Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] former CIA officer Donald Jameson, Uncle Brian Crozier and Hans Graf Huyn from Germany. Colby, Jameson, Crozier and Huyn are all present or former members of the Pinay Circle. It’s almost enough to make you wonder if Pinay is the still unidentified source of IFF’s funds, isn’t it? IFF(UK) Suite 500, Chesham House, 150 […]
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] 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, […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] 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. […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] 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: […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] circle that you find…. In the previous 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 apeared in the Sunday Telegraph. A member of the Circle rang to tell me that neither Jonathan Aitken nor […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] 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 […]