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 […]

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 […]

Who really killed Chris Hani? by Chris Nicholson

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] 1 the documents is ignored by Nicholson cherry picking his way through the material. The author has a chapter on Le Cercle, i.e. what began as the Pinay Circle, discussed at some length in these columns over the past 40 years or so.4 He quotes a South African report from 1991 describing it as […]

Chris Hani book

Lobster Issue

[…] 1 the documents is ignored by Nicholson cherry picking his way through the material. The author has a chapter on Le Cercle, i.e. what began as the Pinay Circle, discussed at some length in these columns over the past 40 years or so.4 He quotes a South African report from 1991 describing it as […]

Chris Hani book copy

Lobster Issue

[…] detail in chapter 16 of Williams’ book which I reviewed at . 2 1 The author has a chapter on Le Cercle, i.e. what began as the Pinay Circle, discussed at some length in these columns over the past 30 years or so.3 He quotes a South African report from 1991 describing it as […]

In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] criticisms one might have of this book, the authors certainly succeeded in turning stereotyping into an art form! This is not the place to discuss Le Cercle Pinay and its history but merely to note that among other current Conservative MPs associated with the organisation are Kwasi Kwartang, Greg Hands and Nadhim Zahawi. The […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Knudsen had access to the Trilateral archives. With Bilderberg meetings reported by the Daily Mail, the Trilateral archives opened to a researcher, and even le Cercle (the Pinay Circle as was) the subject of academic inquiry, are there still secret gatherings of the global elite?’41 More on Bellingcat and White Helmets In this column […]

Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] 1980s, as the line between state and private sector was blurred by Mrs Thatcher’s infatuation with the men in expensive suits, the author discusses Le Circle (the Pinay Circle as was), Brian Crozier’s Shield Committee and Keenie-Meenie Services and comments: ‘As intelligence mixed with international trade and economics, the 1980s became a conspiracy theorist’s […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Knudsen had access to the Trilateral archives. With Bilderberg meetings reported by the Daily Mail, the Trilateral archives opened to a researcher, and even le Cercle (the Pinay Circle as was) the subject of academic inquiry, are there still secret gatherings of the global elite?’41 More on Bellingcat and White Helmets In this column […]

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