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Le
Cercle
Incomplete
Membership List
and continually
updated...
October 2009
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InstituteForTheStudyOfGlobalizationAndCovertPolitics
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Adenauer, Konrad |
Sources: 2002, David
Rockefeller, 'Memoirs', pg. 412-413, referring
to the Pesenti Group; April 6, 2003, The
Observer, 'So, Norman, any regrets this time?';
June 18, 2004, Chancellery of HRH Crown Prince
Alexander II of Yugoslavia, 'Reception in honor
of the "Le Cercle" conference; September 5,
2004, Sunday Times, 'Le Cercle of the elite'
Adenauer was a
lawyer and a member of the Catholic Center
party. Became lord mayor of Cologne 1917. Became
a devout follower of the Paneuropa Union, set up
in 1923 by Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, son
of an Austro-Hungarian diplomat. The Paneuropa
was also quickly embraced by the Habsburgs, the
Vatican, and the soon to be founded Opus Dei.
Member of the provincial diet of Rhine province
from 1917 to 1933, when he was dismissed by the
National Socialist (Nazi) regime.
Twice
imprisoned, in 1933 and 1944, by the Nazis.
Co-founder of the Christian Democratic Union
(1945) and its president from 1946 to 1966.
Attended the May 1948 Congress of Europe, which
was convened by the United Europe Movement in
The Hague. It was organized by Jean Monnet with
the help of Joseph Retinger. Its chairman was
Winston Churchill while Alcide de Gasperi, Paul
Henri Spaak, Leon Blum, and Robert Schuman
attended the conference. Chancellor of the
Federal Republic of West Germany 1949-1963.
Served as his own foreign minister 1951-1955.
Took up Hans Globke in his secretariat and made
State secretary and his most important National
Security Advisor from 1953 to 1963. Globke was a
former catholic Nazi collaborator (including
persecution of the Jews), who wasn't allowed to
join the Nazi party, because of his strong
catholic affiliation. That's the only reason
Globke's career (and freedom) survived during
the de-nazification program right after WWII.
Globke, often seen as Adenauer's Eminence Grise,
brought Reinhard Gehlen in contact with
Adenauer. Adenauer had also taken up
Franz-Joseph Bach, a later organiser of Cercle
meetings, to run his secretariat. Adenauer was
hardline in his policies towards the USSR.
Secretly contacted by Monnet and Schuman over
the "Schuman Plan" (Monnet Plan) in 1950 to
establish the European Coal and Steel Community
(ECSC) in 1951. After Adenauer agreed, the plan
went public. Negotiated the 1952 West German
peace treaty with the Western Allies and
obtained recognition of West Germany's full
sovereignty through the Paris Pacts (ECSC) and
through an agreement with the USSR in 1955.
Friend of Charles De Gaulle. Received the
Charlemagne award in 1954. In 1956, Adenauer
chose former Nazi general Reinhard Gehlen as the
initial chief of the BND, West Germany's
post-war intelligence agency that succeeded the
Gehlen Organization. Earlier, Adenauer had
allowed Gehlen to run his Gehlen Organization,
undoubtedly at the recommendation of the CIA.
The political architect of the astounding West
German recovery (quite possibly through the
Bormann flight capital), 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. One of the
signers of the Treaty of Rome in 1957, which
founded the European Economic Community. 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. Resigned from public office in
1963. Adenauer received the Magistral Grand
Cross personally from SMOM (The Sovereign
Military Order of Malta) Grand Master Prince
Chigi. |
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Aitken, Jonathan |
Sources:
1993, Alan Clark,
'Diaries', p. 369-374; July 10, 1997 An
Phoblacht/Republican News, 'Editor's Desk';
February 1, 1998, News Confidential, 'Jonathan
Aitken MI6, CIA?'; 18 June 2000, Sunday
Telegraph / Lobster Magazine, Issue 40, winter
2000-2001
Great nephew
of Hitler-intimate Lord Beaverbrook, whose son
ended up in the 1001 Club. Attended the 1990
Pinay meeting in Oman and the June 2000 meeting
in Lisbon. 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. Then became a Conservative Member
of Parliament in 1974. Admirer of Richard Nixon,
who attended meetings of the Cercle after having
left the White House. In the 1980s Aitken was a
director of BMARC, a company that 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 Switzerland and Panama, submarines,
howitzers, medium-range laser guided bombs,
Black Hawks, and EH101 helicopters were sold and
shipped. In 1997 he was asked to resign as
chairman of Le Cercle, but within a few years a
report surfaced he had been taken up again in
this group. Chaired many Parliamentary
committees and business groups including The
British Saudi Arabian Parliamentary Group. One
of the few people who had to resign from the
Privy Council. Often the media has been confused
about Aitken being an Anglican or a Roman
Catholic. June 12, 1999, The Tablet, 'Jonathan
Aitken says Sorry':
"This week the fall of
Jonathan Aitken, once a star in British
politics, was complete when he was sentenced to
18 months in prison. Earlier he had given an
assistant editor of The Tablet access to a
revealing text in which he bares his soul. "I am
a man of unclean lips." The speaker is Jonathan
Aitken, and he is referring quite explicitly to
his perjury, for which he was sentenced on
Tuesday to eighteen months in prison. He is, of
course, quoting Isaiah 6:5, but he hastens to
add, "I'm not for one second comparing myself to
Isaiah"... The trouble with Jonathan Aitken is
that the public will never take him seriously
again. He held a press conference to launch his
libel action against the Guardian and Granada
television with these words, "I will cut out the
cancer of bent and twisted journalism with the
simple sword of truth", only to be impaled upon
his own sword. The Guardian were able to uncover
evidence to prove that he had lied over the
question of who had paid his hotel bill in
Paris. It might seem a small matter, but on it
hung allegations of taking secret commission for
multi-million-pound arms dealings, over which
Aitken had lied not only to the press but also
apparently to his own Government. The deceit
even involved the corruption of Aitken's own
daughter, 13 at the time of the hotel incident,
whom he had persuaded to sign a false statement
saying she was in Paris. Corruption of the
young, and self-enrichment from arms dealings,
are commonly put high on the list of mortal
sins. How do you emerge from a reputation as a
mega-liar?... he has been a church-goer for
years. It is a surprise, however, to hear that
he has done the Alpha course, not once but three
times, graduating from a humble student to a
helper who pours coffee. Even more astonishing,
he has done Ignatian retreats. His first
experience was in the Westminster retreats in
daily life, for MPs and others working at
Westminster, and in due course he went away to
the Coach House in Inverness to make an
individually directed eight-day retreat with the
Jesuit Gerry W. Hughes."
Ignatian retreats
refers to the spiritual exercises of St.
Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society
of Jesus. Gerry Hughes is a well known religious
author; his name appears in prayer located on
the website of the Jesuit Centre of Ignatian
Spirituality, Malta. This same news report also
claimed:
"... stripped as a bankrupt of his
Rolex watch, still able to draw from an
unspecified source living expenses of 11,400
[pounds] a month" Aitken, like his follow-up
chair at Le Cercle, Lord Lamont, is a serious
eurosceptic.
September 2, 2005, ePolitix,
'Jonathan Aitken - former Conservative
minister':
"The times
have also changed in that there is no
constitution referendum coming, the debate now
is not should we go forward with more European
integration, it is now should we come out of
Europe... People have realised that the dream of
a federal Europe with Britain at the centre of
it has been a dream that has failed. I and a few
others could see that it would fail and it has.
The Conservative Party, a party that said under
Heath "we are the party of Europe" is now the
party of changing our relationship with Europe
which is a very healthy thing. So I think that
the views of the early eurosceptics has been
vindicated."
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Albertini, Georges
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Sources: 1993, Brian
Crozier, 'Free Agent', p. 217-218
Born in 1911. Went
to school with Georges Pompidou, a later
president of the France. Teacher in History and
Geography. Militant and leader of the Section
Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (SFIO)
from 1933 to 1939, an important
communist/socialist party, and part of Leon
Blum's Popular Front. Just before the war, he
became a fascist. Joined the Rassemblement
National Populaire (RNP), the Vichy
Laval-supporting group of Marcel Deat, which was
founded early in 1941. Deat was another SFIO-socialist-turned-Fascist.
Both Deat and his assistant, Georges Albertini,
ended up working for Pierre Laval, Marshal
Petain's premier, supposedly a top player in the
secret and subversive Synarchist Movement of
Empire, and one of the biggest nazi
collaborators of the Vichy regime. Albertini,
within a few years second-in-command of the RNP,
worked closely with Jean Bichelonne, Vichy's
Secretary of Industrial Production 1942-1944 and
allegedly another major player in the Synarchist
Movement of Empire. Patron of Cercle Européen,
together with Deat. Jailed in Fresnes in
September 1944. Supposedly first met with
Hippolyte Worms in jail in September 1944, who,
according to EIR quoting French intelligence
documents from the 1930s, was identified as one
of the original 12 members of the Synarchist
Movement of Empire (SME). Albertini was
sentenced to 5 years of forced labor and an
additional 5 years of regular jail, but was
released prematurely. According to former Cercle
president Brian Crozier, who described Albertini
as a friend: "From my SDECE friend, Antoine
Bonnemaison, I learned that he [Albertini] was
initially condemned to death but reprieved."
Released after a few years and went to
support De Gaulle, free enterprise and the
market economy. Political advisor to Hippolyte's
Banque Worms since 1951, and received regular
payment since 1962. Crozier, 'Free Agent', p.
103: "For many years he held two jobs: In
the mornings he was political advisor to the
merchant bank and business consortium, Worms. In
the afternoons, he crossed the Boulevard
Haussman to run his fortnightly Est & Quest, the
most authoritative publication in the French
language on the problems of Communism." In
1956, some time before it actually happened,
Albertini accurately predicted the seizure of
the Suez Canal by Colonel Nasser (who was
advised, in part, by escaped Nazis). Thereby he
saved millions for the investors in Compagnie
Universelle du Canal de Suez, securing his job
at Banque Worms practically for life. One of
Albertini's post-war associates was the
anti-communist marxist Boris Souvarine, who was
employed by Banque Worms since the 1930s while
editing La Critique Sociale. Souvarine also
worked for Les Nouveaux Cahiers, a bimonthly
magazine founded in March 1937, which is said to
have been a Synarchie front to weaken the
fascist resistance of the anti-communist left.
Frequently went to South-America. Met with
Filippo Anfuso in Paris in January 1957, who was
a former member of Mussolini's Grand Council of
Fascism and a leading neo-fascist. Crozier,
'Free Agent', p. 103 & 214:
"He [Albertini]
had built up a huge network of informants and
helpers and was increasingly consulted by those
in high offices of state to which he had ceased
to aspire. Moreover, he and Georges Pompidou had
been at school together, and during the Pompidou
presidency [1969-1974] and beyond he was a true
éminence grise for the Elysée [French
presidential office]... Under President
Pompidou, both Albertini's network and Jean
Violet's Cercle had continued the modest
London-Paris axis."
Albertini ran some kind
of private anti-communist outfit in France, with
which the British IRD severed its relations in
the late-1960s after a change in leadership. The
new leadership, as opposed to Crozier, still
regarded Albertini as a Fascist. In partnership
with Albertini, Brian Crozier's Institute for
the Study of Conflict (ISC) published 'Le Monde
des Conflicts' in the 1970s, the French version
of the ISC's 'Conflict Studies'. Crozier, 'Free
Agent', p. 217-218:
"AT THE CERCLE meeting
in Washington in December 1980, Georges
Albertini had brought along a quiet Frenchman
named Francois de Grossouvre. This was an
impressive example of his foresight. De
Grossouvre, a physician, was the closest friend
and confidant of the Socialist leader and
presidential candidate Francois Mitterrand. For
many years, Grossouvre had carried out special
missions for Mitterrand. By nature and training,
he was self-effacing. He played no part in our
debates, but listened carefully, taking notes.
Five months later, Francois Mitterrand narrowly
defeated Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in France's
presidential elections. One of his first actions
was to appoint de Grossouvre as his coordinator
of security and intelligence. Shortly after,
having obtained his direct line from Albertini,
I went to see him in his modest office in the
Elysée Palace."
De Grossouvre is said to
have been the head of the French Stay Behind
network. According to Brian Crozier, when his 61
intelligence network was alarmed in March 1981
by a possible invasion of Poland by the Soviet
Union, Albertini was the one who informed the
Vatican about the situation. At the time the
Reagan administration was working with the
Vatican to undermine Soviet authority in Poland.
Died in 1983. |
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Al-Faisal, Prince
Turki |
Sources: 1997,
Robert Hutchinson, 'Their Kingdom Come – Inside
the Secret World of Opus Dei', p. 153-158; June
21, 2005, Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia - London
/ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 'Ambassador talks
to major foreign policy-security group'
Also spelled as
Turki bin Faisal. Born in 1945. Son of King
Faisal, who was assassinated in 1975, and
grandson of King Ibn Saud. His father King
Faisal was a major force behind the Arab oil
embargo against the United States in 1973. He is
a nephew of the late King Fahd al-Saud, head of
the House of Saud until his death in 2005.
Faisal studied at Princeton, Cambridge, and
Georgetown (Jesuit) Universities. Chairman King
Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies.
Co-Founder King Faisal Foundation. Supposedly
promotes a peaceful version of Islam. Big fan of
expensive cars. He is a visitor of DAVOS and
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 was
a partner of Cercle member William Casey in
supporting the Afghan resistance against the
Soviet invasion. September 1, 1991, Washington
Post, 'Pakistan's illicit economies affect BCCI
bank...':
"According to diplomatic sources,
Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Turki bin
Faisal - working with Pakistan's main
intelligence agency - distributed over $1
billion in cash to Afghan guerrillas during the
late 1980s... The financial transactions were
handled principally between Saudi intelligence
and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence
agency (ISI), the main liaison between the
United States, Saudi Arabia and the Afghan
guerrillas, the sources said... As for drug
trafficking, the sources acknowledged that
Pakistan's ISI routinely condoned heroin
manufacture and sales by some Afghan guerrilla
groups. But they said there were also occasions
when ISI cooperated with U.S. government efforts
to eradicate poppy fields in Afghanistan."
Some of the major Mujahedeen warlords were Abdul
Rasul Sayyaf (abbu Sayyaf), Burhanuddin Rabbani,
and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. One of the spiritual
founders of militant Islam was Abdullah Yusuf
Azzam, a Muslim Brotherhood member who believed
in a "clash of civilizations", not unlike Samuel
Huntington. Bin Laden was an associate of all
these people. After Prince Turki resigned from
his position as head of Saudi intelligence, ten
days before 9/11, he became the Saudi Ambassador
to Great Britain. December 5, 2002, Daily
Telegraph, 'Saudi snare':
"On closer
examination, though, Prince Turki's appointment
raises grave doubts. Some believe that he has
been sent here in order to confer diplomatic
immunity on him from law suits in America
brought by the families of September 11
victims... Should the Saudi royal family be
planning an exit strategy in the event of a
popular uprising, then Prince Turki would
certainly be the man to conduct it. He has
scores of chits to call in with his long-time
friends in the British establishment. Thus, in
the current political climate, the SAS might be
likelier to assist in a rescue mission for the
House of Saud than America's Delta Force. On the
same basis, London is a safer haven for their
funds these days than New York: fewer questions
asked."
Because of the role of Saudi Arabia
in 9/11, his old ties to Bin Laden and Wahabism
have been re-examined. Turki Al-Faisal was named
in a lawsuit from relatives of several hundred
September 11 victims. In this lawsuit it is
alleged that Prince Turki struck a deal in 1998
with the Taliban in Afghanistan whereby Saudi
Arabia would stop trying to extradite bin Laden
in exchange for a promise that he would not
attack the kingdom (anymore). Members of the
Saudi royal family, including Prince Turki,
Prince Mohammed al-Faisal, and Prince Sultan, as
well as Khalid bin Mahfouz are are also accused
of having supplied the Bin Laden terror network
with trucks and money, whether the kingdom was
blackmailed or not. Had several meetings with
bin Laden (and other Afghan anti-Soviet
warlords/opium dealers), although he rejects any
suggestion that he had dealings with the al-Qa'eda
leader since the latter founded the terror group
in the early 1990s. Faisal is named in a huge
911 law suit that has been launched by the
victim's families against a number of Saudi
princes, banks, and charities that are alleged
to have funded the terrorists responsible for
the attack. Faisal, together with the ISI and
the CIA, played a major role in bringing the
Taliban to power. In public, Faisal defends
western intelligence agencies by never
mentioning the role of the CIA or MI6 in
financing the Bin Laden network. He did,
however, talk about it at a meeting of the CFR.
Wolf Blitzer of CNN interviews 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 kind of projects, Blitzer didn't ask)
November 05, 2001, The
New Yorker, 'The House of Bin Laden':
"Both Al-Fagih
[Saad
Al-Fagih, a London-based surgeon and Saudi
dissident, who heads a group called Movement for
Islamic Reform in Arabia] and Abdel Bari
Atwan [editor of Al-Quds
al-Arabi, an Arabic daily newspaper in Britain,
interviewed Osama bin Laden in November, 1996,
and is well acquainted with people close to bin
Laden] 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
protege, 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."
November 1, 2001, The Guardian,
'CIA agent alleged to have met Bin Laden in
July':
"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..."
Dr. Muhammad al-Massari,
head of the head of the London-based Saudi
opposition group (which is just a more focused
Pan-Arabic hideous pro terror group than Bin
Laden's Al-Qaeda), Committee for the Defence of
Legitimate Rights (CDLR), in a November 2003,
published by the neocon Jamestown Foundation:
"Never forget that the al-Sauds were once a
small and irrelevant tribe. By aligning
themselves with the Wahabi movement they
evolved, over two and a half centuries, into the
powerful establishment we see today. The
legitimacy of the regime has always rested on
its claim to be Islamic. That has been
undermined, so everything else is coming under
question... The [Saudi] regime invited the U.S.
and it has to pay the price... There are two
types of people in the regime who support bin
Laden: 1) Some are sincerely fed up with the
corruption and lack of respect for Islam. 2) The
others hope to use the Jihadis for their "power
game" inside the royal family. Turki Al-Faisal,
the ex-intelligence chief and current Saudi
ambassador in London, is one of the prime
suspects... Al Qaeda has now become a jackass
suitable for carrying any load... The
connections are ideological and mostly informal.
It is very difficult to forge operational
connections. The real point is that Western
intelligence can not penetrate these groups. We
are talking about two divorced worlds with
diametrically opposed cultures. Western
intelligence is used to using bars, prostitutes
and dancing clubs to entrap people, and of
course the Jihadists have nothing to do with
these things. Even Saudi intelligence, many of
whose officers are devout classic Wahabists, has
a hard time penetrating these groups. I knew
someone in Kabul, and he told me that almost
every one in Kabul knew, just before 9/11, that
something big was going to happen in America.
But of course Western intelligence had no clue."
Since the London bombings al-Massari finally had
some problems for being pro-terror, but London
remains a relative safe haven for terrorists;
many tend to be MI5 and MI6 informants.
Al-Faisal was present with his wife at the
wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla
Parker-Bowles on April 9, 2005. Partial guest
list published in the Sunday Times of April 10,
2005:
"The King of Bahrain; The King and
Queen of the Hellenes; Prince and Princess
Constantijn of the Netherlands; The Crown Prince
and Princess of Norway; Prince Radu of
Hohenzollern and Princess Margarita of Romania;
Prince Turki al-Faisal and Princess Nouf bint
Fahd of Saudi Arabia; Prince Bandar bin Sultan
of Saudi Arabia; Crown Prince and Princess
Alexander of Yugoslavia [Le Cercle]."
Zac
Goldsmith, son of the late billionaire Sir James
Goldsmith [Cercle associate], and Lord Rees-Mogg
were among the staff at the wedding. In July
2005 Turki al-Faisal became Saudi Ambassador to
the United States as a follow-up to Prince
Bandar bin Sultan, who resigned after 20 years
in that post. August 8, 2005, The Independent,
'Attacks in London: Home Office denies Saudi
warning of imminent attack':
"Prince Turki
al-Faisal, the Saudi ambassador to the UK, said
yesterday that details of a possible plot to
attack London " obtained from terror suspects
under interrogation " had been given to British
intelligence four months ago. Insiders denied
receiving detailed intelligence, with one
saying: 'It has been suggested a number of times
that somehow or other the Metropolitan Police
was aware the attacks were going to happen but
did nothing. You only have to use common sense.
Do you really believe that if the Metropolitan
Police had such detailed intelligence they would
do nothing about it or tell the public? 'There
was certainly a close liaison between the Saudi
Arabian intelligence authorities and the British
intelligence authorities some months ago when
information was passed to Britain about a
heightened terrorist threat to London.'"
Both Prince Bandar and Turki Al-Faisal are close
to the Bush family. In the 1990s Faisal worked
closely with western intelligence trying to
estimate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and
his weapons of mass destruction. Supported the
Iraq invasion and in 2005 he still thought the
Iraqis were now "masters of their fate". At
least a member of Le Cercle since 1997, but his
membership probably goes back further. 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. June 27,
2004, The Telegraph, ' Saudi envoy's Zionist
claims 'are offensive'':
"The Saudi
ambassador to London has reinforced
controversial claims by the kingdom's royal
family of a link between "Zionists" and recent
al-Qaeda terror attacks in the country. In a
television interview, to be broadcast today,
Prince Turki al-Faisal is asked about comments
made by Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia's de
facto leader, that "Zionist hands" have been
behind the attacks... Prince Abdullah made his
original remarks when he addressed a conference
of leading Saudi officials and academics last
month after an attack on contractors at the
Yanbu oil facility that left six Westerners -
including two Britons - dead. "Zionism is behind
it," he said. "It has become clear now. It has
become clear to us. It is not 100 per cent, but
95 per cent that Zionist hands are behind what
happened." In his interview today, Prince Turki
contends that Saudi Arabia has been subjected to
concerted attacks by "so-called 'experts' with
Zionist connections" for 50 years, and
particularly since the terror atrocities of
September 11, 2001... He insists that the regime
is doing everything it can to root out
terrorists and rejects claims that the Saudi
royal family's days are numbered."
Earlier,
on April 27, 2004, Prince Turki said to the CFR:
"To respond to the two first allegations,
one must look into the phenomenon of al Qaeda
and its figurehead, [Osama] bin Laden. Though a
Saudi by birth, he developed his ideology and
methodology in Afghanistan, under the tutelage
of a radicalized cult of the Muslim Brotherhood,
an organization I assume every one here knows."
In 2005 and 2006, Al-Faisal warned that oil
prices could rise to $200 if the United States
would decide to attack Iran. |
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Amery, Lord Julian |
Sources: November
1988 – Issue 17, Lobster Magazine, 'Brian
Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith'
(quoting from the Langemann papers);
1993, Alan Clark,
'Diaries', p. 369-374; 1993, Brian Crozier,
'Free Agent', page 193; June 29, 1997,
The Independence, 'Aitken dropped by the Right's
secret club; Is it the ultimate dishonour'
(claims Amery was chair before Aitken); February
1, 1998, News Confidential, 'Jonathan Aitken
MI6, CIA?'
Son of Leopold Amery
(1873-1955), who concealed his whole life the
fact that he was a Jew. However, Leopold was
extremely pro-Zionist and Churchill once said of
him that he regarded the Empire as his own
personal property. 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. Trustee of the Rhodes Trust.
Supporter of Rothschild/Warburg-financed
Paneuropa Union of Count Richard
Coudenhove-Kalergi. The envisioned Paneuropa
Union did not include the British Empire. Cercle
co-founder Otto von Habsburg became Coudenhove's
successor while Leo's son would become head of
the Cercle some day.
His second
son, Julian Amery, the later Cercle chairman,
was born in 1919 and 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. Attache on British
missions to Belgrade, Ankara, Sofia and
Bucharest 1939-1940. Julian was an MI6
operative, although it isn't really known what
he has been doing in this function. During WWII,
he enlisted as a sergeant in the RAF, but was
rapidly transferred to the Army, with the rank
of Captain, and sent to the Middle East. Amery
was a close associate of Lt.-Col. Billy McLean,
a later Cercle member (and devout christian),
since these days. Another rapid transfer sent
him to Yugoslavia, to liaise with the partisans
fighting Germany. In 1944 he was in Albania,
working with the Albanian Resistance.
Churchill’s personal representative to Chiang
Kai-Shek (a notorious Triad leader, Opium
smuggler, and all-round criminal) 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; Jean Monnet had
earlier bridged Kai-Shek's Chinese economy with
the West). In 1950 he became a Conservative
member of parliament. Married Harold Macmillan's
daughter in 1950, although politically he was
often at odds with him. Co-founder of the
CIA-sponsored Congress for Cultural Freedom and
met on 24/25 June 1950 with other founders as
Melvin J. Lasky of Encounter, Arthur Koestler,
Richard Lowenthal and others. Representative to
the Round Table Conference on Malta in 1955.
Representative to the Council of Europe
1950-1956. Parliamentary Under-Secretary for War
under Macmillan 1957-1958. Same function at the
Colonial Office 1958-1960. Member of the
Rhodesia and Nyasaland Club in the 1950s and
1960s. Member of the Other Club since 1960, over
the years together with the Duke of Devonshire
(Cavendish), the 7th Marquess of Salisbury (Le
Cercle), Lord Carrington (Pilgrims Society
president), Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne
(major Pilgrims Society member), Lord
Rothschild, Lord Rees-Mogg, Prince Charles, Paul
Channon (Le Cercle), Tony Blair, Gordon Brown,
Sir Edward Heath, Sir Denis Thatcher, and
Winston S. Churchill. Member of the Privy
Council since 1960. Secretary of State for Air
1960-1962. Minister of Aviation 1962-1964. With
his friends David Stirling and Billy McLean, and
help from the Cercle-affiliated royal houses of
Jordan and Saudi Arabia, he set up a private SAS
war in Yemen in the early 1960s in an effort to
get Nasser out. 1999, Adam Curtis, 'The Mayfair
Set' (broadcasted on BBC2), videoclip of a
Julian AMery speech:
"The prosperity of our
people rests really on the oil in the Persian
Gulf, the rubber and tin of Malaya, and the
gold, copper and precious metals of South- and
Central Africa. As long as we have access to
these; as long as we can realize the investments
we have there; as long as we trade with this
part of the world, we shall be prosperous. If
the communists [or anyone else] were to take
them over, we would lose the lot. Governments
like Colonel Nasser's in Egypt are just as
dangerous."
Stimulated considerable
controversy by his enthusiasm for the
Anglo-French Concorde project in the early
1960s. At this time De Gaulle first rejected
British entry into the European Union January 1,
1992, The Times, 'Secret war waged on
protesters; 1961 Cabinet Papers':
"Harold
Macmillan's government conducted a secret war
against the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
during the autumn of 1961. R.A. Butler, the home
secretary, told the cabinet that evidence should
be obtained against the movement's organizers
showing "a definite intention to commit breaches
of the law". Searches would be made the day
before the protests at the homes of CND members,
he said. "Evidence might become available which
would warrant the immediate arrest of some its
main organizers on charges of conspiracy."
Julian Amery, the secretary of state for air,
said if any of the demonstrators gained access
to an airfield "forceful action including the
use of fire-hoses and police dogs will be
taken.""
Out of Parliament 1966-1969.
Minister of State at Public Buildings and Works
under Heath 1970. Minister of State at at
Housing 1970-1972. Minister of State at the
Foreign Office when Great Britain joined the
European Union under Heath in 1973. Foreign
Office 1972-1974. Since then served in the
backbenches in Parliament until his retirement
in the 1990s. From about 1970 to 1992 Amery 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 1980 anti-Soviet book
'The Next Domino'. President of the Conservative
Monday club was Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, the 5th
Marquess of Salisbury, from 1961 to 1972 (KG;
PC; married into Cavendish family). His son, the
6th Marquess of Salisbury, took over in 1974 and
ran it until 1981. The 7th Marquess of Salisbury
(since 2003) is a member of Le Cercle while the
third son of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, the
supposed co-ordinator of the Round Table, is
known to have been a member of the Pilgrims
Society. The Cecils also are generational
members of the Roxburghe Club, putting them in
touch with the old ruling families of Britain,
including Howard, Cavendish, Rothschild,
Oppenheimer, and Mellon.
February 22, 2002, The
Independent, 'The Airey Neave File':
"Critics of British policy in Ulster maintained
that British intelligence became involved in
treasonable policies. In 1987, the Labour MP Ken
Livingstone used the cover of parliamentary
privilege to suggest in the House of Commons
that Airey Neave was a co-conspirator with MI5
and MI6 in disinformation activities involving
the controversial whistle-blowing spies Colin
Wallace and Peter Wright. He also alleged that,
a week before his murder, Neave sought to
recruit a former MI6 officer to set up a small
group to involve itself in the internal
struggles of the Labour Party... These were not
the wildest allegations. There were improbable
tales about how Neave, and others, had a decade
earlier planned to set up an "army of
resistance" to the Labour government of the
Wilson era to "forestall a Communist take-over"
and talked of assassinating Tony Benn should he
become prime minister. Yet such was the febrile
atmosphere of that Cold War epoch that some
sceptics gave credibility to the possibility.
This was, it must be remembered, the time, about
1970, when Auberon Waugh - fed by various
sources, including his MI6 agent uncle Auberon
Herbert - produced a series of clearly
defamatory articles in Private Eye openly
alleging that the former prime minister Harold
Wilson was a KGB agent. Even as late as 1975,
when Mrs Thatcher became leader of the
Conservative Party, groups of senior Tories were
secretly gathering to hear spy-writers such as
Chapman Pincher [and Brian Crozier, an old
friend with whom he worked] address them on the
"grave dangers facing Britain from the left"...
It was in response to such beliefs, according to
claims by the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight,
that plans for secret armed cells to resist a
more left-wing Labour government were drawn up
by a group that included George Kennedy Young -
the ex-deputy director of the British
intelligence service MI6 and a notorious racist
and anti-Semite - and Airey Neave. The claim
gained unexpected credence when, despite
official MoD denials, two former British Army
generals - Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, the
former Nato commander of Allied Forces Northern
Europe, and General Sir Walter Walker, another
former head of Nato's forces - confirmed that a
secret armed network of selected civilians was
set up in Britain after the war and was secretly
modernised in the Thatcher years and maintained
into the 1980s. Moreover, Searchlight alleged,
Neave and Young were key figures in an
extreme-right group called Tory Action, which
was at the centre of a smear campaign, involving
the secret services, aimed at discrediting the
Labour government in Britain in 1975."
Like
the Cecils, Amery was one of the most prominent
supports of Ian Smith's racist white-minority
government in Rhodesia in the 1970s. Smith's
pro-business Rhodesian government had broken
itself of from the Wilson government in 1965 to
keep the wealthy white minority rule in place.
Corporations like Lonrho supported this decision
until the situation in the mid 1970s became
untenable. Attacked Thatcher in 1979 in a bitter
and powerful speech over her decision to abandon
the Rhodesian Muzorewa-Smith government (Sept 5,
1996, The Independent, Amery's obituary). May
17, 2002 issue, Jeffrey Steinberg for Executive
Intelligence Review, 'Ariel Sharon: Profile of
an Unrepentant War Criminal':
"On Nov. 15,
1982, a final meeting took place on several real
estate purchases, mostly through Arab
middle-men, to push the massive expansion of
Jewish settlements throughout the West Bank at a
handsome profit. Attending the meeting at
Sharon's ranch were: Kissinger [Cercle], Lord
Harlech (Sir David Ormsby-Gore), Johannes von
Thurn und Taxis [1001 Club], Tory
Parliamentarian Julian Amery [Cercle], Sir
Edmund Peck, and MI-6 Mideast mandarin Nicholas
Elliot [Cercle]."
Appointed
president/chairman of Le Cercle at the
suggestion of Brian CRozier in 1985 and remained
in this post until the early 1990s. Known to
have attended the 1990 Cercle meeting in Oman.
Present at a January 22, 1986 dinner hosted by
Margaret and Denis Thatcher in honor of Shimon
Peres. Jacob Rothschild and his wife, Mrs.
Montefiore, Sir Geoffrey Howe, and Leon Brittan
were among the few dozen guests. Chairman of the
London branch of the Global Economic Action
Institute, which which was funded by Sun Myung
Moon's Unification Church. July 6, 1986, Sunday
Times, 'Top Thatcher aides linked to Moonie
cult':
"Two of Mrs Thatcher's top advisers,
the head of the No 10 policy unit, Brian
Griffiths, and her former economics guru,
Professor Sir Alan Walters, have unwittingly
joined an organization funded by the Moonie cult
along with a senior backbench Conservative MP.
Both Griffths and Walters are listed as standing
committee members of a free-market organization
called the Global Economic Action Institute,
which holds economic and political conferences
around the world. Following accusations by a
cult monitoring group in the United States, the
institute admitted last week that it was funded
by the Moonie organization. Also on the standing
committee of the institute is the president of
the Moonie church, Dr Mose Durst, who is listed
as a senior director of the institute. The
London arm of the institute is chaired by Julian
Amery, the Conservative MP for Brighton
Pavilion. The headquarters of the organization
are on Fifth Avenue in New York... In 1981 a
British jury accepted that the controversial
Moonie organization - officially called the
Unification Church - split families and used
brainwashing to recruit and keep its
predominantly young membership... Walters said
that although he was told 'some time ago' by the
institute's chairman, Robert Anderson, that the
church was one of the funders of the institute,
he felt that the actions of the institute should
be judged on their own merit and he would not be
resigning. Walters last week called for a more
tolerant attitude towards the religion although
he said that he was not a member." May 19,
1989, The Times, 'Social charter 'treat to
employment': "Mr Julian Amery (Brighton
Pavilion, C) said that Britain should agree to
join the European Monetary System, not just when
the time was right, but when British inflation
was lower and there had been time to study the
consequences of other EC countries abandoning
their exchange controls."
This would have
put him at odds with Margaret Thatcher and later
Cercle chairman Lord Norman Lamont. Consultant
to the extremely corrupt Bank of Credit and
Commerce International (BCCI) in the 1980s.
August 7, 1991, Washington Post, 'BCCI Adept at
Courting the Powerful and Rich':
"In
Britain, two senior Conservative members of
Parliament and one former member listed
themselves as consultants to BCCI - part of
what has been described as a global network of
highly placed advisers. They are Sir Julian Ridsdale, a former defense minister; Julian
Amery; and former Parliament member Sir Frederic
Bennett, an honorary director of BCCI in Hong
Kong until 1986 who received $10,000 a year from
BCCI, according to the Sunday Observer. Amery
declined to tell the Observer how much he
received and could not be reached for comment
here, but he has said he advised the bank on
international affairs."
Sir Frederic
Mackarness Bennett (owned a
Rolls-Royce and four homes, one of them in the
Cayman Islands; director Kleinwort Benson Europe
(his mother was a Kleinwort); long time Lloyds
underwriter; influential member of Parliament
from the 1950s to the 1980s; member Monday Club;
always warning people about the KGB threat and
supported every regime that opposed the USSR;
chair FARI in 1978; vice-president of the
European-Atlantic Group; leading official in the
private group Council of Europe in the late
1970s and 1980s; honorary director of the BCCI
in Hong Kong until 1986; Member of the Privy
Council since 1985; ridiculed his party's
(Conservatives) for their Euroscepticism after
his retirement in 1987; supported Pinochet;
Freeman of the City of London; has been to
Bilderberg) was a member of relatively
high society. In October 1998 Bennett wrote in
The Times:
"Sir, Of course it is true that
Britain owes General Pinochet (reports, October
19, 20; letters October 20) and his then
Government a deep debt of gratitude for the
attitudes and actions by Chile from the onset of
the Falklands war and throughout the conflict.
It is undeniable that they shortened the war,
and saved many British servicemen's lives."
Lord Norman Lamont of Le Cercle also defended
Pinochet; Cercle member Kissinger helped him to
power. Became a Baron in 1992. Mentor to
Jonathan Aitken, a later chairman of Le Cercle
and another member of the Privy Council.
Consistently voted against the return of the
death penalty. Announced he would leave the
House of Commons in January 1991 to spent more
time with his wife, who was ill. Lady Catherine
Amery, Julian's wife, died in July 1991. At the
memorial services were present: the Duke of
Devonshire (Cavendish; Roxburghe Club), the
Marquess of Salisbury (Cecil; Roxburghe Club),
Viscount and Viscountess Cranborne (Cecil;
Cercle; Roxburghe Club), Lord Charles Cecil,
Philippa Viscountess Astor, Paul Channon (Cercle),
Sir Erik Bennett (Cercle), Dr Omar Al-Zawawi
(personal advisor to the Sultan of Oman of the
Cercle), Jonathan Aitken (Cercle), Nicholas
Elliott (Cercle), and Winston S. Churchill (MP).
The Times described him after has retirement
announcement:
"Julian Amery has trod the
boards for 40 years. Like many of his
generation, he had a good war, and has been
defending the British empire ever since. To
listen to him orate is to return to the pre-war
House of Commons; plummy and proud, he could
have stepped neatly out of the pages of Chips
Channon's diaries. More recently, hidden behind
a camel-driver's beard, he has said ``a few
words'' over the grave of his chief enemy,
Russian communism."
Died in December 1996.
Robert Cecil, a good friend of his, wrote an
obituary:
"The evening
before his memorial service, Julian Amery's
children held a party in his house in Eaton
Square... As we drank, the sense of Julian
Amery's spirit in the room was overwhelming. It
seeped from the faded green paint on the walls;
from the well-used but elegant furniture; from
the photographs of foreign monarchs and
statesmen on the tables; from the presents they
had given lying about the room, golden swords
and daggers, oriental carpets, arcana from all
over the world. Above all, it seeped from us:
British Cabinet ministers and politicians,
spies, adventurers, servants of Empire,
post-imperial servants of the Crown in foreign
lands, Omanis, Afghans, Romanians, Albanians,
Persians, Jordanians, Americans. Some, including
the British, were political exiles. Some were
high in their countries' governments... He was a
British politician who never became a member of
the Cabinet, an Air Minister who later became
Minister of Housing and Minister of State at the
Foreign Office. He was caricatured by the press
as a white supremacist, a right-winger, an
anachronism. And for them it must have been
true. He had a plummy voice to prove it. In
fact, Amery was a politician with a certain idea
of this country. He was a patriot who believed
in a British mission to the world, but who was
convinced that our place was in Europe. He was a
romantic, reared on the romance of Empire and of
the great game, but who made a study of the
realities of power. He believed in British
culture and tradition, but he sympathised with
the traditions of the peoples of the book."
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
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Sources: October
1989 – Issue 18, Lobster Magazine, 'The Pinay
Circle and Destabilisation in Europe';
1993, Brian Crozier,
'Free Agent', pages 186, 191-193, and 241;
2002, David Rockefeller, 'Memoirs', pg. 412-413,
referring to the Pesenti Group
Born in 1919. Former
Italian prime minister, Knight of Malta (SMOM),
and and great sympathiser of Opus Dei (other
sources claim he is, or was, a member). June 28,
2001, Wall Street Journal, 'Knights of Malta
Seek Respect From U.N. as Bona Fide Nation':
"Count Marullo, whose 12,000 knights world-wide
include King Juan Carlos of Spain and former
Italian Premiers Francesco Cossiga and Giulio
Andreotti, is bent on making the world pay more
serious attention to all these trappings of
sovereignty." May 18, 1992, New York Times:
"In one of the most hotly debated acts of
his papacy, Pope John Paul II beatified the
Spanish founder of the conservative Opus Dei
religious movement today, elevating Msgr. Jose
Maria Escriva de Balaguer to a status just short
of sainthood only 17 years after his death. The
crowd overflowing St. Peter's Square numbered
more than 200,000 and was one of the biggest
ever seen at the Vatican - testimony to the
reach and influence that inspire many liberal
Catholics to label Opus Dei a sinister and
powerful force for conservatism in the church
and elsewhere. One of the guests at the occasion
was Italy's caretaker Prime Minister, Giulio
Andreotti."
1997, Robert Hutchinson, 'Their
Kingdom Come – Inside the Secret World of Opus
Dei', p. 208:
"Of the five [most important
anti-communists of Italy], Andreotti took
precedence in matters of policy, being nearest
to the power structures of the Church and the
Free World's political systems. Andreotti was
the closest layman to Paul VI and he had his
admirers in every capital of the Western
Alliance... Andreotti had been on an Opus Dei
retreat at the Castle of Urio on Lake Como, in
northern Italy, and was received at the Villa
Tevere by Escrivá de Balaguer."
Graduated
in Law in 1941 and later specialized in Canon
Law (Roman Catholic Law). When Andreotti was
head of the Catholic University Students'
Federation from 1942 to 1944, he served as an
assistant to Monsignor Montini, the later Pope
Paul VI from 1963 to 1978. Co-founder of the
still illegal Christian Democratic Party in
1943, together with the Paneuropean Alcide de
Gasperi, who had a more dominant role in the
founding. The Christian Democratic Party was the
dominant party in Italy from 1948 to 1992.
National delegate of the youth group of the
Christian Democrat Party in 1944-1945. Became a
member of the National Council of the Christian
Democrat Party in 1945. Deputy in the
Constituent Assembly since 1946 and would remain
so throughout his entire political life.
Under-secretary of State 1947-1954, until 1953
under de Gasperi. Minister for the Interior in
January 1954. Minister of Finance 1955-1958.
Secretary of the Treasury 1958-1959. Minister of
Defense 1959-1966 under 5 different prime
ministers. 2005, Daniele Ganser, 'NATO's Secret
Armies', p. 70-71:
"On election day in April
1963 the CIA nightmare materialised: The
Communists gained strength while all other
parties lost seats.... the Socialists were also
given cabinet posts in the Italian government
under Prime Minister Aldo Moro of the left-wing
of the DCI [Christian Democratic Party]...
Kennedy had allowed Italy to shift to the left.
As the Socialists were given cabinet posts the
Italian Communists, due to their performance at
the polls, also demanded to be rewarded with
posts in the cabinet and in May 1963 the large
union of the construction workers demonstrated
in Rome. The CIA was alarmed and
members of the secret Gladio army disguised as
police and civilians smashed the demonstration
leaving more than 200 demonstrators injured.
(46) But for Italy the worst was yet to come. In
November 1963, US President Kennedy was
assassinated in Dallas, Texas, under mysterious
circumstances. And five months later the CIA
with SIFAR, the Gladio secret army and the
paramilitary police carried out a right-wing
coup d'état which forced the Italian Socialists
to leave their cabinet posts they had held only
for such a short period. Code-named 'Piano Solo'
the coup was directed by General Giovanni De
Lorenzo whom Defence Minister Giulio Andreotti
of the DCI had transferred from chief of SIFAR
to chief of the Italian paramilitary police, the
Carabinieri. In close cooperation with CIA
secret warfare expert Vernon Walters, William
Harvey, chief of the CIA station in Rome, and
Renzo Rocca, Director of the Gladio units within
the military secret service SID, De Lorenzo
escalated the secret war. Rocca first used his
secret Gladio army to bomb the offices of the
DCI and the offices of a few daily newspapers
and thereafter blamed the terror on the left in
order to discredit both the Communists and the
Socialists. (47)"
Andreotti earned the
label "the most powerful man in Rome, after
the Pope" in the 1960s. Minister for
Industry and Trade 1966-1968. Head of the
Christian Democratic Party 1968-1972. Appointed
by president Guiseppe Saragat on July 11, 1970
to try to form a new government with the four
parties of the center-left coalition. In
December 1970 another right-wing coup called
Operation Tora Tora was about to happen, but it
was called off at the last moment. Knight of
Malta Prince Valerio Borghese, rescued by Knight
of Malta James James Angleton at the end of
World War II, was the leader of the coup.
Stefano Delle Chiaie was another leading figure
in the coup, which was supported by right wing
elements in the CIA and NATO. Italian Prime
Minister 1972–1973. Minister of Defense
March-November 1974. Denied the existence of
Gladio in 1974. Minister for the Budget and
Economic Planning 1974-1976 under Aldo Moro.
Prime minister of Italy 1976-1979. Again denied
the existence of Gladio in 1978. 2005, Daniele
Ganser, 'Nato's Secret Armies', p. 80:
"Italy was in shock [over the kidnapping of Aldo
Moro in 1978]. The military secret service and
acting Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
immediately blamed the left-wing terrorist
organization Red Brigades for the crime and
cracked down on the left. 72,000 roadblocks were
erected and 37,000 houses were searched. More
than 6 million people were questioned in less
than two months. While Moro was held captive his
wife Eleonora spent the days in agony together
with her closest family and friends and even
asked Pope Paul IV [not a supporter of Opus
Dei], a long-standing friend of her husband, for
help. 'He told me he would do everything
possible and I know he tried, but he found a lot
of opposition.'"
In March 1981, Italian
police raided the villa of Licio Gelli, a Knight
of Malta and the ultra-right leader of the P2
Lodge. 2005, Daniele Ganser, 'Nato's Secret
Armies', p. 74:
"Frank Gigliotti
[one-time assistant to a
hypnotist; Presbyterian clergyman; worked with
teenaged boys, for whom he organized a social
club named the Guiseppe Mazzini Club; recruited
by the OSS; active in Italy] of the US
Masonic Lodge personally recruited Gelli and
instructed him to set up an anti-Communist
parallel government in Italy in close
cooperation with the CIA station in Rome. 'It
was Ted Shackley, director of all covert
operations of the CIA in Italy in the 1970s', an
internal report of the Italian anti-terrorism
unit confirmed, 'who presented the chief of the
Masonic Lodge to Alexander Haig'. According to
the document, Nixon's Military adviser General
Haig [later Pilgrims
Society executive], who had commanded US
troops in vietnam and thereafter from 1974 to
1979 served as NATO's SACEUR, and Nixon's
National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger
[Le Cercle]
'authorized Gelli in the fall of 1969 to recruit
400 high ranking Italian and NATO officers into
his lodge'. (60)... the secretive anti-Communist
P2 members list confiscated [in 1981] counted at
least 962 members, with total leadership
estimated at 2,500... 52 were high-ranking
officers of the Carabinieri paramilitary police,
50 were high-ranking officers of the Italian
Army, 37 were high-ranking officers of the
Finance Police, 29 were high-ranking officers of
the Italian Navy, 11 were Presidents of the
police, 70 were influential and wealthy
industrialists, 10 were Presidents of banks, 3
were acting Ministers, 2 were former Ministers,
1 was President of a political party, 38 were
members of parliament and 14 were high-ranking
judges. Others on lower levels of the social
hierarchy were mayors, Directors of hospitals,
lawyers, notaries and journalists."
Although Gelli's files had vanished by the time
his villa was raided, the index of his files was
discovered, and some of the headings included
Giulio Andreotti's name. Roberto Calvi's
[Knight of Malta, "God's
banker", and found hanging below a bridge in the
City of London] widow pointed to Giulio
Andreotti as the true head of P2. 1997, Robert
Hutchinson, 'Their Kingdom Come – Inside the
Secret World of Opus Dei', p. 263-264:
"P2
was formed in the late 1960s, allegedly at the
behest of Giordano Gamberini, a Grand Master of
the Grand Orient of Italy and friend of Gulio
Andreotti. But he was much closer to Francesco
Cosentino, who also was well introduced in
Vatican circles. Either Andreotti or Cosentino,
or perhaps both, were said to have suggested the
creation of a small cell of trusted right-wing
personalities in key national sectors, but
especially banking, intelligence and the press,
to guard against what they perceived as 'the
creeping communist threat'. The person Gamberini
chose to develop the P2 Lodge was a small-time
textile magnate from the Tuscan town of Arezzo,
midway between Florence and Perugia, who after
two as a Freemason had risen to the Italian
equivalent of Master Mason. His name, of course,
was Licio Gelli. But the P2's top man, according
to Calvi, was none other than Andreotti,
followed in line of command by Cosentino and
Ortolani [Umberto Ortolani;
secret chamberlain of the Papal Household;
member of the inner council of the Knights of
Malta; said to be a member of Cardinal Giacomo
Lercano; met with Licio Gelli, Roberto Calvi,
and others in Rome in December 1969].
Andreotti always denied Calvi's allegation. But
the fact remains that Calvi feared Andreotti
more than Gelli or Ortolani. As for Cosentino,
he died soon after the P2 hearings began. The
truth of the matter, [professor] Javier Sainz
said, is that the P2 Lodge was part of a secret
right-wing network created with the Vatican's
blessing as part of the Occident's bulwark
against communism. The P1 Lodge was in France
and the P3 Lodge was in Madrid. The P3 was
headed by a former minister of Justice, Pio
Cabanillas Gallas [cabinet
minister under Franco, the dictator of Spain
until 1975; secretary of the Council of the
Realm, Franco's highest advisory body; Minister
of Information and Tourism; remained influential
in government after Franco's death; Minister of
Culture; Minister of Justice 1981-1982; more
centrist than Cercle member Munoz; member of the
European Parliament]".
Minister of
Foreign Affairs 1983-1989. Supported the
installing of American nuclear missiles in
Europe. Prime Minister of Italy 1989-1991. 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 it
kept the communist influence out of Europe. It
soon 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.
1997,
Robert Hutchinson, 'Their Kingdom Come – Inside
the Secret World of Opus Dei', p. 350:
"In
1994 Andreotti's friend and former foreign trade
minister, Claudio Vitalone, brother of the
lawyer Wilfredo with whom Carboni had been in
almost hourly phone contact while shadowing
Calvi's flight to London, was charged with
ordering Pecorelli's [journalist who informed Andreotti beforehand he
was putting out some damaging information on
him] slaying. Accused with him were Mafia
bosses Gaetano Badalamenti and Pippo Calò.
Andreotti, friend of three popes who claimed
never in his long career of public service to
have forsaken his Catholic principles, joined
them at trial, accused of issuing the contract
against Pecorelli. Magistrates in Palermo had
already stunned the world by accusing 'Uncle
Giulio' of 'protecting, assisting and consorting
with the Cosa Nostra' in return for
electioneering support that helped maintain the
Christian Democrat Party and Andreotti at the
apex of Italian political life for more than
three decades."
Has been named as a member
of the controversial Order of Zion, if it even
exists or existed. Other rumors about the Order
of Zion have named Cercle members Alain Poher
and Otto von Habsburg. |
|
Auchi, Nadhmi |
Sources: April 6,
2003, The Observer, 'So, Norman, any regrets
this time?'; September 5, 2004, Sunday Times,
'Le Cercle of the elite'
Born in Iraq.
Graduated in Economics and Political Science
from the Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad in
1967. Worked with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil,
becoming Director of Planning and Development.
In 1979 he founded General Mediterranean Holding
SA of Luxembourg. 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 sits on its board
(in 1999, the Santer (EU)
Commission resigned from their posts after
charges of corruption. Santer is a Bilderberger
and a supporter of Opus Dei). Lord
Lamont, the Rothschild associate who headed Le
Cercle, used to be another employee of General
Mediterranean Holdings. Has links to British
intelligence, through the former senior MI6
officer Anthony Cavendish (Le Cercle), who acts
as a consultant to Auchi's business empire.
Served on an advisory committee to the Institute
for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle
East at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
1996-2000. President of the Anglo-Arab
Organisation (AAO) since its founding in 2002.
The July 2004 meeting of the AAO 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. In November, 2003, Auchi was
given a two-year suspended prison sentence for
his involvement in the Elf scandal. A French
court found him guilty of accepting £50 million
worth of illegal commissions. He was also fined
£1.4 million. In 2003, the Guardian and the
Observer wrote a number of articles that Auchi
has been involved in numerous corruption
scandals and that he was a long supporter of,
and arms supplier to, Saddam Hussein.
Auchi
later claimed these allegations were completely
wrong, which led to the newspapers retracting
their stories. During Gulf War II, Auchi was
reported to have a full run on the palace in the
Green Zone and met with "everyone important,"
including CPA top leader Paul Bremer. Auchi has
also been named as a central figure in the U.N.
oil-for-food program in which both the U.S.
Congress and a special U.N. investigation have
been looking after accusations of massive
corruption and a missing $10 billion. In
November 2003, Auchi was honoured by the
Catholic Sacred Military Constantinian Order of
Saint George and the Royal Order of Francis I. |
|
Bach, Dr. Franz
Josef |
Sources:
1993, Alan Clark,
'Diaries', p. 369-374; 1993, Brian
Crozier, 'Free Agent', page 193;
June 29,
1997, The Independence, 'Aitken dropped by the
Right's secret club; Is it the ultimate
dishonour'
Born in 1917.
Personal assistant to Konrad Adenauer (ran his
office), who was chancellor of the Federal
Republic of West Germany from 1949 to 1963. CDU
(Conservative) member of the Bundestag from 1969
to 1972. German ambassador to Iran. Commercial
and financial advisor to the Siemens
Corporation, which later went into business with
Northrop, the General Telephone and Electronics
Corporation, and the Nippon Electric Company in
Iran. At about the time Bach retired from the
Bundestag, he went to work for the swiss-based
Economic and Development Corporation (EDC), an
unacknowledged lobbying group for Northrop. The
EDC received hundreds of thousands of dollars
from Northrop. When Bach was interviewed over
the phone during the 1975 Church Committee
hearings about bribes that had been paid by the
Northrop Corporation, he stated that he received
no payments from Northrop or the EDC. On the
other hand, he had been named as a shareholder
of EDC and acknowledged that he had,
"advised
them [EDC] about political things - the
stability of a country, whether it was going to
be an industrial country or not, whether it was
going to be stable or not... I go to the
country, see the country and make a report."
(June 10, 1975, New York Times, 'Northrop
Apologizes on Saudi Bribes; Senator Church Urges
Sales Reforms')
He refused to say what countries
he had worked on, but said it did not involve
Germany. He "could not remember" exactly if he
started to work for the corporation when he
still was a member of the Bundestag. In March
1975, Bach and other senior members of EDC were
invited to the headquarters of Northop. Senator
Church said about the Northrop arrangement:
"an intelligence network like a government would
emply to get inside information, to pull the
strings... the records itself show that Northrop
has been doing it." (June 10, 1975, New
York Times, 'Northrop Apologizes on Saudi
Bribes; Senator Church Urges Sales Reforms')
Northrop officials had described it "a way
of live, a necessary evil." EDC, founded in
1971, described itself as a company that tries
"to seek economic relations with developing
countries with the purpose of encouraging the
economic development of these countries"
(June 10, 1975, New York
Times, 'Northrop apologizes on Saudi Bribes;
Senator Church Urges Sales Reforms').
In
1972, Bach wrote a report for Andreas Froriep, a
Zurich lawyer who ran the EDC. Froriep did
acknowledge that he regularly relied on advise
from people like Franz Josef Bach, "whose
knowledge and expertise is of a unique nature"
(July 27, 1975, New York
Times, 'The F-16 and how it won Europe').
By 1975, Northop's F-17 had lost from its
General Dynamics competitor who had built the
F-16. Alan Clark about the 1990 meeting of Le
Cercle:
"The Cercle, an Atlanticist Society
of right-wing dignitaries, largely compered by
Julian Amery and Herr Franz-joseph Bach, staged
one or two conferences a year and this one was
travelling to Oman at the hospitality of the
Ruler."
In his 1993 biography, Brian
Crozier wrote:
"In 1980, Violet, who had
serious health problems, asked me to take over
the Pinay Cercle. In practice, I mostly shared
the burden with a leading German member of the
Cercle, Franz-Josef Bach, who had run Adenauer's
secretariat and later served as ambassador in
Tehran."
Died in 2001. |
|
Bennett, Sir Erik
|
Sources:
1993,
Alan Clark, 'Diaries', p. 369-374
Born in 1928.
Briefly served as an adviser to King Hussein of
Jordan before moving to Oman in the early 1970s.
In Oman he became an officer successfully
helping Sultan Qaboos overthrow his father and
fight Marxist rebels in Dhofar. Became a
commander (Air Marshal) of Oman's Air Force in
1974, and still was in 1990 when Le Cercle held
a meeting in Muscat in 1990. Alan Clark about
the 1990 Le Cercle meeting:
"I had a good
meeting with Erik Bennett. He is a courtier of
the very highest class. What are the
characteristics? The voice, the intonation, the
clarity of diction. The superficial speaking
well of all and everyone. The way all
communication occurs by the lightest of implied
comment. Smooth, unwrinkled skin, and limitless
endurance through ceremonial tedium. Also, in
Erik's case, intelligence and wit. He has set up
a draft letter 'from' HM inquiring about surplus
military equipment sales after (EB said)
'rapprochement with Iraq'. I substituted 'a
clearer determination of unpredictability in the
region', which he admitted was preferable."
When the Sultan's car was rammed from behind by
a speeding car in Salalah, where he likes to
spend the summer, on September 11, 1995, Bennett
was sitting right next to him, and was seriously
injured. Qaboos' deputy premier for economics
and finance Qais Al Zawawi was killed in the
crash. September 17, 1995, Sunday Times, 'Oman
draws a veil over mystery car crash Briton; Air
Marshal Sir Erik Bennett':
"IT WAS a curious kind of crash.
When Sultan Qaboos Bin Said of Oman stopped his
four-wheel-drive vehicle in the middle of a
wide, flat and empty highway last week to listen
to the complaint of a shepherd, a speeding car
appeared from nowhere and smashed into him and
his passengers. Even more curious was the fact
that although the most important person in the
Sultan's life a powerful, reclusive Briton was
badly hurt, nobody dared mention it publicly.
However, Air Marshal Sir Erik Bennett, 67, is
one of Oman's (and Britain's) best-kept secrets:
the key figure in a group of elderly former
military and intelligence officers who help the
Sultan to run his rich, strategically vital
country at the mouth of the Gulf... No doubt it
would have all been an overnight wonder except
for the unmentionable figure who had been
sitting next to the Omani ruler. The dapper,
ginger-haired Bennett is now said to be
recovering in an Omani hospital.
But the refusal
to acknowledge his presence only reinforces the
fact that Oman is where the last remains of the
British empire have still not been laid to rest
much to the Sultan's (and London's) delight.
Even King Hussein of Jordan had to get rid of
his beloved Glubb Pasha, the British commander
of his troops, long ago. But the sultan of Oman
is a more absolute ruler and a more determined
Anglophile. Sent to England at 18, he was
tutored privately for two years while living
with an English family and was then trained at
Sandhurst. He served for a year in the
Cameronians before returning home in 1964. His
father, Sultan Said, a man of medieval habits,
responded to his raging Anglophilia by putting
him under virtual house arrest in the family
palace in Salalah, allowing him only a Koran to
read. His mother smuggled in The Times every
day, however, and eventually a few friends were
allowed up to play bridge.
Prominent among them
was Timothy Landon, a classmate at Sandhurst,
who was serving as an SAS officer fighting
Marxist rebels attacking Oman from Yemen. Both
Qaboos and Landon knew that the British were
unhappy at the sultan's failure to fight the
rebels adequately and at the medieval situation
of Oman. With a population of 1m, it had only 10
miles of paved roads, 500 telephones and three
schools. The gates of the walled city of Muscat
were closed at night and strollers had to carry
lanterns. Radios and just about anything else
modern were illegal. The wearing of spectacles
could lead to jail. In 1970 the British
encouraged a palace revolt by Qaboos which ended
when his father pulled a pistol to defend
himself and shot himself in the foot. He was
bundled on to an RAF jet waiting on the British
base behind the palace. The old man lived out
the remainder of his years in the Dorchester
hotel on Park Lane while British soldiers and
airmen fought the rebels for five more years.
Among them was Bennett, shy of publicity and
happiest mingling with other figures from the
world of cloak-and-dagger wars and secret
intelligence. A short, shadowy figure with an
Anglo-Irish background he had been educated at
King's Hospital, a Protestant school in Dublin
Bennett had transferred to Oman from Jordan
after doing a stint as Hussein's air adviser.
While Bennett took command of the Omani airforce,
Qaboos took the throne and hankered after
London.
He spent Pounds 100,000 on a
bronze-and-gold-leaf clock that played the
Westminster chimes, flew out a British circus on
his birthday, and commissioned the entire London
Symphony Orchestra to fly to Salalah to
celebrate his accession. Because of the
sensitivities of Arab nationalism, the sultan in
recent years has had to be more clandestine
about his Anglophilia. He instituted a programme
of ``Omanisation'', and British officials now
work behind the scenes. But a British
major-general, Jeremy Phipps, and 65 army
officers are still on ``loan service'' to the
sultan. They eat curries, wear cummerbunds at
formal dinners, and go ``wadi-bashing'' for fun.
Another powerful figure is Tony Ashworth, a
civilian with Whitehall connections whose
influence is crucial in the tight limits that
are kept on the number of visitors to the
sultanate.
Bennett is now officially retired,
but he still gives his address as his palace in
northern Oman and remains the sultan's ``special
adviser''. Many in Oman say the two men, both
unmarried and without children, are the closest
of friends. Once in a while Bennett still
performs mysterious missions. A few years ago,
when British special operations officers who had
fought a secret war in Albania returned for the
first time since the war, Bennett went along as
a friend although he had never visited the
country. Landon, the SAS officer and former
bridge partner, also keeps up his connection. He
is listed as a ``counsellor'' at the Omani
embassy in London. The connection between these
men and the sultan is more than just Anglophilia
and friendship. Oman has 1,000 miles of coast on
the Indian Ocean and controls the strait of
Hormuz through which pass the tankers of the
Gulf oil states. With its output of 800,000
barrels of oil a day, it is also rich and likes
to buy British. As Mark Thatcher found, when the
sultan wanted a university he picked the British
firm Cementation to build it."
|
|
Botta, Colonel |
Sources: October
1989 – Issue 18, Lobster Magazine, 'The Pinay
Circle and Destabilisation in Europe'
Swiss Military
Intelligence Chief of Provisions. Attended the
June 28-29, 1980 Zurich meeting of the Pinay
Circle. |
|
Brzezinski, Zbigniew |
Sources:
1993, Brian Crozier, 'Free
Agent', pages 186, 191-193, and 241
MA in Political
Science of McGill University in 1950. PhD from
Harvard University in 1953. Institute government
and research fellow of the Russian Research
Center at Harvard University 1953-1956. Guest
lecturer at numerous private and government
institutions since 1953. Participant in many
international conferences since 1955. Assistant
professor of government and research associate
Russian Research Center and Center International
Affairs at Harvard University 1956-1960.
Associate professor of public law and government
at Columbia University 1960-1962. Member of the
faculty of the Russian Institute 1960-1977.
Member of the Joint Committee on Contemporary
China at the Social Science Research Council
1961-1962. Director of Research Institute of
International Change 1962-1977.
1991 version,
(1979 original) Deborah Davis, 'Katherine the
Great', p. 177:
"Without asking Katherine
[owner of the Washington Post], [President]
Kennedy appointed John Hayes, still the
[Washington] Post Company's vice president for
radio and television, to a secret CIA task force
to explore methods of beaming American
propaganda broadcasts to Communist China. The
other members of the team were Richard Salant,
president of CBS News; Zbigniew Brzezinski, a
professor at Columbia University who had been on
the agency [CIA] payroll for several years; Cord
Meyer of the CIA [and Operation MOCKINGBIRD];
McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to the
president for national security; Leonard Marks,
director of the USIA; Bill Moyers, who went on
to become a distinquished and highly independent
journalist for CBS and then for PBS; and Paul
Henze, the CIA chief of station in Ethiopia who
had established secret communications
capabilities there and who later worked on
African problems for Brzezinski in the Carter
White House."
Member of the Policy Planning
Council of the Department of State from 1966 to
1968. Always been very anti-communist. Columnist
of Newsweek 1970-1972. Director of the Council
on Foreign Relations from 1972 to 1977. Set up
the Trilateral Commission at the request of
David Rockefeller in 1973. Director of the
Trilateral Commission 1973-1976. National
Security Advisor to Carter 1977-1981. January
15-21, 1998, Le Nouvel Observateur, Interview
with Zbigniew Brzezinski:
"According to the
official version of history, CIA aid to the
Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say,
after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24
Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded
until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it
was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed
the first directive for secret aid to the
opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And
that very day, I wrote a note to the president
in which I explained to him that in my opinion
this aid was going to induce a Soviet military
intervention... That secret operation was an
excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the
Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to
regret it? The day that the Soviets officially
crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter.
We now have the opportunity of giving to the
USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10
years, Moscow had to carry on a war
unsupportable by the government, a conflict that
brought about the demoralization and finally the
breakup of the Soviet empire... Nonsense [that
Islamic fundamentalism represents a world
menace]! It is said that the West had a global
policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There
isn't a global Islam. Look at Islam in a
rational manner and without demagoguery or
emotion. It is the leading religion of the world
with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in
common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism,
moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian
pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing
more than what unites the Christian countries."
Cercle members William Casey and Turki Al-Faisal
would step up the funding of the Afghan
resistance in the early 1980s under Reagan.
Advisor to Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Professor
of public law and government at Columbia
University 1981-1989. According to Nexus
Magazine, the following statement was made more
than 25 years ago in a book which Brzezinski
wrote while a professor at Columbia University:
"Political strategists are tempted to
exploit research on the brain and human
behaviour. Geophysicist Gordon J. F. MacDonald
[JASON scholar] -specialist in problems of
warfare-says accurately-timed,
artificially-excited electronic strokes 'could
lead to a pattern of oscillations that produce
relatively high power levels over certain
regions of the Earth... In this way, one could
develop a system that would seriously impair the
brain performance of very large populations in
selected regions over an extended period..."
Trustee and counselor at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) since
1981. Co-chair of the CSIS Advisory Board
(located at the Jesuit Georgetown University,
from which Brzezinski holds honorary degrees).
Member of the President's Chemical Warfare
Commission in 1985. Member of the NSC's Defense
Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term
Strategy 1987-1988. Member of the President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board 1987-1989.
Co-chairman of the Bush National Security
Advisory Task Force in 1988. In 1991, identified
as a member of the advisory council of
Americares (former honorary chair), together
with Cercle member general Richard Stilwell. J.
Peter Grace is chair of the advisory council and
it counts heavy involvement of the Bushes and
SMOM. August 11, 1991, Hartford Courant, 'Americares'
success hailed, criticized charity uses clout
and connections...':
"Other international
relief agencies marvel at AmeriCares' ability to
cut red tape, navigate complex international
protocol, perform in the public spotlight and
simultaneously claim some of the lowest
administrative expenses among groups of its
kind... Much of AmeriCares' success comes from
its ability to harness three potent forces:
powerful political connections, alliances with
influential religious figures and groups and
cooperative ventures with businesses...
Knowledgeable former federal officials, many
with backgrounds in intelligence work, help
AmeriCares maneuver in delicate international
political environments. Its connections with the
Roman Catholic Church have brought AmeriCares an
influential ally in the Knights of Malta, a
Catholic group that helps deliver relief
supplies. And its ventures with pharmaceutical
companies have filled AmeriCares' warehouses
with donated supplies... n the international
relief community, where there is an expectation
that groups will operate altruistically and free
of political motives, some complain about the
way AmeriCares aggressively seeks media coverage
and appears to design its missions to benefit
conservative political causes... Photographs on
the office's forest-green walls show [Robert C.]
Macauley [wealthy; founder and chairman of
AmeriCares] with former President Reagan, Pope
John Paul II and Mother Teresa... Macauley's
friendship with [George W.] Bush dates back to
childhood... Bush's son, Jeb, and the
president's grandson, George P. Bush, went with
AmeriCares to Armenia in 1988 to help survivors
of a devastating earthquake... The president's
brother, Prescott S. Bush Jr. of Greenwich, is a
member of AmeriCares' advisory board... The
chairman of the advisory committee is J. Peter
Grace Jr... Retired Army Gen. Richard G.
Stilwell, former deputy undersecretary of
defense in charge of intelligence under Reagan,
is also on the advisory committee. Another
member is William E. Simon... Simon was also
president of the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, a now
defunct private group formed by the Washington
Times newspaper to send aid to the contras. (The
Washington Times is owned by a group that
includes officials of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's
Unification Church.) Gordon J. Humphrey, a
retired Republican senator from New Hampshire
who was a member of the Senate foreign relations
committee, is also on the committee. And
Zbigniew Brzezinski, the conservative former
national security adviser for President Carter,
is honorary chairman of the AmeriCares board of
directors."... "Personally I have some questions
about the way they focus," said one longtime
worker in international aid. "They're connected
into the American Republican power elite. You
might say they work in areas where there is a
large anti-communist benefit."... criticism has
come from writers who contend that AmeriCares
made shipments of aid to the contras in
Nicaragua... Among the aid AmeriCares sent to
Nicaragua in 1985 was newsprint for La Prensa,
the anti-Sandinista newspaper... A review of
AmeriCares' well publicized airlift missions
shows that the organization sends aid rapidly
and frequently to "hot spots" of public
attention, places where disaster aid from
America might reflect favorably on the U.S.
government... In 1988, AmeriCares sent a series
of airlifts to Armenia in the Soviet Union to
help survivors of an earthquake. "That did more
for the image of the United States than anything
in recent history," Macauley said... In the
early 1970s, at a time when his interest in
international aid was beginning to coalesce into
AmeriCares, Macauley heard about a Catholic
priest named Bruce Ritter who was struggling to
help runaway children on the streets of New York
City... The alliance between Macauley and Ritter
led to an audience with Pope John Paul II in
Rome in 1982. (Ritter left Covenant House in
February 1990 after accusations of sexual
misconduct with some male runaways he was
helping). The meeting with the pope gave life to
AmeriCares. Although Macauley started AmeriCares
in 1979, the organization did not go on its
first relief mission until 1982, when the pope
asked Macauley to send aid to his native Poland.
AmeriCares' contacts with important Catholic
figures brought it a valuable ally in the
Knights of Malta, a Catholic organization that
has helped distribute AmeriCares supplies. The
Knights of Malta, formally known as the
Sovereign Military Order of Knights Hospitallers
of St. John and Jerusalem, is a worldwide
Catholic charity founded in the 11th century to
care for soldiers in the Crusades. Today, the
group is based in Rome. J. Peter Grace, a member
of AmeriCares' advisory board, is president of
the American chapter of the Knights of Malta,
based in New York City. William Simon, another
AmeriCares advisory committee member, is also a
member... The Knights of Malta make AmeriCares'
job easier because of its worldwide network of
volunteers, said Johnson, the president of
AmeriCares. Members of the group, many of whom
are independently wealthy, can be trusted to
deliver the aid to its intended destination and
do so more efficiently than AmeriCares, he said.
"By using the Knights, there's very little
opportunity for diversion," Johnson said.
"They've all made their fortunes. Now they're
interested in charity."... Because almost 50
countries afford the Knights of Malta the same
status as a sovereign nation, they are often
exempt from fees for border crossings and can
pass customs inspections more easily. "The host
country will generally waive inspection and
duty," said Thomas L. Sheer, executive director
of the American chapter of the Knights of Malta
and an assistant to J. Peter Grace. "We can use
that diplomatic status to move right through
customs and to not pay customs fees. We can
exploit that, particularly within a time of
crisis."... Despite his ties to the Roman
Catholic Church, Macauley is not Catholic,
although he describes himself as a religious
man. "They say I'm a right-wing Catholic
conservative," Macauley said. "I'm not a
Catholic, even though I go to Mass almost every
day. I'm a very devout Protestant, I guess you'd
call it." AmeriCares also receives small
donations from Pat Robertson's Christian
Broadcasting Network and the Rev. Sun Myung
Moon's Unification Church. AmeriCares has kept
the commitment to Poland it began at the behest
of the pope. "We go to Poland every week, either
by ship or by plane," Macauley said. Between
1982 and this March, AmeriCares sent $94 million
in aid to Poland, almost a quarter of all the
aid it has dispensed. When the pope called on
Macauley to help Poland, Macauley turned to
corporate America for help... To get donations
for Poland, he and some colleagues sat down with
lists of the boards of directors from the
nation's largest pharmaceutical companies. Among
them, the group found, they knew at least one
person on every board."
Wrote a book titled
'The Grand Chessboard' in 1997, which describes
a kind of upcoming 'Clash of Civilizations'
(Samuel Huntington) and how the should isolate
China and Russia from the mineral reserves of
the Middle-East. Some of his main points were:
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."
Governor of the
intelligence-linked Smith Richardson Foundation,
together with Christopher DeMuth (the president
of the American Enterprise Institute) and Samuel
Huntington. Former member of the National
Advisory Council of the Victims of Communism
Memorial Foundation, together with Jeane
Kirkpatrick, Jack Kemp, Senator Claiborne Pell,
Senator Bob Dole, Richard Pipes, and Cercle
member Edwin Feulner, Jr. Brian Crozier, former
Cercle head, sits on the International Advisory
Council of the Victims of Communism Memorial
Foundation. Still a significant influence in
Washington today and generally respected by both
neoconservatives and liberals. Appointed
chairman of the RAND Center for Middle East
Public Policy Advisory Board in 2005 (where he
followed up Franck Carlucci) and a member of
RAND's President's Circle. Anno 2006, a member
of the advisory committee of the American
Committee for Peace in the Caucasus (ACPC),
which is advocating against Russian intervention
in Chechnya (used to be co-chair). Other members
of the advisory board include neocons Frank
Gaffney, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., William Kristol
(PNAC), Robert McFarlane, Richard Perle (friend
of Cercle chair Brian Crozier), Richard Pipes
(associate of Brian Crozier in the Reagan
years), Caspar Weinberger, and James Woolsey.
September 9, 2004, ACPC member Richard Pipes in
a New York Times article called 'Give the
Chechens a land of their own':
"A clever
arrangement secured by the Russian security
chief, Gen. Alexander Lebed, in 1996 granted the
Chechens de facto sovereignty while officially
they remained Russian citizens. Peace ensued. It
was broken by several terrorist attacks on
Russian soil, which the authorities blamed on
the Chechens (although many skeptics attributed
them to Russian security agencies eager to
create a pretext to bring Chechnya back into the
fold)... This history makes clear how the events
in Russia differ from 9/11. The attacks on New
York and the Pentagon were unprovoked and had no
specific objective. Rather, they were part of a
general assault of Islamic extremists bent on
destroying non-Islamic civilizations. As such,
America's war with Al Qaeda is non-negotiable.
But the Chechens do not seek to destroy Russia -
thus there is always an opportunity for
compromise... Russia, the largest country on
earth, can surely afford to let go of a tiny
colonial dependency, and ought to do so without
delay."
Brzezinski is a critic of the
Israel Lobby.
Mark Brzezinski,
Zbigniew's 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, and having caused the financial
instability in Asia in 1997.
|
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Brunello, Monsignor |
Sources: October
1989 – Issue 18, Lobster Magazine, 'The Pinay
Circle and Destabilisation in Europe'
Vatican prelate and
BNG agent. Can't find anything about this
person, besides what has been claimed by the
original author. |
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Burnside, David
Wilson Boyd |
Sources: June 29,
1997, The Independence, 'Aitken dropped by the
Right's secret club; Is it the ultimate
dishonour'; July 10, 1997 An Phoblacht/Republican
News, 'Editor's Desk'
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. |
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Casey, William
|
Sources: June 29,
1997, The Independence, 'Aitken dropped by the
Right's secret club; Is it the ultimate
dishonour' (named as once a regular)
Irish-American
catholic from Queens, born in 1913. Graduated
from the Jesuit Fordham University in New York
in 1934 and St. John's University School of Law
in 1937. Also attended the Catholic University
of America. After law school, he joined the
Research Institute of America in Washington.
Chairman of the board of editors of the Research
Institute of America 1938-1949. Joined the Navy
in 1943. In 1943, William Donovan, founding head
of the OSS, hired Casey to organize the OSS
secretariat. After that, he was sent to London
and was soon managing the infiltration of Allied
agents into Nazi Germany from there. At one
point he had 150 agents reporting directly to
him from occupied Europe. These included Richard
Helms, like Casey, a later director of the CIA;
and John Singlaub, a later Army general deeply
involved in anti-communist warfare. Allen
Dulles, William Colby, James Jesus Angleton, and
David Bruce were among his OSS colleagues during
WWII. December 17, 1986, Chicago Sun-Times,
'...perhaps, but secrecy is vital to foreign
policy':
""Great secrecy was necessary,"
Winston Churchill told a cheering Parliament, as
he revealed the first Nazi surrender at the
close of World War II, capitulation in Italy. It
followed months of top-secret talks between
German commanders and Office of Strategic
Services "spy master" Allen Dulles, later the
celebrated director of the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency. Historians have suggested
that Dulles' triumph, code-named Operation
Sunrise, was diplomatically flawed, that
excluding the Soviets from those meetings - for
the sake of secrecy - triggered the initial
distrust between Allies that led to the Cold
War. But in [March] 1945, few Americans would
have doubted that ending the fighting was worth
a spat with "Uncle Joe" Stalin. Sunrise was a
milestone in the annals of U.S. secret
intelligence, marking the start of that postwar
crypto-diplomacy twilight zone where secret
agents often supplant striped-pants ambassadors.
And William J. Casey was there, privy to the
secret as one of the best and brightest of young
OSS executives. Now, 40 years later, he is the
latest of Dulles' unenviable successors as head
of the CIA."
After the war, Casey was
offered senior jobs in U.S. intelligence, but
turned them down because he thought he should
establish his financial independence first.
Developed his publishing business and thrived as
a tax lawyer, making a personal fortune
estimated at between $8 and $12 million, and
earning a reputation as a corporate dealer
willing to take almost any risk if the potential
return was worth it. Published a series of about
20 books explaining the intricacies of complex
legislation. Special counsel of the small
business committee of the U.S. Senate 1947-1948.
Associate general counsel at the European
headquarters of the Marshall Plan 1948. Jean
Monnet from France (and initial member of Le
Cercle) was one of the key players here.
Lecturer tax law New York University 1948-1962.
Lecturer Practicing Law Institute of New York
City 1950-1962. Co-founder of Capital Cities in
1954, together with Thomas E. Dewey, who went
from crime fighter to crime backer (Lucky
Luciano & Meyer Lansky). Another founder of
Capital Cities was Lowell Thomas, who was a
close friend and business contact of CIA
director Allen Dulles. Thomas reportedly was
also connected to Lansky's mafia. Capital Cities
grew so powerful that it was able to buy the
entire ABC TV network in 1985, which was ten
times as big. Casey supposedly still had a
significant interest in the company through a
blind trust created when he became CIA director
in 1981. Cap Cities/ABC was bought in 1996 by
Walt Disney, who changed its name back to ABC.
Partner in Hall, Casey, Dickler & Howley
1957-1971. Founded the National Strategy
Information Center in 1962, with alleged CIA
links, to push for increased military spending.
Member General Advisory Committee on Arms
Control 1970-1971. Chairman of the Securities
and Exchange Commission 1971-1973. April 29,
1974, Time, 'Their Own Best Witnesses':
"John Mitchell, 60, the former U.S. Attorney
General, and Maurice Stans, 66, the former
Secretary of Commerce, had in a measure won
their gamble-though not necessarily their cases.
They had indeed been their own best witnesses
against the Government's charges that they had
plotted to gain special favors in Washington for
Financier Robert Vesco, 38, in exchange for the
moneyman's secret $200,000 cash contribution to
Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign... It
simply never occurred to him, insisted Mitchell,
that Vesco had given the $200,000 in order to
get help in his struggle with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (which eventually charged
Vesco and 41 associates with perpetrating a $224
million stock fraud)... Mitchell freely
admitted, as the prosecution charged, that after
Vesco's donation was received he set up a
meeting between the financier's lawyer and
William Casey, then head of the SEC."
Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs
1973-1974. Member of the Council on Foreign
Relations since the 1970s. Member of the
Atlantic Council of the United States. President
of the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. 1974-1975.
Member President Ford's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board 1974-1976. Member of the in 1976
revived Committee on Present Danger, a
reactionary anti-communist think tank that
included people like John F. Lehman, Clare Booth
Luce, Paul H. Nitze, Richard Perle (friend of
Brian Crozier, head of Le Cercle at that time),
Richard Pipes, (a later associate of Crozier),
Eugene Rostow, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt (former
Chief of Naval Operations), George Shultz,
Richard Stilwell (Le Cercle), Richard Allen,
Jeane Kirkpatrick, and David Packard. Co-founder
of the Jamestown Foundation in 1984, together
with the Cercle member Donald Jameson. The
Jamestown Foundation's purpose was to protect
and sponsor a group of high-level international
defectors as they travelled the United States
speaking out against the tyranny of communism.
Today, the Jamestown Foundation has three
program areas: China, Russia/Eurasia, and
Terrorism, and counts the involvement of Glen
Howard (SAIC; DoD; National Intelligence
Council; Mid-East and Central-Asia oil
consultant), James Woolsey, Zbigniew Brzezinski
(attended at least one Le Cercle meeting), Dick
Cheney, and Frank Carlucci. Counsel at Rogers &
Wells 1976-1981, the law firm that represented
Wackenhut. Outside legal advisor to Wackenhut
during this time. Campaign manager of Ronald
Reagan in 1980. Robert Keith Gray, chair of Hill
& Knowlton, the all-powerful (described by
critics as a "secret government")
Washington-based lobbying firm, was deputy
director of communications in Reagan's 1980
presidential campaign. Gray reported directly to
Casey. Sen. John DeCamp, 'The Franklin
Cover-Up,' second edition, p.178-179:
"Said
to be Harold Anderson's [chair Larry King's
Franklin Credit Union advisory board and part of
Larry King's Nebraskan homosexual, pedophile,
and ritual sacrifice ring] closest friend in
Washington," Gray is also reportedly a
specialist in homosexual blackmail operations
for the CIA. Gray's own sexual proclivities were
the subject of an article in the July-August
1982 issue of the The Deep Backgrounder,
entitled "Reagan Inaugural Co-Chairman Powerful
'Closet Homosexual'?" The Deep Backgrounder
tabloid featured exposes of homosexual networks
in Washington, D.C.; its contributing editor was
former CIA official Victor Marchetti. During the
Watergate era, Robert Keith Gray served on the
board of Consultants International, founded CIA
agent Edwin Wilson [of Shackley's secret team].
When Wilson and fellow agent Frank Terpil got
caught running guns abroad, Gray tried to deny
his connection with Wilson. "Yet ten years
before," according to Peter Maas' book Manhunt,
"in a top secret Navy review of Wilson's
intelligence career, Gray described Wilson as a
person of 'unqualified trust,' with whom he'd
been in contact 'professionally two or three
times a month' since 1963."
Sen. John
DeCamp goes on to quote from the book 'Secret
Agenda' of Jim Hougan:
"According to
fugitive ex-CIA officer Frank Terpil,
CIA-directed sexual blackmailing operations were
intensive in Washington at about the time of the
Watergate scandal. One of those operations,
Terpil claims, was run by his former partner, Ed
Wilson. Wilson's base of operations for
arranging trysts for the politically powerful
was, Terpil says, Korean agent Ton Sun Park’s
George Town Club. In a letter to the author,
Terpil explained that ‘Historically, one of
Wilson’s Agency jobs was to subvert members of
both houses [of Congress] by any means
necessary... Certain people could be easily
coerced by living out their sexual fantasies in
the flesh... A remembrance of these occasions
[was] permanently recorded via selected
cameras... The technicians in charge of filming.
. .[were] TSD [Technical Services Division of
the CIA]... The unwitting porno stars advanced
in their political careers, some of [whom] may
still be in office."
Besides Terpil,
affidavits written and signed by Col. Edward P.
Cutolo (assassinated) and special forces soldier
William Tyree (in jail for murdering his wife.
Cutolo - his boss -, and others, confirm Tyree
was framed) confirm part of this story. Cutolo
and Tyree talked about Operation Watch Tower,
one of the many government-sanctioned
drug-importing operations (from Escobar's
Colombia to Noriega's Panama, over sea), and
Operation Orwell, which was a specific program
to spy on politicians and other important people
to make sure A) that no outsiders were aware of
Operation Watch Tower B) that the Army would
have advance warning if anyone might want to
expose the operation, and C) that some dirt
could be gathered on those who might some day be
in a position to expose Operation Watch Tower.
Edwin Wilson was Cutolo's and Tyree's superior
officer. Cutolo said something highly
interesting in his affidavit:
"I was
notified by Edwin Wilson that the information
forwarded to Wash. D.C., was disseminated to
private corporations who were developing weapons
for the Dept. of Defense. Those private
corporations were encouraged to use the
sensitive information gathered from surveillance
on U.S. Senators and Representatives as leverage
to manipulate those Congressmen into approving
whatever costs the weapons systems incurred...
As of the date of this affidavit, 8,400 police
departments, 1,370 churches, and approx. 17,900
citizens have been monitored under Operation
Orwell. The major churches targeted have been
Catholic and Latter Day Saints [Mormons]... Per
orders from Edwin Wilson, I did not discuss the
implementation of Operation Orwell with my staff
or others outside of the personnel assigned to
surveillance. The only matter discussed with
Operation Orwell personnel was what the SATs
needed to know in order to carry out their
mission. Certain information was collected on
suspected members of the Trilateral Commission
and the Bilderberg group... Among those that
information was collected on were Gerald Ford
and President Jimmy Carter. Edwin Wilson
indicated that additional surveillance was
implemented against former CIA director George
Bush, who Wilson named as a member of the
Trilateral Commission. I do not have personal
knowledge that Ford, Carter, or Bush were under
surveillance."
According to the affidavit,
Wilson was involved in parallel operations with
people like Thomas Clines, Robert Gates and
William Casey. Col. Cutolo expressed his
concerns to superiors that Wilson was talking
too much. A few years later Wilson ended up in
jail. Cutolo ended up dead. Ton Sun Park, the
owner of the George Town Club where Wilson ran
his sexual blackmail scheme, was an associate of
radical cult leader Sun Myung Moon. October 31,
1978, a report printed for the use of the
Committee on International Relations,
'Investigation of Korean-American Relations':
"During 1976, the subcommittee also received
information about an apparent attempt by Moon
and his followers--along with Tong-sun Park--to
buy a controlling interest in the Diplomat
National Bank (DNB), which opened in Washington
D.C., in December 1975. Neil Salonen, president
of the UC of America, was called to testify
concerning this and other allegations. Salonen
said he had bought DNB stock at the suggestion
of Pak Bo Hi, but denied the UC was in any way
involved in financing the DNB stock purchases."
Moon has been a major anti-communist activist
and is connected to all the reactionary elements
within this movement, most notably those
involved with the World Anti-Communist League.
These include Cercle members Count Hans Huyn and
Otto von Habsburg in Bavaria, Germany, Paul
Vanden Boeynants in Belgium, and Arnaud de
Borchgrave, Rev. Jerry Falwell, George Bush,
John Singlaub, and many others in the United
States. Moon has also been tied to sexual
blackmail rings. December 20, 2002 issue of
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), 'The 'No
Soul' Gang Behind Reverend Moon's Gnostic Sex
Cult':
"The sex is a specialty of Moon's own
Gnostic "family" cult. Remember the
Congressional Madam scandals of the 1970s,
featuring Tong Sun Park and Suzy Park Thomson?
That was just the tip of the iceberg of "The
Reverend" Moon's sexual-favors operation.
Military intelligence officers who investigated
Unification Church operations in Washington in
the 1970s and '80s, report that the recruitment
device used on ranking, conservative political
and military officials was to hold weekly
orgies, arranged by Col. Bo Hi Pak, the
Unification Church official who was a top
officer of the Korean Central Intelligence
Agency (KCIA). The special treat at these
affairs were the "Little Angels" - Korean
schoolgirls brought over by Moon as a singing
group. The photo files from these sessions are
reported to be a powerful influence in certain
circles to this very day." DeCamp again, p.
179-180: "Gray’s associate Wilson was
apparently continuing the work of a reported
collaborator of Gray from the 1950’s - McCarthy
committee counsel Roy Cohn [of Permindex,
according to EIR; and connections to Fascist
International in Europe since the early 1950s],
now dead of AIDS. According to the former head
of the vice squad for one of America’s biggest
cities, ‘Cohn’s job was to run the little boys.
Say you had an admiral, a general, a
congressman, who did not want to go along with
the program. Cohn’s job was to set them up, then
they would go along. Cohn told me that himself.’
The first president of Tong Sun Park’s George
Town Club, where Wilson’s sexual blackmail
operations were reportedly run, was Robert Keith
Gray. The first president of Tong Sun Park's
George Town Club [in Washington], where Wilson's
sexual blackmail operations were reportedly run,
was Robert Keith Gray. Gray maintained his
intelligence connections during the Reagan
Administration, according to an affidavit
filed... by Daniel Sheehan for the Christic
Institute. The affidavit states that when CIA
chief Casey, national security adviser Robert
McFarlane, and NSC staff member Lt. Col. Oliver
North were devising a method to circumvent a
congressional ban on arming the Contras, they
turned to Gray and Company. Gray employee Rob
Owen set up a private group to solicit funds for
the Contras. Owen was called before Congress, to
testify on how he delivered bags of cash to the
Contras [in return for the dope?]. In February
1989, Hill and Knowlton's Charles Perkins rushed
to New York, for a fraction of the firm's usual
fee, to help with public relations for Covenant
House. The youth organization's director, Father
Bruce Ritter, was alleged to have molested youth
who took refuge with him."
Larry King (not
the one from CNN), the person who headed the
Nebraskan pedophile, homosexual, and ritual
sacrifice ring, greatly admired Casey. September
7, 1988, interview of the Metropolitan with
Larry King (as quoted by Sen. John DeCamp in his
book 'The Franklin Cover-Up,' second edition,
p.175):
"I know some of the people I admire
aren't very popular. Ed Meese. The late Bill
Casey of the CIA. And I love former Chief
Justice Burger [Pilgrims Society]. Those are the
people I really like to talk to. Bill Casey... I
just thought so very highly of him."
On
page 327 and 329, Sen. John DeCamp, who has
claimed he is barred from discussion large
portions of the Franklin Affair case, adds some
more context:
"Larry King, FBI agent Gerry
Wahl, Alan Baer, Harold Andersen, and former
Omaha Police Chief Robert Wadman have all been
reported as collaborators with this Satanic
military-based ring. King reportedly told Paul's
captors at Offutt, "He's young-but you trained
him good." A member of Nebraska's Concerned
Parents group reported hearing from two North
Omaha witnesses that "King used to send
limousines down to Offutt Air Base to pick up
CIA agents for parties." Larry King reported his
own adoring relationship to the late CIA
Director William Casey in a Sept. 7, 1988,
interview in the Omaha publication
Metropolitan... Paul Bonacci reports the
following "Monarch"-related activities, often
involving his "Commander" at Offutt AFB, Bill
Plemmons, and Lt. Col. Michael Aquino..."
Although
most people who attended Larry King's parties,
were not aware of his pedophile network, Casey
seems to awfully close involved with this person
and some of the accused. In fact, his working
partner George Bush Sr. (Julie Walters report,
p.12; DeCamp adds "This was not the last
time that the name of George Bush would surface
in the Franklin affair") has been named as
a member of the homosexual pedophile ring while
Reagan's daughter was also close to King. DeCamp,
p. 55:
"It was the most impressive party I
had ever witnesses... The attendance by top
politicians was remarkable... At the center of
the excitement was Larry King. Draped over him
like a blanket throughout the evening was a
heavyset woman, who I learned was Maureen
Reagan, the president's daughter... I got to
wondering... how does he do this supposedly on a
salary of $16 thousand a year?"
The
Franklin Credit Union scandal (which laundered
money for the CIA) broke in November 1988.
Within a year, in June 1989, a new scandal broke
with close ties to the Franklin Credit Union and
Larry King's pedophile/homosexual/ritual
sacrifice network. Craig J. Spence, who seemed
to have had the same clandestine job as Larry
King, albeit in Washington instead of Nebraska,
was investigated for illegally having organized
a midnight White House tour and for running a
pedophile/homosexual extortion network. Casey is
known to have attended parties of Spence. Also,
later on, Spence would have remarked just before
his death that "Casey's boys" were after him.
June 30, 1989, Washington Times, 'Power broker
served drugs, sex at parties bugged for
blackmail':
"Craig J. Spence, an enigmatic
figure who threw glittery parties for key
officials of the Reagan and Bush
administrations, media stars and top military
officers, bugged the gatherings to compromise
guests, provided cocaine, blackmailed some
associates and spent up to $20,000 a month on
male prostitutes, according to friends,
acquaintances and records... The man, a business
associate of Mr. Spence who was on the White
House tour [arranged by Spence and attended by
two male prostitutes], said: "He was
blackmailing people. He was taping people and
blackmailing them."... After arriving in
Washington in the late 1970s, Mr. Spence was
hosting parties during the early Reagan years
attended by, among others... former CIA Director
William Casey [and] Gen. Alfred M. Gray [named
by Kay Griggs as one of the top players in a
network of criminal covert ops and sexual
blackmail], the commandant of the Marine
Corps... The businessman said this week that he
did not know exactly what work Mr. Spence did,
but that he often bragged about his contacts
with Japanese businessmen and political leaders,
particularly Mr. Nakasone. He described Mr.
Spence as "strange," saying that he often
boasted that he was working for the CIA... The
businessman also said he attended a birthday
bash for Roy Cohn at Mr. Spence's house. He said
Mr. Casey was at the party."
Roy Cohn, as
an aide to Senator Joseph "reds under the bed"
McCarthy, was accused in the early 1950s as an
associate of the post-WWII Fascist underground
of Skorzeny, Schacht, and Naumann while visiting
Europe. Cohn, together with some members of the
Fascist International, was later named by EIR as
an initial director of Permindex, a corporation
set up in 1958 which is suspected of having been
a front organization in the planning of the John
F. Kennedy assassination. As mentioned earlier,
Cohn supposedly "ran the little boys". Arnaud de
Borchgrave is also known to have attended a
party at Spence's house. De Borchgrave, an
intelligence-connected anti-communist radical
and good friends with Sun Myung Moon, is a
descendant of an obscure Belgian noble family.
An unknown member of this family has
coincidentally been named by one of the Belgian
X-File witnesses, who came out in the aftermath
of the Dutroux affair. Count Alexandre de
Marenches, a good friend of Casey and Vernon
Walters, is a cousin of the De Borchgrave
family. November 13, 1989, Washington Times, 'In
death, Spence stayed true to form':
"Craig
J. Spence, the once-powerful lobbyist who
entertained and influenced Washington's elite,
died Friday... On a mirror in Room 429 of the
Ritz Carlton Hotel, Mr. Spence on Friday left
his final enigma in the form of a suicide
note... During the past few weeks, Mr. Spence
told several friends that the call-boy operation
was being investigated by the U.S. Attorney's
Office and other federal authorities as a
possible CIA front. He told the friends that the
CIA used the service to compromise other federal
intelligence officials and foreign diplomats...
One friend quoted him as saying, "Casey's boys
are out to get me," an apparent reference to
former CIA Director William Casey, now deceased.
Mr. Casey and Mr. Spence were friends, and the
former CIA director attended parties hosted by
the former lobbyist... During a lengthy
interview at a Manhattan apartment in August,
Mr. Spence frequently alluded to deep mysteries.
"All this stuff you've uncovered (involving call
boys, bribery and the White House tours), to be
honest with you, is insignificant compared to
other things I've done. But I'm not going to
tell you those things, and somehow the world
will carry on."
February 2, 1990,
Washington Times, 'Prostitutes corroborate Frank
stories':
"Penthouse magazine's anxiously
awaited account of sexual adventuring by
congressmen quotes a female prostitute as
corroborating Steven L. Gobie's earlier story
that Rep. Barney Frank knew Gobie was operating
a bordello in the congressman's Capitol Hill
apartment... The magazine [Penthouse] said Mr.
Spence had agreed to "provide lurid details of
Washington's bisexual wonderland." But before
the interview could occur, Mr. Spence committed
suicide in Boston on Nov. 10... According to
Gobie, Mr. Spence told him, "Do you know what
kind of power you can have over people if you've
got something on them? . . . I need boys and
girls for people in government and high-level
businessmen for my parties, for individuals, for
whatever comes up." The magazine quoted Gobie as
saying Mr. Spence was "the most dangerous man
I'd ever met. If he hadn't turned into such a
crackhead, he could have blackmailed half this
town. He used to say, 'Hey, foreign intelligence
agencies are doing it.'"
Casey is known to
have visited Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay around
1980. Important adviser to Reagan 1981-1987.
Director CIA 1981-1987. In the early 1980s,
Casey was able to funnel almost $200,000 to
Brian Crozier, the former head of Le Cercle who
undermined the Labour government of Harold
Wilson, for his 61 efforts. Crozier met with
Casey, a member of Le Cercle, on several
occasions during this time period. Casey and
Oliver North supposedly never told Crozier about
the Iran Contra affair, or drug imports for that
matter. Spartacus Schoolnet:
"On 16th March,
1984, William Francis Buckley, a diplomat
attached to the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was
kidnapped by the Hezbollah, a fundamentalist
Shiite group with strong links to the Ruhollah
Khomeini regime. Buckley was tortured and it was
soon discovered that he was the CIA station
chief in Beirut. Buckley had also worked closely
with William Casey in the secret negotiations
with the Iranians in 1980. Buckley had a lot to
tell his captors. He eventually signed a 400
page statement detailing his activities in the
CIA. He was also videotaped making this
confession. Casey asked Ted Shackley for help in
obtaining Buckley’s freedom... The following
month, Ted Shackley traveled to Hamburg where he
met General Manucher Hashemi, the former head of
SAVAK’s counterintelligence division at the
Atlantic Hotel... At the meeting Shackley told
Hashemi and Ghorbanifar that the United States
was willing to discuss arms shipments in
exchange for the four Americans kidnapped in
Lebanon. The problem with the proposed deal was
that William Francis Buckley was already dead
(he had died of a heart-attack while being
tortured). Ted Shackley recruited some of the
former members of his CIA Secret Team to help
him with these arm deals."
Besides arms
shipments in return for the hostages, the
Republicans of the Reagan team, including Casey
and Bush Sr., also arranged with the Iranians to
have the hostages released after the US
elections, as this would almost certainly
guarantee that Jimmy Carter would lose. This
scandal would be called the October Surprise.
Rodney Stich, 'Those Ugly Americans: 20th and
21st Centuries', p. 108 & 137:
"One of the
key meetings [of Iran Contra and the October
Surprise conspiracy] occurred at the PepsiCo
International Headquarters building in
Barcelona, Spain in late July 1980. One of my
CIA sources was present with Casey at that
meeting, arranging for procurement and shipment
of the arms from various European locations to
Iran via Israel. The final meeting occurred in
Paris on the October 19, 1980, weekend...
Salinger described his conversations with
respected American journalist, David Andelman,
who was the ghostwriter of the 1992 memoirs of
Alexandre de Marenches, French spy chief [and
friend of Gen. Vernon Walters; and like Casey
and Walters, a member of SMOM; Arnaud de
Borchgrave is related to one of De Mareches'
Belgian cousins]. At Salinger’s request,
Andelman asked Marenches about the alleged Paris
meetings involving Casey and Bush. Salinger
wrote in his book, “Andelman came back to me and
said that Marenches had finally agreed [that] he
organized the meeting, under the request of an
old friend, William Casey.... Marenches and
Casey had known each other well during the days
of World War II. Marenches added that while he
prepared the meeting, he did not attend it.”
Andelman testified to this admission before the
House October Surprise task force in December
1992, but as with other creditable witnesses,
this testimony was ignored so as to deny the
existence of this crime."
Casey modeled
himself on the likes of Allen Dulles and John
McCone (Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay), who ran
things in the 1950s and early 1960s before
serious questions were raised about the morality
of covert action on a global scale. He thought
Walter Bedell Smith, Allen Dulles, John McCone,
Richard Helms, and George Bush were all great
CIA directors. Bobby Ray Inman (director ONI;
director DIA; director NSA; director Wackenhut;
director SAIC) was his deputy director at the
CIA in 1981 and 1982. He resigned in 1982 after
a heated dispute with Casey (and Sharon) about
limiting Israel's access to satellite data from
locations over 250 miles from Israel itself.
Inman was afraid that Israel would set the
Middle-East on fire and Caspar Weinberger
(Pilgrims Society executive in late 1980s and
1990s) supported this notion. According to
Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein, Casey gave
Pope John Paul II unprecedented access to CIA
intelligence, including spy satellites and
agents. In a 2006 interview Inman claimed that
Casey intensely disliked George Bush, Sr. In
1981, Casey was called upon to co-ordinate the
Polish Crisis where the Solidarity movement had
risen up against the Soviet regime. This
movement was largely organized by Opus Dei and
funded through Calvi's (and Pesenti's) Banco
Ambrosiano (according to Calvi, to the tune of
$1 billion over several years). As a member of
the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Casey
immediately decided to fly to Rome, together
with co-SMOM members general Alexander Haig
(Pilgrims Society executive) and general Vernon
Walters. Unfortunately for Casey, he was under
investigation by the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence and couldn't go. Instead, he send
Vernon Walters who visited the Vatican about a
dozen times in the next five months. Walters
arranged for Reagan to meet the Pope in June
1982. During the same time, Alexander Haig and
William Clark were conferring with Cardinal
Casaroli (Pro-Opus Dei, if
not a member; Vatican Secretariat of State
during the 1980s; seen by Calvi as one of his
enemies and Calvi supposedly had "compromising
documents" on him; appointed the "three wisemen"
in July 1982 to "investigate" the Vatican Bank's
dealings with Calvi's Banco Ambrosiano. Among
the three was former UBS chair and white collar
criminal Philippe De Weck) and Archbishop
Achille Silvestrini
(under-secretary of Casaroli) in another
part of the Vatican. Casey couldn't attend these
meetings too, as Israel had just invaded
Lebanon. On other occasions Casey would rarely
visit Europe or the Middle-East without first
stopping in Rome for a meeting with the Pope.
Casey loved to take foreign policy advise from
Cardinal John J. Krol, Archbishop of
Philadelphia; Cardinal Terence Cooke of New
York, the successor of Cardinal Francis Spellman
and the Grand Protector and Spiritual Advisor of
the Military Order of Malta; Archbishop (later
Cardinal) Pio Laghi, former the Vatican's top
man in Buenos Aires. All of these Cardinals were
strong Opus Dei supporters. Casey, with support
of the Vatican, harnessed radical Islam to
counter the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. This
way he hoped to contain the Soviets in the Hindu
Kush mountains while the radical Muslims would
be too busy to turn on some of the Middle-East
dictators sponsored by the West. He convinced
the Saudis to largely bankroll this operation.
Under Casey the CIA supplied the Mujahedin with
30mm anti-tank guns, .50 caliber sniper rifles
(provided with a self-destructive round if the
gun was to be left behind), special forces
Parapoint systems, Stinger anti-aircraft
missiles, and training courses by ISA and Delta
Force special forces. With the British MI6 and
Pakistani ISI, the CIA agreed to mount guerilla
actions in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The Afghan
opposition leader with whom these operations
were coordinated was Gulbuddin Hikmetyar. Casey
also committed the CIA to support an ISI
operation that recruited Muslims from all over
the world to come to Pakistan and fight with the
Mujahedin in Afghanistan. December 13, 2003, The
Guardian, 'Smart money' (a combined review of
Loretta Napoleoni's 'Modern Jihad: Tracing the
Dollars Behind the Terror Networks' and Jeffrey
Robinson's 'The Sink: Terror, Crime and Dirty
Money in the Offshore World'):
"William
Casey, Reagan's CIA chief, used Pakistan and its
BCCI bank as fronts to train Afghan rebels
against the Soviets. Covert operations required
a "black network" within the bank and its state
equivalent, the notorious ISI. The bank financed
and brokered covert arms deals, complete with
full laundry service. The short and logical step
from there was a BCCI/ISI/CIA move into drug
smuggling to feed the needy, and leaky, money
pipeline to the Mujahedin. The Pakistan-Afghan
connection became the biggest single supplier of
heroin to the US, meeting 60% of demand, with
annual profits a stratospheric $100-$200
billion."
The BCCI was set up by Agha Hasan
Abedi of the obscure and elite 1001 Club, mainly
tied to the financial interests in London. The
shady MI6 operative, Privy Counsellor, and
Cercle chairman Julian Amery was an advisor to
the BCCI. His protege Jonathan Aitken, the
follow-up chair of Le Cercle, has been accused
of massive illegal arms with the Saudis. 2002
(third edition), John Cooley, 'Unholy Wars', p.
110-111:
"With President Reagan and CIA
Director William Casey, a new era began. On
January 21, 1982, the US Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) which had largely avoided
drug matters, was plunged squarely into them.
Attorney-General William French Smith announced
that the FBI, instead of the DEA, would
henceforth control anti-drug campaigns inside
the United States. This effectively ended
hitherto secret cooperation between the two
services. It moved the DEA, which was struggling
to control drug trafficking both inside and from
outside the United States, further away from the
main power centers in the Afghanistan war:
President Reagan’s National Security Council (NSC)
and Casey’s CIA. Casey was now able secretly to
engineer an exemption, sparing the CIA from a
legal requirement to report on drug smuggling by
CIA officers, agents or other “assets.” Attorney
Smith granted exemption in a secret memorandum
on February 11, 1982, two months after President
Reagan had authorized covert CIA support for the
Nicaraguan anti-Communist Contra army.
Investigative work in Washington in the late
1990s has disclosed that Casey realized that the
CIA would face a serious legal dilemma if
federal law continued to require it to report
drug smuggling by its agents. On March 2, 1982,
Casey thanked Smith for the exemption which,
Casey wrote, helped to protect intelligence
sources and methods. After many details of CIA
knowledge, if not control, of large-scale
cocaine traffic from South America became
public, President Clinton’s administration in
1995 quietly rescinded the CIA narcotics
exemption. The Contra-cocaine issue arose again
in 1996 with investigative articles by a
reporter for a California newspaper. Despite CIA
denials, the Agency’s inspector-general,
Frederick P. Hitz, compiled a two-volume
investigative report. He admitted that the CIA
did indeed know about Contra drug trafficking
and covered it up. The second volume reportedly
was even more damning for the CIA, but at this
writing it hasn’t been released."
2002
(third edition), John Cooley, 'Unholy Wars', p.
108-110:
"All close observers of the war
knew that the drug smugglers carried weapons
into Afghanistan and took drugs back with them.
Heroin laboratories began to spring up in the
rear of the various Afghan battlefronts... The
Soviet account quotes the American Left-liberal
magazine, Rolling Stone, reporting on a powerful
narcobusiness network, including vast new fields
of opium poppies on both sides of the
Afghan-Pakistan border, created during the
jihad. It was “complete with well-planned routes
and a whole network of dozens of factories” to
process the opium into morphine base and heroin.
“Western experts” [names and nationalities
unspecified] supervised creation of the labs in
camps of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s [very radical and
an associate of Bin Laden] group. However -and
here, interestingly, the Russian view of the
wartime drug traffic diverges from the Western
one - “the real ‘King of Heroin,’” said
Shvedov’s Russian team, “is considered to be
Gaylani who has far surpassed Hekmatyar in
narcobusiness and controls the overwhelming
majority of the operations of the opium mafia.”
The CIA, the Russians added, was working closely
with both Hekmatyar and Gaylani... Sayad Ahmed
Gaylani, called “Effendi Juan” by compatriots,
headed the NIF [National Islamic Front of
Afghanistan]. He was a wealthy Afghan
aristocrat, supporter of the exiled king, Zahir
Shah. Gaylani had a strong bent for business. In
1952 he married a woman of the royal dynasty,
the Durranis. He wisely invested profits from
holding the sales franchise for Peugeot cars in
Kabul. At the same time, he kept the religious
prestige attached to his descent from the
Qadiriya brotherhood, one of the mystic Sufi
orders of South Asian Islam... The Soviet
intelligence report on Gaylani’s NIF found that
it “has significant financial resources. Besides
the aid from various foundations in the USA,
Western Europe and Arab countries, it makes
profit on selling drugs and exacting taxes from
the population.""
Gailani is, an
American-educated commander, is one of more than
a dozen Mujahedin rebel groups in Afghanistan.
He's a Pashtun royalist seeking the return of
King Mohammed Zahir Shah, who is in exile in
Rome. September 30, 2001, Star Tribune, 'Drug
trade filled coffers of Taliban, Bin Laden
group':
"Alfred McCoy, a professor of
Southeast Asian history at the University of
Wisconsin, said U.S. and Pakistani intelligence
officials sanctioned the rebels' drug
trafficking because of their fierce opposition
to the Soviets. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a rebel
leader who received $1 billion in covert CIA
funds, was a major heroin trafficker, according
to McCoy. Afghan opium production ballooned from
250 tons in 1982 to 2,000 tons in 1991."
Earlier, it is known that the CIA, in
collaboration with other US intelligence groups
and special forces, was importing hundreds of
tons of heroine in the US from the Golden
Triangle in Shan Land, Burma. The money was
largely laundered through the Nugan Hand Bank in
Australia. Ted Shackley, Richard Armitage, and
mafia boss Santos Trafficante were as those that
handled the heroin coming from the Golden
Triangle. William Colby, Casey, George Bush, and
again Shackley were named in the Nugan Hand Bank
affair. The far less well known follow-up of the
Nugan Hand Bank was Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald,
Dillingham and Wong (BBRDW). Rodney Stich,
'Those Ugly Americans: 20th and 21st Centuries',
p. 342 & 343:
"In March 1996, I acquired
several boxes containing hundreds of CIA
documents generated from the CIA’s secret
operation in Hawaii, and within these boxes I
found highly sensitive material, including notes
that Rewald had made while the titular head of
BBRDW. Certain notes and information provided to
me by Rewald divulged CIA drug related
activities, including drug money laundering. As
I gathered from looking over the material and by
talking with Rewald, he was unaware of much of
the CIA activities originating out of BBRDW...
Deeply imbedded in these documents was an
envelope labeled “Lawyer- Client information.”
The information was dynamite, divulging secret
activities, including CIA drug trafficking, and
CIA funding of secret overseas bank accounts for
high U.S. officials. The information in this
envelope included information from the “Green
Book” that the CIA sought to get from Rewald
while he was in the hospital recovering from the
combination suicide and assassination attempt.
The notes in the envelope listed high-level
people with secret CIA-funded accounts. The
names on the left side of the notes were the
aliases Rewald used to identify the people on
the right for which there were secret bank
accounts opened and funded by the CIA through
BBRDW.... Irwin M. Peach [=] George Bush... Mr.
Bramble [=] George Bush... Mr. Branch [=]
Richard Armitage... Mr. Denile [=] William
Casey... Rewald‘s notes also indicated that
fictitious names were used to hide money for B.K.
Kim, Philippines’ President Ferdinand, and
Imelda Marcos, among others."
Rodney Stich,
'Those Ugly Americans: 20th and 21st Centuries',
p. 340:
"In November 1984, CIA Director
William Casey complained to the Federal
Communication Commission about the ABC
television network for having aired a show
featuring CIA agent Scott Barnes. In the
television presentation Barnes said he was asked
by two CIA agents in Honolulu to kill Ronald
Rewald. This airing had the danger of revealing
the CIA role in BBRDW and could expose an
endless number of other covert CIA proprietaries
and operations..."
June 29, 1999, Michael
Ruppert, 'Don't Blink!':
"ABC's Peter
Jennings, by the way, had been doing a series of
investigative reports on the CIA drug bank (and
successor to the Nugan Hand bank) Bishop,
Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham and Wong [BBRDW]
when the buyout was initiated. Cap Cities (not
surprisingly) secured SEC approval in record
time and effectively and immediately silenced
Peter Jennings who had previously refused to
back down from Casey's threats. Thereafter ABC
was referred to as "The CIA network." I have no
doubt that the ABC "object lesson" was front and
center for CNN founder Ted Turner and
Time-Warner when Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell
and (CIA vet) John Singlaub put the pressure on
in the wake of April Oliver's 1998 "dead bang
accurate" Sarin gas stories connecting CIA to
the killing of American defectors."
Rodney
Stich, 'Those Ugly Americans: 20th and 21st
Centuries', p. 326:
"Parker said that
[Michael] Hand [of Nugan Hand Bank] and Vice
President George Bush were in frequent contact
after Bush became vice president, and while
Australian authorities were searching for Hand.
Parker stated that CIA Director William Casey
frequently met with Hand in Panama in the early
1980s concerning arms sales and drug
trafficking. Parker stated that he and Hand took
over one of the drug trafficking operations for
the CIA in Central and South America. He said
that Hand’s experience in developing the Golden
Triangle drug operations for the CIA made him
useful in expanding the drug operations from
Central and South America into the United
States...."
Casey, like his CIA
predecessors, worked closely with drug smuggler
Manuel Noriega (trained at the School of the
Americas, a US-based assassination school) from
Panama and the different cocaine/heroine
cartels, like Medellin and Cali. The profits
were used for all kinds of black ops. January
28, 1990, Washington Post, 'The Case Against
Noriega':
"On Monday, November 14, 1983,
Noriega's entourage took off for Washington...
all expenses paid by the U.S. government. Almost
two whole days, however, were set aside for the
institutions that already had long-standing
working relations with Noriega. At CIA
headquarters in Langley, Noriega was swept off
for a meeting with CIA Director William Casey.
Back in Panama, Noriega would later boast about
his four-hour lunch with Casey..."
In 1988,
Noriega fell out of favor in Washington after
some disputes about drug and arms profits.
Therefore the US invaded Panama and brought
Noriega to trial on drug trafficking charges.
Some important revelations were made during this
trial. September 4, 1991, Washington Post,
'Noriega Defense Team Vows to Detail Secret U.S.
Deals':
"More than 20 months after he was
toppled by a U.S. invasion, Manuel Antonio
Noriega will go to trial on drug trafficking
charges in federal court Thursday, and his
defense lawyers vow to disclose new details
about the former Panamanian dictator's secret
dealings with the Central Intelligence Agency
and high-level U.S. government officials...
Court papers filed here describe Noriega as the
CIA's "man in Panama" whose activities were
conducted with the full consent and knowledge of
the U.S. intelligence community for more than
two decades... No written records tie Noriega
directly to drug trafficking, prosecution
sources said. But 60 to 80 government witnesses
- many of them convicted drug traffickers, arms
dealers and other felons - are expected to
testify that he took multimillion-dollar payoffs
from the Medellin drug cartel to turn his
country into a "safe haven" for shipment of
cocaine from Colombia to the United States...
But most importantly, the motion describes
Noriega's pivotal role in assisting CIA efforts
to arm Nicaraguan contra guerrillas. Without
citing new evidence, it calls that effort a
"guns-for-drugs" policy in which drug-sale
proceeds were used to finance shipment of arms
to the contras. In addition, the filings - with
heavy deletions from the security officer - allude to two meetings with Bush in 1976 and
1983 and numerous others with such figures as
the late CIA director William J. Casey and
former National Security Council aide Oliver L.
North."
August 23, 1991, The Miami Herald,
'Noriega: CIA, DEA OKd Deals':
"Manuel
Noriega says he had good reasons for allowing
drugs and guns to slip through Panama: The last
seven CIA directors, including George Bush,
asked him to help with the guns, while four
directors of the Drug Enforcement Administration
sought his help on the drugs... The weapons
shipments were destined for Nicaragua and
Honduras, the papers said. Besides Bush, the CIA
directors who asked Noriega to allow them to
travel through Panama included Richard Helms,
William Colby, James Schlesinger, Stansfield
Turner, William Casey and William Webster... The
DEA directors who purportedly asked Noriega to
allow drugs to pass through his country included
Terrance Burk, Francis Mullen, Jack Lawn and
John Ingersoll... Diane Cossin, a spokeswoman
for the U.S. attorney's office, said the
prosecution will present evidence that links
Noriega's BCCI money and drugs."
June 24,
1985, Miami Herald:
"Also involved in the
anti-Sandinista [Contra] effort are several of
Reagan's millionaire friends including beer
tycoon Joseph Coors and industrialist J. Peter
Grace... Grace spokesman Fred Bona said his boss
"may have" asked the Central American chapters
of the 900-year-old Knights of Malta order to
help distribute privately collected humanitarian
aid among Nicaraguan refugees. Grace heads the
group's U.S. chapter. Former Treasury secretary
William Simon and CIA Director William Casey
also belong to the Knights of Malta. Simon and
Grace declined comment on whether they had ever
discussed with Casey alternate ways to help the
contras. Simon heads the Nicaraguan Freedom
Fund, a private aid group initially launched by
the Unification Church-owned [Moonies] newspaper
The Washington Times which received a letter
from President Reagan dated May 30, 1985,
expressing "wholehearted" support for its
activity on behalf of the contras... While the
contras get humanitarian aid from these groups,
they rely mainly on retired Army Maj. Gen. John
Singlaub and his World Anti-Communist League for
private military aid."
Celerino Castillo, 'Powderburns
- Cocaine, Contras, & the Drug War':
"The
American Public would quickly lose interest in
the Iran Contra scandal... Had they discovered
our government hired and protected a squad of
drug traffickers, and they gave them free passes
into the U.S., the story might have ended very
differently... My informants were perfectly
placed... They fed me the names of Contra
pilots. Again and again, those names showed up
in the DEA database as documented drug
traffickers. When I pursued the case, my
superiors quietly and firmly advised me to move
on to other investigations... I'll never forget
Corr's [U.S. ambassador to El Salvador]
response. "It's a White House operation, Cele.
Stay away from it.""
Cele, a high level DEA
agent, was assigned to represent the DEA in El
Salvador at the height of the Contra war. It was
there that he began to record intelligence on
how known drug traffickers, with multiple DEA
files, used hangars four and five at Ilopango
airfield to ferry cocaine north and weapons and
money south. Hangars four and five were owned
and operated by the CIA and the National
Security Council. He found out that the
traffickers were also being given US visas by
the CIA, in spite of their well known
activities. Castillo also documented and spoke
out about CIA and National Security Agency
abuses in a manner utterly consistent with his
heritage and the reats of his life. Then Cele
discovered that the Contra flights were under
the direct supervision of US Lt. Col. Oliver
North and had the additional protection of Felix
Rodriguez (a retired CIA agent) who ran hanger 4
at Ilopango. Castillo was repeatedly warned that
the drug profits were being utilized to support
the Reagan-Bush backed right-wing "Contras" in
Nicaragua and surrounding countries and that he
should stop his investigations. December 1998,
Michael Ruppert, 'Only the Godfather':
"...
a lingering and persistent body of evidence
persists which indicates that Jim Sabow was
murdered because he caught the CIA flying drugs
onto a base where he was Chief of Air
Operations. Much of the evidence indicates that
the cocaine arrived on the same C-130s which had
been given to the Forest Service. In a 1993
segment of her news program Eye to Eye, Connie
Chung covered the Sabow death in detail and
showed evidence of the murder by introducing
statements from Sabow's brother, a medical
doctor, that Sabow had been unconscious and
aspirating blood for minutes before a shotgun
was rammed so far down his throat that it
sheared off the uvula. In that same segment,
veteran Air America and CIA pilot Tosh Plumley
stated that he flew loads of cocaine as large as
2,000 kilos onto El Toro in the years and months
prior to Sabow's death - for the CIA. Plumley
stated clearly that he was flying C-130s
operated by the Forest Service and their
contractors. In later conversations with this
writer Plumley admitted that he routinely flew
loads as large as 2,500 kilos onto military
installations in California and Arizona for the
CIA."
1991, Bo Gritz (ISA commander and
Delta Force), 'Called to Serve', p. 341:
"I
remembered the time in Panama in 1976, when I
was commanding Special Forces in Latin America
from headquarters at Fort Gulick in the Canal
Zone. We had obtained information through our
intelligence channels that Manuel Noriega was
not only allied with the communists, but was
also a drug smuggler. I recommended - and we had
the means - to terminate Noriega "with extreme
prejudice," since he was clearly hurting America
and was behind the sabotage of our military
facilities within the Canal Zone. Surprisingly
enough, I was personally told to keep my hands
off Noriega, that he was "of immense value at
the highest levels of our government."
July
23, 1998, Michael Ruppert, 'The POWs, CIA and
Drugs':
"The ISA, which ran Gritz's mission,
was created by Army General Richard Stilwell. It
has been repeatedly linked to drug smuggling by
sources including the daughter of Col. Albert
Carone who served as Oliver North's bagman and
bill-payer during the eighties. Records left
behind after Carone's death in 1990 and
eyewitness statements clearly indicate that
Carone handled both drugs and drug money for
CIA, North and the NSC. Carone's personal phone
book contains the home addresses and telephone
numbers of William Casey [Le Cercle], Gambino
crime boss Pauly Castellano and Stilwell [Le
Cercle]."
2004, Michael Ruppert, 'Crossing
the Rubicon', p. 164:
"A retired NYPD
Detective, also a “made” member of the Genovese
crime family, Carone spent his entire working
career as a CIA operative... For more than 25
years before his mysterious death in 1990, Al
Carone served as a bagman and liaison between
George Bush, CIA Director Bill Casey, Oliver
North, Richard Nixon [Le Cercle] and many other
prominent figures including Robert Vesco [1001
Club], Manuel Noriega and Ferdinand Marcos."
Carone, a member of the Knights of Malta, was
good friends with Santos Trafficante, Sam
Giancana, Vito Genovese, and William Casey.
Casey used Carone as a "cut out" to pass
sensitive insider information to Mob capo Pauley
Castellano, says his daughter, Dee. Carone was
the bagman for Casey and Oliver North in many of
their drug trafficking exploits. Casey was
deeply involved in the BCCI, the bank whose
extreme money laundering practices were exposed
in 1991. 1992, Senator John Kerry and Senator
Hank Brown, Report to the Committee on Foreign
Relations, United States Senate, part 11:
"In the case of BCCI, former CIA officials,
including former CIA director Richard Helms and
the late William Casey; former and current
foreign intelligence officials, including Kamal
Adham and Abdul Raouf Khalil; and principal
foreign agents of the U.S., such as Adnan
Khashoggi and Manucher Ghorbanifar, float in and
out of BCCI at critical times in its history,
and participate simultaneously in the making of
key episodes in U.S. foreign policy... On
February 23, 1992, NBC News broadcast the
allegation that former Director of Central
Intelligence William Casey met secretly for
three years with Abedi [1001 Club; head of the
BCCI], that such meetings took place every few
months at the Madison Hotel in Washington, D.C.,
and that they discussed matters relating to U.S.
arms deals to Iran and the arming of Afghani
rebels... The BCCI official explicitly described
meetings between Casey and Abedi at the Madison
Hotel in the mid-1980's... The late Cyrus
Hashemi, an Iranian expatriate living in London,
is a key figure in the "October Surprise"
allegations charging that William Casey and
other members of President Reagan's election
team in 1980 engaged in negotiations with Iran,
whereby Iran would delay the return of U.S.
hostages held in Iran until after the November,
1980 election, in return for the U.S. providing
Iran with needed arms for its war against Iraq."
A legal case brought before the District Court
of Washington, D.C. in 1983, 12 citizens of
Nicaragua and 12 members of the U.S. Congress
sued President Reagan, CIA Director William
Casey, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig,
Secretary of State George Shultz, Assistant
Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
Thomas Enders, Vernon Walters, Caspar
Weinberger, Nestor Sanchez, and John Negroponte
for violations of the law respecting U.S.
support of the Contras. After being dismissed,
the case was appealed to the Court of Appeals.
The judge who filed the opinion on Aug. 13, 1985
affirming the dismissal was then Circuit Court
judge and now U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia (spoke at the Bohemian Grove). Casey is
reported to have been a good friend of George
Shultz, Vernon Walters, Alexandre de Marenches,
and Ronald Reagan. In his book 'The
Conspirators' Al Martin claims that CZX
Productions, which supposedly stood for "Casey,
(adm.) Zumwalt, X-Files", was an Office of Naval
Intelligence cut-out and one of the blackest
parts of the Iran Contra dope affair. True or
not, doing a bit of background checking (only
one reference has turned up), it turns out that
Dietrich Reinhardt, a shady Iran-Contra
operative now connected to the flight school of
Rudi Dekkers (dope-trafficking terrorists), was
a partner in that firm. Martin also claims CZX
and Casey made Oliver North head of the
"National Programs Office," whose existence
still is not confirmed. The NPO supposedly
controlled much of the dope trafficking
operations, the building of the US "Civilian
Inmate Labor Camps", and the operations to some
day overthrow the US government. Admiral Zumwalt,
an associate of Casey since the 1970s and a
major anti-communist warhawk, is part of a
secret ONI group called "Goal Oversight
Development" (GOD), according to Martin. No
proof or other rumors exist about this group,
but according to Martin GOD has/had almost
unlimited powers to intimidate and assassinate
people. December 17, 1986, The Times Union, 'CIA
chief listed stable':
"Casey, 73, continued
to undergo diagnostic tests designed to
determine the cause of two minor cerebral
seizures he suffered Monday, the hospital said.
Casey had been scheduled to testify Tuesday
before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the
arms sale to Iran and the diversion of proceeds
to the Nicaraguan rebels... Earlier, CIA
spokeswoman Kathy Pherson said agency officials
who talked with Casey on Monday found him "lucid
and pretty cheerful" and "joking with the
nurses."... Casey remained mentally clear
throughout the episodes, a hospital doctor
said."
December 30, 1986, San Jose Mercury
News, 'Casey's condition is stable':
"CIA
Director William Casey continues to recover at
Georgetown University Hospital where he
underwent surgery Dec. 18 for the removal of a
cancerous brain tumor, a spokeswoman said
today... Hospital spokeswoman Cynthia Byers said
Casey's condition remains stable and he is
"fully conscious and sitting up periodically.""
In January 1987 the operation was deemed
successful, but it turned out he had other
cancers that were spreading to other parts of
his body (supposedly, he was already a year
under treatment for prostate cancer). He died in
May 1987 of pneumonia, a few weeks after
Congress had begun looking into Casey mental
health to determine if he could testify from his
bed. In reaction to his death, Senator Patrick
Leahy, the former vice chairman of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, said:
"Casey
probably knew more than anyone about the
Iran-Contra affair, with the possible exception
of fired White House aide Oliver North... And of
course that we'll never know, because he didn't
really tell us much about it before he died."
July 11, 1987, San Jose Mercury News, 'Plan
labeled 'Government within our government':
"William Casey, the late CIA director, seized
upon the Iran arms dealings as a way to create a
secret contingency fund to finance a wide range
of covert operations outside regular government
channels, Lt. Col. Oliver North told Congress
Friday. Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, termed the
scheme a "secret government within our
government," and Sen. William Cohen, R- Maine,
said the disclosure was "perhaps the most
serious revelation" of the 2-month-old hearings
into the Iran-Contra affair... North rejected
the characterization of Senate committee chief
counsel Arthur Liman that the operations were a
"CIA outside of the CIA." But House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Louis Stokes, D-Ohio, told
reporters "that's what it amounted to," and
charged that a main reason for the scheme was a
desire to avoid any oversight by Congress."
In 1996 the neocon Center for Security Policy (CSP)
created a compartment named William J. Casey
Institute. It was tasked with studying,
"the
nexus between international financial, energy,
trade and technology flows and traditional U.S.
national security policy concerns."
Just
one week before Casey got his seizures (he was
already dying of cancer) he allegedly wrote an
affidavit, with Cercle member Nixon as his
witness, that in part outlined the CIA's
involvement in the drug trade to finance covert
ops. He also gave his justifications for it
(which basically constituted a big "fuck you" to
Congress and everyone else who might not agree)
and certainly didn't forget to mention Bill
Clinton's role in it (while forgetting the role
of all his political allies, or other groups
within the government).
The document was leaked
to the daughter of Albert Carone and has since
then been classified Top Secret. According to
Mike Ruppert, the document is factually correct,
but it could still be a fake. |
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Cavendish, Anthony
|
Sources:
1993, Alan Clark,
'Diaries', p. 369-374; June 29, 1997, The
Independence, 'Aitken dropped by the Right's
secret club; Is it the ultimate dishonour'
(named as an old member); September 5, 2004,
Sunday Times, 'Le Cercle of the elite' ("thought
to include")
Not a family
member of the Dukes of Devonshire. Former MI6
officer. Worked with George Kennedy Young and
James Goldsmith in the past. Member Unison
Committee for Action, which was set up in 1973
to counter the threat from Labour Unions, which
supposedly were infiltrated by Soviet
intelligence. Army general Walter Walker and MI6
head George Kennedy Young were involved with
this group. 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. December 28, 1987, The Times:
"Mr Cavendish, who left MI6 in 1953, has been
trying to publish his book Inside Intelligence,
to defend the reputation of his former friend
and colleague, the late Sir Maurice Oldfield,
ex-MI6 chief and Security Co-ordinator for Mrs
Thatcher in Northern Ireland. The book contains
many references to Sir Maurice, disputing
allegations that he had homosexual relations
with young men while he was Ulster security
chief. It also details past MI6 covert
operations, authorized by the Labour Government
in the 1950s, which have been published in other
books... Mr Julian Amery, Conservative MP for
Brighton, Pavilion, who also received a copy of
Mr Cavendish's book, declined to comment on the
book itself but said that the Government's
attitude towards publications by intelligence
agents were 'wildly overdone'."
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."). Known to have corresponded
with Julian Amery in the 1990s, a former
chairman of Le Cercle. Invested as a Knight
First Class in the catholic Sacred Military
Constantinian Order of Saint George in 2001.
Promoted within the ranks of the Royal Order of
Francis I, part of the Sacred Military
Constantinian Order, to Knight Commander in
2005. Consultant to Nadhmi Auchi's business
empire, who also has been honored by the Sacred
Military Constantinian Order. He was still
acting as a consultant in 2003 and could easily
still do that today. 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?"
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Cavendish, Andrew
|
Sources: 1993, Alan
Clark, 'Diaries', p. 369-374
Not a family
member of the Dukes of Devonshire. The younger
of Le Cercle member and MI6 officer Anthony
Cavendish. Major in the Life Guards. Served in
the Sultan of Oman's Armoured Force. Friend of
Alan Clark, who wrote about the 1990 Cercle
meeting:
"Andrew
appeared, tall and beautiful as ever. He moves
among the delegates with a very faint smile on
his face, but his eyes are always watching. What
experience in childhood, what gene, makes him
instinctively so observant, and from which side
of the family does this gene come?... I detached
myself from the group and we had supper
together. Andrew told me of his tales, and of
the mood among the Military. Oman is a long way
from Iraq, and their traditional apprehension is
of Iranian muscle, their principal irritant is
South Yemen. But the men, many of them, think
privately of Saddam as a hero, who is leading
the West a dance."
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Cecil, Robert
Gascoyne (7th Marquess of Salisbury)
|
Sources: June 29,
1997, The Independence, 'Aitken dropped by the
Right's secret club; Is it the ultimate
dishonour' ; July 10, 1997 An
Phoblacht/Republican News, 'Editor's Desk'; 18
June 2000, Sunday Telegraph / Lobster Magazine,
Issue 40, winter 2000-2001
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. Sir William Cecil was a student of
John Dee, the official founder of Enochian
Magic. The family forged links with the Republic
of Venice around 1600 and built Hatfield House,
which still is the family's residence, in 1607.
William Cecil and his protege 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. Some people of that
time have stated Cecil himself was a plotter
behind these assassinations. 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.
This Pilgrim was the
third son of (his namesake) Robert
Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, who
was a member of the Order of the Garter and the
Privy Council. The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury was
the Chancellor of Oxford University from 1869 to
1903, a fellow of All Souls, and a British prime
minister for 14 years. Carroll Quigley described
the Rhodes Secret Society and the Milner Group
as having evolved from the 3rd Marquess' "Cecil
Bloc". The 3rd Marquess grew to like Benjamin
Disraeli, who he had previously been distrusted
as a Jew. Disraeli eventually became a
housefriend of the family 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 (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.
The 5th
Marquess of Salisbury (KG; PC; married into
Cavendish family) was president of the
Conservative Monday Club from 1961 to 1972. This
was the center of the pro-colonial movement in
Britain, which even prepared for a coup against
the "KGB-infiltrated" Labour government of
Harold Wilson in the 1970s. General Walter
Walker and later Cercle chairman Julian Amery
were among the members of this club. His son,
the 6th Marquess of Salisbury, took over the
Conservative Monday Club in 1974 and ran it
until 1981. September 13, 1965, The Times,
letter of the 5th Marquess of Salisbury,
'Government in Rhodesia - Arguments against
majority rule':
"[Churchmen] fall into the all too common error
of assuming that the only form of Government
compatible with the Christian way of life is
majority rule. Actually, at any rate, in the
case of primitive peoples, that has, I believe,
never been so: nor, judging by our experience
with other African states which have recently
gained their independence, is it so now.
Democracy is the most difficult of all sytems to
work. It requires the highest degree of
civilization. Can anyone who knows Rhodesia say
that the average African in that country is
ready for it yet? It could no doubt be argued -
though I am sure that the signatories of the
letter would not use such an argument - that
majority rule is more important than the
Christian way of life. But do they really expect
anyone who has personal experience of Rhodesia
to believe that the people of that country,
whether white or black, would benefit either
spiritually or materially by the introduction of
majority rule at the present time?"
Lord Cranborne and
later 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, was gold
stick to the queen, and headed Operation Lock, a
pro-apartheid 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,
which had broken off from England illegally to
maintain its fascist white-minority regime. 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. Member of the Other Club
since 1981, together with the Duke of Devonshire
(Cavendish), Lord Carrington (Pilgrims Society
president), Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne
(major Pilgrims Society member), Lord Julian
Amery (former head Le Cercle), Lord Rothschild,
Lord Rees-Mogg, Prince Charles, Paul Channon (Le
Cercle), Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Sir Edward
Heath, Sir Denis Thatcher, Winston S. Churchill
(grandson of), and several dozen others. 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 (a joint
operation of the Vatican, Opus Dei, SMOM and the
CIA). 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. March 30,
1997, The Independent, 'Courtiers down the
centuries; Profile Robert Cranborne' (Lord
Cranborne at the time and confidante of Prime
Minister John Major):
"At least for a few
weeks more, a Cecil is in a position the family
knows well: very close to the seat of power. It
may be a slight exaggeration to say that he is
running the government, but Lord Cranborne, Lord
Privy Seal and Leader of the Lords, is spending
the election as chief of staff at No 10 Downing
Street. The peer, who has emerged as something
of an icon to the Conservative right, is not
only the link between Central Office and No 10,
but has day-to-day responsibility for the
latter... As one (well-bred) Tory puts it:
"Robert has a remarkably close relationship with
the Prime Minister. He is an engaging figure
with considerable charm. People rather like
glimpsing into his solid, English, aristo world
of which they are not a part. They find it
rather intoxicating. The truth is that they all
fall for the toffs - even Thatcher fell for
Ridley."... After the Guards it was the City and
in 1970 he married, causing a family crisis
because his bride, Hannah Stirling (daughter
[actually niece] of the founder of the SAS), was
a Roman Catholic. The Cecils take the defence of
Protestantism and the Church of England
seriously and Robert's mother, Mollie, took time
to be reconciled. A compromise was reached and
the two sons (the "heir and the spare") were
brought up as Anglicans, the three daughters as
Roman Catholics. In 1978 domestic calm was
shattered when Lord Cranborne's brother Richard
was killed by guerrillas while filming in
Rhodesia. The family were strong supporters of
the white settlers - the name of the country's
capital, Salisbury (after the 3rd Marquess),
giving away the connection. Robert went to
Africa to try to find out how his brother died.
His brother's death seems only to have
reinforced his public support for the whites.
During the 1980s he helped organise a secret
meeting between Ian Smith and Tory MPs, and
backed sporting links with apartheid South
Africa. For a decade Lord Cranborne had a habit
of turning up in war zones, places he found
intriguing, according to friends, because of his
fascination with military history. Often visits
were combined with business trips. He is thought
to have done well financially during the 1970s
although, as one observer remarks, "it's almost
impossible to know with that family who's
inherited and who's made money". Friends see him
as a sort of 19th- century Romantic figure,
popping up in support of the mujahedin's
opposition to Soviet expansionism or to back
Polish dissidents... Ironically, for someone now
seen as a champion of the right, he did not
prosper under Margaret Thatcher, perhaps because
his Toryism is of a more "trad right" hue... But
eight years in the Commons had not been wasted.
For one thing Lord Cranborne had become good
friends with a Conservative MP of more humble
origins who was to go on to become the Prime
Minister [John Major]... Mr Major joined later
in the 1979 parliament and got on well with Lord
Cranborne who, far from patronising the young
MP, invited him to Cranborne for the weekend...
Inviting Lord Cranborne to his Downing Street
flat, Mr Major has more than once apologised for
bringing a man used to inhabiting the great
houses of England to such humble surroundings.
When John Major won the last election he speeded
Lord Cranborne into the House of Lords and,
after a mere two years as a defence minister in
the Lords (salvaging the VE-Day span-fritters
fiasco), he was catapulted into the Cabinet with
a direct line to the premier. Mr Major relies on
him for advice, knowing that, unlike most of the
other ministers around him, Lord Cranborne, who
will never be party leader, is not a threat. He
has thrown himself with enthusiasm into the job
of leading the Lords... Meanwhile, his political
salon at Cranborne Manor, and in London,
attracts many of the most colourful right-wing
thinkers, with a sprinkling of hard-line
Unionists from the organisation he helped to
found, the Friends of the Union... He is a
fierce Eurosceptic, who, despite speaking
excellent French, sincerely prefers Dorset to
the Dordogne. Yet he has not actively engaged
with the parliamentary sceptics... He practises
politics only in the rather detached manner of
someone who knows that his historical duties
have been fulfilled and that he can always
return to cultivate a rather substantial garden.
"His agenda," says a close friend, "is rather
different from the normal one. It looks 100
years ahead.""
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 (invited to
Le Cercle), 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
problematic. Cranborne is known to have attended
meetings of Le Cercle in the 1990s and 2000.
Very good friend of Cercle chairman Julian
Amery. Took 'Leave of Absence' on November 1,
2001. Therefore out of the House when he
succeeded his father as 7th Marquess on July 11,
2003. Good friend of Lord Lamont, the Rothschild
employee and Cercle chair. Member of the Other
Club, together with the Duke of Devonshire
(Cavendish), Lord Carrington (Pilgrims Society
president), Lord Rothschild, Lord Rees-Mogg,
Prince Charles, Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne
(major Pilgrims Society member), Lord Julian
Amery (Cercle head), Paul Channon (Le Cercle),
Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Sir Edward Heath, Sir
Denis Thatcher, and Winston S. Churchill
(grandson of). Member of the Grillion's Club,
together with the Duke of Norfolk (Howard), the
Duke of Devonshire (Cavendish), the Earl of
Perth (Drummond), Lord Carrington, Lord
Richardson of Duntisbourne, Nicholas Baring
(vice chair Baring Brothers until 1989) and John
Major. Like his father and a number of
ancestors, a member of the Roxburghe Club,
together with the several generations of the
Dukes of Norfolk, the Dukes of Devonshire, the
Earls of Perth, the Rothschilds, Oppenheimers,
Lord Rees-Mogg, and formerly Paul Mellon.
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..."
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Channon, Paul |
Sources: 1993, Alan
Clark, 'Diaries', p. 369-374; June 29, 1997, The
Independence, 'Aitken dropped by the Right's
secret club; Is it the ultimate dishonour'
Born in 1935. Member
of the aristocratic Guinness family from
Ireland. Conservative member of parliament for
Southend West until 1997 at which time, he stood
down and was created a Life Peer. On 7 July
1972, Mac Stíofáin (one of the more violent
leaders of the IRA) led an IRA delegation to a
secret meeting with members of the British
government, led by Secretary of State for
Northern Ireland William Whitelaw, at Cheyne
Walk in London. This was the Chelsea home of
Paul Channon. Other IRA leaders in attendance
were Dáithí Ó Conaill, Martin McGuinness, Gerry
Adams, Seamus Twomey and Ivor Bell. Very much in
charge, Mac Stíofáin spelled out the three basis
demands of the Provisionals: (1) The future of
Ireland to be decided by the people of Ireland
acting as a unit; (2) a British government
Declaration of Intent to withdraw from Ireland
by January 1975 and (3) the unconditional
release of all political prisoners. Member of
the Other Club since 1973, together with the 7th
Marquess of Salisbury (Le Cercle), the Duke of
Devonshire (Cavendish), Lord Carrington
(Pilgrims Society president), Lord Richardson of
Duntisbourne (major Pilgrims Society member),
Lord Rothschild, Lord Rees-Mogg, Lord Julian
Amery (former Cercle chairman), Prince Charles,
Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Sir Edward Heath, Sir
Denis Thatcher, and Winston S. Churchill.
Channon's daughter Olivia was found dead in 1986
after a heroin overdose in the bed of Count
Gottfried von Bismarck, a German nobleman living
and partying in London. Von Bismarck has been
described as:
"... looking a bit strange.
Pale, thin and sweating a lot but full, as ever,
of brilliant and obscure conversation. He knows
an awful lot about 19th and 20th century German
and English history - much more than most
English - but he definitely came across as a
darkly complex man."
(Update: in the mean
time, in October 2007, Count von Bismarck shot
himself chock full of cocaine and jumped off his
balcony. October 11, 2007, The Daily Mail:
"It was from the roof terrace of this penthouse
apartment [where the Count was found] that a
partygoer plunged 60ft to his death last August
after a gay orgy hosted by the homosexual von
Bismarck... A pathologist told the hearing the
44-year-old's body contained the highestlevel of
the drug he had ever seen... [The Count's
friend] said: 'Gottfried had been up since
Wednesday morning until early Fridaymorning.
When he collapsed after a binge of partying it
wasn't unlike him to sleep for 24 or 36 hours.'
Tests on his body revealed that the levels of
cocaine and heroin in his blood were both 'in
the fatal range', the inquest heard. According
to toxicologists, just 0.99mg of cocaine per
litre of bloodis enough to kill, but von
Bismarck's level was almost five times that
amount.
Pathologist Professor Sebastian
Lucas said Bismarck had advanced liver
diseasecaused by years of alcohol abuse as well
as HIV and hepatitis B and C.").
President of
the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for
Trade and Industry 1986-1987. Secretary of State
for Transport 1987-1989. 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. Seems to be a willing servant of the
Lockerbie coverup. During his time as trade
minister he allowed a chlorine plant to be sold
secretly 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. Channon also
instructed the export credit guarantee
department (ECGD) to keep details of the deal
secret from the public. Attended the 1990 Pinay
meeting in Oman. Present at the memorial service
of former Cercle president Julian Amery.
Created
a life peer as Baron Kelvedon. The Duke of Kent
is a good friend of his and they shared their
birthday parties at the home of Paul Channon in
October 2005. The Queen attended the party.
Prince Charles and Camilla, and the widow of the
Duke of Devonshire (Cavendish) were expected by
the Daily Mail to attend the party. |
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Clark, Alan |
Sources: 1993, Alan
Clark, 'Diaries', p. 369-374; June 29, 1997, The
Independence, 'Aitken dropped by the Right's
secret club; Is it the ultimate dishonour';
April 6, 2003, The Observer, 'So, Norman, any
regrets this time?'
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 slept with both the wife and her two
daughters. 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 talked about
the Pinay Circle being funded by the CIA. 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. |
Sources: November
1988 – Issue 17, Lobster Magazine, 'Brian
Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith'
(quoting from the Langemann papers); October
1989 – Issue 18, Lobster Magazine, 'The Pinay
Circle and Destabilisation in Europe'; 1997,
Robert Hutchinson, 'Their Kingdom Come – Inside
the Secret World of Opus Dei', p. 153-158; June
29, 1997, The Independence, 'Aitken dropped by
the Right's secret club; Is it the ultimate
dishonour' (named as a regular)
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. Colby is said to have become
both a member of Opus Dei and the Knights of
Malta during his intelligence days and is known
to have been a staunch Roman Catholic. 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 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." 2005, Daniele Ganser,
'Nato Secret Armies', p. 169-170: "'Berlingske Tidende can reveal that Absalon is
the Danish branch of the international Gladio
network. This has been confirmed by a member of
Absalon to Berlingske Tidende who wishes at
present to remain unnamed', a Danish daily
newspaper sensationally headlined its
discoveries in 1990. (6 [November 25, 1990, Danish daily Berlingske
Tidende, 'Ogsa Danmark havde hemmelig haer efter
anden verdenskrig']) The source, named Q
by the newspaper, confirmed what Colby had
revealed in his book. 'Colby's story is
absolutely correct. Absalon was created in the
early 1950s', the source Q related... 'Colby was
a member of the world spanning laymen catholic
organization Opus Dei, which, using a modern
term, could be called right-wing. Opus Dei
played a central in the setting up of Gladio in
the whole of Europe and also in Denmark', Q
claimed. 'The leader of Gladio was Harder who
was probably not a Catholic. But there are not
many Catholics in Denmark and the basic elements
making up the Danish Gladio were former [World
War II] resistance people...(7
[Ibid])'...
When another group of Danish journalist insisted
to be given at least the name of a Danish CIA
contact person, Colby revealed that 'his Danish
contact person' for the Gladio net had been Ebbe
Munck, a central figure of the Danish secret
service and a former member of the resistance
movement who later had entered diplomacy
[immediately after WWII] to become an advisor to
the Danish Queen Margarethe [II]. (10
[November 26, 1990, Danish
daily Information, 'Mere mystik om dansk
Gladio'])"
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. Attorney of the
Nugan Hand Bank, a money laundering center of
heroin profits, mainly from the Golden Triangle,
and run by different US intelligence agencies.
After Nugan Hand's cover was blown and the
operation abandoned, the CIA redirected many of
the Nugan Hand operations to another Pacific
financial institution based in Hawaii, named
Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham and Wong
(BBRDW). By the end of 1980, BBRDW started
setting up offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan,
Indonesia, Singapore, and Australia, all former
Nugan Hand locations, staffing the offices with
some of the same personnel. On 4 September 1973
President Richard Nixon appointed Colby director
of the CIA. In 1973, he was questioned at a
Senate hearing about the 40 Committee he was a
member of. Here he admitted that Henry Kissinger
was its chairman at that moment. 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.
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 at a rain swollen river while leaving his
computer on, dinner at the table, and the door
unlocked. Colby was found with no lifejacket,
which he always wore when on the water,
according to his wife. Some people claim that
Colby was preparing to leak sensitive
information to them. Steven Greer of the
Disclosure Project and Kay Griggs of Colonel
George Griggs were among those who claimed that.
Also, Colby had lent his name to a small
right-wing magazine called Strategic Investment,
which blamed everything from Oklahoma and Iran
Contra drug imports to the death of Vince Foster
solely on Clinton.
The editors of this magazine
suggested that Colby was murdered for giving the
magazine credence and because Colby was going to
give them information on a conspiracy between
Vince Foster and Clinton. However, Colby
reported to his friend Senator John DeCamp that
he should not believe one word he, or anyone
else, wrote in Strategic Investment. Sen. John
DeCamp, 'The Franklin Cover-Up,' second edition,
p.387-388:
"At the time of his death, Bill
was working with Britain's Lord William
Rees-Mogg, and his American sidekick, James Dale
Davidson, publishing a series of newsletters, on
international events, financial opportunities,
and politics [Strategic Investment]. In fact, he
was working on an article for one of those
newsletters when he died. Rees-Mogg and Davidson
are strange birds... After all, he [Rees-Mogg]
used to write that in the coming age of society,
an elite of 5% of the total population would
rule over the other 95% as virtual slaves.
But Rees-Mogg is not just nasty-- he
represents great power... On several occasions,
when I saw Bill or spoke with him during the
last year of his life, I'd ask him whether I
should subscribe to his newsletter, or, whether
he'd just give me a few copies to look over. He
always told me not to waste my money. "Ask me
about any situation your interested in, and I'll
give you as thorough a briefing as I possibly
can. But don't believe a word you read in that
newsletter I'm writing for." Strange. But, then
again, Bill Colby spent his entire adult life in
the shadow world of spies and counter-spies.
Maybe his involvement with Rees-Mogg was more
complicated than I ever speculated... And I
recall another incident... Together with
Rees-Mogg, the most savage press hound attacking
Clinton was one Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, a
Briton... [he] once called me, urgently
demanding a meeting. I had never heard of him
before, and so I asked Bill if he had ever heard
of this fellow.... Bill answered, rather
ominously, as I now look back, "His name is
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. And," he said, "be very
careful."
Colby advised Sen. DeCamp to drop
his investigation into the Franklin child abuse
and satanism case, because he would certainly be
silenced. Instead, Colby recommended that DeCamp
write a book and let the world know what he came
across. Rees-Mogg, by the way, is a member of
the extremely elite Roxburghe Club, together
with the Cecils, Howards, Cavendishes,
Rothschilds, Oppenheimers, and formerly Paul
Mellon. According to Steven Greer, Colby
received access to extraterrestrial material,
together with a black budget of about $50
million. In the mid 1990s, Colby, of the opinion
that the covert projects were out of control,
decided to transfer a large sum and a
revolutionary energy device to Greer's CSETI.
But before he was able to do that, he was
assassinated. The colonel who was the go-between
between Colby and CSETI, and one of Colby's best
friends, soon died of cancer. Greer and one of
his closest associates also contracted cancer in
that time period. Greer was the only one to
survive. |
|
Cradock, Sir Percy
|
Sources: June 29,
1997, The Independence, 'Aitken dropped by the
Right's secret club; Is it the ultimate
dishonour'
Born in 1923.
Studied Law at Cambridge. Joined the British
Foreign Office in 1954. Counsellor in Beijing.
Charge d'Affairs in Beijing 1966-1969. Head of
the Assessments Staff in the Cabinet Office.
Ambassador in Beijing 1978-1984. In this
position he opened and headed the Sino-British
negotiations of 1984, which led to the agreement
that the socialist system of the Chinese
Republic would not be practiced in Hong Kong for
50 years, starting in 1997 when Hong Kong would
have to be given back to China. Hong Kong would
keep its capitalist system and its way of life.
Foreign Policy Adviser (especially on
British-Soviet relations) to Margaret Thatcher
1984-1992. Said to have believed that the slow
collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989-1990 was a
deliberate Communist hoax. Chairman of the Joint
Intelligence Committee (JIC), the coordinating
board between the intelligence agencies (MI5,
MI6, GCHQ, Defense Intelligence Staff) and
politicians 1985-1992. According to the former
City banker and ASTRA chairman Gerald James, a
person named David Hart, a member of Thatcher's
inner circle and close friend of William Casey,
was especially close to Sir Percy Cradock. Hart
at some point boasted:
"Thatcher told me so
much. I could blow her out of the water in five
minutes.", which was a reference to a
possible smear campaign if Thatcher at some
point would not go along with the
City-Intelligence Services cabal. Not a whole
lot has been written about the inner workings of
the Joint Intelligence Committee.
1995, Gerald
James, 'In the Public Interest', p. 128-130:
"Stephen Dorril tells us that when, in July
1961, Cabinet Secretary Norman Brook failed to
pass to the Prime Minister information about War
Minister John Profumo's affair with Christine
Keeler (a friend of KGB officer Eugene Ivanov),
'Harold Wilson stumbled on a crucial secret,
namely the fact that the Cabinet Office, not the
Prime Minister's office, had overall control of
the security service and, crucially, the overall
flow of information': putting the real power
into the hands of permanent government rather
than elected government. Intelligence about arms
comes from intercepted communications, MI6
agents and informers, embassy officials, and
arms dealers. Robin Robison, former
administrative officer for the Joint
Intelligence Committee (JIC) responsible for
disseminating that information, has put on
record that GCHQ [British NSA] arms-deal
information goes via JIC to the Bank of England,
the DTI, FCO, MoD and ECGD, but is rarely passed
into the parliamentary arena. Robinson's job was
to sift through transcripts of bugged telephone
calls and other intercepted material for
inclusion in JIC's 'Red Book' before its
distribution. 'Although the Director-General
[MI5] has a right to direct access to the Prime
Minister, he does not lightly go over the heads
of permanent under-secretaries for fear of
creating future problems,' writes one former
intelligence officer. Ex-Deputy Chief of MI6,
George Kennedy Young [whom Gerald James knew
well], admitted that, when it comes keeping the
Prime Minister informed, the Cabinet Secretary
may conveniently fail to find an 'oppertune
moment' to pass the baton of power from
permanent to elected government. Dorril and
Ramsay quote another security source saying that
the Home Secretary 'hasn't got a clue what is
going on. If he comes around, you lock away any
sensitive files and set up a display file
specifically for him to look at - a spoof file
on some imaginary subversive with lots of
exciting material in it. He's not going to know
any better.'... Again, every week the Queen
receives JIC reports while our own ministers
remain relatively in the dark. We are told that
Her Majesty makes useful comments on these, and
it may be that her comments are more useful than
those that might be forthcoming from ministers,
but I believe that many ordinary people,
brainwashed by the tabloids into thinking that
the purpose of the Royal Family is to offer
entertainment along the lines of soap opera,
would be surprised to learn about this system of
disbursement of vital information to
government... If most Prime Ministers take up
office without much or indeed any knowledge of
the security services, in Thatcher's case she
was briefed by people associated with Brian
Crozier's [former head of Le Cercle] Institute
for the Study of Conflict even as leader of the
Opposition during Jim Callaghan's government...
she was the first Prime Minister to insist that
she sit in on the highly secret Joint
Intelligence Committee meetings."
June 26,
1991, The Times:
"Sir Percy Cradock, the
prime minister's top intelligence adviser, has
become a fondly regarded face in the Pentagon...
There is a more prosaic reason for defence
secretary Richard Cheney's interest in the man
who directs British intelligence traffic through
the corridors of Downing Street: Mr Cheney is
conducting a bureaucratic battle to control his
own spies, and on the strategies necessary for
inter-service fighting, Sir Percy is considered
a modest master."
Made a secret mission to
Peking to lay the ground for John Major's visit
in 1991, the first by a major Western leader
after the Tiananmen Square massacre. The purpose
of this visit was to clear the differences of
opinion over Hong Kong. Retired from government
service in 1992. Member of the Privy Council
since 1993. Member of the Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George. Honorary Fellow of St. John's
College, University of Cambridge. The most
prominent critic of the liberalising policies of
Lord Christopher Patten (Pilgrims Society), the
last Governor of Hong Kong.
His argument was
that Patten, fully backed by the John Major
government, caused unnecessary trouble by
fiddling with plans to create a more
representative government in Hong Kong.
According to Sir Percy, if the old line had been
adhered to, Hong Kong would be enjoying a
smoother transition in 1997. Spoke at the Cercle
in 1997. |
|
Crozier, Brian
Rossiter |
Sources: November
1988 – Issue 17, Lobster Magazine, 'Brian
Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith'
(quoting the Langemann papers); 1993, Brian
Crozier, 'Free Agent', pages 186, 191-193, and
241; June 29, 1997, The Independence, 'Aitken
dropped by the Right's secret club; Is it the
ultimate dishonour'
Worked as a
journalist for many different papers since 1936.
Great supporter of the Truman Doctrine of
Containment, which was first introduced in 1947
by George Kennan for the CFR's Foreign Affairs.
Didn't think the Truman Doctrine went far enough
and was of the opinion that this policy did not
take into account Soviet clandestine subversion
in the West. Reporter in Saigon and Singapore in
1952 and 1953, covering the French Indochina War
and the Malayan Emergency for Reuters and the
Australian Associated Press. Here he made his
first intelligence contacts with the British and
French. Joined the Economist in 1954 and became
editor of the Economist Foreign Report in 1958.
Used his intelligence contacts for background
info and scoops while writing for The Economist
until 1964, the Sunday Times, and the BBC.
Invited into John Hay "Jock" Whitney's circle of
dining friends at the Connaught Hotel, when this
person was ambassador to Great Britain from 1957
to 1961. Also invited at Whitney's residence in
the London area. Whitney was a
Rockefeller-associate, a friend of the British
royal family, a CIA cooperator, and in a 1973
membership list of the Pilgrims Society, he
appears as a vice president of this club,
together with David K.E. Bruce (head of the
Bruce family, of Robert the Bruce) and Winthrop
W. Aldrich, an uncle of the Rockefeller
brothers. Crozier became an anti-communist
activist in 1958, working with the CIA, MI6, and
IRD (Information Research Department; secret
anti-communist intelligence organization of the
Foreign Office 1946-1977) on projects he
supported.
Got his own office at the IRD after
some time. 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".
Also began
to work with the intelligence agencies of
France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Morocco,
Iran, Argentina, Chile, and Taiwan. Invited to
Antoine Bonnemaison's (a French colonel and
SDECE agent specialized in psychological
warfare) Centre de Recherche du Bien Politique
in 1959, which initially was a secret discussion
group involving intelligence officers,
academics, businessmen, a few politicians, and
trade union leaders of France, Germany, and the
Netherlands. Besides countering communist
subversion the "colloques" were aimed at
Franco-German rapprochement. Crozier was a
member of Interdoc, a European anti-communist
subversion group in which the Dutch BVD officers
who attended the "colloques" (and likely Le
Cercle) played an important role. When
Bonnemaison's Centre de Recherche was killed by
de Gaulle in 1963, Bonnemaison set up the Centre
d'Observation du Mouvement des Idées, this time
financed by French corporations. The group lost
its international character, and only Crozier
remained a regular participant from outside
France. In 1964, soon after he left the
Economist, Crozier became an official consultant
to the IRD and was approached by the CIA's
Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) to
reconstruct, commercialize, and take over their
features services. Crozier turned down the
offer, because he was writing for dozens of
international newspapers, was giving lectures,
and was working on a book. Some time later he
did accept an offer to travel to South America
and prepare a report on the CCF's
Spanish-language services. Didn't know much
about the CCF at the time, besides that it had
been described to him as "very rum". Worried
about Salvador Allende in Chile at the time, who
described as a communist-oriented demagogue.
Allende would be overthrown by the US in the
1970s. In 1965, Crozier was notified that his
recommendations of professionalizing the
Spanish-language services were accepted by the
CCF. Therefore the CIA's CCF had attracted John
Hay Whitney to gather the necessary funds to
accomplish this. Brian Crozier now accepted the
part-time job to reconstruct Forum Service
(funded by the CCF), made it Forum World
Features (FWF), and became its president until
the early 1970s. Crozier wasn't to happy that
John Hay Whitney had changed most of the terms
that were orally accepted to, but nevertheless
accepted the position. Whitney bought FWF in
1966. Richard Mellon Scaife bought FWF in 1973,
until he quickly dissolved in 1975, just before
Time out magazine exposed the role of FWF as a
counter to communist propaganda. The
International Herald Tribune (IHT) did a follow
up article, which Crozier, as he would later do
with Lobster's articles on Le Cercle, described
as a "curious mixture of fact and fantasy."
And of course, the author, Bernard Nossiter,
turned out to be a KGB asset. In 1967 Crozier
published his biography on Franco, for which he
had lived a year in Madrid. July 10, 1967, Brian
Crozier in The Times, 'Can the personal system
of government survive?':
"Today, the killing
of the rich and the burning of churches must
have lost much of their old appeal. In fact,
more Spaniards than ever before now have a stake
in prosperity and progress. Why, then, are so
many Spaniards indifferent or hostile to the
regime that has brought them stability and a
taste of affluence?"
October 28, 1967, The
Times, 'Franco: the passion to survive' (review
of Crozier's book):
"[Franco] was never an
orator like Hitler or Mussolini, or a theorist
like de Gaulle; nor is he, despite the
propaganda of the Left, a "fascist dictator".
Rather, as Mr. Crozier points out, it was Franco
who smashed Spanish fascism- something the
Republic failed to achieve. In his main purpose
- to improve the material conditions of all
Spaniards - Franco believed implicitly in Order
and Discipline as the essential prerequisites of
progress; and it is as the enemy of Order that
he fears Communism - of which, Mr. Crozier
reveals, he began to make a careful study as
early as 1928... [Franco's] regime, despite its
faults - it is vastly less oppressive than those
of eastern Europe - has given his people the
longest period of peace, stability, and progress
in modern Spanish history. If it was not for
love of him that they voted overwhelmingly in
his favour in last year's Referendum, it was
certainly for fear of what might take his
place."
December 21, 1973, Brian Crozier
for The Times, 'Prime Minister's assassination
may push Spain even farther to the right':
"General Franco is still a hate-symbol of the
international left, which has never forgiven him
his victory..." November 2, 1982, The
Times, 'Is democracy such a good thing?':
"We all have our intellectual assumptions, and
the prevailing assumption in the West is that
party democracy is necessarily good and
dictatorship necessarily bad... The cause of
relief was that the fragile flower of Spanish
democracy was being saved - the important thing
being the salvation of party democracy, not
whether party democracy is necessarily good for
Spain or will necessarily solve Spain's
problems, which is at least open to doubt if
hard facts mean anything. Since Franco died in
1975, inflation and unemployment have soared in
Spain. So have terrorism and non-political
crime. Moreover, the politicians have saddled
their country with an unworkable constitution...
No doubt one should make allowances after a
dictatorship of 40 years, but the assumption
that democracy is going to work in Spain does, I
think, remain to be proved. Within a year of
Franco's death, more than 500 political groups
had registered... In France, a big majority
voted against [Cercle associate] President
Giscard d'Estaing's desire to extend his own
mandate - and landed the French people with a
socialist-communist coalition they did not want.
In Germany, Herr Helmut Kohl [funded by fringe
Vatican interests] came to power by a
constitutional device which leaves him dependent
on the support of Herr Schmidt's former
coalition partners, the Liberals, who will
probably be wiped out at the general elections
next March. Against this dismal record, it might
be a sound principle to value freedom and good
government rather than party democracy..."
May 2, 1985, The Times, Spain's Soldiers waiting
for their orders:
"Contrary yo received
opinion, the attempted coup four years ago was
not to be a coup d'état but rather a coup de
force. The army had no intention of taking over
the government, but rather of forcing King Juan
Carlos to suspend constitutial rule with army
backing, for a limited period, so that various
problems, especially terrorism, could be brought
under control without allowing the civilian
politicians to continue, as the plotters saw it,
to make a mess of things. In other words, it was
to be a temporary takeover on the Turkish
model..."
In 1970, after consulting with
Leonard B. Schapiro, an intelligence-connected
anti-communist London School of Economics
professor, Crozier set up the Institute for the
Study of Conflict (ISC). The main object of the
institute was to expose Soviet subversion
worldwide. Page 96 of Crozier biography:
"Throughout my period as Director, the Institute
for the Study of Conflict was involved in
exposing the fallacies of 'détente' and warning
the West of the dangers inherent a policy of
illusion."
Tried to get initial funding by
John Hay Whitney (through this person's
financial advisor, John Train, a very close
associate of Sir James Goldsmith), the CIA, the
IRD, and MI6, but failed. Received some initial,
but very limited funding from BP and Shell. Soon
thereafter, through his CIA contacts, he met
with the now quite controversial Richard Mellon
Scaife, who granted $100,000 a year to Crozier's
ISC. Scaife was part heir to the Mellon fortune,
a major shareholder in Gulf Oil, and the person
who took over Crozier's FWF in the early 1970s.
When the ISC took off, Crozier developed a
closer relationship with the CIA and met with
its representatives about 4 times a year in
Langley. In 1975, Crozier helped set up a
Washington-based Institute for the Study of
Conflict (WISC). George Ball, a close friend of
Jean Monnet and next to David Rockefeller a long
time permanent attendee of Bilderberg, became
chairman of the WISC. Approached by Jean Violet
in 1971, after this person had read a March 1971
interview with Crozier that appeared in the US
News and World Report. Violet, a member of Opus
Dei, and French, German, and Vatican
intelligence, was funded and supported by Carlo
II Pesenti, a person whose business empire was
sponsored by the Vatican, and Otto von Habsburg,
head of the Paneuropa Society and a member of
Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta. Francois
Duchene, one of Jean Monnet's closest
associates; Crozier's former Economist
colleague; and head of the elite International
Institute for Strategic Studies, which describes
itself as,
"the world's leading authority on
political-military conflict," introduced
Violet to Crozier as a person who represented
"a powerful consortium of French business
interests." (Crozier, 'Free Agent', p. 97)
According to Crozier, it took many years before
he would find out that Violet worked as a
Special Advocate for French intelligence
involved in psychological warfare for French
interests. Involved with the Pinay Circle
between 1971 and 1985. The ISC received
assignments from the "Pinay Committee". In 1980
Violet asked him to take over the presidency of
Le Cercle. In 1981 the Cercle-linked Heritage
Foundation was funding Brian Crozier's
International Freedom Fund. In 1985 Julian Amery
became the new president of Le Cercle, at the
recommendation of Crozier. In 1976, Brian
Crozier set up a covert advisory committee
called 'Shield', in order to secretly brief
Margaret Thatcher and her closest colleagues on
security and intelligence. The idea came from
Sir Stephen Hastings, a Conservative member of
parliament who had been a SAS soldier and SOE
agent during WWII, before being recruited in
MI6. Shield was composed of Crozier; Hastings;
Conservative backbencher and WWII MI6 agent
Nicholas Elliott; and Harry Sporborg of Hambros
Bank, who was a deputy head of the SOE during
WWII. Lord Carrington
(Order of the Garter, Privy Council, president
Pilgrims Society, chairman Bilderberg; Kissinger
Associates) was among the very few
officials that were briefed, but opposed almost
everything that Crozier's group wrote down.
Crozier adopted Jean Violet's 'Psychological
Action' programme, which was a technique to find
quick, short answers to three basic questions:
What do People want? What do they Fear? And what
do they feel strongly about?
After reading Crozier's short answers to these questions, she
said to him:
"From now on, Brian, these are
my ideas." According to Hastings obituary
in the Daily Telegraph of January 11, 2005: "Hastings's background in MI6 gave him a certain
mystique, and he was often embroiled in
controversy concerning Communist infiltration.
In 1977 he raised a storm of protest by alleging
that five prominent trades union officials were
agents for Communist countries. This information
was culled from tape recordings made by the
Czech former spy and defector Joseph Frolik. The
following year, before Mrs Thatcher came into
office, Hastings and Brian Crozier wrote her a
paper setting out "the diabolical nature of the
Communist conspiracy" against Britain. Mrs
Thatcher was appalled: "Stephen," she said,
"I've read every word and I'm shattered. What
should we do?... In 1986 Hastings successfully
sued the Observer for libel following
allegations that he had been one of two
Conservative MPs involved in an MI5 plot to oust
Harold Wilson.""
Thatcher subsequently was
elected in 1979, 1983, and 1987. Council member
of the Foreign Affairs Research Institute (FARI),
together with Julian Amery
(later Cercle head), Lord Chalfont
(Jonathan Institute;
anti-communist associate of the Cercle and
Crozier), Robert Moss
(Le Cercle), founder
Geoffrey Stewart-Smith (Conservatice
MP; adventures were allegedly sponsored by MI5;
leading member of the Conservative Monday Club;
chairman of its foreign affairs study group of
the Monday Club in 1966; editor of East West
Digest, an anti-communist magazine sent free to
all MPs at the time), Sir Frederic
Mackarness Bennett (son of
a politician who was an appeaser to Hitler and
member of the Anglo-German Society; owned a
Rolls-Royce and four homes, one of them in the
Cayman Islands; director Kleinwort Benson Europe
(his mother was a Kleinwort); long time Lloyds
underwriter; influential member of Parliament
from the 1950s to the 1980s; member Monday Club;
always warning people about the KGB threat and
supported every regime that opposed the USSR;
chair FARI in 1978; vice-president of the
European-Atlantic Group; leading official in the
private group Council of Europe in the late
1970s and 1980s; honorary director of the BCCI
in Hong Kong until 1986; Member of the Privy
Council since 1985; ridiculed his party's
(Conservatives) for their Euroscepticism after
his retirement in 1987; supported Pinochet;
Freeman of the City of London; has been to
Bilderberg), and air vice marshal Stuart
Menual. Edgar O'Ballance of the International
Institute for Strategic Studies was a scholar at
FARI. FARI was said to have strong links to the
CIA (which, of course, it had), and besides
receiving money from the pro-apartheid
government in South-Africa, reportedly also
received funds from Lockheed. March 20, 2004,
Daily Telegraph, Obituary of Geoffrey
Stewart-Smith:
"In 1974 he had sought to
distance his Foreign Affairs Circle from the
World Anti-Communist League because of the
WACL's strong anti-Semitic element, saying: "We
wouldn't touch them with a barge pole." However,
he later admitted that another of his
organisations, the Foreign Affairs Research
Institute, had been mainly funded by the
apartheid government in South Africa. The
admission came in 1987 when Stewart-Smith
appeared at the London Bankruptcy Court,
disclosing debts of pounds 150,388 and no
assets."
In 1980, FARI began organising an
annual 'balance of power' conference in Britain,
which attracted people like Edwin Feulner
(president of the Heritage
Foundation; member Le Cercle; Knight of Malta),
Ray S. Cline (OSS 1943-1946
and worked in the Far-East with Paul Helliwell
and Gen. Singlaub; good friend of Chiang
Kai-shek's son; set up the Asian People's
Anti-Communist League (APACL) in Taiwan and
South Korea in 1955-1956; CIA station chief in
Taiwan 1958-1962; deputy director CIA 1962-1966;
CIA station chief in Bonn 1966-1969 where he
oversaw the local Gladio forces; confirmed the
authenticity of FM 30-31A & B, instruction
manuals of the DIA which included false flag
terrorist actions that were to be blamed on the
USSR; director Department of State's Bureau
Intelligence and Research 1969-1973; director
world power studies at Georgetown's CSIS
1973-1986; co-founder of the WACL with Gen.
Singlaub; representative of CAUSA, founded by
Moonie Col. Bo Hi Pak; the Jonathan Institute;
founder of the US Global Strategy Council in
1981 and headed it from 1986 to 1994; great
supporter of non-lethal weapons), Frank
Barnett (founder National
Strategy Information Center in Washington in
1976, a think tank dedicated to the preservation
of containment militarism; member Committee on
Present Danger), and General Daniel O.
Graham (Republican Roman
Catholic; deputy CIA director to William Colby
in 1972-1974; director DIA 1974-1976; consultant
American Security Council 1978-1981; founding
chair High Frontier, Inc. 1981-1995, an
organization intended to promote Star Wars;
member USGSC under Ray Cline; member advisory
board CAUSA; member of the Moon-linked American
Freedom Coalition; director National Religious
Broadcasters, together with Jerry Falwell and
Pat Robertson). In June 1978, FARI
co-sponsored a conference in Brighton, England
with Crozier's Institute for the Study of
Conflict. Richard Mellon Scaife and William
Casey (Cercle member)
were among the participants. FARI in the late
1970s reported that the Navy of the USSR had
shifted its focus from anti-carrier to
anti-submarine warfare. It reported that the
communists were trying to recruit men in the US
Army, mainly blacks and Puerto Ricans. It also
warned for the vulnerability of the West to a
meltdown of the computer grid. August 15, 1978,
Chronicle Telegram, 'U.S. vulnerable in computer
war':
"The United States, moreover, has been
far too eager to supply the Soviet Union with
sophisticated computer technology and training,
Baron believes. "Computer companies in the West
fall over each other in their enthusiasm to
compete for the favors of the Soviet buying
agencies,", writes Baron. "The western
businessman's sheer naivete in dealing with the
astute Soviet negotiators is quite depressing.""
Following is an article from an author of the
FARI group. It shows how Crozier and associates
imply that the Soviet Union was behind terrorism
worldwide. January 13, 1982, The Frederick Post,
'Terrorism a world war':
"(The following
commentary is by Col. Ronald Waring, author of
five books on politico-military subjects and two
novels. He has published numerous articles in
professional military journals. He currently
serves as a governor of the Foreign Affairs
Research Institute, London.)... Looking back,
the year 1981 should go down in history as The
Year of the Terrorist. It started with the
attempted murder and serious wounding of
President Reagan, to be followed shortly
afterward by the attempted assassination of Pope
John Paul II. In early October there was the
brutal murder of President Sadat of Egypt.
Finally, on Dec. 17, U. S. Army Brigadier
General James Dozier was kidnapped by the
Italian Red Brigade in Verona, Italy. While acts
of violence against world leaders have made
banner headlines, the deaths by terrorism of
literally hundreds of men and women all over the
world go almost unnoticed. In Northern Ireland
thousands have died by bomb and bullet, in Spain
and in Italy more are shot down. Virtually all
over Europe, terrorists' bombs bring death and
destruction. In Lebanon, terrorism has escalated
into civil war, while in the bloody arena of
Central America trucks go round collecting the
corpses of those murdered by terrorist gangs.
Only a few years ago we would have been sickened
and horrified by all this, but today we have
come to accept it as almost routine. Almost
every country has its terrorist organizations
and they are proliferating like dragons' teeth.
In West Germany there is the Red Army Faction,
which recently attempted to assassinate the
Commander of the U. S. Army in Europe and has
attacked other U. S. Military personnel in
Germany. They are loosely linked with the
remnants of the Baader Meinhoff Gang and are
well organized and deadly. In Germany, too,
there is the Grey Wolves Organization among the
Turkish "guest workers" there. At first it was
thought that it was they who had launched Ali
Agca, the Turkish gunman who attempted to kill
the Pope. Now it is generally believed that Agca
was manipulated by a far deeper and more
complicated plot, directed from Moscow. Italy
has become the home of terrorism and kidnapping.
The notorious Red Brigades are only one of many
Italian terrorist organizations, one of which
planted a bomb at the Bologna railway station a
year ago that killed 85 people. In Spain, the
Basque separatists and militant Marxist ETA
carry out a systematic campaign of murder,
kidnapping and bombings. In Ireland the
objectives of the IRA and the Provisional IRA
are roughly the same; that is, the expulsion of
the British from Ireland and the unification of
Ireland as a Marxist socialist state. The
political objective of most terrorist
organizations is the imposition of some form of
extreme left-wing government. Some terrorism is
attributable to far-right groups, but Left and
Right become meaningless political terms, and we
find ideologically left wing groups cooperating
with rightists in a common objective, the
destruction of organized society and
civilization. Throughout the Middle East,
various guerrilla and terrorist organizations
operate generally under the Palestine Liberation
Organization, and, operating from bases in
Lebanon and Jordan, make attacks on Israeli
territory. Earlier this year, a Pakistani group
organized by the son of Ali Bhutto, the former
President of Pakistan, carried out a spectacular
skyjacking. This organization calls itself Al
Zulfikar and is run from Kabul in Afghanistan by
Murtaza Bhutto. It is, of course, ideologically
on the far left. Polisario is operating on the
borders of Morocco, armed, supplied and trained
largely by Libya's Col. Gadaffi. This has now
become a formidable military force which has
inflicted defeats on Moroccan regular army
units, occupied towns and large tracts of
country. Again largely Marxist-oriented, their
ultimate aim is to topple the King of Morocco.
In the Americas there are numerous Marxist
terrorist organizations. In Guatemala more than
4,000 leftist guerrillas are trying to overthrow
the government. In El Salvador five identified
groups, which have formed the Farabundo Marti
National Liberation Front, are fighting a
guerrilla war. They are largely financed, armed
and supplied by Cuba. On the other side rightist
"death squads" have killed some 3,000 people in
the past two years. In Brazil, in Ecuador,
Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia and the Argentine,
terrorist organizations exist on a greater or
smaller scale. In Puerto Rico there are at least
five groups which have carried out terrorist
attacks in Puerto Rico, and in the United
States. These groups demand independence for
Puerto Rico: in 1979 they attacked and ambushed
a U. S. Navy vehicle and killed two servicemen,
and in 1975 they set off a bomb in a New York
restaurant, killing four people. The CIA
reported 760 acts of international terrorism in
1980, and the Associated Press in a worldwide
survey identified some 50 major terrorist
groups. The numbers of assassins, bombers,
kidnappers, skyjackers and terrorist killers now
runs not just into battalions, but into
divisions and armies. They are to be found
everywhere in almost every country. The idea
that murder for a political motive, if not quite
respectable, is somehow more a misdemeanor than
a crime is pernicious nonsense. An attack is
being mounted against our society, no less
deadly than a war for those that it touches. In
fact it is a form of warfare, and we should
combat it to the limit of our power."
In
February of 1977, Crozier created The 61,
together with Nicholas Elliott, general Vernon
Walters (Graduated from
Stonyhurst College, a 400-year-old Jesuit
secondary school in Lancashire, England, without
going to University; Still managed to become
fluent in 8 languages, including Russian and
Chinese; Knight of the Sovereign Military Order
of Malta; lifelong bachelor and did not drink
alcohol; Protege of Fritz Kraemer; aide to
Pilgrims Averell Harriman and Henry Kissinger;
co-founder and deputy chief of staff of SHAPE;
BOSS (South-African intelligence) supposedly
attributed the JFK murder to him; Military
Attaché in Rome in 1963, which is generally
overlooked in his biographies; deputy director
CIA 1972-1976; Sent all over the world on to
confidential missions by Ronald Reagan, together
with co-SMOM member and Pilgrim Alexander Haig;
Acted as a replacement of DCI William Casey for
some time, making at least a dozen undercover
missions to the Vatican; CFR) and "a
leading figure in a major City of London bank"
[p. 135]. Sir Peter Tennant is likely to have
been the anonymous host, "a leading figure
in the bank", that chaired Crozier's
"very secret" Sunday morning , February 13,
1977 meeting at the executive suite of the
anonymous "leading City of London bank",
that established the private sector intelligence
group The 61. The meeting was attended by three
British (Crozier, Elliott,
and the anonymous banker), four Americans
(Gen. Walters; a Viennese born American who
represented a big Belgian corporation; and two
Congressional staffers), and one German
(a member of the Bundestag
and anti-Soviet author, probably Cercle member
Count Hans Huyn).
Jean Violet could not
attend because of ill health. Crozier proposed
the creation of a,
"Private Sector
Operational Intelligence agency, beholden to no
government, but at the disposal of allied or
friendly governments for certain tasks which,
for one reason or another, they were no longer
able to tackle."
Its main purpose would be
to circumvent national legislation, avoid
possible political embarrassments, and to
conduct more effective non-violent
counter-subversion operations. All members
agreed on the fact that this organization should
be created and that it should be kept very
secret to any outsiders. The target figure for
The 61 became $5 million a year, although it
isn't known how these funds were gathered. The
61 supplied secret intelligence about the
Communist empire (and its subversion) to
specific people in the White House, the British
government, the French government, and the
Vatican.
March 13, 2006, The Daily Mail, 'A very
British coup':
"Brian Crozier, the security
expert who had made a study of communist
insurgency in Britain and would later advise
Margaret Thatcher, was twice invited to address
officers at the Royal Military Academy,
Sandhurst. 'I took it upon myself to make them
understand the problems of communism and that
they might, at some time, have to intervene to
destroy this danger,' he says. 'There was
absolute silence as I explained how the trades
unions were very heavily penetrated by
communists and their sympathisers and were
exerting a dangerous influence on the Labour
Party, which largely depended on them. They
wanted to hear every word I said.' After his
speech, he received a number of private phone
calls from very senior serving officers. 'I have
never named them and I never will,' declares
Crozier. 'They were standing ready to act if
necessary. There were no "buts" about it. If
things had gone on as they were, they would have
moved... [article gives many details about the
plot]."
It was exposed in 1982 by the
Langemann Papers. Crozier wrote 'The Rise and
Fall of the Soviet Empire'. Claims he was a good
friend of Richard "Prince of Darkness" Perle and
general Richard Stilwell, the latter was a known
Cercle participant and an expert in guerilla
warfare. Brian Crozier and his protege Robert
Moss were participants in the 1979 conference on
international terrorism of the Jonathan
Institute, a think tank set up in memory of Lt.
Col. Jonathan Netanyahu, brother of Benjamin
Netanyahu of the Likud party. Netanyahu helped
organize the private, Israeli-based institute
whose public board included people like Shimon
Peres (Labour prime minister) and Menachem Begin
(Likud prime minister). May 6, 1980, The
Gleaner, 'Soviets and terrorism':
"The
Jonathan Institute of Jerusalem, Israel, has
published a pamphlet on "International
Terrorism: The Soviet Connection". The pamphlet
consists of a number of presentations made at
the Jerusalem Conference on International
Terrorism held July 2-5 last year... The first
contributor, professor Richard Pipes [associate
of Brian Crozier] of Harvard, ... stated "The
Soviet Union has enjoyed great success with
terror and profited from it in many ways... We
must expose its support of terrorism as widely
as possible, and make the public aware of Soviet
complicity... Brian Crozier, Director of the
Institute for the Study of Conflict in London
[and still chairman of Le Cercle], discussed the
direct support that the Soviet Union has given
to terrorist movements... Mr Crozier declared
that the Soviets have provided training for
terrorists within the USSR. He goes on to note
the use of proxies by the Soviets Libya for
example benefited from one of the biggest arms
deals in history, an estimated $12 billion worth
of arms were sold here by the Soviets in 1976...
The other contributors, Ray S. Cline
[former deputy director
CIA; member WACL; founder of the US Global
Strategy Council in 1981 and headed it from 1986
to 1994], Executive Director of the
Centre for Strategic Studies at Georgetown
University, Robert Moss [le Cercle], Editor of
the Economist Foreign Report, Congressman Jack
Kemp, Major General George J. Keegan
[chief Air Force
Intelligence at the 7th Air Force in Vietnam,
1967-1969; head Air Force Intelligence
1971-1977; retired in 1977; directly after his
retirement claimed that the USSR was working on
charged-particle beam weapons; vice chair
Coalition for Peace through Strength 1980-1993],
and Senator Henry Jackson [neocon
pro-zionist democrat; the Henry Jackson Society,
founded in 2005, is named after him] also
look closely at Soviet involvement in
terrorism."
Some other participants in the
1979 conference were former CIA director George
Bush, journalists George Will, Rome-based
journalist Claire Sterling
(published the book Terror Network in 1980,
which claimed the IRA, ETA, PLO, and Red Brigade
were all controlled by the USSR), Jacques
Soustelle (allegedly
responsible for the transfer of nuclear
technology to Israel; founder of OAS that tried
to destabilize Algeria and assassinate de
Gaulle), and Lord Alun Chalfont
(minister in the Foreign
and Commonwealth Office 1964-1970; Privy Council
since 1964; Pilgrims Society executive since
1979; Conservative Monday Club; pro-apartheid;
director pro-junta British-Chilean Council;
council member of FARI with Cercle
members/presidents Brian Crozier, Julian Amery,
and Robert Moss, just as the aristocrat Sir
Frederic M. Bennett; chair Institute for the
Study of Terrorism, a clone of Crozier's
anti-communist Institute for the Study of
Conflict; member Committee for a Free Britain,
which spent more than Pounds 200,000 on press
advertisements attacking Labour during the 1987
election; member Committee for a Free World, an
American neo-conservative group; member Media
Monitoring Unit, which attempted to "expose"
left-wing bias in television news and current
affairs programmes; consultant to private
security firm Zeus Security Consultants (did
high level government contract work), owned by
Major Peter Hamilton, a close friend of Stephan
Kock, the MI5, MI6, SAS agent who allegedly once
headed a government assassination team, Group
13; director at the security firm Securipol;
close friend of the extremely influential
neoconservative John Lehman, apparently a top
player in the military-industrial complex;
chairman second neoconservative Jonathan
conference; deputy chairman of the Independent
Broadcasting Authority). Jacques
Soustelle later became a board member, just as
George Shultz. The second Jonathan Conference on
international terrorism, organized in 1984, was
opened by a keynote speech of secretary of state
George P. Shultz (Bechtel
executive and according to Dr. Greer part of a
UFO insider study group; Bohemian Grove camp
Mandalay; National Security Planning Group;
chair advisory council J.P. Morgan Chase; ran
Reagan's election campaign; largely put together
the George Bush Jr. administration; etc.),
who was a key organizer of the meeting with
Douglas Feith and Benjamin Netanyahu.
He claimed
that,
"pre- emptive actions by Western
democracies may be necessary to counter the
Soviet Union and other nations that... have
banded together in an international "league of
terror.""
This was the real birth of the
War on Terror and a policy of pre-emptive
strikes, which became standard almost 20 years
later after 9/11. Caspar Weinberger
(Also from Bechtel; Defense
Secretary; National Security Planning Group;
later Pilgrims Executive; member Bohemian Grove
camp Mandalay) suggested that the United
Nations might be called upon to deal with
terrorism. Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.N. Ambassador at
the time and still a very influential
neoconservative, disagreed with that last notion
and said it would be better to create a whole
new organization to deal with international
terrorism and "the power behind it, the Soviet
Union". Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
(worked for Averell
Harriman in the 1950s; important United Nations
official in the 1970s; important DLC operative;
chairman of the 1997 Commission on Protecting
and Reducing Government Secrecy, which shed a
little bit of light on the inner workings of the
Black and Deep Black Programs, the latter
officially known as Unacknowledged Special
Access Programs; friend of the Rothschild
family) and Yitzhak Rabin (Labour prime
minister) supported Kirkpatrick. Senator Alan
Cranston (D-Calif.), a member of the Foreign
Relations Committee,
"told the conference
that Iraq is shopping for a new nuclear reactor
and is fortifying the atomic plant site bombed
by Israel in 1981. He said he also has
information that "unwitting" American firms
provided Iraq with several components for
chemical weapons used against Iran in the
44-month war between the two countries."
Among the other participants were Israel's
Minister of Defense Moshe Arens; Senators Alan
Cranston (president of the
World Federalist Society), Alfonse
D'Amato (leading figure in
Iran-Contra investigation), and Paul
Laxalt (lieutenant governor
Nevada 1962-1966; general chairman National
Republican Party 1983-1987; chair of Ronald
Reagan for President in 1976, 1980, and 1984;
co-chairman George Bush for President in 1988
and 1992); Rep. Jack Kemp; William
Webster (director FBI
1978-1987; director CIA 1987-1991; partner
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy since 1991;
director Anhauser-Busch); presidential
counselor Edwin Meese
(Heritage Foundation); Michael Ledeen
(CIA connected Zionist
extremist); Arthur Goldberg; Eugene
Rostow; columnist George Will and television
newsmen David Brinkley. July 31, 1993, The US
Economist, 'Free Agent' book review:
"The
trouble is that all extremists see the world
through distorting glasses. Brian Crozier's
squint so far right that one can ask how much of
what he saw was in his own head... He believes
its Labour Party in the 1970s had "largely been
taken over by the subversive left"; that in the
nation "the dominant role, increasingly, was
played by extreme-left Labour MPs and
constituency managers"; that subversion would be
Mrs Thatcher's "greatest problem" in power. And
so on. "Bonkers," one (rightish) Labour MP wrote
to him of such views; "a radical incomprehension
of the Labour movement . . . contradicted by
manifest facts."... Be grateful it has gone no
further. For Mr Crozier, 1975-78 was a
"critical" time, when Britain, via the
then-ruling Labour Party, risked far-left
takeover. He several times lectured army
officers on their response. One bunch gave him a
five-minute ovation... Should a journalist feed
secret services? Or, like Mr Crozier, visit the
Elysee "ostensibly to gather material for an
article"; in fact to spy on de Gaulle? Should
western spooks run "press" agencies? Mr
Crozier's agency did not lie; that is, put out
crude invention. But here is a man who calls
even IRD analyses "rigorously accurate". Judge
that by his account of Chile before the
CIA/Pinochet coup of 1973. It is as if a
puritan's account of Soho were offered as a
guide to London."
Crozier was among those
intelligence and army officers, supported by
Lord Mountbatten (husband
of Queen Elizabeth II; founder 1001 Club;
lifelong associate of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild),
general Walter Walker
(counter subversion specialist in countries like
Burma and Malaya; NATO commander-in-chief; like
some others in Le Cercle, he believed the Soviet
collapse was not the end of Soviet subversion of
the West), and colonel David Stirling
(founder of the SAS;
founder GB75, which was intended to intervene
against "communist" labor unions in the event of
widespread strikes, and basically to shove
Harold Wilson's government aside; associate of
James Goldsmith, Tiny Rowland, and Lord Robert
Cecil, all members or associate members of Le
Cercle). Scholar at the Heritage
Foundation 1983-1995. August 21, 1991, The
Times, 'On guard: world security in the wake of
Moscow coup':
"Sir, The amazing thing about
the fall of President Gorbachev is not that he
has fallen but that he lasted as long as he did.
He had tried to square an ideological circle:
declaring his allegiance to Lenin while
attempting to undo the system Lenin created, and
keeping the Leninist party in power. As his
removal by the hardliners confirms, the system
was unreformable. It was absurd to suppose that
it could be reformed, and folly on the West's
part to help a deeply unpopular and unelected
leader to keep Lenin's party in power. With the
hardliners (appointed by him) in charge in the
Kremlin, the cold war will now be resumed. The
only hope for a break with the past lies with
Boris Yeltsin, Eduard Shevardnadze and others
who broke with the party. But the obstacles they
face are daunting: the army, the KGB and the
interior forces. Perhaps, by now, President Bush
may be regretting his parting words after his
visit to Moscow: "God bless the USSR.""
Gorbachev fought to preserve a socialist
government and the unity of the Soviet Union,
while Shevardnadze advocated further political
and economic liberalisation. He feared the
nationalists. Shevardnadze returned briefly as
Soviet Foreign Minister in November 1991 but
resigned with Gorbachev the following month when
the Soviet Union was formally dissolved. Yeltsin
rose to power. In the aftermath of Iran-Contra
and the BCCI scandal, in which leading members
of the US establishment were (mostly behind the
scenes) exposed as the largest drug traffickers
on earth, Crozier decided to do blame the
communists of doing the same thing, without
mentioning the revelations about the much bigger
scale trade of his US buddies. January 28, 1990,
Sunday Times, 'How the Colombian cocaine chain
leads to Fidel Castro'.
"Estevez revealed
that Cuba had built up a multi-million-dollar
drug trafficking network, with thousands of
agents in the United States. He said Fidel
Castro was personally involved in drug
trafficking, with the aim of promoting violent
crime, addiction and corruption in North
America, while simultaneously financing
terrorism in Latin America: a perfect definition
of ``narco-terrorism''... By then the drug trade
was bringing Castro's regime an estimated $10m a
month. Another beneficiary was the Sandinista
regime in Nicaragua. It emerged for the first
time that the leading role in the drug traffic
was played by Pablo Escobar Gaviria, now the
most wanted of the Medellin cartel fugitives in
Colombia. Escobar was living in Cuba with the
full assistance of Fidel Castro. Another
fugitive, the American financier Robert Vesco,
was believed to be Escobar's number two. The
American authorities had tried unsuccessfully to
extradite Vesco from Costa Rica and the
Bahamas... On February 10, 1988, Blandon
[Medellin cartel baron] testified before a
Senate sub-committee that Castro and Noriega
were working together to promote ``drug-financed
guerrilla movements throughout Latin America''.
He saw Castro himself brokering an agreement in
Havana to end a $5m ``misunderstanding'' between
the Medellin cartel and Panama... There is
little reason to doubt that Ochoa a friend of
Fidel's brother and defence minister, Raul
Castro was indeed involved in drug smuggling.
But this was not the issue. His sin, in Castro's
eyes, was that he was bypassing the mechanism
controlled by the Castro brothers. Moreover, he
had unwisely emulated the Castro brothers in the
dispensation of patronage to friends and aides.
This is the view of Arturo Cruz Jr, the son of a
former Nicaraguan contra leader, and one-time
friend of the glamorous Fawn Hall, former
secretary to Colonel Oliver North. Not only did
the execution of Ochoa remove a potential rival,
it also enabled Castro, at no cost to himself,
to improve his image at a time when continuing
financial and military assistance from the
Soviet Union may be in doubt, and when Castro's
relations with Mikhail Gorbachev are notoriously
under strain."
November 23, 1991, The
Times, Brian Crozier:
"Sir, The outcry
against a single European currency is puzzling.
It would (will?) make travelling much easier: no
more hurried reference to pocket calculators, no
more middlemen's high percentage profits... All
Europeans would welcome a responsibly and
impartially governed central bank where an ecu
(if that is to be its name) would be worth the
same in 2001 as in 1991."
Wikipedia quoted
Brian Crozier, seemingly as someone with an
"objective" look at Opus Dei:
"Another
historian, Brian Crozier, states that Opus Dei
"is not, as its enemies either think or want
others to think, a political party; nor is it a
political pressure group...Opus Dei was not a
group to be conciliated by being given a share
in power, as the Monarchists were, or the
Falange, or the Army."
Distinguished
visiting fellow Hoover Institute, Stanford,
California, 1996-2001. Member of the
International Advisory Council of the Victims of
Communism Memorial Foundation, whose leadership
is involved with the Moonies. Cercle member
Edwin Feulner sits on the National Advisory
Council of the VCMF, and Cercle participant
Zbigniew Brzezinski used to. According to
Crozier, "neo-colonialism" is a term invented by
the communists. |
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Duncan, Alan |
Sources: June 29,
1997, The Independence, 'Aitken dropped by the
Right's secret club; Is it the ultimate
dishonour'; 18 June 2000, Sunday Telegraph /
Lobster Magazine, Issue 40, winter 2000-2001;
April 2, 2003, The Guardian, 'War in the Gulf:
Billionaire linked to Labour arrested in London:
France demands extradition of Iraqi friend of UK
politicians'
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 Cercle 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
minimize 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. April 2,
2003, The Guardian:
"[Auchi's] Le Cercle
meetings - originally a cold war group of
businessmen and politicians - have brought him
into contact with political figures such as Lord
Lamont and the Tory MP Alan Duncan, and with
intelligence officers such as the former MI6
officer Anthony Cavendish and the former head of
MI6's Middle East division, Geoffrey Tantum."
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Elliot, Nicholas |
Sources: November
1988 – Issue 17, Lobster Magazine, 'Brian
Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith'
(quoting the Langemann papers); October 1989 –
Issue 18, Lobster Magazine, 'The Pinay Circle
and Destabilisation in Europe'; June 29, 1997,
The Independence, 'Aitken dropped by the Right's
secret club; Is it the ultimate dishonour'
Elliot was an
officer in MI6's 'Section D', which was created
when WWII broke out. Its 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. Edward Du Cann, some
time chairman of the Conservative Party and,
until 1991 chairman of Lonrho, published his
autobiography in 1995, 'Two Lives', which
received little attention. He wrote:
"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."
May 17, 2002 issue, Jeffrey Steinberg for
Executive Intelligence Review, 'Ariel Sharon:
Profile of an Unrepentant War Criminal':
"On
Nov. 15, 1982, a final meeting took place on
several real estate purchases, mostly through
Arab middle-men, to push the massive expansion
of Jewish settlements throughout the West Bank
at a handsome profit. Attending the meeting at
Sharon's ranch were: Kissinger [Cercle], Lord
Harlech (Sir David Ormsby-Gore), Johannes von
Thurn und Taxis [1001 Club], Tory
Parliamentarian Julian Amery [Cercle], Sir
Edmund Peck, and MI-6 Mideast mandarin Nicholas
Elliot [Cercle]."
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. |
Sources: November
1988 – Issue 17, Lobster Magazine, 'Brian
Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith'
(quoting from the Langemann papers); June 29,
1997, The Independence, 'Aitken dropped by the
Right's secret club; Is it the ultimate
dishonour' (named as once a regular)
Born in 1941.
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. Has been a roommate of the very
influential John F. Lehman, and both later
attended the Bohemian Grove. Feulner has
attended the Bohemian Grove's Cave Man camp.
Treasurer Philadelphia Society 1964-1979 and
president 1982-1983. Fellow at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
1965-1966. Public affairs fellow at the Hoover
Institution 1966-1968. Confidential assistant to
Nixon's Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird
1969-1970. Campaign manager of the [Philip M.]
Crane for Congress Committee 1972.
Administrative assistant to U.S. Congressman
Philip M. Crane 1970-1974. Member of the US
delegation to the IMF/World Bank 1974-1976.
Executive director of the Republican Study
Committee of the House of Representatives
1974-1977. President of the Heritage Foundation
since 1977, Washington’s leading public policy
organization/think tank, to which the Bechtels
are major contributors. Unlike most other think
tanks, Heritage not only suggests ideas but
actively pushes them in Congress. Following are
the words of Heritage vice presidents Stuart
Butler and Kim Holmes, published in the 1995
Annual Report issued in the spring of 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.
Vice chairman of the trustees of Manhattan
Institute Policy Studies 1977-1986. Chairman
Institute for European Defense and Strategic
Studies in London 1977-1996. Attended a meeting
in Washington of Le Cercle in 1979, the covert
European group set up by a mixture of Vatican
intelligence, Opus Dei luminaries, and the Pan
Europa leadership. Treasurer Mont Pelerin
Society 1979-1996, which is a branch of the
Paneuropa Union. Trustee Lehrman Institute
1981-1990. Member of the public delegation to
the 2nd Special Session on Disarmament of the
United Nations in 1982. Chairman of the US
Information Agency 1982-1991. Member US Advisory
Committee on Public Diplomacy 1982-1994. Member
of the Carlucci Commission on Security and
Economic Assistance 1983. Distinguished fellow
of mobilization concepts at the Development
Center of the National Defense University
1983-1989. Consultant to White House Counselor
Edwin Meese, the seventy-fifth Attorney General
of the United States from 1985 to 1988. Member
of the national advisory board of the Center for
Education and Research in Free Enterprise at the
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University
1985-1996. Chairman Citizens for American
Education Foundation 1985-1989. Consultant for
Domestic Policy to President Reagan in 1987.
Director Sequoia National Bank 1987-1999. Member
of the Sarah Scaife Foundation since 1988, which
has been named after the mother of Richard
Mellon Scaife. The Sarah Scaife Foundation is is
financed by the Mellon industrial, oil and
banking fortune, and Richard Mellon Scaife has
been chairman since 1973. The Sarah Scaife
Foundation is one of the biggest donators to
Conservative and (formerly) anti-communist
causes, often having worked in tandem with the
CIA. On January 18, 1989 President Reagan
conferred the Presidential Citizens Medal on
Feulner as "a leader of the conservative
movement."
Member of the US Committee on
Improving Effectiveness of the United Nations
1989-1993. Vice chairman of the National
Economic Growth and Tax Reform "Kemp" Commission
1995-1996. Member of the advisory committee of
the American Political Channel 1994-1996.
Counselor to vice presidential candidate Jack
Kemp in 1996. President Mont Pelerin Society
1996-1998. Member of the board visitors of the
George Mason University 1996-2004. Member of the
Congressional Policy Advisory Board 1997-2001.
Senior vice president Mont Pelerin Society
1998-2000. Again treasurer Mont Pelerin Society
since 2000. Distinguished visiting professor of
Hanyang University in Seoul since 2001. Member
of the Gingrich/Mitchell Task Force on United
Nations Reforming in 2005. Member of the
National Advisory Council of the Victims of
Communism Memorial Foundation, together with
Jeane Kirkpatrick, Jack Kemp, senator Claiborne
Pell, senator Bob Dole, Richard Pipes, and
formerly Zbigniew Brzezinski. Former Cercle head
Brian Crozier is a member of the International
Advisory Council of the VCMF. By Georges
Magazine he was ranked nr 45 in a list of the 50
most influential politicians. Greenspan was one,
Cheney was two. Member of the Sovereign Military
Order of Malta and the Knights of the Holy
Sepulchre, according to his Who's Who. Member of
the Union League (New York City), Metropolitan
Club, Reform Club (London), Bohemian Club (San
Francisco), and several clubs. Not a member of
the CFR as of 2006.
|
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Fraser, Charles Alan
|
Sources: November
1988 – Issue 17, Lobster Magazine, 'Brian
Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith'
(quoting from the Langemann papers)
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.
He was a close personal friend of the Shah and
introduced Brian Crozier, as a representative of
The 61, to this person at some point.
|
|
Gallois, General
Pierre Marie |
Sources:
1993, Brian Crozier,
'Free Agent', page 241
One of the main
French sovereignist thinkers, and a staunch
supporter of De Gaulle. Member of the Planning
Group at SHAPE at the time it was founded.
French Air Force General. Present at the October
1957 Bilderberg meeting in Italy, for which he
had written the following text:
"For each of
the powers of the Alliance which do not possess
nuclear weapons the question is this: might it
find itself in such a situation that an incident
of major importance for its own security or
independence might be considered minor not only
by guaranteeing atomic powers, but also by the
other member countries of the Alliance? This
assessment of the major or minor nature of a
threat against Western countries must be
estimated according to a new criterion the size
of the nuclear risk. Even if a vast airborne
nuclear exchange appears improbable, or even
impossible, and if everyone knows that they were
being blackmailed with fear, it is clear that
everyone would weigh the size of the stake and
of the risk. And in such a calculation it is
very likely that countries not directly and
immediately threatened might consider some enemy
intervention of major importance for the country
against which it is directed to be only a minor
incident."
Some time head of the French Air
Force. Mostly known as the architect of the
French nuclear deterrence. Brian Crozier wrote
in 'Free Agent', page 241:
"We agreed that
the best way to mobilise Mitterrand on this
issue was to persuade him to invite General
Gallois to brief him on the SS-20 [nuclear
ballistic missile] danger. We both knew Pierre
Gallois. I had translated his important Conflict
Study analysing the SS-20 threat, and
interpreted for him at Pinay Cercle meetings.
Jean Violet gave him a 'genius' rating."
Later went into the aeronautic industry with
Marcel Dassault, the aircraft maker, and became
one of the most prominent architects of the
French Air Force revival, working on the Mirage
IV. Has written a lot about geopolitical issues.
About the Balkan and Iraq bombings Gallois said
that while some of our targets were clearly of a
military nature, such things as water
purification plants, sewage treatment plants,
and fertilizer plants serve only to impoverish
the population, not to promote military
objectives. About the economic sanctions on
Iraq, Gallois said they were "cruel, cowardly,
ineffective, and stupid." April 16, 2004,
Frontpage Magazine interview with Kenneth
Timmerman, who has spent twenty years reporting
on Europe and the Middle East:
"Iraq was a
special case. I was invited in the late 1980s to
visit the Iraqi Army staff college, and was
surprised when I saw a plaque donated to the
college by visiting French general Pierre-Marie
Gallois, the “father” of the French strategic
nuclear force. Many in the French Gaullist elite
saw in Saddam Hussein an Iraqi De Gaulle, a
fellow spirit: someone willing to stand up to
superpowers, and take his country on a “third
way.” That third way, of course, led directly
through Paris, in opposition to Washington."
In 2001 a group of traditional Gaullists,
including Gallois, signed a declaration calling
on true Gaullists to vote for the candidate
“who most respects the political choices made by
the founder of the 5th Republic.” Without
actually mentioning the name of the former
Interior Minister, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, it
is clear whom they mean. They also very
explicitly denounced,
“the way in which the
so-called Gaullist party has abandoned its
traditions” and said quite clearly that
they “do not find in the decisions taken by
the president of the Republic (i.e. Chirac) any
respect for the founding principles affirmed by
General de Gaulle.”
The Fifth Republic
emerged from the ashes of the French Fourth
Republic (1945-1958), replacing a weak and
factional parliamentary government with a
stronger, more centralized system. The office of
the president, which had recently been occupied
by De Gaulle, gained much more strength in the
new system. |
|
Gehlen, General
Reinhard |
Sources: November
1988 – Issue 17, Lobster Magazine, 'Brian
Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith'
(quoting from the Langemann papers; probably an
associate member)
Hans Langemann 1980
paper:
"Gehlen, who was always interested in
the undertaking [of the Pinay Circle], its
figures, its personalities and its results,
succeeded in recruiting Violet [the Circle
founder and Otto von Habsburg- and SDECE agent]
as a special agent and granted him 6000 DM a
month for many years. He also claimed that this
sum had been agreed with the former head of the
SDECE, General Jacquier because Violet is also
receiving the same sum from the SDECE."
Major General Reinhard Gehlen headed the Foreign
Armies East section of the Abwehr (German
intelligence), directed towards the Eastern
Europe and the Soviet Union. Worked closely with
the SS Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), the
controlling agency of the Gestapo and German
State Security (SD). 1971, Heinz Hohne & Hermann
Zolling, 'The General was a Spy', p. 50-53:
"Moreover another SS man appeared with
increasing frequency at Gehlen's side -
SS-Sturmbannfuhrer [Major] Otto Skorzeny,
commander of the SS Special Service Formations.
In November 1944 Skorzeny was commissioned to
set up a resistance organisation in the Soviet
rear areas and gain contact with anti-communist
partisans... Skorzeny accordingly had to consult
Gehlen if he was to gain contact with the
partisans... He [Gehlen] visualized an
intelligence organization, run by FHO and the
RSHA, covering the whole of Eastern Europe deep
into the Soviet Union and making use of all
racial groups in the east... Without realising
it, Gehlen had thus patented the post-war
organisation which later bore his name... He,
Skorzeny and Hengelhaupt in concert assembled
all possible information about the existence of
East European resistance groups... Gehlen
ultimately became so close an ally of the RSHA
that, during the death-throes of Adolf Hitler's
regime he, together with the SS officers
Skorzeny and Prutzmann, was charged with
military direction of that macabre partisan and
resistance organization known as "Werewolf",
intended to spread panic among the enemy."
Werewolf was dreamed up in the Autumn of 1944 by
Heinrich Himmler, in cooperation with Skorzeny,
Gehlen, and a few other high level German
officers. It was to act as an early Stay-Behind
army in case parts of Germany would be occupied
by the Allies. Skorzeny's men gave intensive
lessons in sabotage, demolitions, small arms,
survival and radio-communications to these new
Werewolf regiments, but in the end the lack of
central command and sufficient resources made
sure this operation was not effective. October
6, 1975, Star-News (Pasadena, CA), 'Plot to
Kidnap Stalin Bared':
"More than 500
paratroops and other special units led by SS
Capt. Otto Skorzeny were ready in 1942 [after
German tanks had almost reached Moscow] to fly
from a German airfield in Poland to kidnap
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin from the Kremlin, a
Danish newspaper reported Sunday... Quoting an
unnamed Danish pilot who served in the German
air force during World War II, the paper said
the plan was called off only because the dearth
of agents in Moscow made it impossible for
German intelligence to say with 100 per cent
certainty when Stalin would be in his Kremlin
command bunker... All Skorzeny needed was the
final go-ahead from intelligence chief Heinrich
Gehlen. But the signal never came."
Gehlen
had begun planning his surrender to the United
States at least as early as the fall of 1944. At
that time, after D-Day, the United States had
begun setting up an operation to recover
valuable German officers and scientists. It was
first called Operation Overcast, renamed in 1946
to Paperclip. Operation Apple Pie was another
project to locate and interrogate key German
personnel, this time of the RSHA (SS Reich
Security Main Office) and members of the German
Army Staff who were knowledgeable about Soviet
industrial and economic matters. From 1948 to
1950 there was a program called Bloodstone,
which involved the recruiting of anti-communist
individuals in eastern Europe, including nazis.
Scientists and military officers like Wernher
von Braun (father of the US space program and
missile technology), General Walter Dornberger
(head Peenemunde, where jews who worked there
were horribly treated; also head of Braun's
research there), Franz Six (led a nazi special
forces group that assassinated opponents; went
to train US special forces after a brief
sentence), Emil Augsburg (SS major; same job as
Franz Six), Willi Krichbaum (SS colonel; in
charge of the deportation of the Hungarian Jews
since 1944; shot Raoul Wallenberg), Walter Rauff
(SS colonel; involved in the holocaust), Kurt
Blome, General Walter Schreiber, Heinrich Rupp,
Otto Skorzeny, Klaus Barbie, and others were
brought to the US (or stationed elsewhere with
CIA and Gehlen Org support) and either went to
work in the new Military-Industrial Complex or
went to work for US intelligence and special
forces. Some scientists had already left for the
US and were already working in the Military
Industrial Complex. Theodore von Karmann and
Edward Teller were among the people in this
group. What happened to Martin Bormann (who
liquidated most of the assets of the Third Reich
and transported it overseas) and his secret
police aide general Heinrich Muller is not
known. Officially they died in Berlin in 1945
while journalists like Paul Manning maintain
that both successfully escaped from Europe and
became leaders in the post-WWII Fascist
underground. This was initially done through
ODESSA (also referred to as "Die Spinne", or
"The Spider") and Deutsche Hilfsverein, the
CIA/SMOM-approved Nazi-ratlines, set up by the
Nazis, that smuggled Nazis to the Middle-East,
Spain, or South-America. Besides Bormann and
Muller, Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, and Erich
Priebke are among the Nazis that escaped using
this (controversial) network. The ODESSA network
brought Nazis, with support of high level
officers in the CIA and the Vatican mafia (SMOM;
through catholic monasteries), to Genoa, Italy,
as part of the ratlines (with at least one
alternative route). From there the whole Third
Reich is said to have reorganized itself as a
new underground Fourth Reich. Supposedly, one of
the later umbrella organization of the Fascist
International in South America became La Arana
(according to journalist Paul Manning). Even
though this faction still might have had some
influence, this new "Forth Reich" was not
dominated anymore by Germanic Pagans (of the
Thule Society, inspired by Blavatsky and such)
that opposed the Catholic church and
Freemasonry. Starting in March 1945, Dulles and
Casey were involved in Operation Sunrise:
negotiations with SS general Karl Wolff that
finally brought an early end to the Italian
campaign. In early March 1945 a group of
Gehlen's senior officers microfilmed their
holdings on the USSR. They packed the film in
steel drums and buried it throughout the
Austrian Alps. On May 22, 1945 Gehlen and his
top aides surrendered to an American
Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) team. At first
locked up, they were soon discovered by higher
ups in the US intelligence community. Gehlen was
invited to the US from mid-1945 to February 1946
to discuss what to do with his information on
Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In the end
it was decided at these meetings, held at the
army's Fort Hunt in Virginia, that Gehlen's spy
organization would be kept intact through CIA
funds. Gehlen's group, including his immediate
staff of about 350 agents, went back to Germany
in February 1946, and became known as the Gehlen
Organization. They became the CIA's eyes and
ears in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union.
Hundreds of German army and SS officers were
released from internment camps to join Gehlen's
headquarters in the Spessart Mountains in
central Germany. When the staff grew to 3,000,
the Gehlen Org moved its headquarters to a
twenty-five-acre compound south of Munich,
Bavaria, operating under the innocent name of
the South German Industrial Development
Organization. Gehlen oversaw some of the post
WWII recruiting programs (ratlines) of Nazis by
the CIA. On November 17, 1948 SMOM (The
Sovereign Military Order of Malta) awarded one
of its highest honors, the Grand Cross of Merit,
to Reinhard Gehlen. In 1948, Reinhard Gehlen's
brother was in Rome serving as the secretary to
Thun Hohenstein. Conveniently for Reinhard, who
was negotiating with the U.S. for the
preservation of his Nazi colleagues, Thun
Hohenstein was chairman of one of SMOM's grand
magistral charities, the Institute for
Associated Emigrations, and had arranged for two
thousand SMOM passports to be printed for
political refugees. Thun Hohenstein was also
related to the leading German Knights of SMOM.
In the early fifties it was estimated that the
Gehlen Org employed up to 4,000 intelligence
specialists in Germany, mainly former army and
SS officers, and that more than 4,000 V-men
(undercover agents) were active throughout the
Soviet-bloc countries. August 11, 1954, Winnipeg
Free Press, 'Hitler's Shadow Man Takes Top Spy
Role':
"Bruce Rothwell, foreign
correspondent who wrote this story from Berlin,
says his telephone was tapped while he and his
staff were gathering the facts on General
Gehlen. And during one important conversation,
the line was disconnected... Gehlen, "The Man in
the Shadows," already leads a $3,000,000 secret
service from Munich paid for by the Americans.
Now he will absorb the security organisation
left headless by Dr. Otto John, who disappeared
into Communist East Germany a fortnight ago...
John, who feared tho rise of ex-Nazis in
Germany, went into the East Zone accompanied by
a pro-Communist psychiatrist. For some time
there had been a struggle for supremacy between
Gehlen's organisation and John's... Until late
last night Gehlen was negotiating with officials
of Dr. Adenauer's Government. It seems he has
won an outright victory. Over 30 intelligence
services... will come under Gehlen's hand. All
this power goes to a man who is unknown to the
German public... Bonn officials refuse even to
say if he in married. News photographers have
been trying vainly for five years to photograph
him."
The following year, in 1955, the
Gehlen Organization became the BND, the official
German intelligence service. Gehlen remained its
head. May 17, 1984, Boston Globe, 'Death of a
Nazi':
"In the perverse climate of the Cold
War years, Nazis such as [SS Col. Walter] Rauff,
Reinhardt Gehlen, Otto Skorzeny and Klaus Barbie
made themselves so useful to western
intelligence services that they were able to
transform the struggle against the Red Menace
into a prolongation of the Fascist enterprise."
General Foertsch, one of general Gehlen highest
level deputies, was invited to Antoine
Bonnemaison's (a French colonel and SDECE agent
specialized in psychological warfare) Centre de
Recherche du Bien Politique in the 1950s, which
was a secret discussion group involving
intelligence officers, academics, businessmen, a
few politicians, and trade union leaders of
France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Besides
countering communist subversion the "colloques"
were aimed at Franco-German rapprochement.
Foertsch was a German general who was accused of
serious war crimes, but after his release became
very instrumental in building up the new German
military under Adenauer. Paul Manning, p. 212:
"When Colonel Nasser became president of
Egypt [in late 1954], he asked the CIA for
assistance in establishing a similar
organization in his country. The CIA did not
wish to become involved, and so referred him to
General Gehlen, then chief of the West German
federal intelligence organization, which was in
fact maintained by the CIA. But Gehlen ducked
the request, suggesting that former SS General
Otto Skorzeny, son-in-law of Hjalmar Schacht,
one-time Minister of Finance for Hitler [now
worked with Aristotle Onassis], should be
approached. Skorzeny, who made his headquarters
in Spain, did not want the assignment either,
for he was doing too well as an engineer and
businessman in Spain [his secret Paladin group,
located in Madrid, supposedly was a mercenary
group], and was also owner of a large farming
establishment outside of Dublin. But, urged by
Schacht, he had Heinrich Mueller in Brazil send
him a team of secret police specialists, who all
arrived in Cairo as a German mission led by
Skorzeny, who promptly returned to Spain after
introductions had been made."
In 1954, in
the middle of the McCarthy affair, a strange
story appeared about a new "nazi-communist"
political underground. Many people believed that
the Gehlen Organization had thoroughly been
penetrated by the Soviets, as many operations
and foreign agents were betrayed. Even though a
communist alliance with the Nazis seems
far-fetched, the following article does seem to
confirm the existence of a post-war underground
Nazi movement, led by some of the individuals
mentioned earlier. March 31, 1954, The Chronicle
Telegram, Ohio:
"[Werner] Naumann [former
State Secretary in Goebbels's Ministry of
Propaganda] recalled the Nazi splinter parties
behind him in an attempt to resurrect the Nazi
movement. He praised Senator McCarthy and
denounced President Eisenhower. Finally he was
arrested by the British on charges of plotting
to overthrow the West German government [his
group was often referred to as "Naumann's
Circle"]... Reporter Magazine charges that the
"explicit aim of the Naumann group was to
establish a Totalitarian West German Government
oriented toward the Soviet Union." Naumann used
a Dusseldorf export-import firm, the H. S. Luch
Company, as a front for a world wide political
network which kept in touch with Nazi exiles in
Spain and Argentina, as well as pro Nazis in
other countries. For example, Col. Otto
Skorzeny, the rescuer of Mussolini, and Dr.
Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's former financial
wizard, are connected with the company in Spain
[where Skorzeny ran an underground mercenary
group called Paladin, in Madrid]... Two members
of the Nazi-Communist underground in Spain also
took in Senator McCarthy's two junior G-men, Roy
Cohn and David Schine, during their comic-opera,
spy-hunting junket throughout Europe last year."
Roy Cohn was later named by EIR as an
initial director of Permindex, a corporation set
up in 1958 which is suspected of having been a
front organization in the planning of the John
F. Kennedy assassination. During the 1980s even
information surfaced that Cohn had ran a
pedophile ring to subvert members of the US
government (see William Casey bio in Le Cercle
list). Schacht, the godfather of Hitler with
Fritz Thyssen, used to be great friends with
Pilgrims Society Wall Street and City of London
bankers. January 1982, Mae Brussell:
"Gehlen
pioneered the setting up of dummy fronts and
cover companies to support his farflung covert
operations... By the time the Gehlen
Organization became part of the West German
state, Gehlen already had his agent-in-place in
the United States. He was Otto Albrecht von
Bolschwing, who had been a captain in Heinrich
Himmler’s dreaded SS and Adolph Eichmann's
superior in Europe and Palestine. Von Bolschwing
worked simultaneously for Dulles' OSS. When he
entered the U.S. in February, 1954, he cleverly
concealed his nazi past. He was to take over
Gehlen's network not only in this country but in
many corners of the globe. He became closely
associated with the late Elmer Bobst [Pilgrims
Society; SMOM; anti-Jewish; accused of sexual
abuse granddaughters and great-granddaughters]
of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical, a godfather of
Richard Nixon's political career, which brought
him inside Nixon's 1960 campaign for the
presidency. In 1969 he showed up in California
with a high-tech firm called TCI that held
classified Defense Department contracts. His
translator for German projects was Helene van
Damme, Governor Ronald Reagan's appointments
secretary."
Gehlen remained head of the BND
until his retirement in 1968. He produced
numerous reports claiming a Soviet invasion of
the west was imminent; that the Soviets were
building a fleet of flying wing jet fighters;
that the Soviets were planning a huge submarine
fleet to starve Europe into submission; etc,
which heightened the tensions between the two
power blocs. Many are of the opinion that some
of these reports were exaggerated to justify the
existence of Gehlen's Nazi spy outfit. Doubts
have also been raised over the effectiveness of
the Gehlen Org in providing intelligence on
Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
|
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Gerber, Conrad
|
Sources:
April 19, 2005, 18:30, Executives International,
'Forum Dinner - "The Barrel at $99?"' (Guest
Speaker: Mr. Conrad Geber)
Studied economics,
law, and diplomacy at the University of Cape
Town and at the Institut des Hautes Etudes
Internationales in Geneva. Worked as an
economist in the government of Rhodesia. Admits
that he first learned about the oil business in
the 1970s when he was helping to circumvent
international sanctions against Rhodesia and to
procure illegal oil for his country. Started
Petro-Logistics in 1980, shortly after the
United Nations lifted sanctions against the
country. Chairman and CEO of Petro-Logistics
ever since, a firm that collects and analyses
data on the world's supplies of oil. His company
uses tricks from intelligence work to pierce the
curtain of secrecy raised by oil-producing
countries, especially the members of OPEC in the
Persian Gulf. He tracks tanker loadings at major
oil ports, relying on a network of about two
dozen closely guarded sources. The tanker data
is combined with tips from oil executives and
synthesized into regular reports for his
clients. Gerber's ability to move markets is
well known. "Petro-Logistics estimates have a
significant market impact, as they are widely
recognized as an important source on OPEC
supply," said Fatih Birol, the chief economist
for the International Energy Agency (IEA), an
organization based in Paris that is one of Mr
Gerber's clients. Petro-Logistics, meanwhile,
"is very well connected in the gulf and the
Black Sea," said David Knapp, the senior editor
for global markets at the Energy Intelligence
Group, a publishing and information services
company. Mr Knapp used to work at the
International Energy Agency, where he said he
relied on Mr Gerber's reports. Petro-Logistics
is not the only group to rely on tanker tracking
for supply data. Lloyd's Marine Intelligence
Unit, part of the Informa Group, uses a network
of 900 agents at 2,000 ports and cities, said
Andrew Lorimer, manager of oil trade analysis
for the unit, which is based in London. Lloyd's
also publishes an estimate for seaborneoil on a
regular basis. Among his business associates and
friends, Mr Gerber counted Theodore G. Shackley,
one of the CIA's most famous spymasters, who led
efforts to battle Fidel Castro when he was
station chief in Miami in the early 1960's.
Shackley engaged in some oil trading after he
retired from the CIA in 1979. Mr Gerber said he
was at Mr Shackley's bedside just before he died
last year. Fellow of the London Energy
Institute. Member of the Club de Nice (for
Energie et Géopolitique). Member of Le Cercle
and President of CRES (the Centre de Recherches
Entreprises et Sociétés), a consulting firm
based in Geneva.
Ted Shackley, son of
a Polish immigrant mother, went to work as an
Army Counter Intelligence Corps officer in
Germany in 1945, trying to recruit Polish
agents. He himself was recruited into the CIA in
1953, and started to work for William Harvey
(worked with mafia bosses Santo Trafficante and
Johnny Roselli; CIA station chief in Rome in
1963 while Gen. Vernon Walters was military
attaché in Rome) in the CIA's Berlin Station.
Involved in overthrow of the socialist
Guatemalan government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in
1954. In 1962, Shackley was appointed by William
Harvey (started ZR/RIFLE in
November 1961, an assassination plot on Castro,
which involved the recruitment of mob bosses
Johnny Roselli, Santos Trafficante, Sam Giancana,
and Meyer Lansky, and was originally negotiated
by CIA chief Allen Dulles; demoted in February
1963 by Robert Kennedy and sent to Rome to
become Chief of Station there, and just as DCI
Allen Dulles, his Harrimanite deputy Bissell,
and CIA deputy Director Charles Cabell (whose
brother was the mayor of Dallas at the time
Kennedy was shot).; he developed an extreme
distaste for the Kennedy's) as deputy
chief of JM/WAVE, the heavily funded CIA station
in Miami that oversaw the operation to overthrow
Fidel Castro. In April of that year, Shackley
was involved in delivering supplies to Johnny
Roselli (mob boss; murdered in September 1976,
at the time of the Church committee; Roselli had
been named as a participant in the JFK
assassination) as part of the plan to
assassinate Fidel Castro. Recruited Félix
Rodríguez, who later organized the capture and
execution of Che Guevara in Bolivia. CIA
assassin David Morales first worked under
Shackley at JM/WAVE, just as David Atlee
Phillips, who, according to James A. Files was
the co-handler of Lee Harvey Oswald and himself,
together with mafia assassin Charles Nicolette,
subordinate to Sam Giancana, one of the mafia
bosses who was employed by DCI Allen Dulles in
the anti-Castro war. Porter Goss, who knew Barry
Seal and later became a CIA director, went to
work under Shackley at JM/WAVE, just as Frank
Sturgis, who would be convicted for his role in
Watergate. After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, when
Harvey was ousted, Shackley became head of
Operation Mongoose, and quite possibly of
Executive Directives, a worldwide assassination
program. Responsible for gathering intelligence
and recruiting spies in Cuba. During this time,
he worked closely with mob figures as Sam
Giancana (also murdered in June 1975, at the
start of the Church Committee), John Roselli,
and Santos Trafficante, all of them suspected of
having been involved in the assassination on JFK.
Headed JM/WAVE until 1965. In 1966, Shackley was
placed in charge of the CIA's secret war in
Laos. Thomas G. Clines was appointed his deputy.
He formed the Military Assistance Group-Special
Operations Group (MAG-SOG) political murder
unit; Gen. John K. Singlaub was a commander of
MAG-SOG; Oliver North and Richard Secord were
officers of the unit. According to mainstream
journalist Joel Bainerman in 'The Crimes of a
President', Shackley and his Secret Team (in
Laos), which included Thomas G. Clines, Carl E.
Jenkins, David Morales, Raphael Quintero, Felix
Rodriguez and Edwin Wilson, became involved in
the drug trade at this time. They did this via
General Vang Pao, the leader of the
anti-communist forces in Laos. Vang Pao was a
major figure in the opium trade. To help him,
Shackley used his CIA officials and assets to
sabotage the competitors. Shackley and Clines
also helped Vang Pao to obtain financial backing
to form his own airline, Zieng Khouang Air
Transport Company, to transport opium and heroin
between Long Tieng and Vientiane (Mekong Delta).
Shackley used the dope proceeds in turn to fund
his hit squads and other covert operations. Vang
Pao gained a monopoly over the heroin trade in
Laos, but in the late 1970s his army was
defeated by the communists. At that moment Khun
Sa and his independent Shan state in Burma rose
to prominence. Virtually all the Opium produced
(and turned into heroin) was either produced in
the areas he controlled or was transported over
his territory, which meant a tax had to be paid
and he was able to stop it. Delta Force and ISA
commander Bo Gritz, who was initially searching
for POWs, made contact with this person in
December 1986. He not only found out that Khun
Sa was not aware of any POWs, but also that the
only reason this person was selling opium was to
fund his war against the communists. Khun Sa
offered to stop virtually all the opium coming
from the Gold Triangle (he controlled it) if the
US would A) recognize his Shan state (to stop
the continuous warfare against him) B) help the
Shan State with the development of a normal
agricultural economy. Gritz took Khun Sa's
written offer, specifically addressed to vice
president George H.W. Bush, to Washington.
Through his contact Bill Harvey (not the
associate of Shackley) at the National Security
Council Staff, Gritz was informed to drop the
issue, because no one was interested in stopping
it. After Gritz refused to do that he and his
teammate were persecuted. In reaction Gritz
returned to Khun Sa's remote camp with a small
special forces team. The did an interview with
the druglord (who was respected, not feared, by
his people) which was videotaped. Khun Sa told
his secretary to read the names of his American
customers. They were Theodore Shackley
(in charge of U.S. Golden
Triangle opium business from 1965 to 1975),
Santos Trafficante (Mafia
don in Miami and Cuba and an employee of the CIA
in the subversion of Cuba. Trafficante assisted
in trafficking the heroin inside the U.S. and
when it was there, in distributing it),
Richard Armitage (at the
time the Assistant Secretary of Defense and head
of the rescue effort of POWs from South-East
Asia, which he continually sabotaged. Later a
PNAC signer and George W. Bush's Deputy
Secretary of State. Armitage handled all the
financial transactions with banks like the Nugan
Hand), Daniel Arnold
(CIA station chief in Thailand and Armitage
successor in the heroin and weapons trade),
and Jerry Daniels (CIA
agent who also was a replacement of Armitage.
Died under suspicious circumstances).
According to Daniel Sheehan of the Christic
Institute (Gritz noticed how much their
information overlapped with his own):
"From
late 1973 until April of 1975, Theodore Shackley,
Thomas Clines and Richard Armitage disbursed,
from the secret, Laotian-based, Vang Pao opium
fund, vastly more money than was required to
finance even the highly intensified Phoenix
Project in Vietnam. The money in excess of that
used in Vietnam was secretly smuggled out of
Vietnam in large suitcases, by Richard Secord
and Thomas Clines and carried into Australia,
where it was deposited in a secret, personal
bank account (privately accessible to Theodore
Shackley, Thomas Clines and Richard Secord).
During this same period of time between 1973 and
1975, Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines caused
thousands of tons of US weapons, ammunition, and
explosives to be secretly taken from Vietnam and
stored at a secret "cache" hidden inside
Thailand."
This money, with the help of
Raphael Quintero, found its way into the Nugan
Hand Bank in Sydney, a money laundering center
of heroin profits, mainly from the Golden
Triangle (opium from this location was managed
by Shackley, Armitage, and Santos Trafficante)
and run by different US intelligence agencies.
After Nugan Hand's cover was blown and the
operation abandoned, the CIA redirected many of
the Nugan Hand operations to another Pacific
financial institution based in Hawaii, named
Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham and Wong (BBRDW).
By the end of 1980, BBRDW started setting up
offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia,
Singapore, and Australia, all former Nugan Hand
locations, staffing the offices with some of the
same personnel. August 17, 1983, Wall Street
Journal, 'Bank's Links to Ex-CIA Men Detailed':
"Few men have had more to do with U.S.
covert operations in the cold war than Theodore
G. Shackley. Before he retired from the Central
Intelligence Agency after 30 years' service in
September 1979, Mr. Shackley had led the secret
war against Cuba, the secret war in Laos, been
CIA station chief in Saigon at the height of the
Vietnam war and then No. 2 man running the
clandestine services division at CIA
headquarters in Langley... The Australian
government report, prepared and released to
Parliament in March by the Commonwealth-New
South Wales Joint Task Force on Drug
Trafficking, cites Mr. Shackley as one of the
leading characters whose "background is relevant
to a proper understanding of the activities of
the Nugan Hand group and people associated with
that group. The report says that Mr. Shackley
had worked closely with Mr. Wilson in the CIA
since 1955 and that Mr. Shackley "continued a
close relationship with him (Wilson) whilst
Wilson was employed by (U.S.) Naval Intelligence
from 1971 to 1976, and after that." The report
refers to contacts between Mr. Shackley and
Michael Hand, the currently missing former CIA
operator who founded , owned and managed the
Nugan Hand banking group. Mr. Hand's partner,
Australian Frank Nugan, died of a gunshot wound
in January, 1980, later ruled a suicide, and
Nugan Hand failed a few months later. Investigations following Mr. Nugan's death and
the failure of the bank revealed widespread
dealings by Nugan-Hand with international heroin
syndicates, and evidence of massive fraud
against U.S. and foreign citizens. Many retired
high-ranking Pentagon and CIA officials were
executives of or consultants to Nugan-Hand...
both Mr. Chavez [CIA] and Mr. Shackley were
working for A.P.I. Distributors, an
international trading firm funded with $500,000
lent by Mr. Wilson. According to the report, it
shared office space in Houston with a Wilson
company that helped sell 20 tons of plastic
explosives to Libya, for which Mr. Wilson was
convicted. A.P.I. was headed by Thomas Clines,
who had just retired after 30 years with the
CIA, most recently as training director of the
clandestine services branch under Mr. Shackley.
Another former covert agent, Rafael "Chi Chi"
Quintero, also was an executive at A.P.I...
Among the high-level Pentagon and CIA officials
associated with Nugan Hand were former CIA
director William Colby, who was its attorney...
"
July 23, 1998, Michael C. Ruppert at FTW:
"I have met Bo Gritz twice through my close
friend, Mrs. Francis Gary (Sue) Powers... That
Bo brought back utterly damning videotaped
interviews with opium warlord Khun Sa in which
Khun Sa described the roles of Shackley,
Armitage, Clines, and the CIA in heroin
trafficking also cannot be disputed." Case
No. 98-CV-11829 JLT, September 29, 1998,
deposition of Desiree A. Ferdinand, daughter of
the late Colonel Albert Carone who provided a
link between the CIA, DIA, and mafia groups
involved in the distribution of drugs:
"Frank Nugan and Michael Hand, my father was
good friends with. Nugan Hand Bank. It was a
bank used in the Hong Kong area to launder
different monies. There were General Leroy
Manner was involved. General Stilwell [Le Cercle]
was involved. A man by the name of Paul
Hollywell was involved. It was an operation
where drug monies in different accounts from
certain people were absconded with. One through
Nugan Hand bank and they were used for
operations that were not sanctioned by the U.S.
government, black operations."
Like Colby,
Shackley heading Operation Phoenix in Vietnam
for a while. Head of the CIA's Western
Hemisphere Division from 1972 to 1976, and
played a major role in the 1973 Chile coup where
Pinochet was put into power. In 1976 a Cuban
airliner with 73 passengers was blown up,
killing all on board. Luis Posada Carriles has
been the main suspect all these years, a CIA
agent who worked under Shackley in Operation 40,
a top secret assassination and sabotage group of
the CIA which was directed against Cuba. CIA
Associate Deputy Director of Operations from
1976 to 1977, while serving under DCI George H.W.
Bush. Retired from the CIA in 1979 after
Stansfield Turner took over as DCI from Bush.
Went to work for Systems Services International
Inc., International Research and Trade Ltd., and
API Distributors Inc., recently set up and
managed by his ex-CIA buddies Edwin P. Wilson,
Thomas G. Clines, and Rafael Quintero. Already
in late 1970s this network of companies was
investigated by Justice officials who suspected
it of illegally selling high-tech military
equipment to Iran, Egypt, Libya, and Turkey.
When Shackley was still in the CIA, he tried to
limit these investigations, which wasn't
appreciated by Stansfield Turner. Founded
Research Associates International in September
1980, which specialized in providing
intelligence to business. It was incorporated by
Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, the law firm
that also represented API, IRT, and SSI.
Initially, Research Associates International
shared the same office with SSI and IRT.
Former
CIA chief Donald Jameson, who is known to have
attended a 1980 Le Cercle meeting in Zurich,
became a vice president of Research Associates
International. July 23, 1998, Michael Ruppert,
'The POWs, CIA and Drugs': "A former CIA
officer told me in 1995 that Ollie North was
leasing office space for his 1995 Senate run
from Shackley's company, Research Associates
International, in Rosslyn, Virginia."
Shackley was hired by oil baron John Deuss to
organise shipments of oil to South Africa, then
under a global oil embargo that Deuss cheerfully
flouted. Became a very close friend of (later)
Le Cercle member Conrad Gerber, who founded
Petro-Logistics in 1980. Petro-Logistics would
become the primary source of supposedly reliable
data to the International Energy Agency (IEA),
doing anything its power to penetrate OPEC's oil
secrets. Suspected of involvement in the October
Surprize, doing his part in defeating the Carter
reelection campaign. |
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Giovanetti,
Monsignor Alberto |
Sources: 2002, David
Rockefeller, 'Memoirs', pg. 412-413, referring
to the Pesenti Group
Priest at the
Vatican. Prominent member of Opus Dei and a
virulent anti-communist, according to David
Rockefeller in his 2002 memoirs. Defender of
pope Pius XII, who has been accused of not
standing up enough to Hitler during WWII. |
|
Grossouvre, Francois
de |
Sources: 1993, Brian
Crozier, 'Free Agent', p. 217-218
Born in 1918. During
World War II, François de Grossouvre was a
member of Joseph Darnand's Service d'ordre
légionnaire (SOL), a Vichyst militia. He left in
1943 to fight in the Vercors region. After
Liberation, it was discovered that he had in
fact infiltrated the SOL on behalf of
Organisation de résistance de l'armée (ORA) of
which he was a member. Often considered a
strange man who reveled in the secrecy. He was a
doctor who had never practiced his profession
because of his wealth. Went into politics after
WWII. Some sources say De Grossouvre first met
with Francois Mitterrand in 1959. The Times, in
1994, stated that De Grossouvre first met with
Mitterrand on a plane to China in 1962. Around
this time, De Grossouvre held the largely
ceremonial post of head of the Committee of
Presidential Hunts, which organizes occasional
informal gatherings in the countryside for the
French President. In any case, De Grossouvre
became a good friend to Francois Mitterrand.
1993, Brian Crozier, 'Free Agent', p. 217-218:
"AT THE CERCLE meeting in Washington in
December 1980, Georges Albertini had brought
along a quiet Frenchman named Francois de
Grossouvre. This was an impressive example of
his foresight. De Grossouvre, a physician, was
the closest friend and confidant of the
Socialist leader and presidential candidate
Francois Mitterrand. For many years, Grossouvre
had carried out special missions for Mitterrand.
By nature and training, he was self-effacing. He
played no part in our debates, but listened
carefully, taking notes. Five months later,
Francois Mitterrand narrowly defeated Valéry
Giscard d'Estaing in France's presidential
elections. One of his first actions was to
appoint de Grossouvre as his coordinator of
security and intelligence. Shortly after, having
obtained his direct line from Albertini, I went
to see him in his modest office in the Elysée
Palace. We had reacted with alarm to
Mitterrand's victory, but de Grossouvre
reassured me... 'One thing you need to
understand about Francois Mitterrand is that he
has a visceral hatred of the communists.' He did
not explain the nature of this hatred which,
later history suggests, probably reflected less
an opposition to their policies than of
Mitterrand's perception of the Communists as the
main obstacle to his authority. Not for nothing
was Mitterrand known as Le Florentin, in
reference to his interest in Machiavelli and
Florentine history. In his long career, he had
been everything from apparently extreme Right to
apparently extreme Left."
Became Counselor
for Police Affairs and Special Services in 1981,
chosen by newly-elected president François
Mitterrand, and charged with overseeing national
security and other sensitive matters, in
particular those concerning Lebanon, Syria,
Tunisia, Morocco, Gabon, the Gulf countries,
Pakistan and the two Koreas. As emissary to the
Arab nations no one ever knew if he made an
official or unofficial visit. He was also was a
leading officer in the French branch of Gladio,
"NATO's" stay behind paramilitary secret armies
during the Cold War. 2005, Daniele Ganser,
'NATO's Secret Armies', p. 90-91:
"Maybe the
most famous member of the French secret
anti-Communist Rose des Vents [French Stay
Behind/Gladio] army was Francois Grossouvre who
in 1981 became the adviser of Socialist
President Francois Mitterrand for secret
operations. During the Second World War
Grossouvre had enrolled in a fascist
Vichy-backed militia that he later claimed to
have infiltrated on behalf of the resistance.
After the war the military secret service
recruited him for the Rose des Vents secret
army. SDECE agent Louis Mouchon who had himself
recruited many secret soldiers for the network
recalled how Grossouvre had been contacted: 'Our
responsible man in Lyon, Gilbert Union, who
during the war had carried out missions for the
BCRA, was a passionate car driver and at that
time had died on the road. To replace him, the
SDECE had recruited, in 1950, Francois de
Grossouvre.' Mouchin elaborated that Grossouvre
was not only chosen for his wartime experience
but as well for his contacts: 'His business, the
A. Berger et Cie Sugar company, offered ample
opportunities to stage fronts. He really had
excellent contacts.' As special adviser of
President Mitterrand, Grossouvre influenced
French secret warfare in the beginning of the
1980s but was eased out of his main
responsibilities in 1985 as his cloak-and-dagger
style became intolerable to Mitterrand's staider
colleagues. Yet the personal relations to
Mitterrand allegedly remained good and when in
late 1990 after the pan European Gladio
discoveries President Mitterrand in the midst of
the scandal had to close down the French Gladio
network 'he had first consulted his "grey
eminence", Francois Grossouvre'. By the time of
Grossouvre's death his participation in the
secret war was no longer a secret. 'He was
recruited into the French espionage service and
helped to organise Gladio, an Americanbacked
plan to create an armed resistance movement in
Western Europe against a Russian invasion', the
British Economist noted in his obituary after
Grossouvre, aged 76, had dramatically shot
himself in the Elysee Palace on April 7, 1994."
October 6, 1985, New York Times,
'Greenpeace ship reaches test site':
"The
Greenpeace flagship has arrived off the coast of
the French nuclear test site in the South
Pacific, where it joined another protest ship
from the organization... The Greenpeace replaced
the Rainbow Warrior, which was blown up on July
10 by French agents in New Zealand's Auckland
harbor... Meanwhile, the largest opposition
newspaper in Paris, Le Figaro, reported Friday
that Mr. Mitterrand must have known of plans to
sink the Rainbow Warrior, which was preparing to
lead the Mururoa protest. Mr. Mitterrand's
Socialist Government acknowledged secret service
responsibility for the sinking last month.
Defense Minister Charles Hernu and Adm. Pierre
Lacoste, the head of the secret service,
resigned because of the scandal. Le Figaro,
without citing its sources, said the decision to
mine the Rainbow Warrior was made in June in a
meeting at the Elysee Palace attended by Mr.
Hernu, Admiral Lacoste and the presidential
adviser, Francois de Grossouvre. It was ''not
believable'' that Mr. de Grossouvre failed to
inform Mr. Mitterrand of the sabotage plans, Le
Figaro contended."
In the 1970s and 1980s,
Greenpeace chairman David McTaggart was actively
involved in opposing France's nuclear testings
at Mururoa. In 1985, some time after the Rainbow
Warrior scandal, De Grossouvre officially ended
his functions as adviser to the president and
was shoved aside for some reason. Remained
chairman of Presidential Campaigns, an honorary
position. However, he kept all the benefits of
his previous position: office, secretary, car,
apartment, bodyguard. Supposedly, François
Mitterrand never fired those who had
disappointed him nor those whom he no longer
needed. He saved his victims from disgrace by
making them wait for an explanation that would
never come, and isolated them in their idleness.
Not everyone is convinced that the friendship
between de Grossouvre and Mitterrand had also
ended privately. After his dismissal from
Mitterrand's office, De Grossouvre worked as
counsellor for arms trader Marcel Dassault, who
headed Avions Marcel Dassault. Allegedly
committed suicide on April 7, 1994 at his office
at Élysée (presidential palace), although some,
such as Captain Paul Barril, claimed that he had
been murdered. It was the first time in the
history of the Republic that a colleague of the
Chief of State killed himself in the
presidential palace. April 10 1994, The Sunday
Times:
"Mitterrand was preparing to be
interviewed for a live national television
broadcast on Aids on Thursday when, for the
second time in less than a year, his aides told
him that a man he had trusted and worked with
for more than 30 years had committed suicide.
Like Pierre Beregovoy, the former Socialist
prime minister who shot himself last May,
Grossouvre was reported to have left no note...
It also emerged that, like Beregovoy, Grossouvre
was linked to one of the murkiest episodes in
Mitterrand's rarely scrutinised past: his
friendship with the late Roger-Patrice Pelat, a
Socialist businessman who died of a heart attack
in 1989 while awaiting trial on charges of fraud
and corruption. To the dismay of Mitterrand's
entourage, Grossouvre agreed to be interrogated
last September by Thierry Jean-Pierre, the young
judge who is investigating a Pounds 2m payoff
that Pelat allegedly received as the middleman
in a North Korean construction contract that was
awarded to French companies. Pelat was also the
man who supplied a generous interest-free loan
to Beregovoy. The loan caused the former prime
minister political embarrassment when details
were disclosed shortly before his party's
crippling defeat in the March 1992 elections.
Grossouvre was questioned in connection with
cartons of Pelat's files that mysteriously went
missing. He was never charged, and his willing
co-operation with a judge whose motives are
questioned by Mitterrand aides appears to have
increased his isolation at the Elysee... In an
article in Le Monde on Friday,... [Edwy] Plenel
was told that over the years Grossouvre had
accumulated a number of files that he kept in a
"safe place''. When he told Mitterrand last year
that he was writing his memoirs, the president
demanded that he hand over the files, which
Grossouvre refused to do, Plenel wrote."
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Habsburg, Otto von |
Sources: 1999, David
Guyatt, 'Circle of Power' (mentions Habsburg as
a founding member); Simon Regan (Scallywag),
'Who Killed Diana?' (mentions Habsburg as a
founding member); 2002, David Rockefeller,
'Memoirs', pg. 412-413, referring to the Pesenti
Group; other books only confirm the close
relationship between Otto von Habsburg, Jean
Violet, and other figures of the Cercle and
Pan-Europa Union.
Born in Lower
Austria in 1912 as a member of the Royal House
of Habsburg, who have been allies of the Vatican
for many centuries. Eldest son of Archduke Karl
and Princess Zita von Bourbon-Parma. The
Habsburg dynasty was, and is, very close to the
Thurn und Taxis family (1001 Club) and the
Vatican. During WWI his family lost the throne
to the Habsburg kingdom. The Austrian parliament
officially expelled the Habsburg dynasty and
confiscated all of its property. Opposed the
Nazi Anschluss of Austria in 1938 and went to
the US (with help of the Knights of Malta).
Spent most of the war years in Washington
(1940-1944), after escaping from Austria to
Portugal with a visa issued by the Portuguese
consul in Bordeaux. He became friends with FDR,
George F. Kennan (the father of the Containment
policy), Felix Frankfurter, Winston Churchill
and other important individuals. One of his main
opponents at the time was Pilgrims Society
member Lord Halifax (important to UN and
pro-Nazi), who bluntly asked him:
"Are you
pursuing your intrigues even here?".
Cordell Hull, pro-Vichy and pro-UN, was another
opponent of Otto. Part of a mainstream bio:
"A member of Koudenhove-Kalergi's Paneuropa
Union since 1936 [24 years old then], Dr. Otto
von Habsburg represented the organization in
Washington D.C. beginning in 1940. In close
collaboration with his brothers, the Archdukes
Rudolf, Robert and Karl Ludwig, he convinced
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill
to regard Austria as a victim state of Nazi
aggression. Based on this recognition, Archduke
Robert and Winston Churchill, who favored a
postwar reconstitution of a Danube confederation
forged the Moscow Declaration of 1943, which
prepared for Austria's independence at the
conclusion of the war."
The Paneuropa Union
was founded in 1923 in Vienna by Count Richard
Coudenhove-Kalergi, the son of an
Austro-Hungarian (Habsburg) diplomat. Early
leading members were Aristide Briand and
Austrian chancellors Ignaz Seipel and Karl
Renner. Opus Dei was founded in 1928 and at
least in later times this group's objectives
would essentially merge with those of the
Paneuropa Union: 1) keep the Soviets out of
Europe, and 2) create a Roman Catholic-oriented
European superstate. Kalergi was of the opinion
that Britain should be kept out of Paneuropa
since it managed an autonomous empire. Unlike
Russia, Turkey belonged to Asia and also should
not be included in Paneuropa, according to
Kalergi. The Paneuropean Union is also
responsible for the 12 stars on a blue ground as
official symbol for Europe, which symbolizes the
stars of the virgin Mary. After the war Otto
lived in exile in France and Spain. In Spain he
received a secondary formal education by
Benedictine fathers. An article in Lobster
Magazine claimed that the impoverished Otto was
subsidized to the tune of £50,000 a month by MI6
chief Stewart Menzies from 1939 to 1953. In
1949, together with Opus Dei member Alfredo
Sanchez Bella (August 21,
1964, The Frederick News, 'Rev. Dr. Thorning
Returns From Europe':
"In Rome, Father
Thorning was the guest of Spanish Ambassador
Alfredo Sanchez Bella"; November 4, 1969,
Greeley Daily Tribune, 'Economic, Social
Advancement Aims of New Franco Cabinet': "[Alfredo] Sanchez Bella, aside from his own
talents as a diplomat, is the brother of
Florencio Sanchez Bella, leader of the Opus Dei
in Spain."; Bella was Ambassador to Rome
until November 1969), Otto founded the
European Centre of Documentation and Information
(CEDI), "whose objective was to construct
around the Spanish Borbóns a federation of
European states united in Christianity and
anti-Communism. This sounded very much like a
modern resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire
over which Charles V had reigned. Like the
Spanish empire of old, the envisaged Catholic
federation was intended to have large-spectrum
antennae in Latin America and the United States.
CEDI was believed to be an auxiliary operation
of Opus Dei. Although headquartered in Munich,
it held its annual general meetings at the
Monastery of El Escorial, near Madrid, and it
continued functioning throughout the Cold War.
Its tentacles spread among Catholic Monarchist
circles throughout western Europe... [Otto]
reportedly became one of Opus Dei's most
treasured Old Guard supernumeraries. Like Opus
Dei, CEDI published no membership lists, but the
president of its Belgian chapter, Chevalier
Marcel de Roover, was known to have close ties
with the Belgian royal family. Indeed, Archduke
Otto's nephew, Lorenz von Habsburg, son of
international banker Karel von Habsburg, married
Princes Astrid of Belgium [daughter of King Albert II, who stands accused
of child abuse in the Pinon Affair, not unlike
other members of the royal family; chairwoman
Belgian Red Cross; patron Belgian Kids
Foundation for Pediatric Research. The support
committee of the Belgian Kids Foundation
includes the wife of Count Maurice Lippens, who
[the husband] stands accused of some of the most
horrific child abuse practices. The support
committee is presided over by Count Jean Pierre
de Launoit, whose name once appeared on a list
of people accused of involvement in trade in
children and drugs. Nobody has been prosecuted],
daughter of King Albert II. Astrid's aunt, the
former Queen Fabiola, was related through the
House of Aragon to the Spanish Borbón family.
Professor Luc de Heusch of the Free University
of Brussels, an expert on Sacred Kingship,
maintained tha Queen Fabiola, a disciple of
Escrivá de Balaguer [founder of Opus Dei],
'introduced Opus Dei to the Catholic aristocracy
of Europe.' An idea of the company gathered from
the membership of a sister organization, the
Pan-European Union, headquartered in Zurich. An
idea of the company CEDI kept can be gathered
from the membership of a sister organization,
the Pan-European Union, headquartered in Zurich.
Also headed by Archduke Otto, among its members
were two Belgian prime ministers, an Italian
industrialist close to the Vatican, a former
French prime minister, his legal counsellor, an
aide to Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the secretary
of Giscard's Independent Republican Party... the
deputy head of NATO's intelligence division, a
director of West German intelligence, the
Spanish ambassador to the European Community and
Alfredo Sanchez Bella." (1997, Robert
Hutchinson, 'Their Kingdom Come', p.153-154).
CEDI stood in close contact with the Belgian Cercle des Nations, which was a gathering place
for Brussels fascist aristocracy which was
founded in 1969. On the next page Hutchinson
writes: "Otto is chairman for life of the CEDI.
Married Princess Regina Von Sachsen-Meiningen in
1951 with the blessing of Pius XII.
Vice-president of the Internationale Paneuropa-Union
1957-1972, working under Count Richard
Coudenhove-Kalergi. His Opusian associate Jean
Violet founded the Pinay Circle (Le Cercle) in
the 1950s, one of the most influential
behind-the-scenes anti-communist and pro-Europe
organizations, which was, and is, riddled with
questionable intelligence operatives. Otto's CSU
(Bavaria) and CDU (the rest of Germany) party
friends, Franz-Joseph Strauss
(a hard-right politician),
Count Hans Huyn
(intermarried with Habsburg family), and
Alois Mertes (important
German politician in early 1980s) have
all been leading members of both Le Cercle and
the ultraconservative anti-communist faction in
German politics. They are all suspected of
having been members of Opus Dei. In 1959, Otto
received the Knight Grand-Cross of Honour and
Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of
Malta with the Cross of Honorary Professed
Member. One of Otto's political secretaries,
Jacques G. Jonet, is named as a co-founder of
low-profile ultraconservative/fascist
European-integration groups as Ordre du Rouvre,
the Institut Européen pour la Paix et la
Sécurité (IEPS), the Société Internationale de
Wilton Park (Wilton Park conferences), and
Cercle des Nations. Opusian Cercle founder Jean
Violet was one of the few French members of
Cercle des Nations (1990, Hugo Gijssels, 'De
Bende & Co.', p. 130), together with Belgium's
controversial hard-right aristocracy. Jonet was
named as an individual that attempted to crush
the Pinon investigation of the late 1970s and
early 1980s, in which leading Cercle des Nations
members like the Opusian Paul Vanden Boeynants,
not to mention members of the Royal House of
Belgium (counts Opus Dei and SMOM members in the
family), were accused of child abuse. Jonet has
been named as a member of Mouvement d'Action
pour l'Union de l'Europe (MAUE), the
Habsburg-founded Centre of Documentation and
Information (CEDI), and CEPIC
(of the Opusian Baron de
Bonvoisin and Paul Vanden Boeynants, both named
as child abusers in the Dutroux X-Files by a
combination of X1, X2, and X3). Jonet is
suspected of membership in Opus Dei and is the
representative of the Belgian Order of Malta,
while his wife is a member of the administrative
council (anno 2006). In 1961, Otto finally
renounced all claims to the Austrian throne and
was eventually allowed to return to his home
country in 1966. CEDI, earlier founded by Otto
von Habsburg, had a secretary general named Paul
Vankerkhoven, who became a member of the Ordre
du Rouvre, the ultra right-wing catholic
magazine Chantiers-Occident, and the fascist
Cercle des Nations. Vankerkhoven was a
co-founder and vice-chairman of l'Institut
Europeen de Developpement, headquartered in the
castle of the earlier-mentioned Baron de
Bonvoisin. Vankerkhoven also founded the Belgian
branch of the ultra-reactionary World
Anti-Communist League (WACL), the 'Ligue
Internationale de la Liberte' (LIL). The WACL
was sponsored by the Sun Myung Moon sect and
aristocrats like Count Hans Huyn and Otto von
Habsburg were involved with it in Germany, at
least in the late 1980s. Otto co-founded the
Académie Européenne de Sciences Politiques,
located in Brussels, somewhere in the 1960s or
early 1970s. It was an ultraconservative
Paneuropa affiliated group, managed by the
Opusian Cercle founder Jean Violet and Paul
Vanden Boeynants, also Opus Dei, is said to have
been one of its prominent members. When Franco's
regime was challenged in the late 1960s by
members of Opus Dei and other reformer, Franco
designated Prince Juan Carlos as king of Spain
at the moment Franco died. It has been claimed
that Franco initially invited Otto von Habsburg
to become the new king, but Otto refused and
recommended Juan Carlos. Franco, Juan Carlos,
and Otto von Habsburg all were Knights of Malta.
When Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi died in 1972,
Otto followed him up as provisional president of
the Internationale Paneuropa-Union. At the
suggestion of French president, Paneuropa- and
Cercle member Georges Pompidou Otto was elected
official president in 1973. He still served in
this position anno 2006. January 2004,
Contemporary Review, 'Otto von Habsburg and the
future of Europe':
"Archduke Otto was the
right-hand man of Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, and
when the Count died in 1972, the leadership of
Paneuropa fell to him. Since then he has been
the President. When interviewed in 1986, Otto
von Habsburg was insistent that Paneuropa still
had work to do, and would not be subsumed in the
European Community (as it then was) itself. "
Anno 2006, Otto is an advisor to the
Coundenhove-Kalergi Foundation, together with
Count Hans Huyn, Jakob Coudenhove-Kalergi
(nephew of Richard, the founder of the Paneuropa
Union), and Prince Carlo della Torre e Tasso (Thurn
und Taxis). Nikolaus von Liechtenstein (younger
brother of Hans-Adam) is an executive member of
the the Coundenhove-Kalergi Foundation. In
December 1973 Otto gave a speech to the
Benedictine monks at the Woodside Priory School
on San Francisco's peninsula. Hosts for the
luncheon were Phil Gregory of Raytheon
(Philip L. Gregory; one of
the buyers of Raytheon in the 1940s, with what
would become his wife (Raytheon was originally
founded by Vannevar Bush in 1922-1925; Pilgrims
Society member and president-descendant Charles
Francis Adams IV would sit on the board of
Raytheon from 1938 to 1997); executive director
of Raytheon, first in New England and then in
California until 1979; founded the Semiconductor
Equipment Materials International (SEMI) with
two colleagues in 1970, the non-profit group
that presents semiconductor manufacturers trade
forums worldwide; president, chairman, and
executive director of SEMI; he and his wife
traveled extensively in building SEMI
internationally; among their tours was a trip in
the early 1970s to Beijing, China, right after
Kissinger, Rockefeller, and Nixon had "opened it
up"; his wife was active in numerous catholics
groups, including the Legion of Mary) and
Bill Keady Jr., president of Advalloy (November
19, 1973, San Mateo Times, 'Dr. Von Habsburg to
Speak').
Also reported by the San Mateo Times of
that day:
"Two distinguished visitors will
be in the Bay Area next month and both will be
guests of honor at Dec. 6 events at the Fairmont
Hotel... Dr. Otto von Habsburg, son of the last
emperor and king of Austria-Hungary, will be
honored by the Woodside Priory School at a
formal dinner dance... That noon, Monsignor John
Patrick Carroll-Abbing, founder and president of
Boys' Towns of Italy, will attend the Oscar de
la Renta fashion show and luncheon benefiting
Girls' Town of Italy (a part of Boys Towns)."
Member of the European Parliament for the
CSU 1979-1999, the party of his reactionary
Opusian Cercle friends Franz-Joseph Strauss,
Count Hans Huyn, and Alois Mertes. Among the
foreign policy advisors to the Hanns Seidel
Stiftung (Hanns Seidel Foundation) since 1975
(established in 1967), as well as the
Kuratoriums Mitglied of the Ludwig Frank
Stiftung (Ludwig-Frank Foundation). The Hanns
Seidel Foundation, based in Germany, receives
funding from the European Union. The foundation
is a geopolitical trust attached to the Bavarian
CSU party (the Bavarian Christian Democrats) of
the Strauss, Mertes, Huyn, and Edmund Stoiber.
It was active on all continents in funding
anti-communist militias. July 2005, The Trumphet,
'From the Editor: German Election Crisis - and a
New Charlemagne':
"Here is what Mr.
Armstrong’s Plain Truth staff wrote, September
1979: “On the United Nations, he [Otto] has
declared that the organization is dominated by
‘anti-European illiterates, despots and
cannibals.’... “Possibly von Habsburg’s most
controversial suggestion has been his recipe for
dealing with national emergencies. In the April
1978 issue of his conservative publication
Zeitbühne, he suggested that in certain
emergency situations (such as nuclear blackmail
or other major acts of terrorism) governments
should let a strongman take over for a period of
nine months, allowing him to suspend laws and
‘take all measure necessary for the maintenance
of the life of the population.’...
Interestingly, von Habsburg counts Bavarian
leader Franz Josef Strauss among ‘the few
full-blooded politicians’ who ‘in the case of
serious national crises are able to accept
responsibility because of their
clear-sightedness and indomitableness.’ Von
Habsburg says he is ‘personally pretty close to
his [Strauss’s] ideas in many ways on the
European unity subject"... The zenith of
Habsburg power came in the 16th century under
Emperor Charles v. Chosen by electors in 1519 at
the age of 20, Charles was crowned Holy Roman
emperor by Pope Leo x in October 1520. He ruled
until 1556 and is considered to have been the
greatest monarch to bear the imperial crown
since Charlemagne. He was the last emperor to
vigorously attempt to realize the medieval idea
of a unified empire embracing the entire
Christian world... Christopher Hollis, in the
foreword to von Habsburg’s book The Social Order
of Tomorrow, points out that Otto ‘would like to
see Europe resume her essential unity, and in
the symbolism of that unity he thinks that the
imperial crown of Charlemagne and of the Holy
Roman Empire might well have its part to play.’
“Inter-European unity has long been a quest of
the Habsburg dynasty. Otto himself often speaks
of the similarities between the Holy Roman
Empire of the Middle Ages and his view of a
coming United States of Europe. In this regard,
Otto has stressed the importance of religion in
the formation of a united Europe. He regards
Christianity as Europe’s bulwark: ‘The cross
doesn’t need Europe, but Europe needs the
cross.’"
The pope has also spoken out
against Liberal Anglo-Saxon politics. Otto was a
member of the Hilfskomitee Freiheit für Rudolf
Hess (Freedom for Rudolf Hess Committee), which
advocated the release of the former Thulist and
number two in Hitler's early regime. Hess had
secretly flown to England in May 1941, almost
certainly trying to establish a peace between
Hitler and the British Empire (through the
opponents of Churchill affiliated with the
British royal family) so both could attack
Russia. Unfortunately for Hess, he was caught.
After the war he was held in a prison until his
death, mainly because the Soviet Union did not
approve of his release. The Action Committee for
the Freedom of Rudolf Hess made it to the
international news a few times in the 1970s.
SMOM member Kurt Waldheim, the secretary general
of the United Nations who had to resign in 1986
after he was accused of war crimes, was a
favorite of Otto. Otto was honored by the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in February 1988.
On 19 August 1989 he was the Patron of the
Paneuropean-Picnic in Sopron, which was a
protest against the Iron Curtain. Since 1988 he
worked on the extension of the Paneuropa Union
into the countries behind the Iron Curtain, on
the independence of the Baltic States from
Moscow, and of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzgovina
and Macedonia from Belgrade (Serbia). He is
considered an enemy of the Serbs. When Croatia
(90% roman catholic) and Slovenia (84% roman
catholic) withdrew from Yugoslavia, the Vatican
immediately supported the action, together with
the German government.
1994, Jean-Paul Picaper,
'Otto de Habsbourg: Memoires d'Europe', pp.
209-210 (Otto to a Figaro correspondent):
"If German recognized Slovenia and Croatia so
rapidly, even against the will of [then German
foreign minister] Hans-Dietrich Genscher who did
not want to take that step, it's because the
Bonn government was subjected to an almost
irresistible pressure of public opinion. In this
regard, the German press rendered a very great
service, in particular the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung and Carl Gustav Strohm, that
great German journalist who works for Die Welt."
In the late 80s and early 1990s, Otto
invited leaders from Croatia and Slovenia to the
European Parliament. He visited these countries
and stated they should prepare themselves for a
place in the European Union. Habsburg and his
allies warned about Milosevic, who had just
become a prominent former-communist socialist
nationalist and wanted to unite all land where a
significant amount of Serbians (mainly eastern
orthodox christians) lived. Civil wars followed
in which the Serbians ultimately were driven
back south and east into Serbia. German, US, an
UK intelligence services, together with special
forces, were secretly funding the (also quite
brutal) opposition to Serbia. NATO also bombed
the Serbs twice. Otto had called for the bombing
of Belgrade (capital of the Serbs) in 1993. Some
fear that Otto would like to see Serbia removed
from the map, as he blames this nation for the
downfall of his beloved Austro-Hungarian Empire.
In 2005 Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor of the
UN international criminal tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia, claimed that the Vatican
protected suspected war criminal general Ante
Gotovina, a hero in Croatia. Before becoming a
general in the Croatian army, Gotovina fought in
the French Foreign Legion; then became a close
collaborator of the hard-right Jean-Marie Le
Pen. In good tradition of the Nazi ratlines, the
Vatican allegedly hid him in a monastery.
September 20, 2005, The Telegraph, 'Vatican
accused of shielding 'war criminal'':
"Carla
del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the UN
international criminal tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia, said she believed that Gen Ante
Gotovina was being sheltered in a Franciscan
monastery in his native Croatia... She said:
"I have information he is hiding in a
Franciscan monastery and so the Catholic Church
is protecting him. I have taken this up with the
Vatican and the Vatican refuses totally to
co-operate with us." In July, Mrs del Ponte
travelled to Rome to share her intelligence with
the Vatican's ''foreign minister'', Archbishop
Giovanni Lajolo. He refused to help, telling her
the Vatican was not a state and thus had "no
international obligations" to help the UN to
hunt war criminals. Mrs del Ponte complained:
"They said they have no intelligence and I don't
believe that. I think that the Catholic Church
has the most advanced intelligence services.""
In 1989, he said to the European Parliament: "The [European] Community is living largely by
the heritage of the Holy Roman Empire, though
the great majority of the people who live by it
don’t know by what heritage they live."
Otto has met with Pope John Paul II to discuss
at length the subject of European integration.
In early 2006 he met with the new pope, Benedikt
XVI (Ratzinger), whom he had already known. From
September to December 2004 he travelled to
Kosovo, Zurich, Rome, Vienna, Tyrol, Madeira,
Croatia, London, again to Vienna, Paris,
Strasbourg, Spain, Westphalia, Lower Saxony,
Budapest, and three times to Hungary. In
November 2002 the Austrian weekly Zur Zeit
published an interview with Otto von Habsburg in
which he had said:
"If we consider America's
internal politics, then we find that it is split
in two halves. On the one hand, the Defense
Department, in which the key positions are held
by Jews; the Pentagon is today a Jewish
institution. On the other hand, the blacks are
in the State Department: for instance, Colin
Powell or especially Condoleezza Rice. It is an
internal conflict between hawks and doves.
Currently, the Anglo-Saxons, that's to say the
white Americans, are playing a relatively minor
role."
On April 20, 2005 National Public
Radio (NPR) interviewed Otto and asked him about
these comments. He confirmed what he said
earlier and added:
"There are many
nationalities making up America. There are four
states that in twenty years will have a majority
of Spanish language [citizens]; and I don't
think that's a catastrophe. It's a very good
thing. I'm already well located. I have many
children and all my children speak Spanish too."
In the interview he's clearly hinting two
or three times to the fact that he wants
northern Africa to become part of the European
Union. Otto thinks the rejected 2005 EU
Constitution should be rewritten and
reintroduced. Made a speech in German and French
praising Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
(former French president;
like Habsburg, a good friend of Opusian Cercle
founder Jean Violet; prominent member Paneuropa
Union; received the Charlemagne award; Knight of
Malta; Giscard's father had close connections to
the Synarchy and Opus Dei) when this
person was head of the Draft Treaty that should
have established a Constitution for Europe.
2005, Ausgabe 2-3, Eurojournal pro management,
p. 14, committee member Otto von Habsburg:
"The original wording of the Constitution draft
by Giscard d'Estaing was quite short and
comprehensible. So why did it fail to convince
the voters? This is plain: a campaign launched
with the help of a book thick with legal
terminology which, the bureaucrats hoped, voters
would read and comprehend. Much money was spent,
but nothing was gained. A Commission full of
aged politicians to work on the draft which
spoilt it just as "too many cooks spoil the
broth". Giscard d'Estaing knew what would happen
with his initial draft, and later photographs
show the expression of a man in desperation who
knew that should this revamped version fail,
then he would be responsible anyway... No
attempt was made to reach out to future
generations as did the late pope John Paul II or
as Pope Benedict XVI now does; two old men who
somehow managed and manage to enthuse the
masses. It is therefore no wonder that the
battle was lost; the idea however still lives
on, but we need new politicians to bring the
idea home to voters."
Giscard's initial
draft version delegated a lot of authority to
the EU presidency, who would be elected to serve
for five years instead of the previous method of
a six month rotation between all EU members. The
European Council, the body made up of the heads
of state of the member countries, would do the
electing on the basis of Qualified Majority
Voting. Giscard, who now favored the name United
Europe, made many other proposals and was widely
attacked for trying to reduce the influence of
smaller EU countries, the commission and the
European Parliament. Giscard did not see an EU
president being directly elected by the European
people "for another 50 years." Like Otto,
Giscard d’Estaing is absolutely against Turkey
joining the European Union. Tuesday 28 February
2006, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, speech at the
London School of Economics entitled 'The
Political Future of Europe' (transcript posted
at website of LSE):
"Let's be clear about
this: the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty
in France was a mistake, which will have to be
corrected. Was the mistake due to the
over-complicated presentation of the draft, or
the choice of a referendum [public vote...] at a
time when politicians were highly unpopular? It
doesn't much matter. Everyone has accepted the
democratic verdict, whatever their regrets. But
the main victim has been a Treaty, which,
according to the opinion polls, the French were
not against. At a time when second chances are
the order of the day, the Constitutional Treaty
will have to be given its second chance. When?
When France has completed her great electoral
debate, with the presidential and parliamentary
elections which are due to be held 14 months'
time, in spring 2007. How? By refocusing the
debate on the only genuinely constitutional
parts, that is to say, the first part, and the
Charter of Fundamental Rights demanded by the
European Left, neither of which have given rise
to much protest. Then the third part could
follow a parliamentary route, which is far
better suited to its legal nature."
In this
speech Giscard proposed that the two first parts
of the Constitution could be subject to a new
referendum, whereas the third and more
controversial part would be subject to a
parliamentary vote. On May 23, 2006 the
Financial Times quoted Giscard d'Estaing as
saying:
"It is not France that has said no.
It is 55 per cent of the French people - 45 per
cent of the French people said yes... I wish
that we will have a new chance, a second chance,
for the constitutional project." Otto
concurs and added in 2006 "A short, clear
constitution text must go", suggesting the
average person in the EU is interested in
reading the document. April 09, 2002, Christian
Science Monitor, 'Europe, prepare to greet
Islam': "For centuries, the ruling Habsburgs
defended the Continent against the expansion of
the Turkish Ottoman Empire. Now Mr. von Habsburg
makes it clear that all nations bordering the
Mediterranean Sea – including those in North
Africa and the Middle East – have a place in his
broad vision for tomorrow's Europe."
In
other interviews Otto indeed claimed that as far
as he is concerned, Africa starts with the
Sahara. The small strip above it should still be
included in Europe. Otto is also happy to see
that Central and Eastern Europe starts to have
more and more influence in the rest of Europe.
When Otto von Habsburg visited the United States
in April 2005, one of the few people he spoke
with in private was Henry Kissinger. Also
interviewed by a few newspapers during his visit
to the United States. April 18, 2005, Washington
Times, 'Habsburg, 92, has eye on future':
"The Cosmos Club's windows were ablaze with
light... talk centered on Archduke Otto's
lifelong quest to build and expand the European
Union. "Ten new states have recently been
admitted, and we are waiting for others,
especially Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and the
Ukraine," he told a reporter... Archduke Otto,
amazingly hale and hearty at 92, readily
admitted the EU was "already too big and
unwieldy" but said that shouldn't matter: "The
new [member states] will be better Europeans
than the old because they know the totalitarian
alternative. They will enrich us enormously."
Later, he praised the Ukrainians for
courageously taking to the streets to ensure
democratic rule."
Official supporter of
Europe for Christ, which was founded in July
2005 and aims to insert the values of
catholicism in the European constitution and the
life of Europeans. The Vatican was "surprised"
in 2003 that there was no specific reference to
God and Christianity in the proposed EU
constitution, even though the general importance
of religions and spirituality on human society
was in fact mentioned. Otto supports the Vatican
on this issue. In November 2005 Otto denounced
Putin as a KGB dictator and spoke in favor of
Khodorkovsky, the famous oligarch, being
released. Bavaria is known to have made large
investments in Russia since the Oligarchs came
to power. February 5-6, 2004, European
Navigator/Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe,
Otto von Habsburg interview in which he replies
to the question what he thinks were the key
players in European integration (translated from
French):
"Charles de Gaulle in the first
place. Certainly one of the big visionaries of
Europe... I will certainly also say Adenauer.
Adenauer with his Rhenish vision because the
Rhine plays a fundamental role in this Europe...
Coudenhove, certainly; and... Schuman... I put
them at the same level... Coudenhove said: "You
know, it is awfully difficult to make Europe
with the English, but without them, it is
impossible" That is very true. And in case of
France, that's also true. There are a lot of
difficulties with the French, but we cannot make
it without them. They are an essential element
to us and without De Gaulle... France would have
collapsed completely."
February 5-6, 2004,
European Navigator/Jean Monnet Foundation for
Europe, Otto von Habsburg interview in which he
replies to the question what he thinks about
Jean Monnet (translated from French):
"Jean
Monnet had a role, an important role, but he
certainly was not the only one... the relations
between Monnet and Coudenhove were not exactly
very intimate... I was on the side of Coudenhove
during the whole time, because I agreed with his
vision. Jean Monnet was rather a technocrat and
Coudenhove was a prophet and a visionary. It was
that big of a difference, in my opinion."
In the end the only differences between Monnet
and Otto seem to be that Otto is taking things
slower and has traditionally not really been
concerned with Britain entering the European
Union, as this was not an original Paneuropean
objective. Otto von Habsburg has been named as a
member of the Order of Malta, a member of Opus
Dei, and a member of the Mont Pelerin Society (a
branch of the Paneuropa Union). Prominent
Catholic and a patron of the Augustan Society.
Former sovereign of the Order of the Golden
Fleece, which has now become his son. King Juan
Carlos of Spain is head of the only other Order
of the Golden Fleece. Has also been named as a
member of the controversial Order of Zion, if it
even exists, or existed. Other rumors about the
Order of Zion have named Cercle members Alain
Poher and Giulio Andreotti. Otto and his wife
reside at the Villa Austria in Pöcking, Bavaria,
Germany.
Otto von Habsburg's
oldest son, Karl Habsburg (b. 1961), who is to
be the future head of the Habsburg family,
married Baroness Francesca von
Thyssen-Bornemisza in 1993. Baroness Francesca
is the daughter of Baron Hans Heinrich von
Thyssen-Bornemisza, who was a member of the 1001
Club. They had three children in the 1990s,
whose godmother is Gloria von Thurn und Taxis,
the wife of the late Prince Johannes von Thurn
und Taxis. Karl is president of the Pan Europa
Union in Austria and currently serves as the
elected OVP Party representative of Austria to
the European Parliament. His son Georg von
Habsburg is a Hungarian diplomat to the EU and
his daughter, Countess Walburga Douglas, is a
Pan Europa representative, politician and
author.
The Habsburg Empire
did not entirely end after WWI. Currently HSH
Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein is a
Habsburg monarch. He also has close ties to the
Vatican, is a member of the Knights of Malta,
and at least a supporter of Opus Dei. Hans
Adam's younger brother sits on the board of the
Coudenhove-Kalergi Foundation, together with
Otto von Habsburg, Count Hans Huyn, Jakob
Coudenhove-Kalergi (nephew of Richard, the
founder of the Paneuropa Union), and Prince
Carlo della Torre e Tasso (Thurn und Taxis).
Hans Adam is known to have a lot of interest in
the UFO/alien issue. He had an interesting
conversation about this subject with Dr. Steven
Greer.
According to Greer, Hans Adam is a
radical end-of-the-world fanatic who privately
claims aliens have invented all the world's
religions. According to Greer, Hans Adam claimed
to him that one of his brothers was kidnapped by
aliens. Greer says he has spoken to people in
the US who claimed Hans Adam's brother indeed
was abducted; not by aliens, but by a human
stagecraft team to bring him aboard of a certain
agenda. |
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Hague, William J.
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2002 UK Parliament
record (Register of Members' Interests)
Born in 1961. Went
to Magdalen College, Oxford, and while there he
was president of both the Conservative
Association (OUCA) and the Oxford Union, a noted
breeding-ground for political hopefuls and
high-flyers. At Oxford, Hague studied
Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) and
graduated with first-class honours. Following
Oxford Hague went on to study for an MBA at
INSEAD (Elite French business school). Before
entering Parliament, he worked for Shell UK and
McKinsey & Co. Elected to Parliament in 1989.
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Lord
Norman Lamont from 1990 to 1993, who was
Chancellor of the Exchequer and chairman of Le
Cercle. Entered the Cabinet in 1995 as Secretary
of State for Wales. Member of the Privy Council
since 1995. Leader of the Conservative Party
from 1997 to 2001, in succession to John Major.
When prime minister Tony Blair proposed the
removal of the hereditary element in the House
of Lords in 1998, Lord Cranborne (Cecil family),
without consulting Hague, negotiated a pact with
the government to retain a small number of
hereditary peers for the interim period, which
was later set at 92.
Hague was embarrassed when
Blair told him of it in the House of Commons and
sacked Lord Cranborne. Seen as a political
lightweight by many, and was widely mocked for
his claim that he drank 14 imperial pints (8
litres) of beer in a day in his youth. Chairman
of the International Democrat Union (IDU)
1997-2002, the global alliance of Conservative,
Christian Democrat and like-minded parties. Went
to Bilderberg in 1998. Deputy chairman of the
IDU since 2002, under Australia's prime minister
John Howard. Shadow Foreign Secretary and Senior
Member of the Shadow Cabinet since 2005. UK
Parliament record about William Hague:
"27
June-1 July 2002, to Morocco, flights and
accommodation for my wife and me paid for by Le
Cercle, a political group which organises
conferences. (Registered 17 July 2002)"
Director AES Engineering, Rotherham.
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Howard, Michael |
Sources: 18 June
2000, Sunday Telegraph / Lobster Magazine, Issue
40, winter 2000-2001
He was called to the
Bar (Inner Temple) in 1964 and specialized 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 minimizing 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. President and
founding chairman of the Atlantic Partnership.
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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Howell, Lord David
|
Sources: June 18,
2004, Chancellery of HRH Crown Prince Alexander
II of Yugoslavia, 'Reception in honor of the "Le
Cercle" conference
Baron Howell
of Guildford. Born in 1936. Educated at Eton and
King's College, Cambridge. After five years as a
journalist he unsuccessfully contested the
constituency of Dudley in the 1964 General
Election. Member of Parliament for Guildford
from 1966-1997. Served in four other Government
posts under Mr. Heath, including Minister of
State for Energy and Minister of State for
Northern Ireland. Member of the Privy Council
since 1979. Secretary of State for Energy
1979-1981. Secretary of State for Transport
1981-1983. Writes a fortnightly column for The
Japan Times in Tokyo since 1985. Regularly
writes for the International Herald Tribune,
E-biz Chronicle (New York) and to other
newspapers and journals. Chairman of the Select
Committee on Foreign Affairs since 1987-1997.
Chairman of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group
1989-2002, the high level bilateral forum
between leading UK and Japanese politicians,
industrialists and academics. Member of the
international advisory board of Swiss Bank
Corporation from 1989-1996. Has been to the the
Trilateral Commission several times since the
1990s. Advisory director and senior adviser to
the board of SBC Warburg Dillon Read, London
1996-2000. Created a life peer as Lord Howell of
Guildford in 1997. Chairman of the House of
Lords European Sub-Committee on Common Foreign
and Security Policy 1999-2000. Awarded the Grand
Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure of
Japan in 2001. European Consultant to Japan
Central Railway Company, to Mitsubishi Electric,
Europe, BV and to the Kuwait Investment
Authority. 2003 panelist of the Atlantic
Partnership. Howell's website, 2003:
"With
the support of the Atlanticist and free
market-minded new members there is every chance
of turning the EU away from its centralist
obsessions and even repatriating powers to
national parliaments."
President of the
British Institute of Energy Economists (BIEE)
since 2004. Attended a meeting of Le Cercle in
Belgrade, Serbia on June 18, 2004. Upon taking
his post at the BIEE, Howell wrote:
"I am
delighted and honoured to take on this role.
There can be no doubt that after a decade of
relatively problem-free energy flows there are
now major dangers ahead on both the supply side
and on the generation and distribution sides.
For the UK the situation is about to change
radically. We will shortly become again, after
many years, a net importer of both oil and
natural gas, the latter being supplied by new
contracts with Norway, Russia , Algeria and
possibly Iran. This takes these aspects of
energy supply right back into the heart of
international politics in the most sensitive
areas on earth. Meanwhile , here at home, we now
have to make crucial new decisions on nuclear
power. It is no longer a question of ‘keeping
options open’ on nuclear power generation.
Decisions have to be made now for a decade
ahead. Investment in offshore windfarms cannot
conceivably fill the gap which will be left by
any nuclear closures. Finally, we now have to
move towards a new generation of techniques for
conservation and low energy consumption. There
is much work to be done."
At a Chatham
House meeting in April 2005. October 19, 2006,
subject matter of Lord Howell's speech to the
Japan Society:
"A new structure of
International Relations is now in the making. As
American power and influence diminishes, it will
be replaced not by another bloc or superpower,
such as The European Union or China, but by a
complex new mesh or web of relationships between
nations large and small. A vital strand in this
new pattern will be the linkage between the UK
and Japan. This linkage has the capacity to
re-shape global affairs, including energy
security and influence on both Middle Eastern
and Asia-Pacific stability, to an extent far
greater than hitherto realised. Lord Howell will
explain how this scene will develop."
Member of the advisory council of New Europe, a
cross-party eurosceptics group. Deputy
Opposition Leader in the House of Lords and
spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office in the House of Lords. May 17, 2006, Viva
Le Canada, 'The Commonwealth as the Ideal Model
for International Relations in the 21st
Century':
"The Lord
Howell argues that the Commonwealth is becoming
a completely transformed entity and that an
enlarged and reformed version of it should be
centre stage in addressing the problems of the
new international order... The Commonwealth
normally refers to 53 member countries, formerly
members of the British Empire. The
Commonwealth's membership includes both
republics and monarchies. The Head of the
Commonwealth is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
and the Headquarters are at Marlborough House in
London. Her Majesty also reigns as monarch
directly in a number of states, known as
Commonwealth Realms, notably the United Kingdom,
Australia, Canada, New Zealand and others. The
Commonwealth's 1.8 billion citizens, about 30
per cent of the world's population, are drawn
from the broadest range of faiths, races,
cultures and traditions. About half of this
population are less than 25 years old. Members
range from vast democratic countries like India,
Canada and Australia to smaller city states like
Singapore. The Commonwealth has three
intergovernmental organizations: the
Commonwealth Secretariat, the Commonwealth
Foundation, and the Commonwealth of Learning."
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Huyn, Count Hans |
Sources: November
1988 – Issue 17, Lobster Magazine, 'Brian
Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith'
(quoting the Langemann papers)
Hans Huyn was born
in Warsaw, Poland, in 1930. A descendant of a
noble Austro-Hungarian family that was involved
in the defense of this Habsburgian empire in the
19th century. Studied in Munich, Paris, and
South-Africa in Law, History, Philosophy, and
Languages. Started his career in diplomacy, and
was involved in some of the early negotiations
dealing with the European Economic Community
(EEC). Married Rosemary Gräfin Huyn in 1959, a
descendant of Archduchess Maria Theresia of
Austria (1717-1780), the first and only female
head of the Habsburg dynasty. From 1963 to 1965,
as an officer in the German Foreign Service, he
was involved in European affairs and the Treaty
of Elysée, also known as the Franco-German
Treaty of 1963. This treaty was established as a
result of clandestine meetings between De
Gaulle, Pinay, Adenauer, and Strauss, with Jean
Violet as a go-between. Retired from the Foreign
Service in 1965 and became a journalist and
lecturer. Government director of the
Bundesfinanzverwaltung (Federal Finance
Commission) in the late 1960s. Foreign policy
advisor to Franz-Joseph Strauss in the Bundestag
from 1971-1976, and Brian Crozier described him
as a close friend of Strauss. Co-founder of the
anti-communist Europäischen Konferenz für
Menschenrechte und Selbstbestimmung (European
Conferences on Human Rights) in Bern,
Switzerland, in 1974. The ECHRS's 1974 topic
titles included 'A Soviet handbook on war as an
instrument of policy' and 'The whole of Europe
must be kept free from communist dictatorship'.
Entered the Bundestag in 1976 and has been
reelected 4 times since then. During his career
in the Bundestag he was a member of the Foreign
Committee, the Committee on Germany's Domestic
Affairs, and the Defense Committee. Acting
chairperson of the Subcommittee for Disarmament
and Arms Control. 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. In 1982 (August 17),
the Miami Herald described Count Huyn as a
"foreign affairs and defense expert for the
Christian Democratic Party". At that time,
he accused Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's
government of not having investigated properly
the possible use of slave labor by the Soviets a
to build a Siberian natural gas pipeline to
Western Europe. September 20, 1982, Miami
Herald, 'Schmidt Fears Soft Attitude Towards
U.S.':
"A conservative member of Parliament,
Hans Graf Huyn, said the United States would get
"considerably easier agreement" to the planned
stationing of U.S.-made medium-range nuclear
missiles under a Christian Democrat
government... Huyn's, whose party has close
links with the Christian Democrats, also said
the Christian Democrats would not be moved by
the mass protests expected here if the NATO
missiles are stationed as planned at the end of
1983."
On August 16, 1984, the Philadelphia
Daily News described Count Huyn as the
"parliamentary foreign policy spokesman for the
CSU, the second biggest party in the coalition
government". The CSU (of Bavaria) was also
the party of Otto von Habsburg. The CSU's
national party was Franz-Joseph Strauss' CDU.
Huyn countered some claims of a Polish-Soviet
cardinal. Argued for German participation in the
American Star Wars program in 1985. Member of
the World Anti-Communist League. Member of
Parliament in 1990. In 1990, Huyn favored more
trade with the Soviet Union and the rest of the
Warsaw Pact, except for high technology. He
claimed Gorbachev remained a socialist in heart
and soul and that therefore his perestroika
would fail. April 9, 1990, Washington Times,
'Official figures indicate Soviet economy
collapsing':
"A series of official reports
from Moscow confirm recent dire predictions that
the Soviet economy is heading for collapse. "The
economic situation has never been as disastrous
as it is today," said Hans Huyn, a West German
expert on Soviet affairs and a member of the
Bonn legislature. "We are witnessing the
complete collapse of Soviet-style socialism. I
think the real Russian revolution is still to
come."... "It is a chaotic and disastrous
situation," Mr. Huyn said. Soviet President
Mikhail "Gorbachev has already failed with
perestroika, so there will be further change. If
labor and economic unrest combines against the
leadership, that could be the start of a civil
war," he said."
Cercle visitors Zbigniew
Brzezinski and Count Hans Huyn were among
important media spokesman during the crumble of
the Soviet Union and its descent into anarchy.
Supported the South African Apartheid policies
in Namibia, before its independence in 1990.
Involved with Radio Free Europe. 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. Anno 2006,
advisor to the Coundenhove-Kalergi Foundation,
together with Otto von Habsburg, Jakob
Coudenhove-Kalergi (nephew of Richard, the
founder of the Paneuropa Union), and Prince
Carlo della Torre e Tasso (Thurn und Taxis).
Nikolaus von Liechtenstein (younger brother of
Hans-Adam) is an executive member of the the
Coundenhove-Kalergi Foundation. Count Huyn has
written quite a number of books on East (Soviet)
- West policy. |
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Iliescu, Ion |
Sources: April 6,
2003, The Observer, 'So, Norman, any regrets
this time?'; September 5, 2004, Sunday Times,
'Le Cercle of the elite'
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. |
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Jameson, Donald
"Jamie" F.B. |
Sources: November
1988 – Issue 17, Lobster Magazine, 'Brian
Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith'
(quoting from the Langemann papers);
Junior CIA officer
in his mid-20s at the end of WWII, mingling with
the displaced persons crowded into West German
camps. Recruited some of these people to
infiltrate back into the Soviet, which wasn't
very successful. Chief of the Soviet division of
the CIA's Operations Directorate in the 1950s
and 1960s. Expert on the USSR and defectors.
Interviewed Yuri A. Rastvorov, the 1954 Soviet
defector, who supposedly told him that the
Soviets held maybe 10 to 15 US prisoners of war
from Korea. Coincidentally, a person called Col.
Philip Corso said he arranged the interrogation
of Rastvorov. In telephone interviews in 1994
and 1995, Corso recalled in detail his encounter
with Rastvorov and said the defector told him
several hundred American POWs had been sent to
Siberia in rail cars during the war. Corso has
maintained that the Eisenhower administration
chose not to force the issue with Moscow out of
concern that a confrontation might escalate into
all-out war. March 7, 1997, The Augusta
Chronicle, 'Defector caught up in dispute -
Former intelligence officer denies US prisoners
of war taken in Korean wars':
"At least two
former U.S. intelligence officers say Mr.
Rastvorov told them in separate conversations
after his defection that he knew U.S. troops
captured in the 1950-53 Korean War had been
taken to Siberia and exploited by Soviet
intelligence. One of those conversations is
summarized in a long-secret White House memo
that was declassified last spring... Publicity
about the memo prompted the Pentagon to contact
Mr. [Yuri] Rastvorov to see how much he knew. At
a private meeting last Oct. 10, Mr. Rastvorov
denied having any knowledge about U.S. POWs in
Siberia. Further, he said that the statements in
the White House memo were not his, and that he
did not recall that any of the debriefings he
underwent with U.S. officials in the 1950s dealt
with POWs... Philip Corso, an intelligence
officer in Korea during the war and later a
National Security Council staff member in the
Eisenhower White House, is equally emphatic that
Mr. Rastvorov told him in a Jan. 28, 1955,
debriefing that Americans had been taken to
Siberia as part of a covert Soviet intelligence
operation... Separate from Mr. Corso's
assertions, Donald Jameson, a retired CIA
officer, has said he recalls Mr. Rastvorov
telling him in the 1950s that U.S. POWs had been
taken to the Soviet Union and that Mr. Rastvorov
had estimated it was 10 to 15 aviators. Mr.
Jameson helped handle the Rastvorov debriefing
after his defection."
Senior CIA Soviet
specialist. Retired from the CIA in 1973. Went
to a Cercle meeting in 1980 in Zurich,
Switzerland, together with general Richard
Stilwell. Consultant on Oil and on Soviet
Affairs in the 1980s. December 14, 2002, New
York Times, 'Theodore Shackley, Enigmatic C.I.A.
Official, Dies at 75':
"In 1979, Mr.
Shackley retired from the C.I.A. and founded
Research Associates International Ltd., a
Bethesda consulting firm specializing in
analyzing risks and protecting executives".
Vice president of Research Associates
International in the 1980s, a firm founded by
the very controversial CIA officer Theodore Shackley, who is closely linked to Cercle
activities, not to mention illegal dope and oil
trade. 2002, Chief Executive Publishing (more
detailed date and a headline were not given;
scanned from some book or document, judging by
one or two common OCR errors):
"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 done
one deal, others usually follow. Trading with
the Soviets is a race that goes to the strong,"
Jameson said."
July 23, 1998, Michael
Ruppert, 'The POWs, CIA and Drugs':
"A
former CIA officer told me in 1995 that Ollie
North was leasing office space for his 1995
Senate run from Shackley's company, Research
Associates International, in Rosslyn, Virginia."
Vice-president of the Jamestown Foundation,
which was founded in 1984 (with the help of
Cercle member William Casey) to protect and
sponsor a group of high-level international
defectors as they travelled the United States
speaking out against the tyranny of communism.
Today, the Jamestown Foundation has three
program areas: China, Russia/Eurasia, and
Terrorism, and counts the involvement of Glen
Howard (SAIC; DoD; National Intelligence
Council; Mid-East and Central-Asia oil
consultant), James Woolsey, Zbigniew Brzezinski
(attended at least one Le Cercle meeting), Dick
Cheney, and Frank Carlucci. Has been a member of
the ultra conservative National Security
Advisory Council (NSAC) of the Center for
Security Policy, together with Ed Feulner, Dick
Cheney, Richard Perle (good friend of former
Cercle chairman Brian Crozier), Edward Teller,
Frank Gaffney, and Jeanne Kirkpatrick. Jameson
was at a conference on 15 November 1991 where
former KGB and CIA officers spoke together in
public for the first time. President of Jameson
Associates in Great Falls, Va. in 1994. Writer
and consultant on international finance and
politics to various financial institutions and
governments. Probably involved to some extent in
the remote viewing programs. January 25, 2003,
Gold Coast Bulletin:
"In 1972, the CIA gave
the institute $50,000 to study remote viewing.
Russell Targ, who joined the project in 1972,
recalls a CIA official telling him: "You are
wasting your time looking at churches and
swimming pools in Palo Alto." Two years later,
the institute received the geographical
co-ordinates of a "Soviet site of ongoing
operational significance.'' The target was
Semipalatinsk, in what is now Kazakhstan. A
remote viewer provided a layout of a cluster of
buildings and drew a puzzling, 'damned big
crane'. He identified the underground facility
as storage for Soviet missiles. Satellite photos
verified the viewer's report, according to
Donald Jameson, then a senior CIA Soviet
specialist, who called the event a 'turning
point'. One group within the agency refused to
look at the Semipalatinsk data, objecting to the
unscientific methodology. Another group called
the process 'demonic'. When the CIA cut the
program in 1975, the funds shifted first to the
Air Force and then, in 1980, to the Defence
Intelligence Agency. Between 1979 and 1994 Fort
Meade's viewing site conducted roughly 250
projects involving thousands of missions."
General Albert Stubblebine was a key sponsor of
the research at Fort Meade. |
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Karageorgevitch,
Crown Prince Alexander II |
Sources: June 18,
2004, Chancellery of HRH Crown Prince Alexander
II of Yugoslavia, 'Reception in honor of the "Le
Cercle" conference
Born in 1945.
Descendant of Serbian royalty. Son of Peter II
of Yugoslavia, the last King of Yugoslavia. Born
in London. Godparents were King George VI and
Queen Elizabeth II. Current pretender to the
abolished thrones of Yugoslavia and Serbia. By
marrying a Roman Catholic, Alexander lost his
place in line of succession to the British
Throne, which he had held as a descendant of
Queen Victoria. The couple divorced in 1985.
Crown Prince Alexander married Katherine Clairy
Batis, the daughter of Robert Batis and his
wife, Anna Dosti, legally on September 20, 1985,
and religiously the following day, at St. Sava
Serbian Orthodox Church, Notting Hill, London.
Alexander first came to Yugoslavia in 1991.
He
moved to Yugoslavia after Slobodan Milošević was
deposed in 2000. In March 2001 Yugoslavian
citizenship was given to him by the government
and property seized from his family, including
royal palaces, were returned. Alexander is a
proponent of establishing parliamentary monarchy
in Serbia within its current borders and sees
himself as the rightful king. Hosted a 2004
meeting of Le Cercle. |
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Kelly, Crosby M.
|
Sources: 1997,
Robert Hutchinson, 'Their Kingdom Come – Inside
the Secret World of Opus Dei', p. 155
Born in 1918. BA,
University Arizona, 1939. Postgrad., University
Mexico, 1940. Best known as a public relations
pioneer. Worked at Ford Motor Co. 1941-1948.
Worked at several other companies the following
7 years. Assistant to the CEO at Litton
Industries 1955-1965, a large defense contractor
in the United States, bought by the Northrop
Grumman Corporation in 2001. Worked at the
Department of State in 1962. Head of the
American delegation to the International
Congress Air Force Associations, Turin, Italy,
1964. Chairman of Crosby M. Kelly Associates
Ltd. 1965-1973. Chairman President Advertising
Measurements, Inc. 1965-1970. Chairman of
Performance Measurements Co., Detroit,
1968-1970. Order of Merit of the Republic of
Italy 1969. Senior vice president at Litton
Industries, Inc. 1973-1976. According to Len
Horowitz, Litton Industries was given over $5
billion in military contracts during the first
term of the Nixon administration, $10 million of
which went towards the development of AIDS-like
viruses. Vice president of communications at
Rockwell International 1976-1978. Instructor at
the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School
Business 1978. Again Chairman of Crosby M. Kelly
Associates Ltd. 1978-1986. President of the Sage
Institute in Portland, Oregon, 1980-1983.
Director Western World Insurance Co. Guest
lecturer European Institute Business
Administration Fontainebleau, France, 1966.
Robert Hutchinson:
"Crosby Kelly made no
bones about his political leanings. ‘I am a
Rightist, Conservative and anti-Communist,' he
told Hodgson. He was said to be a sometime CIA
operative. He had designed and launched the
sales campaign for the first Ford motorcar
produced after the Second World War, and was
among Robert McNamara's original 'whiz kids' at
Ford. For thirteen years he had been on the
board of Litton Industries. Kelly told Violet he
would not invest a penny until satisfied that
the invention was capable of finding water.
[reference to the Sniffer Device affair]"
Died in 1986. |
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Kissinger, Henry
Alfred |
Sources: October
1989 – Issue 18, Lobster Magazine, 'The Pinay
Circle and Destabilisation in Europe';
1993, Brian Crozier,
'Free Agent', pages 186, 191-193, and 241;
June 29, 1997, The Independence, 'Aitken dropped
by the Right's secret club; Is it the ultimate
dishonour'; 2002, David Rockefeller, 'Memoirs',
pg. 412-413, referring to the Pesenti Group;
April 6, 2003, The Observer, 'So, Norman, any
regrets this time?'; September 5, 2004, Sunday
Times, 'Le Cercle of the elite'
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