[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Scientology. Among defunct groups he omits the Adam Smith Club (based at the IEA), of which I was Secretary, which was active in the 1970s, and the Pinay Circle. One can occasionally argue with the author’s comments. The description of former National Front supporter Michael Walker’s journal Scorpion as a ‘racist newsletter’ and ‘certainly […]
[…] was born in Bulgaria. Finally, let me add that Cavendish is mentioned in Alan Clark’s Diaries (paperback edition, Phoenix, London, 1994) as one of those attending a Pinay Circle meeting in the Middle East. Clark casually discloses (p. 373) that the Circle is funded by the CIA. Don’t shoot, I’m a journalist In the […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
