[…] 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, […]
[…] van der Reijden has written a huge essay, nearly half a megabyte long, with over 200 footnotes, on Le Cercle, known in its previous incarnations as the Pinay Circle or Cercle Violet.(18) This group was first mentioned in these pages in Lobster 11 and then discussed at length by David Teacher in Lobster 18. […]
[…] current holder of the title, was until recently the senior government (Conservative) peer in the House of Lords. He was also reputedly a recent visitor to the Pinay Circle, the discussion group where bankers, ex-finance ministers and assorted retired intelligence officers meet.) The whole of Hakluyt’s career hinged on patronage motivated by interest in […]
[…] Cercle. Fletcher was a Labour MP who was witch-hunted by MI5 as a KGB asset when really an MI6 agent. New information on Le Cercle (aka the Pinay Circle: see Lobster 17) from Hollingsworth is the role of former MI6 officer Geoffrey Tantum as Le Cercle UK secretary and Jonathan Aitken’s erstwhile MI6 contact: […]
[…] that you find…. In the previous issue Lobster I repeated material about the appearance of Jonathan Aitken and Lord Cranborne at a (then) recent meeting of the Pinay Circle (or the Circle) which had first appeared in the Sunday Telegraph. A member of the Circle rang to tell me that neither Jonathan Aitken nor […]
[…] us are concerned but, according to the Mandrake column of the Sunday Telegraph of 18 June 2000, he has been welcomed back into the ranks of the Pinay Circle and attended the June meeting of the Circle in Lisbon. Also present were Conservative MPs Michael Howard and Alan Duncan and Lord Cranbourne, leader of […]
[…] a nasty dose of RSI in both wrists.) Dr Scott Newton began writing for Lobster and David Teacher gave me some of his first research on the Pinay Circle. In 1989 we published the Who’s Who of the British Secret State – a couple of thousand short biographies of British spooks, some of them […]
[…] Peace Through Strength, UK counterpart of the US group with the same name. (In the US group was a US General called Stilwell, a member of the Pinay Circle, whose meetings were also attended by Mr Crozier.) Pranks by MI5 and IRD Like their friend? mentor? case officer? Brian Crozier, messrs Lewis, Kerpel and […]
[PDF file]: […] plus the advertising and printing costs of the ISC annual.29 (c) Companies like Shell and BP gave considerable sums.30 ISC also received help from Europe via The Pinay Circle. (See separate appendix note on The Pinay Circle after this appendix.) Whitney (of FWF) hadn’t apparently been very generous in the funding of ISC because […]
[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 […]
