Le Cercle/Guests/Visit count

Le Cercle/Guests/Visit count (Guest list)
This page lists the visitors to Le Cercle by known number of visits

These figures are underestimates since the guests at almost all the meetings — and even how many meetings there have been — are unknown.  

11 Visits

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Franz Josef Strauß	6 September 1915	3 October 1988	Germany	A deep politician and politician, a known attendee of Le Cercle, accused in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.

 

8 Visits

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Brian Crozier	4 August 1918	4 August 2012	UK	Arch espionage insider who founded his own intelligence agency

 

7 Visits

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Franz Josef Bach	4 February 1917	3 August 2001	Germany	A leading German member of the Cercle, who organised the 1982 meeting in Wildbad Kreuth.
Hans Graf Huyn	3 July 1930	22 January 2011	Germany	German deep politician who attended Le Cercle

 

6 Visits

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Alfredo Sánchez Bella	2 October 1916	24 April 1999	Spain	Spanish spook and possible deep politician
Monique Garnier-Lançon	12 July 1928	24 November 2023	France	Deep state operative whose papers lead to a major exposure of Le Cercle. French convenor of Le Cercle in the first half of the 1980s.
Donald Jameson	1925	5 September 2007	US	Attended multiple Cercle meetings and worked for the CIA. Vice-president of the Jamestown Foundation

 

5 Visits

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Nicholas Elliott	15 November 1916	13 April 1994	UK	A key spook with a wide range of connections.
Robert J. Hanks	1924	8 July 2001		Cercle regular, rear admiral,Cold War hardliner
Antoine Pinay	30 December 1891	13 December 1994	France	Multi-Bilderberg French deep politician, chairman and eponymous head of the Pinay Cercle
Jaime Nogueira Pinto	4 February 1946		Portugal	Deep state actor who has been described as "the Great Father of the Portuguese extreme right since the end of the Salazar dictatorship". Attended several meetings of Le Cercle in the 1980s.
David Rockefeller	12 June 1915	20 March 2017	US	US deep politician. CFR founder. Only person to attend over 50 Bilderberg meetings.
Jean Violet		December 2000	France	French deep politician who founded Le Cercle

 

4 Visits

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Crispin Blunt	15 July 1960		UK	Sandhurst, Le Cercle, MP, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee
Enrique Gomez-Hurtado	10 April 1927	13 July 2019	Colombia	diplomat and Cercle regular. "One of the best bootlicker[s] of Bush"
Aline Griffith	22 May 1923	11 December 2017	Spain	US born Spanish spook who was a regular attender at Le Cercle in the 1980s.
Peter Jungen	21 August 1939		Germany	At least 4 visits to Le Cercle... Personal assistant to Otto Wolff von Amerongen
Henry Kissinger	27 May 1923	29 November 2023	US	US deep politician, 46 Bilderbergs, Nobel peace prize, war criminal
Václav Klaus	19 June 1941		Czech Republic	The first Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. Cercle repeated visitor
Neil McLean	28 November 1918	17 November 1986	UK	Member of the Special Operations Executive in World War II who became a Scottish MP. In retirement he attended several meetings of Le Cercle during the 1980s.
Frank Steele	1923	November 1997	UK	An MI6 officer with African connections who opened contacts with the IRA in the early 1970s. He later moved into banking and attended more than one meeting of Le Cercle.
Peter Tennant	29 November 1910	22 December 1996	UK	UK deep state operative, probably a deep politician, founded The 61
Nadhim Zahawi	2 June 1967		UK	Cercle chair, UK minister of COVID-19 vaccine deployment, explicitly denied that the UK government was planning on introducing vaccine passports although leaked documents contradict this, penalised by HMRC - whilst Chancellor of the Exchequer - for not paying his taxes.

 

3 Visits

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Jonathan Aitken	30 August 1942		UK	UK deep politician, Cercle chair, convicted perjurer
Pat Balestreri				Worked as Staff Director in the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Attended Le Cercle 1982-1984
Jeff Bergner				Cercle attendee. Project for the New American Century. German Marshall Fund. Hudson Institute
John Browne	17 October 1938		UK	Spooky UK businessman, Morgan Stanley, Le Cercle, Chatham house ...
Robert Close	30 April 1922	6 December 2003	Belgium	Belgian Anti-Communist spook who attended Le Cercle.
Iain Elliot				Associate Director of Radio Liberty and also worked in other intelligence-connected organizations. Attended 3 meetings of Le Cercle
Pop Fraser	6 April 1915	18 December 1994	South Africa	South African military commander who attended Le Cercle.
Otto von Habsburg	20 November 1912	4 July 2011	Germany Austria-Hungary	Austrian deep politician, connected to Le Cercle, Opus Dei, Knights of Malta ...
Pierre Joannon	1943		France	Historian invited to the 1984 meeting of Le Cercle in Bonn
Jacques Jonet			Belgium	Founded the European Institute for Peace and Security with 3 fellow members of Le Cercle to counter pacifist groups.
Norman Lamont	8 May 1942		UK	Long time Chairman of Le Cercle, financier, politician and deep politician, involved in arms and financial deals.
James Lucier	1934			Cercle attendee, "inside man in the skunk works," as he calls himself, or Lucifer as others sometimes refer to him.
Richard McCormack	6 March 1941		US	Deep politician a long history and connections back to Vietnam, Nixon administration, succeeded Ted Shackley as US Chair of Le Cercle.
Robert McKinney	7 November 1925			Indiana Businessman who attended Le Cercle in 1983, 1984 and 1985
Karl-Heinz Narjes	30 January 1924	26 January 2015	Germany	German EEC politician who attended Le Cercle
Robert du Plooy	5 July 1921		South Africa	South African deep state operative/diplomat who attended Le Cercle in South Africa in 1984.
Franz-Josef Schulze	18 September 1918	31 January 2005	Germany	Transitioned from the Luftwaffe to NATO. Attended Le Cercle
John Wodehouse	12 May 1924	26 May 2002	UK	UK Peer who attended at least 3 meetings of Le Cercle

 

2 Visits

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Michael Ancram	7 July 1945	1 October 2024	UK	Likely took over from Norman Lamont as European chair of Le Cercle.
Giulio Andreotti	14 January 1919	6 May 2013	Italy	"The ultimate insider of Italian political life", who as Italian Prime Minister publicly confirmed the existence of Operation Gladio
Kaúlza de Arriaga	18 January 1915	2 February 2004	Portugal	Portuguese soldier politician who attended a November 1977 meeting of Le Cercle with his aide
John Biggs-Davison	7 June 1918	17 September 1988	UK	UK politician who attended Le Cercle
Ian Butterfield				Spooky MICC consultant, Le Cercle
Margaret Carlisle		28 March 2006		Legislative aide to Iran-contra insider, James McClure. Le Cercle
William François			France	French economist who attended at least two Cercle meetings
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil	30 September 1946		UK	Bilderberg, Le Cercle, The Other Club, Ditchley Governor
Álvaro Gomez-Hurtado	8 May 1919	2 November 1995	Colombia	Spooky Colombian diplomat who attended Le Cercle. Assassinated in 1995
Bruno Heck	20 January 1917	16 September 1989	Germany	Founder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, member of Le Cercle
Basil Hersov	18 August 1926		South Africa	"A man with considerable influence". Banker, Le Cercle, Patron of The Institute Of Directors in Southern Africa
Samuel M. Hoskinson				National Intelligence Council, then Bechtel and lobbyism
Manuel Fraga Iribarne	23 November 1922	15 January 2012	Spain	Member of both Le Cercle and the 1001 Club.
Crosby Kelly	1918	1986	US	Spooky US businessman known as a public relations pioneer. Attended Le Cercle
Nicholas de Kerchove	11 October 1934		Belgium	A spook who attended Le Cercle on multiple occasions.
Francis Lacoste	27 November 1905	28 June 1993	France	French diplomat and visitor to Le Cercle
Philippe Malaud	2 October 1925	14 October 2007	France	Le Cercle, French diplomat
Werner Marx	15 November 1924	12 July 1985	Germany	Spooky German politician, Le Cercle, Psychological warfare specialist, later leader of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee
Alois Mertes	29 October 1921	16 June 1985	Germany	Spooky German who attended the Bilderberg and Le Cercle. Aide to German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Richard Nixon	9 January 1913	22 April 1994	US	A relatively independent US president who may have been removed from power because he was planning to expose the conspiracy to assassinate JFK.
Frans Otten	31 December 1895	4 January 1969	Netherlands	Director of Philips for 22 years. Cercle visitor, possible arms dealer
Peter Petersen	30 October 1926	17 March 2005	Germany	German politician from the CDU who attended the January 1984 Le Cercle meeting.
William Roth	22 July 1921	13 December 2003	US	Spooky US lawyer, Le Cercle
Hans Rühle	31 December 1939		Germany	German deep state operative. Attended Le Cercle as head of the planning staff of the German Minister of Defense.
Qaboos bin Said al Said	18 November 1940	10 January 2020	Oman	Assumed power after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur, in a palace coup in 1970, with the help of the SAS.
Dieter Schmidt	1937	2012		Spooky German officer and political functionary for the Bavarian CSU. Attended Le Cercle meetings in 1982 in Wilbad Kreuth and the Bonn meeting in 1983.
William Schneider	20 November 1941		US	An advocate use of the first-strike use of nuclear weapons. Attendee of Le Cercle
Theodore Shackley	16 July 1927	9 December 2002	US	A key member of the US deep state, involved in a huge list of deep events from the JFK assassination, Iran Contra, Arms for Libya and possibly also 9-11
Arnold Silver		16 December 1993		CIA Chief of Station in Luxembourg from 1957-1960. Attended Le Cercle.
Rory Stewart	3 January 1973		UK	MI6, Cercle, Bilderberg, UK DSO, Politician
Harold Taswell	14 February 1910	1992	South Africa	South African diplomat who attended Le Cercle
Eymen Topbaş	1938	1991	Turkey	Suspected Turkish deep state operative, Le Cercle
Turki bin Faisal al-Saud	15 February 1945		Saudi Arabia	Georgetown alumnus who resigned suddenly as director general of the Saudi Intelligence Agency 10 days before the 9/11 attacks.
Omar al-Zawawi	1930	April 2020		One one of the wealthiest private individuals in the Middle East. Foreign advisor to puppet leader Qaboos bin Said

 

1 Visit

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description
Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz	1963			Spooky Saudi deputy minister and fourth son of King Abdullah who attended Le Cercle in 2012, during the attempt at regime change in Syria
James Abrahamson	19 May 1933			U.S. Air Force general responsible for space imaging and the Strategic Defence Intiative. Abrahamson later directed Stratesec, a company which had unparalleled access to the World Trade Center prior to 2001. He was a member of the deep state intelligence coordinating conference Le Cercle.
Konrad Adenauer	5 January 1876	19 April 1967	Germany	German (deep?) politician, CDU leader
Vahid Alaghband	20 March 1952			British-Iranian commodities trader who several times has faced charges of fraudulent trading and conspiracy to defraud. Member of the pay-to-play Clinton Global Initiative.
Georges Albertini	13 May 1911	30 March 1983	France	French deep state operative. Man-behind-the-scenes for many politicians.
Alfredo Alcaino	10 January 1926	2018	US Chile	Chile born Cercle visitor, deep state connected lawyer
Rupert Allason	8 November 1951		UK	Writer of books and articles on the subject of espionage. Attended Le Cercle.
Richard Allen	1 January 1936		US	US National Security Advisor, Cercle, Iran-Contra...
Enver Altaylı	1944		Turkey	Turkish spook and former secret agent for the Turkish National Intelligence Organization
Hooshang Amirahmadi	24 May 1947		US	Iranian American spook who attended Le Cercle.
Bruce Anderson	1949		UK	UK pro-torture spooky journalist, Le Cercle, attended a "terrorism" related conference chaired by Harold Elletson in 2009.
Robert Anderson	4 June 1910	14 August 1989	US	Le Cercle, Bilderberg,
Magdeleine Anglade	5 July 1921	25 March 1998	France	French member of Le Cercle who took over the role of Monique Garnier-Lançon
Laurent Anselmi	1962		Monaco	Aide to Prince Albert II of Monaco
Jürgen Aretz	10 February 1946		Germany	Guest speaker at the 1990 Cercle meeting in Berlin
Richard Armitage	26 April 1945		US	"A sophisticated member of the top echelons of the U.S. government"
Bernard Asso	14 May 1946		France	Spooky French lawyer
Nadhmi Auchi	11 June 1937		Iraq UK	Cercle-connected fraudster
Shaukat Aziz	6 March 1949		US Pakistan UK	Tri-national Citibank executive with "close ties" to the US deep state. Parachuted in to become Prime Minister of Pakistan. Cercle member.
Dušan Babac	8 September 1969		Serbia	Organised parts of Le Cercle meeting in Serbia in June 2004
Norman Bailey	1931		US	Spooky economist who taught "Economics for Foreign Policy Makers." Admitted on the record that the PROMIS database and search application has been given to the NSA
Howard Baker	15 November 1925	26 June 2014	US	Suspected deep state operative assisted for many years by Cercle attendee George Montgomery
Ehud Barak	12 February 1942		Israel	Israeli spook who was Prime Minister of Israel from May 1999 to March 2001. Pal of Jeffrey Epstein.
Nili Barak	25 April 1944		Israel	Wife of Ehud Barak. Followed him to Le Cercle meeting.
Amatzia Baram			Israel	Israeli spooky academic
Francois Baroin	1965		France	French participant at the 2015 Cercle Meeting in Monaco
John Barron	26 January 1930	24 February 2005	US	A spooky journalist who wrote on the evils of the KGB.
Jacques Battistella
Alain Bauer	8 May 1962		France	Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France, 2000–2003. Le Cercle
Margaret Beckett	15 January 1943		UK	UK foreign secretary, Le Cercle attendee
Eddie Bell			UK	Publisher who attended Le Cercle in the 1990s
Erik Bennett	3 September 1928	28 January 2022	UK	A secretive UK military advisor in Oman and a Cercle attendee.
Wayne Lee Berman			US	US Businessman with deep political connections.
André Bettencourt				French politician, cagoulard, Le Cercle. Married Liliane, daughter of the enormously wealthy Eugène Schueller, the founder of L'Oréal.
Benazir Bhutto	21 June 1953	27 December 2007	Pakistan	Prime Minister of Pakistan. YGL. Assassinated in 2007.
Brian Binley	1 April 1942	25 December 2020	UK	Conservative MP. Le Cercle.
W. Michael Blumenthal	3 January 1926		US	US/Secretary of the Treasury in the 1970s. Attended the 1972 Bilderberg meeting, before being one of the founders of the Trilateral Commission in 1973. Le Cercle, CFR
John Bolton	20 November 1948		US	Neocon US deep state operative who was Trump's National Security Advisor until September 2019
Benoît de Bonvoisin	14 March 1939		Belgium	"A key Belgian figure in the Strategy of Tension", as well as the most key name in the Belgian X-Dossiers. Member of Le Cercle. His father attended the first Bilderberg.
Cornelis Bossers	11 March 1929		Netherlands	Le Cercle. Major businessman in the Philips group.
Pik Botha	27 April 1932	12 October 2018	South Africa	South African Deep Politician
Luciano Botta	1933	24 May 1986		Swiss spook and Cercle visitor.
Raymond Bourgine	9 March 1925	29 November 1990	France	French journalist and editor who attended Le Cercle.
Paul Bremer	30 September 1941		US	Executive of Marsh & McLennan, a company whose offices were hit by a plane on 9/11, "Coordinator for Counterterrorism", Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq ...
Harold Brown	19 September 1927	4 January 2019	US	United States Secretary of Defense.
Aristide Brunello			Italy	Little known Cercle visitor. Vatican prelate and spy for the BND under Reinhard Gehlen. Attended a meeting of the Le Cercle.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a>
John Bryan	5 October 1936	1 October 2018	US	US businessman
Zbigniew Brzezinski	28 March 1928	26 May 2017	US	A central US Deep politician, Cercle, Bilderberg, ...
Maurice Brébart	17 July 1929	27 August 2015	Belgium	Belgian right-wing newspaper owner who attended Le Cercle in the 1970s.
Francisco Bulnes	8 August 1917	28 October 1999	Chile	Cercle member active in the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende
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