[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
