[…] CSIS, Heritage Foundation, American Security Council (Singlaub/Stilwell), the International Security Council (Moonies), the Nathan Hale Institute and Rand Corporation. It also covers transnational groups such as the Pinay Circle. This list should convince you that this book is a mine of information: essential reading for those interested in covert propaganda or terrorism. David Teacher […]
[…] Gregory Voysey writes: In Lobster 17 (pp14-16) you note that Now!, a magazine owned by Sir James Goldsmith, was used to further the propaganda aims of the Pinay Circle. Now! was also involved in a scheme to discredit President Carter during the 1980 presidential campaign. This involved luring his brother, Billy Carter, into a […]
[…] story do not give me confidence about its veracity. Radio Liberty is a CIA-funded propaganda station; and the Baltimore Sun has some kind of role in the Pinay Circle’s disinformation operations. (See Lobster 18 p. 22, column 2) It is entirely possible that Boris Yeltsin gave no such interview, that we are dealing here […]
[…] on the American right is so high, almost anything is likely to be believed. Where too is Brian Crozier? Since the Langemann papers identified Crozier as a Pinay Circle member who was engaged in setting up a ‘transnational security organisation’, little has been heard of the man or of the progress of the group. […]
[…] realisation of the kind of European-wide collaboration which people like Crozier hoped would emerge from contacts he (and ISC) had established with the European right via The Pinay Circle. (on which see Lobster 11). The parapolitical overlay is suggested by the involvement of Richard Allen in the IDU. (Financial Times 25 July 1985). Allen […]
[…] CHAIRMAN FORUM WORLD FEATURES 1970-79 DIRECTOR INSTITUTE FOR STUDY OF CONFLICT 1978 NATIONAL REVIEW NEW YORK 1979-81 NOW MAGAZINE LOADS OF PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES AND COMMITTEES SUCH AS PINAY CIRCLE, JONATHAN INSTITUTE. AUTHOR CUMMING, LT COL MALCOLM EDWARD DURANT CB (1961) OBE (45) B 21.9.09 SANDHURST MI5 (W) 1927 60TH RIFLES 1934 WAR OFFICE MI5 […]
[…] 1960-62 AIR MINISTRY 1960 HELPED REORGANISE OMAN ARMED FORCES (ORDER OF OMAN) YEMENI OPERATIONS 1970s MET FNLA REPS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. MEMBER PRIVATE SPOOKS GROUP ‘THE PINAY CIRCLE’. CLOSE TO MI5\MI6 ‘ROMANTIC VICTORIAN-STYLE IMPERIAL RIGHT-WING STRATEGIST PRO SOUTH AFRICA EEC ISRAEL ANTI US UN ARAB REVOLUTION CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (BROTHER HANGED) PROGRESSIVE ON LABOUR […]
[…] back as far as 1938. It became strong in the army and among ex-Vichyites and right-wing Catholic integristes. It was said to have influenced Robert Schumann, Antoine Pinay and Paul Baudoin, former President of the Banque de L’Indochine and Vichy Foreign Minister. Above all, however, Opus Dei made inroads through Baudoin’s protege Edmond Giscard, […]
[PDF file]: […] were Colin Gubbins, wartime head of the Special Operations Executive and, in our context, a member of the Resistance and Psychological Operations Committee (see above); and Antoine Pinay, figurehead of the Pinay Circle (see appendix on ISC). On the Bilderbergers see Eringer (1980). 77. Not everyone wanted to join the party. The National Association […]
[PDF file]: […] referred to David Teacher’s massive study of Le Cercle. Teacher informs me that his fifth, final and slightly revised version is now on-line.1 Also known as the Pinay Circle or Le Cercle Pinay, it is another of those secretive, international anti-communist groups of spooks and pols formed during the Cold War. There is some […]
