[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
