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We have seen that one aim of the Pinay Circle was to aid in the —_ Circle has not packed up its victorious bags; nor have its members election of President Reagan. Presumably they can also cite this disbanded. Attendees at the 1990 Cercle meeting at the sumptu- aim as being "accomplished". Their close connection to George ous A/ Bustan Hotel, Muscat, in Oman, included Jonathan Aitken Bush may also have extended to helping in his drive to election (Minister of Defence Procurement), Alan Clark (Minister of State victory. Canada, too, veered sharply to the right during the '80s. for Defence), Lord Julian Amery (Joint Chairman), Sheikh We may never know the true extent to which Le Cercle and its | Qaboos (ruler of Oman), General Norman Schwarzkopf (the bear- black psyops ‘fronts'—the ISC, WISC, CCS and others—'effected' like Commander of the Allied Forces in the Gulf), Paul Channon a wholesale change of government in Europe, North America and (former Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and elsewhere. Industry), the head of the Dutch Secret Service, an unnamed Clearly, the decade of the '80s witnessed a marked shift to the | French Naval Admiral, plus other serving or former intelligence political right in the Western democrat- operatives and VIPs." ic arena. It would be stretching creduli- Aitken, Clark and Channon have ty to suggest that this rapid swing in ‘ : Ae all been heavily implicated in the political ideology took place accidental- We may never know the true arms-to-Iraq affair examined by Sir ly. Itis also abundantly obvious that extent to which Le Cercle and Richard Scott. Significantly, Alan The Circle's primary influence resided Clark revealed in his hugely success- in its top-level connections to the shad- its black psyops 'fronts'—the ful Diaries that Le Cercle was fund- owy intelligence apparatus of the West. ISC, WISC, CCS and others ed by the Central Intelligence At the same time it possessed serious | t ; is a Agency.” clout inside the sinews of transatlantic | ‘effected’ a wholesale change of With its apparent raison d’étre government in Europe, North power that repose in the Council on (anti-Communist psyops) clearly in Foreign Relations, the Royal Institute 8 tatters, one can only suppose that for International Affairs, the Trilateral America and elsewhere. there is (or, perhaps, always was) an additional hidden agenda lurking behind Cercle activities. To under- Commission and the Bilderberg Group. stand what this may be, one must The foregoing outline, slim as it is, serves not only to underscore the inherent and potential weaknesses that reside in the institution of represen- —_ look further ahead. tative democracy, but also demonstrates the ‘will-o'-the-wisp' An increasing international focus is the call for 'minimalist’ gov- nature of covert activities that hide comfortably behind the public ernment. This has always been a central plank of Jaissez-faire face of government. economics. Deregulation, the freeing of government-imposed That a small handful of influential men across the planet may be _constraints on international business to engage in activities as it able to manipulate ‘free’ elections to suit their personal and ideo- sees fit, is a long-term and obvious objective. If history is any logical advantage is not a new concept. Generally, utterances of judge, the attainment of this singular goal may usher in a new dark this sort are met by the blanket rejection, "Conspiracy theory!", age of unrestrained capitalism, coordinated by the gargantuan and discarded out of hand. Such rebuffs rarely take into account transnational corporations—all of whom are heavily represented the underlying evidence, fragmentary as it is. Perhaps they are not on the membership rolls of the CRF, the Trilats, the RIA, meant to. Bilderbergers, etc. Despite the wholesale collapse of the Soviet bloc, the Pinay In the meantime, a new millennium awaits... °° Endnotes 14. Teacher, Lobster 18, ibid. 1. Stephen Dorril's Lobster 26, UK, 1993. 15. Stephen Dorril's Lobster 26. 2. Eringer, Robert, The Global Manipulators, Pentacle Books, Bristol, 16. Clark, Alan, Diaries, Phoenix Books, London, 1994. UK, 1980, 17, Ibid., pp. 369-374. 3. Brian Crozier, in his book, Free Agent, confirms that he was an erst- while "Chairman" between 1971 and 1985 but disputes that there wasa About the Author: tembership in the “formal sense". In his words, it was an."informal David Guyatt was born and educated in Hampshire, England. group of broadly like-minded pene . Make of this what you will. The His career in the stockbroking, investment and banking industries word “insignificant” immediately jumps to my mind. spanned 28 years, the last 12 of which he spent as a director and 4. Telephone conversation with this writer. See Stephen Dorril's The . ee Prag coten Silent Conspiracy, Mandarin, 1993, p. 438. treasurer of a-major British bank. There he gained insight into the S. Crozier, Brian, Free Agent: The Unseen War, 1941-1997, world of international weapons financing and was familiar with all it ollins, Londen, 1993 aspects of international capital, foreign exchange and money mar- BARONS: Rat kets, with global trade finance his specialisation. 6. Ramsay, Robin, "Brian Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James 4 ?: y For the last five years, David has pursued a career as a freelance Goldsmith", Lobster 17, UK, November 1988. 7. Ibid. writer/researcher, contributing to a number of screenplays, novels, 8. Crozier, Free Agent, pp. 178-186. documentaries and feature articles. He is currently iia 9. Teacher, David, "The Pinay Circle and Destabilisation in Europe", high-tech, anti-personnel, electromagnetic weapons systems ani Lobster 18, UK, October 1989. their focus within ‘black’ mind-control/behaviour-modification 10. Ramsay, Lobster 17, ibid. programmes in the military and intelligence communities. 11. Teacher, Lobster 18, ibid. His other in-depth research project at present centres on the 12. Ibid, structure, power and hidden influence of elitist groups and inter- 13. BOSS = South Africa's Bureau of State Security. Jeremy Thorpe _ linking tax-exempt foundations, including RIIA (Chatham House), was leader of the British Liberal Party until forced into resignation. See Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateralists, Bilderbergers, the Stephen Dorril's and Robin Ramsay's Smear! (Fourth Estate Ltd, UK, shadowy Le Cercle, the Rockefellers, Brothers Fund, Ford, 1991) for a full account of the British campaign of destabilisation. Carnegie, Hoover, IMF, World Bank (ad nauseum)... 14 * NEXUS AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1996