, Grand
Master of the Knights Templar, Archpriest of the Celtic
Church). Count Otto von Habsburg has been named as a
member of the Priory of Sion (One of the more secret
monarchist Templar organizations), a member of the Order
of Malta, a member of the Order of the Dragon, a member
of Opus Dei, and a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.
In any case, he is a very prominent Catholic and a
patron of the Augustan Society. He worked closely with
Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi to establish a United States
of Europe. Habsburg also established the Académie
Européenne de Sciences Politiques located in Brussel, an
ultraconservative Pan-European society. It was managed
by Jean Violet. |
| Howard,
Michael |
He was called to the Bar
(Inner Temple) in 1964 and specialised in employment law
and planning issues. The late 1960s saw his promotion
within the Bow Group where he became Chairman in 1970
shortly after the general election in which he was again
defeated at Edge Hill. Howard entered the Government
early, becoming Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
at the Department of Trade and Industry in 1985 with
responsibility for regulating the financial dealings of
the City of London. This junior post became very
important as he oversaw the Big Bang introduction of new
technology in 1986. After the 1987 election he became
Minister for Local Government where he became involved
in two major political controversies. On behalf of the
Government, he accepted the amendment which became
Section 28, and defended its inclusion. He then guided
through the House of Commons the Local Government
Finance Act 1988 which brought in Mrs Thatcher's new
system of local taxation, officially known as the
Community Charge but almost universally nicknamed the
poll tax. Howard personally supported the tax and was
respected by Mrs Thatcher for minimising the rebellion
against it within the Conservative Party. After a period
as Minister for Water and Planning in 1988/89, in which
time he was responsible for implementing water
privatization in England and Wales, Howard was promoted
to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Employment in
January 1990 when Norman Fowler resigned "to spend more
time with his family". Howard therefore took on
responsibility for legislation abolishing the closed
shop. He campaigned vigorously for Mrs Thatcher in the
leadership contest following her resignation in November
1990. He retained the same cabinet post under John Major
and made many attacks on trade union power as part of
the 1992 general election campaign. His work in the
campaign led to his appointment as Secretary of State
for the Environment in the reshuffle after the election.
He undertook some diplomacy to encourage the United
States to participate in the Earth Summit in Rio de
Janeiro, but was soon after appointed as Secretary of
State for the Home Department in a 1993 reshuffle
initiated by the sacking of Norman Lamont. His tenure as
Home Secretary was especially notable for his tough
approach to crime, which he summed up in the soundbite
"Prison works". When he was Home Secretary he released
high-level drug dealer John Haase from prison just 10
months into an 18-year sentence, along with his
associate Paul Bennett. Haase's criminal career began
with armed robberies in the 1970s. He moved on when he
realised there was much more money to be made in heroin.
He took control of the British end of the southern route
for heroin smugglers, which runs from Afghanistan to
Britain via Turkey and the Balkans. A member of Haase’s
gang, Simon Bakerman, imprisoned for running an
amphetamine factory, is Michael Howard’s cousin. His
reputation was dented in 1996 when a critical inquiry
into a series of prison escapes was published. In
advance of the publication Howard made statements to
assign blame to the prison service. Ann Widdecombe, his
former junior minister in the Home Office, made a
statement to Parliament about the dismissal of then
Director of the Prison Service, Derek Lewis and famously
remarked of Howard that "there is something of the night
about him", a bitter and widely quoted comment that
fatally damaged his 1997 bid for the Conservative Party
leadership. The comment was taken as a "bitchy"
reference to his dour demeanour, which she was implying
was sinister and almost Dracula-like, related to his
Romanian ancestry. Attended the June 2001 meeting of Le
Cercle in Lisbon, Portugal. After the 2001 General
Election Howard was recalled to frontline politics when
the Conservatives' new leader Iain Duncan Smith
appointed him as Shadow Chancellor. After Duncan Smith
was removed from the leadership by the parliamentary
party, Howard was elected unopposed as leader of the
party in 2003. In February 2004, Howard called on Tony
Blair to resign over the Iraq war, because he had failed
to ask "basic questions" regarding WMD claims and misled
Parliament. In July the Tory leader stated that he would
not have voted for the motion that authorised the Iraq
war had he known the quality of intelligence information
on which the WMD claims were based. At the same time, he
said he still believed in the Iraq invasion was right
because "the prize of a stable Iraq was worth striving
for". His criticism of Blair did not earn Howard
sympathies in Washington, where President Bush refused
to meet him; Karl Rove is reported to have told Howard:
"You can forget about meeting the president full
stop. Don't bother coming." Howard is an old friend
and cabinet colleague of Cercle member and Arms dealer
Jonathan Aitken. Governor of the Ditchley Foundation.
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| Huyn,
Count Hans |
Hans Huyn was born in
Warsaw, Poland in 1930. He was a German diplomat and
high-ranking state official and CDU politician. He
supported the South African Apartheid policies in
Namibia, before it's independence in 1990. Member of the
German Bundestag. In the spring of 1978 he wrote an
article in the Journal of International Relations,
titled "Rhodesia and Southern Africa: Decision for
the Future of the Free World". Presented a paper
called "Countering subversion, neutralism and
pacifism" at the second annual world balance of
power conference in July 1982. Huyn headed the german
department of the Catholic aid organization 'Aid to the
Church in Need' (kirche-in-not.org) from 1988 to 2005.
Besides giving human aid, the main purpose of this
organization seems to be to spread Catholicism to all
corners of the world. At the moment Huyn is worrying
about the rise of Putin and the communist influence in
Russia. He seems to have a lot of respect for Henry
Kissinger. |
| Iliescu,
Ion |
Born in Romania. Studied
in Moscow and became a communist politician in Romania.
He served as Minister of the Youth Problems in 1967.
However, in 1971, he was marginalized by Nicolae
Ceausescu and he was sacked from all his political
functions. Iliescu was the main political profiteer (and
leader) of the revolution that overthrew Nicolae
Ceausescu in December 1989, as he assumed leadership.
Said to have been a KGB agent, which Ceausescu of course
didn't know. Iliescu was the President of Romania for
eleven years, from 1990 to 1996, and 2000 to 2004. His
final term ended in December 2004, and his successor is
Democrat leader Traian Basescu. Currently, Ion Iliescu
is a Senator from SDP party. It is unknown when Iliescu
visited Le Cercle, but as far as we know this would not
have been that unusual after the wall came down. |
| Jameson,
Donald F.B. |
Went to a Le Cercle
meeting in 1980 in Zurich, Switserland. Chief of the
Soviet division of the CIA's Operations Directorate in
the 1950s and 1960s. He was an expert on the USSR and
defectors. In the 1970s, he seems to have been involved
in the CIA remote viewing project to spy on the Soviet
Union. At the time, Jameson was a senior senior CIA
Soviet specialist. Chief Executive Publishing in 2002:
"In 1986, deals with the
Soviets were lucrative, wrote Donald F.B. Jameson, a
former member of the CIA and vice president of Research
Associates International, a risk assessment firm in
Arlington, Va. "The Soviets pay above-market prices and
pay promptly. Negotiating can be trying, even for the
big boys," he wrote in Chief Executive in a spring
article titled, 'Trading with the Soviets'..."But if you
have what they want and are persistent, you may well end
up with a good deal, and after having clone one deal,
others usually follow. Trading with the Soviets is a
race that goes to the strong," Jameson said."
Jameson was at a
conference on 15 November 1991 where former KGB CIA
officers spoke together in public for the first time.
Other Cercle attendants were William Colby, Brian
Crozier, and Hans Graf Huyn. |
|
Kissinger, Henry Alfred |
Henry Kissinger was born
in the Bavarian city of Fuerth. He was a son of Louis
and Paula Stern Kissinger. The elder Kissinger was a
school teacher and after Hitler's rise to power, the
family immigrated to London in 1938. After a short stay,
they moved to Washington Heights in New York City.
Recruited by Fritz Kraemer during WWII. Served in the
U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps 1943-1946. Captain
in the Military Intelligence Reserve 1946-1949.
Executive director Harvard International Seminar
1951-1969. Consultant to the Operations Research Office
1950-1961, a John Hopkins University think tank about
psychological warfare and under contract to the
Department of the Army. Director Psychological Strategy
Board 1952. Member of the Department of Government,
Center for International Affairs, Harvard University,
1954-1969. Consultant Operations Coordinating Board
1955. Study director of nuclear weapons and foreign
policy at the Council on Foreign Relations 1955-1956.
Director Special Studies Project for the Rockefeller
Brothers Fund 1956-1958. Author of 'Nuclear Weapons and
Foreign Policy', released in 1957. Consultant Weapons
Systems Evaluation Group of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1959-1960. Consultant National Security Council
1961-1962. Consultant RAND Corporation 1961-1968.
Consultant United States Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency 1961-1968. Consultant to the Department of State
1965-1968. Nixon's National Security Advisor 1969-1973.
Secretary of State 1973-1977. Made two secret trips to
China in 1971 to confer with Premier Zhou Enlai.
Negotiated the SALT I and ABM treaty with the Soviet
Union. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973. Made other
secret trips to China in later years to make extremely
sensitive intelligence exchanges. Robert C. McFarlane
was among those who went to China with Kissinger, in his
case between 1973 and 1976. Negotiated the end of the
Yom Kippur War in 1973. Said to have played a role in
the 1973 Augusto Pinochet coup. Approved President
Suharto's invasion of East-Timor in 1973, which resulted
in a bout 250,000 dead communists and socialists.
Suspected of having been involved in Operation Condor
which started around 1975 and was an assassination and
intelligence gathering operation on 3 continents.
Director Council on Foreign Relations 1977-1981. Annual
visitor of Bilderberg since at least the 1970s. Annual
visitor of the Trilateral Commission since the late
1970s. Visited Le Cercle. Member of the 1001 Club and
the Pilgrims Society. Visitor of Bohemian Grove camp
Mandalay. Founder of Kissinger Associates in 1982, a
secretive consulting firm to international corporations.
Some of the first members to join Kissinger Associates
were Brent Scowcroft (vice-chairman), Lawrence
Eagleburger (president), Lord Carrington, Lord Roll of
Ipsden, Pehr Gyllenhammar, and Viscount Etienne Davignon.
Some served until 1989, others were still active for
Kissinger Associates in the late 1990s. Chairman
National Bipartisan Commission on Central America
1983-1984. Appointed chairman of AIG's advisory council
in 1987. Director of the Atlanta branch of the Italian
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) from 1985 to 1991. This
was during the 1989 BNL Affair in which it became known
that the Atlanta branch had made $4 billion in
unreported loans to Iraq. After the revelation, the
money was said to be used by the Iraqis to buy food and
agriculture equipment, but in reality they were buying
loads of military equipment. Founded the America-China
Society in 1987, mainly with co-Pilgrims Society member
Cyrus Vance. His aide Robert C. McFarlane also played a
role. Member Atlantic Council of the United States.
Member of the Council of Advisors of the United
States-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce. Trustee of the
Center Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the
Arthur F Burns Fellowship, the Institute of
International Education, and the Metropolitan Museum of
Art. Honorary Governor of the Foreign Policy
Association. Patron of the Atlantic Partnership and the
New Atlantic Initiative. Chairman of the Eisenhower
Exchange Fellowships, the Nixon Center, and the American
Academy in Berlin. Co-chairman of the Editorial Board of
'The National Interest' magazine. Chancellor of the
College William and Mary. Honorary chairman World Cup
USA 1994 (Kissinger has attended football matches with
his friend and colleague Etienne Davignon). Named
Honorary Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George,
1995. Director Freeport-McMoRan 1995-2001. Director of
Conrad Black's Hollinger International Inc. Member of
J.P. Morgan's International Advisory Council. Former
member of the Advisory Council of Forstmann Little & Co.
and American Express. Advisor to China National Offshore
Oil Corp (CNOOC). Member of the Europe Strategy Board of
Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst. Director of Gulfstream
Aerospace Corporation and Revlon. Chairman of the
International Advisory Board of the American
International Group (AIG), a partner of Kissinger
Associates. Also chairman of the Advisory Boards of AIG
Asian Infrastructure Funds I & II and a director of AIG
Global. In 2000 Henry Kissinger was quoted by Business
Wire: "Hank Greenberg, Pete Peterson and I have been
close friends and business associates for decades."
Maurice Greenburg is head of AIG and Peter G. Peterson
is head of The Blackstone Group, which is the other
major partner of Kissinger Associates. Peterson is also
a former chairman of Lehman Brothers. Kissinger is a
friend of Lynn Forester and introduced her to Sir Evelyn
de Rothschild at the 1998 Bilderberg conference. They
would soon become married. When Henry Kissinger is
invited to speak at the United Nations Association on
April 11, 2001 Lord Jacob Rothschild is flanking his
side. Picked as the initial head of the 9/11
investigating committee in 2003, although he turned out
to be too controversial to remain in that position.
Henry Kissinger is a trustee of the Open Russia
Foundation since 2001, together with Lord Jacob
Rothschild. The Foundation was set up by Mikhail
Khodorkovsky, a controversial oligarch, later locked up
by Putin. Honorary trustee of the Aspen Institute.
Because of previous international attempts by European
and South American judges to question him, he is known
to take legal advice before traveling to certain
countries in either continent. |
| Lamont,
Lord Norman |
After graduating from
Cambridge University he worked for eleven years for N.M.
Rothschild & Sons in the financial City of London, and
was a director of their fund management company,
Rothschild Asset Management. After returning to the
private sector in 1993 he became a Director of N.M.
Rothschild and Sons Ltd until 1995. In 1982, 10 years
after he made it to parliament, he became a member of
the Queen's Privy Council. In 1996, he was named
chairman of Le Cercle (he still was in 2005). Lord
Norman Lamont has served as a director of Scottish Re
since December 2001. After the resignation of Margaret
Thatcher, Lord Lamont was Campaign Manager to John
Major, MP, during the 1990 Conservative Party Leadership
Election. From 1990 to 1993, Lord Lamont served as
Chancellor of the Exchequer (Treasury Secretary),
chairing the G7 group of Finance Ministers and the
European Union Finance Ministers. Lord Lamont served as
a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1972 to 1993,
served as a Minister in the Departments of Energy, Trade
& Industry, Defense and Treasury from 1979 to 1997, and
became a member of the British House of Lords in 1998.
When Norman Lamont retired from government he received a
seat on the board of the financial arm of General
Mediterranean Holding, which runs Le Cercle member and
Saddam associate Nadhmi Auchi's many businesses. Lord
Lamont currently serves as a director of the Balli Group
plc, a commodities trading company that specialized in
steel, petrochemicals and non-ferrous metals. He also is
an advisor to Rotch Property Group Ltd., one of
Britain's largest private property companies. He also is
a director of Compagnie Internationale de Participations
Bancaires et Financieres, Banca Commerciala Robank,
European Growth and Income Trust, and Jupiter Finance
and Income Trust. He is Chairman of the East European
Food Fund. Currently, Lord Lamont is a Director of
Scottish Annuity & Life Holdings Ltd, a reinsurance
company quoted on the New York Stock Exchange, Balli
Group Plc, the London-based international trading
corporation, and a number of financial corporations. He
has also been an advisor to the Monsanto Corporation and
to the Government of Romania, and is Vice Chairman of
the International Nuclear Safety Commission (Chairman
Mikhail Gorbachev) and Chairman of the Oil Club of
independent oil corporations. In February 2005 it was
reported that John Major and Norman Lamont were holding
up the release of papers on Black Wednesday under the
Freedom of Information Act. Black Wednesday refers to
September 16, 1992 when the government was forced to
withdraw the Pound from the European Exchange Rate
Mechanism (ERM) by currency speculators - most notably
George Soros who earned over USD$1 billion in doing so.
Arrived in Iran in May 2004 as co-chairman of a mission
to strengthen the ties between Iran and the United
Kingdom and to increase UK foreign investment into Iran.
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|
Machtenburg, Hans von |
This name is a
pseudonym. A senior intelligence official of Germany’s
Intelligence service, BND, and a member of Crozier’s
"61". He had been exchanging full reports on Crozier’s
secret get-together’s with Hans Langemann, formerly a
senior ranking officer of Germany’s Intelligence
Service, the BND, and latterly Head of Bavarian State
Security. |
|
Marenches, Alexandre de |
Marenches set up the
Safari Club. He was head of the Service de Documentation
Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE, France's
external intelligence agency) during the right-wing
presidencies of Pompidou and Giscard d'Estaing (from
November 6, 1970 to June 12, 1981). In 1978, Le Monde
claimed that de Marenches led a domestic campaign of
terrorism and disinformation. It is fairly apparent that
these activities were designed to keep the socialist
Francois Mitterand from office during the 1974 elections
(it worked). However, with the exception of the
Langemann papers, and an ISC memo published in Lobster,
there are no other Cercle documents available to confirm
these allegations. He resigned immediately in 1981 when
Mitterrand came to power. In the following year,
Mitterrand nationalized the Rothschild Bank, which was
owned by Guy de Rothschild. In December 1980, Marenches
advised Reagan to establish a core group of no more than
six or seven secret emissaries who would operate outside
all official channels and agencies. These emissaries
would be in touch with a multinational group that was
focused on destabilizing and collapsing the Soviet
empire within 8 years. The plan didn't went through,
because Marenches didn't have fate in one of the persons
Reagan chose to organize the group. Supposedly,
Marenches found more reliable support with the CIA.
However, Reagan seemed to listened to at least one of
the advises Marenches gave him. According to NewsMax
Marenches said: "I would always pepper my speeches
with references to the Soviet Empire, throwing in the
occasional 'evil empire.' It is an empire with both
inner and outer empires, and both are equally
vulnerable." Marenches was a supporter of the Shah
of Iran and even hired David Ogilvy, to run a PR
campaign, as he thought that the image of the Shah was
"terrible". In 1986, he co-authored Dans le secret des
Princes ("In the Princes' secret", literally, published
in English as The Evil Empire: Third World War
Continues) with journalist Christine Ockrent about his
days working in secret services. In 1992, he co-authored
The Fourth World War: Diplomacy and Espionage in the Age
of Terrorism with David Andelman. In this book he
praises George H.W. Bush and denounces left-winger Jimmy
Carter. He warns that Americans have lived a charmed and
sheltered existence and will eventually have to deal
with terrorism at home. A 1992 review of the book reads:
"[He] claims that ``the Fourth World War has already
begun''--a war, waged by ``small, highly deadly units of
terrorists,'' that has ``the very real prospect of
ending civilization, at least Western civilization, as
we know it''- -there's very little information here to
back this claim. Equally odd is his treatment of the
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, for he asserts that the
Russians still harbor dreams of world domination and
that conservative Communists have put aside billions of
dollars to continue their secret war. As a memoir,
however, the book contains a good deal of sage advice
and some significant revelations. Among the latter are
that, after de Marenches learned that the US was about
to devalue the dollar in 1971, the Central Bank of
France accumulated enormous profits by quietly selling
dollars and buying francs; that French Intelligence
carried out more than 40 operations along the lines of
the Entebbe raid during de Marenches's tenure, including
the overthrow of Emperor Bokassa of the Central African
Empire; that during the 1970's, against the count's
advice, terrorists operating out of French territory,
even targeting its European allies, were not disturbed,
provided that no operations took place in France; and
that de Marenches sent secret emissaries to Rome to warn
the Pope of hard intelligence that the Soviet leadership
had decided to kill him, a warning that was dismissed
out of hand. A mixed bag, but rewarding for its
insider's discussion of French intelligence operations
and for its friendly look at the deficiencies of
American intelligence." Marenches was a member of
the Order of Malta. |
| MacLean,
Neil "Billy" L.D. |
Colonel Billy Maclean &
later co-Pinay Circle member Julian Amery were dropped
in North-Albany in April 1944 as part of the British
resistance against the Italian and German fascists. They
worked with the Albanian resistance of Ihsan Toptani.
After their task was accomplished they all became
passionate anti-communists. In 1946, MacLean was
stationed as an intelligence officer somewhere near the
Karakoram mountains. He was an MI6 officer for most, if
not all, of the post-war period. In 1962, Yemen was
taken over by a communist regime and the Egyptian Nasser
was supporting them by bombing Saudi-Arabia (who
supported the deposed Imam). Already retired deputy head
of MI6 George Kennedy Young was approached by Mossad
agents to find the right person to lead a guerrilla war
against the Yemeni rebels, Young introduced Colonel
MacLean to the Israelis. Maclean's guerrilla war would
eventually bring down the Yemeni regime and drive Nasser
back to his own country. |
| Munoz,
Federico Silva |
Former Franco (Knight of
Malta) minister and senior Opus Dei member. Chairman of
the Spanish right-wing Alianza Popular (AP) party in
1978, which evolved in the Popular Party (PP). The AP
was a mix of several extreme right-wing and conservative
groups. It was filled and directed by Franco
sympathisers and supported by Opus Dei.
Additional info:
Under the leadership of José Maria Aznar the
Popular Party won the 1996 elections. In 2004 he was
ousted by the socialist Zapatero. 3 days before the
elections there was a massive bombing on trains, dubbed
the European 9/11. Aznar tried to put the blame on the
ETA, but later admitted he didn't have any evidence for
this conclusion. The supposed Al-Qaeda perpetrators blew
themselves up in their apartment a few days later and we
still don't know who was responsible. |
| Narjes,
Karl-Heinz |
In 1963 he had been
Chief of Staff for the EEC Commission's president, Prof.
Hallstein, before heading the EEC Commission's public
relations division from 1967 to 1969. Minister of
Economy and Transport in Schlewig-Holstein from 1969 to
1972. In 1972 he was elected to the German Bundestag.
Dr. Karl-Heinz Narjes was awarded the
Bundesverdienstkreuz first class in 1977. In 1979 he
attended a Pinay circle meeting. In 1981 he was
nominated European Community Commissioner, responsible
for common market issues, tariff union, industrial
innovation, environment, consumer issues and nuclear
security. From 1984 until 1988 he was responsible for
industrial policy, technology and research. During the
same time, 1984-1988, Narjes was also a vice-president
of the European Commission. Narjes has attended the
Trilateral Commission and has been working on the
internal market liberalization of the European Union. |
| Moss,
Robert |
Moss was a protege of
British disinfo specialist Brian Crozier. Moss was a
journalist who gained fame suggesting that Soviet agents
secretly controlled a network of left and liberal groups
in the US. He has been accused of spreading
disinformation at times. In 1970-1971 he was involved in
setting up of the Le Cercle associated, Institute for
the Study of Conflict. By 1974 Moss had written a couple
of ISC 'conflict studies' - 2 on Chile, 2 on Uruguay and
1 on Northern Ireland. In 1973, he was working with CIA
front Institute for General Studies (IGS) in Chile and
makes the first public call for a military government in
Chile in CIA-funded magazine SEPA (March 1973). In 1975,
he is a founding member of the Washington Institute for
Study of Conflict - ISC's US branch. Founder member and
then director of National Association for Freedom (NAFF)
in 1975. During this time, he worked as a journalist for
The Economist. Wrote the supposedly CIA sponsored paper,
'Chile's Marxist Experiment' in 1975. speechwriter for
Margaret Thatcher in 1976 and was a close associate,
possibly a member, of Crozier's Shield committee.
Visited Argentina, addressed the Air Force on the value
of the Argentine military government as a model for the
rest of the continent. In 1976, he visited Angola with
Evan Davies (MI6, Churchill's bodyguard, Saudi National
Security Advisor). He sat on the editorial board of US
'new right' journal Policy Studies - wrote cover story
for first issue. In 1979, he was a participant at
Jonathan Institute first conference on international
terrorism from whence a good deal of the 'Soviets behind
world terror' line has emerged. Moss has also been
involved with the Royal Institute for International
Affairs and the Heritage Foundation. |
| Nixon,
Richard |
In 1934 he graduated
second in his class [Whittier College], and went to Duke
University law school, where he received a full
scholarship. During World War II, Nixon served in the
United States Navy. He could have been exempt from
military service because of his Quaker religion, but
volunteered anyway. He later said he hated Hitler and
was horrified by the attack on Pearl Harbor. Nixon
served as a Cargo Officer in the South Pacific theater.
He rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and his
superiors praised him as an excellent officer and
leader. Nixon was elected to the United States House of
Representatives from California in 1946. In the House,
Nixon served on a committee that helped to implement the
Marshall Plan which aided war-torn Europe. He also
helped in the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act which set
up controls over labor unions. He proposed a bill to
facilitate servicemen's voting that was passed by both
houses and signed into law. Nixon climbed the political
ladder swiftly, making his name as an anti-Communist and
a rough, no-holds-barred campaigner. In 1948, Nixon won
both the Republican and Democratic nomination for
re-election to the House. Nixon was elected to the
United States Senate in 1950, defeating actress turned
congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, whom Nixon accused
during the campaign of having communist sympathies. In
1952 he was elected Vice President on Dwight D.
Eisenhower's ticket, although he was only 39 years old.
In 1960, he ran for President on his own but lost to
John F. Kennedy, ironically a friend of Nixon's (in
contrast to Eisenhower). In the election of 1968, he
completed a remarkable political comeback by defeating
Hubert H. Humphrey to become the 37th President of the
United States. He promised to end the Vietnam war, but
that took many years. In 1972 Nixon was re-elected in
one of the biggest landslide election victories in U.S.
political history, defeating George McGovern and
garnering over 60% of the popular vote. He carried 49 of
the 50 states, trailing only in Massachusetts. Nixon was
eventually investigated for the instigation and cover-up
of the burglary of the Democratic Party offices at the
Watergate office complex. |
| Pandolfi,
Filippo Maria |
Filippo Pandolfi born in
1927 in Bergamo, Italy, and holds a degree in literature
and philosophy. He speaks Greek, Latin, French, and
English in addition to his native Italian and managed a
publishing house from 1952 until his election to
Parliament. A Christian Democrat member of the Italian
Parliament for more than twenty years, has held several
important ministerial portfolios, including Finance
(1976-1978), Treasury (1978-1980), Industry and Commerce
(1980-1981 and 1982-1983), and Agriculture (1983-1988).
In these ministerial posts he dealt with many central
European Community issues, including the value-added
tax, the European Monetary System, and the Common
Agricultural Policy. He has played a central role in
fostering the competitiveness of European industry, has
expanded the EC investment in R&D in the member
countries, and has established centers of excellence in
many areas of technology. Pandolfi was a member of the
Carnegie Group in 1991-1992. |
| Patrick, William C.
III |
Named by Alex
Constantine. With 48 years of experience in the field of
biological warfare, William Patrick III was one of the
leading scientists in the early U.S. offensive
biological weapons program. Since retiring from
government service in 1986, he has worked as a
consultant to the U.S. government and private
organizations. President and CEO of Advanced Biosystems
Inc. (ABS) and president of Bio Threats Assessment.
Patrick is the inventor (or at least holds five secret
patents) of the process that developed the unique
anthrax spore concentration of one trillion per gram,
the same concentration found in the anthrax mailed in
the U.S. just after 9/11. He is the former chief of
product development of bio-weapons (including anthrax)
at Ft. Detrick, where his friend and protege Steven J.
Hatfill also worked, the scientist who became a prime
suspect in the September-October 2001 anthrax attacks.
In April 1998, William C. Patrick III met with Bill
Clinton, Dr. Thomas Monath (vice-president OraVax
Corporation), Jerry Hauer (Director New York's Emergency
Management), Dr. Joshua Lederberg (president emeritus
Rockefeller University), and John Deutsch (CIA
Director), to negotiate the first of several
multimillion dollar anthrax, smallpox, and West Nile
virus vaccine contracts. In 1999, Patrick was
commissioned by Hatfull to write a study that discussed
the danger of anthrax spores spreading through the air
and the requirements for decontamination after various
kinds of attacks. His study was sent to SAIC. Patrick
described placing 2.5 grams of Bacillus globigii, an
anthrax simulant, in a standard business envelope -
slightly more than the estimated amount of anthrax in
each of the letters that killed five people last fall.
However, the study was flawed in two respects. It did
not contemplate the use of the new one trillion-spore
concentration, the diameter of which is smaller than the
pores in the average envelope. Nor did it take into
account the pressure exerted by mail sorting machines.
According to the Baltimore Sun of June 27, 2002, Hatfill
is a friend and protegé of Patrick. Patrick is also a
close friend and colleague of Ken Alibek. Alibek is the
Americanized name of the former number two man in the
Soviet Union’s bioweapon program. He defected to the
U.S. in 1992. At the request of the CIA, Alibek was
debriefed by Patrick and was subsequently welcomed with
open arms into the U.S. intelligence community. Alibek
is also a former employee of BMI. Patrick is also a
consultant to Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI), a
CIA-connected government contractor. |
| Pinay,
Antoine |
He was mayor of
Saint-Chamond from 1929 to 1977. He served in the French
National Assembly for nearly fifteen years before being
named Premier. Prime Minister of France from 1952-1953.
During his time as prime minister he is trying, with
others, to establish a European NATO Army, under the
European Community of Defense (CED). It fails. Pinay
attends the first Bilderberg meeting in 1954, which he
helped to establish. He later served as Finance Minister
in the cabinet of General Charles De Gaulle. At first,
he supports De Gaulle's right-wing leanings, but when De
Gaulle wants to grant Algeria its independence, Pinay
isn't happy anymore. He resigns in January 1960 and from
that moment on De Gaulle survives several assassination
attempts. Mossad agent, later 1001 Club member, and
PERMINDEX president Mortimer Bloomfield is said to be
involved, probably a person from the same network as
Pinay. By 1969, Pinay, together with Jean Violet and
Archduke Otto von Habsburg formed the Pinay Circle, and
secretly began recruiting men of influence as members.
Pinay defended the Apartheid in Africa and was a member
of Opus Dei (just as the other two). Pinay died in 1994
at the age of 102. |
| Qaboos,
Sheikh |
The current Sultan of
Oman, who attended a 1990 Pinay meeting in Oman. Qaboos
spent his youth in Salalah where he was educated. At the
age of 16, his father sent him to a private educational
establishment in the United Kingdom. In 1960, he entered
the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst as an officer
cadet. Having passed out of Sandhurst he joined a
British infantry battalion on operational duty in
Germany and also held a staff appointment with the
British Army. After his military service, Qaboos studied
local government in England and went on a world tour
before returning home. The next six years were spent in
Salalah studying Islam and the history of Oman and its
people. He rose to power after overthrowing his paranoid
father, Sa’id ibn Taimur, in 1970. As Qaboos is the
Sultan of Oman, he traditionally holds absolute power.
He holds the portfolios of the Prime Minister, Foreign
Minister, Defense Minister and Finance Minister. Despite
his wealth and power, he is generally regarded as a
benevolent ruler who pursues moderate ideological goals.
He is known for his selflessness and generosity, and in
General Tommy Franks's 2004 book American Soldier, he
described the sultan as a true friend to the United
States in the War on Terror, with "no guile, no secret
agenda". The Sultan is also credited with modernizing
his country with modest oil profits. The first immediate
problem that Qaboos faced was an armed Communist
insurgency from South Yemen. The Sultan quickly defeated
the incursion with little external aid. In the last few
years, Oman has taken some steps towards democracy. Free
and fair parliamentary elections (in which women have
voted and stood as candidates) have been held and the
Sultan has pledged greater openness and participation in
government. |
|
Rockefeller, David |
Born in 1915 and
youngest son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Descendant of
the German-Jewish Roggenfelder family which came to the
United States in 1722. Attended school in New York City
and graduated with a bachelor's degree in English
history and literature from Harvard University in 1936.
Followed this with a Ph.D. (1940) in economics from the
University of Chicago, following study at both Harvard
and the London School of Economics. Married Margaret
"Peggy" McGrath in September 1940 and they raised six
children, including son David Rockefeller Jr. Along with
his brothers - John D. II, Nelson, Laurance, and
Winthrop, David Rockefeller established the Rockefeller
Brothers Fund (RBF) in 1940. Became a trustee of The
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in 1940.
Trustee Rockefeller University 1940-1995. Secretary to
New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia 1940-1941.
Assistant regional director of the United States Office
of Defense, Health and Welfare Service 1941-1942.
Enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942. Military Intelligence
officer in North Africa and Southern France 1942-1945.
Assistant Military Attaché in Paris in the last 7 months
of the war . Joined Chase National/Manhattan Bank in
1946 as an assistant manager under Winthrop W. Aldrich
(Rockefeller intermarried) in the Foreign Department.
Assistant manager in the Foreign Department, Chase
National Bank 1947-1948. Played a major role in the
development of the Morningside Heights neighborhood on
the Upper West Side of Manhattan as president
(1947-1957) and then chairman (1957-1965) of Morningside
Heights, Inc. Second vice president Chase National Bank
1948-1949. Director of the Museum of Modern Art
1948-1958. Vice president Chase National Bank 1949-1952.
Vice-president Council on Foreign Relations 1950-1970.
Chairman of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research 1950-1975. Senior vice president of Chase
National Bank with responsibility for supervising the
economic research department and customer relations in
the metropolitan New York area, including all the New
York City branches 1952-1955. Attended the first
Bilderberg meeting in 1954 and was one of its founders.
When Chase National and the Bank of the Manhattan
Company merged in 1955, David Rockefeller was appointed
an executive vice president in charge of the bank
development department. In 1957, he became vice chairman
of the Board of Directors with responsibility for the
administrative and planning functions of the bank as a
whole. Briefly chairman of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
in 1958. Again in 1962-1972, and again in 1987-1993.
Life trustee of the University of Chicago (which his
grandfather helped establish) and an honorary trustee of
International House (New York), established by his
father. In 1958 David Rockefeller helped establish the
Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association (D-LMA), serving as
its chairman 1958-1975. Primary founder of the Dartmouth
Conferences in 1960, which was initiated at Dartmouth
College in an effort to prevent U.S.-Soviet nuclear
conflict. Only influential private citizens with no
government positions were supposed to meet here.
President Chase Manhattan 1961-1969. In 1962, the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey began plans to
build the World Trade Center, which was pushed hard for
by David and Nelson Rockefeller. Founding member of the
Commission on White House Fellows, 1964. David had a two
and a half hour meeting in Moscow with Nikita Khrushchev
in the summer of 1964. He reported to president Johnson
that Khrushchev would like to do more trade with the
United States and David recommended that more credit
should be extended to the Russians. Met Khrushchev's
successor, Leonid Brezhnev, soon afterwards. Also met
Chou En-lai in the 1960s, to discuss economic
cooperation. Others David would meet with are Deng
Xiaoping, Nasser, Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, the Shah
of Iran, etc. David is on very good terms with Nelson
Mandela and they regularly meet each other. It's
interesting to note that Mandela is one of George W.
Bush's fiercest critiques. Instrumental in the formation
of the International Executive Service Corps and
chairman 1964-1968. Founder Americas Society in 1965
(then called Council of the Americas). Helped found the
Rockefeller Family Fund in 1967. Helped form The
Business Committee for the Arts in 1967. Chairman and
CEO of the board of Chase Manhattan 1969-1981. Chairman
Council on Foreign Relations 1970-1985. In May 1973
Chase Manhattan Bank opened it Moscow office at 1 Karl
Marx Square, Moscow. Chairman of the Overseas
Development Council of the US-USSR Trade and Economic
Council, Inc., which was founded in 1973. Founder of the
Trilateral Commission in 1973. Chairman Trilateral
Commission 1977-1991. Founded the New York City
Partnership in 1979 and chairman 1979-1988. Chairman
Chase Manhattan Bank Advisory Committee 1981-1999.
Trustee Carnegie Endowment International Peace since
1981. President of the Harvard College Board of
Overseers; life trustee of the University of Chicago;
one of the most important members of the Bilderberg
committee; visitor of the Bohemian Grove Stowaway camp;
member American-Australian Association; chairman
Americas Society 1981-1992; chairman Rockefeller Group
1981-1995. Helped to establish the David Rockefeller
Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University
in 1994. Chairman of Rockefeller Center Properties
1996-2001; became a director of the Shinsei Bank in
2000; chairman Rockefeller University; chairman of the
Museum of Modern Art; member International Council of
J.P. Morgan Chase; wrote 'Unused Resources and Economic
Waste' (1940), 'Creative Management in Banking' (1964),
and 'Memoirs' (2002); major shareholder of Atlantic
Richfield Petroleum and International Petroleum
Corporation (also a napalm manufacturer). David is the
last of the "Fortunate Five" brothers. Winthrop died in
1972 after having been devastated by a chemotherapy
procedure; John D. III died in a 1978 car crash; Nelson
died in 1979 in bed with his mistress. Laurence, who was
heavily into UFO research, died in 2004 of natural
causes. In cooperation with Steven Greer, Laurence
Rockefeller supposedly also led an effort from 1993-1996
to get the Clinton Administration (Bill supported it) to
declassify all UFO information held by the government.
They decided not to go through with it, because of the
danger associated with it. David and Laurence were
members of the Peace Parks foundation. David has
attended meetings of Le Cercle. |
|
Roosevelt, Kermit, Jr. |
Born in Buenos Aires,
eldest son of Kermit Roosevelt, the son of President
Theodore Roosevelt. CIA agent in charge of Operation
Ajax, which overthrew the democratically elected
government of Iran and Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh
in 1953. Twenty-six years later, Kermit Roosevelt took
the unusual step of witing a book about how he and the
CIA carried out the operation. He called his book
Countercoup to press home the idea that the CIA coup was
staged only to prevent a takeover of power by the
Iranian Communist Party (The Tudeh) closely backed by
the Soviet Union. Roosevelt was thus arguing that
Mossadegh had to be removed to prevent a communist
'takeover,' whereas the Truman administration had felt
that Mossadegh had to be kept in power to prevent one.
"There is some speculation that Kim Roosevelt may have
been part of a British plot to maintain an anglophile
alliance with the United States. Roosevelt was strongly
pro-England and pro oil industry..." (Mossadegh
nationalized the oil companies just before he was
ousted) Kermit was one of the 5 founders of the African
Wildlife Foundation in 1961, together with Russell E.
Train and 1001 Club member Arthur W. Arundel. Kermit was
involved with the US Institute for the Study of
Conflict. Kermit seems to have been a member of the
'Knight's Templar' (together with Allen Dulles), an
elite intelligence group within the CIA. He is said to
have been involved in the creation of the Safari Club
and similar right-wing intelligence institutes
throughout Europe. |
| Rowland,
Tiny |
The tycoon made his
fortune in the mines of Africa before moving to Britain
and buying the Observer newspaper. He became the
chairman of Lonrho (London-Rhodesia) in 1961, became
very popular with the shareholders, but was eventually
ousted in 1994. In 1973 a group of Lonrho directors
tried to oust Mr Rowland, claiming that he had bribed
African leaders and violated international sanctions
imposed on Rhodesia. The then-Prime Minister, Ted Heath,
referred to his company around the same time as the
"unacceptable face of British capitalism" because
of its attempt to avoid tax. The former editor of the
Observer, Donald Trelford, who worked with Mr Rowland
for several years, called him one of the most remarkable
and beguiling people in British life since World War II.
"He had a vision of Africa and its potential resources
that was like Cecil Rhodes," he said. But Mr
Trelford added that after building up a huge
conglomerate, "he virtually destroyed it by his
single-minded obsession about getting Harrods".
Lonrho tried to persuade the government to investigate
the circumstances surrounding the al-Fayeds' acquisition
of the store. He spent much of the rest of his career
pursuing a feud with al-Fayed. Tiny is said to have been
an intelligence asset. From 1974 and on Tiny financed
the war of UNITA (Angola) rebel Jonas Savimbi (said to
be a British intelligence asset himself). He and other
members of Lonrho even visited Savimbi and his
headquarters. The Soviets were supporting their more
communist opponents, the MPLA. UNITA started out as a
Maoist rebel group. During the 1980s, it turns out that
Michael Johns of the Heritage Foundation (Foundation is
represented in the Le Cercle) was also supporting UNITA,
together with the Reagan administration. Also during the
1980s, Tiny was accused of helping the Marxist
government of Mozambique manage its agricultural
resources, and he increased Lonrho's South African
holdings while sanctions against the apartheid
government were still in place. Then in 1992, Rowland
controversially sold a stake in some of Lonrho's hotels
to the Libyan leader, Colonel Gadaffi, only three years
after | |