The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] in Searchlight 18, 1976, and Crozier pp. 121 and 2 258 259 Crozier acknowledged the psy-war role in his memoir. See page 118. 57 Shield and the Pinay Circle At the same, Crozier’s voice was being heard in Shield, a committee of former intelligence officers and bankers, who, in the absence of IRD, prepared […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] me the link. Elsewhere I noticed that the freeview TV channel Blaze, the home of TV conspiracy theories, had an hour-long program on Le Cercle, aka the Pinay Circle. (Alas I didn’t see it but will try and catch it if/when it is repeated.) The Pinay Circle was first mentioned in these columns in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] summary is from the introduction. ‘This study is an attempt at a preliminary transnational investigation of the Paneuropean Right and particularly of the covert forum, the Cercle Pinay and its complex of groups. Amongst Cercle intelligence contacts are former operatives from the American CIA, DIA and INR, Britain’s MI5, MI6 and IRD, France’s SDECE, […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Defence Secretary’s bagman, or the possibility that the exposure of the Werrity connection has been done by those within Whitehall opposed to the coming attack on Iran. Pinay and Crozier At the ISGP site1 9 are a number of documents pertaining to, and membership lists of, the clandestine organisation called Le Cercle – a […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] Defence Secretary’s bagman, or the possibility that the exposure of the Werrity connection has been done by those within Whitehall opposed to the coming attack on Iran. Pinay and Crozier At the ISGP site23 are a number of documents pertaining to, and membership lists of, the clandestine organisation called Le Cercle – a sort […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] or “Sixth International”. This network operated as a private sector version of the Information Research Department (IRD), a Foreign Office unit focused on anticommunist propaganda. • The Pinay Circle: Lobster #17 (1988) discussed Crozier’s involvement with the “Pinay Circle” (or Cercle), a private intelligence gathering group connected to James Goldsmith and other figures involved […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] or “Sixth International”. This network operated as a private sector version of the Information Research Department (IRD), a Foreign Office unit focused on anticommunist propaganda. • The Pinay Circle: Lobster #17 (1988) discussed Crozier’s involvement with the “Pinay Circle” (or Cercle), a private intelligence gathering group connected to James Goldsmith and other figures involved […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] or “Sixth International”. This network operated as a private sector version of the Information Research Department (IRD), a Foreign Office unit focused on anticommunist propaganda. • The Pinay Circle: Lobster #17 (1988) discussed Crozier’s involvement with the “Pinay Circle” (or Cercle), a private intelligence gathering group connected to James Goldsmith and other figures involved […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] or “Sixth International”. This network operated as a private sector version of the Information Research Department (IRD), a Foreign Office unit focused on anticommunist propaganda. • The Pinay Circle: Lobster #17 (1988) discussed Crozier’s involvement with the “Pinay Circle” (or Cercle), a private intelligence gathering group connected to James Goldsmith and other figures involved […]

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