Le Cercle organization
also: Le Circle, LeCircle, Circle, the circle complex, La Circle, The Circle, circle complex, Panay's Circle, LaCircle, Less Circle, CERCLE, Little Circle
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Claims (114)
Brian Cozier member_of
Le Cercle documented
“foremost expert on international terrorism, unquote. Now, why would that be? Because he's the guy behind it. He's writing reports telling you where it's going to happen next. Another important ISC association was Le Circle, of which Cozier …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 34:00
Le Cercle funded
Reagan Doctrine host_asserted
“They overthrew Seychelles. They tried to overthrow Nicaragua. And Cuba was just a repeat every single day attempting to overthrow it. So they did the roadmap and Reagan dutifully implemented it, is the bottom line to that. It also then beca…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 37:53
Le Cercle contact_with
Aginter Press host_asserted
“and the Knights of Malta. On the other hand, the circle also maintained extensive contacts with Gladio networks through numerous groups, one of which, of course, was the propaganda duo and all of its branch that we now have learned about. T…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 16:23
Le Cercle contact_with
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“and the Knights of Malta. On the other hand, the circle also maintained extensive contacts with Gladio networks through numerous groups, one of which, of course, was the propaganda duo and all of its branch that we now have learned about. T…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 16:23
Le Cercle ties_to
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“lodge offices, and various Belgium people to the strategy of tension, and a genter press and P2 in particular are linked to terrorism, not just in Europe and not just in Italy, but all over the world. As such, it should be little surprise t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 16:52
David Stirling member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“was Watchguard International, another early military intelligence corporation. Watchguard had been founded by SAS co-founder David Sterling, who was a colonel. Sterling was a close associate of the Circle and all of its British partners. As…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 27:10
Carlos Pesenti patron_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“with a monthly stipend to do their work. Pacente would go on to become a key patron of both the Academy and the Circle. He became an especially influential member of the Circle, and in his autobiography, David Rockefeller mentions the Circl…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 18:24
David Rockefeller mentioned
Le Cercle host_asserted
“with a monthly stipend to do their work. Pacente would go on to become a key patron of both the Academy and the Circle. He became an especially influential member of the Circle, and in his autobiography, David Rockefeller mentions the Circl…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 18:24
Baron Benoît de Van Voisin member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“and shipped to Chile. There is at least one direct link between the academy and the colony. Joseph, excuse me, Franz Joseph Strauss, who provided the academy with all of its initial money. Beyond that, von Voisin would become a circle regul…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 11:54
Brian Cozier brought_veterans_to
Le Cercle host_asserted
“brought aboard some interesting partners. In the early years, the circle was largely dominated by reactionary Catholic orders like the Knights of Malta and Opus Dei. Beginning in the mid to late 1960s, they began to forge crucial alliances …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 34:19
Gerhard Martens member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“The paramilitary, because they were a storage of weapons, they were manufacturing weapons there, and they were a terrorist training camp. Much like Jim Jones in Jonestown. A key colony backer was Gerhard Martens, who was Skorzeny's partner.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 37:39
Stefano Dallaglio member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“The paramilitary, because they were a storage of weapons, they were manufacturing weapons there, and they were a terrorist training camp. Much like Jim Jones in Jonestown. A key colony backer was Gerhard Martens, who was Skorzeny's partner.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 37:39
Giulio Andreotti member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“He was basically tied to setting up the entire thing. Andriotti enjoyed very close ties to the CIA and the secret services inside of Italy, first as defense minister and then later as prime minister. Andriotti was deeply involved in the Gla…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 55:22
Le Cercle liaisoned_with
Mujahideen host_asserted
“and was heavily sponsored by the South African government in the 1980s. Another, and just exactly what I was explaining to you as far as the destabilization goes. It was the Little Circle liaisoned with the quote-unquote rebels, but they we…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 39:22
Julian Amery member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“on the duplication of Le Cercle and Pilgrim. And here's the four names. Brian Cossier, Julian Amari, A-M-E-R-Y. So he was a British conservative politician who was known to be part of Le Cercle and had connections to the Pilgrim Society thr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 1:59:25
Henry Kissinger attended_meetings_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“and attended meetings of the Le Cercle. Lord Carrington was a prominent member of the Pilgrim Society and affiliated with Le Cercle. So there's at least four overlaps for you. Oh, interesting. Yeah, great. You've come up with those. I saw K…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 1:59:55
Lord Carrington affiliated_with
Le Cercle host_asserted
“and attended meetings of the Le Cercle. Lord Carrington was a prominent member of the Pilgrim Society and affiliated with Le Cercle. So there's at least four overlaps for you. Oh, interesting. Yeah, great. You've come up with those. I saw K…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 1:59:55
Yves Guérin-Sérac member_of
Le Cercle book_quoted
“So they could say it's not officially part of NATO. Shortly after the Academy's founding, Damon encountered the man called Jean Violet. Violet, however you say it, B-I-O-L-E-T. He was instrumental in the circle for decades.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 25:09
Anton Pinay member_of
Le Cercle book_quoted
“from the former French prime minister, Antoine Panay, the guy that created Le Cercle, who was absolutely part of the intelligence community. And he clearly saw a useful political instrument in the CIDCC and promptly reestablished the French…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 47:25
Le Cercle facilitated
Treaty of Rome host_asserted
“led to secret meetings between Panay, Adenauer, and Strauss, with Vallée operating as the go-between, the message carrier. This paved the way for Charles de Gaulle's own encounters with Adenauer. And it also resulted in the signing of a Fra…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 4:03
Le Cercle founded
Anton Pinay host_asserted
“by Anton Pinet and Jean Vallée. Pinet was the prime minister and minister of finance. He also became the minister of economic affairs during the administration of Charles de Gaulle. Vallée was a shadowy figure that kind of always operated i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 0:34
Le Cercle founded
Yves Guérin-Sérac host_asserted
“by Anton Pinet and Jean Vallée. Pinet was the prime minister and minister of finance. He also became the minister of economic affairs during the administration of Charles de Gaulle. Vallée was a shadowy figure that kind of always operated i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 0:34
Anton Pinay member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“politician and federal minister named Franz Josef Strauss, S-T-R-A-U-S-S, acted as co-founders of Le Cercle. Panay and Adenauer were the first chairman of Le Cercle. And a lot of people have said in books that I've read that Adenauer was a …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 2:32
Konrad Adenauer member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“politician and federal minister named Franz Josef Strauss, S-T-R-A-U-S-S, acted as co-founders of Le Cercle. Panay and Adenauer were the first chairman of Le Cercle. And a lot of people have said in books that I've read that Adenauer was a …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 2:32
Franz Joseph Strauss member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“politician and federal minister named Franz Josef Strauss, S-T-R-A-U-S-S, acted as co-founders of Le Cercle. Panay and Adenauer were the first chairman of Le Cercle. And a lot of people have said in books that I've read that Adenauer was a …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 2:32
Le Cercle integral_part_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“If Adenauer was a good guy, he would have never had Reinhard Galen as his chief intel guy, basically Alan Dulles' counterpart. And if they tried to stick him with him, he would have complained about it. He never did. So this just goes to sh…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 3:04
Le Cercle appointed
Yves Guérin-Sérac host_asserted
“was an integral part of it. They appointed Vallée as Secretary General and basically trusted him to run the day-to-day operations of Le Cercle. The promotion of post-war reconciliation between the historic rivals, France and Germany, after …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 3:33
Robert Schuman member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“vision encompassed the integration of Christian and Catholic Europe into kind of being like the foundation of moving forward. It also reflected Le Cercle's personal membership in the countries represented in the early years. Le Cercle's gue…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 4:35
Jean Monnet member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“vision encompassed the integration of Christian and Catholic Europe into kind of being like the foundation of moving forward. It also reflected Le Cercle's personal membership in the countries represented in the early years. Le Cercle's gue…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 4:35
Otto von Habsburg member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“statesman Robert Schuman, S-C-H-U-M-A-N, and Jean Manet, M-O-N-N-E-T, to the Catholic pretender to the Austrian throne, Archduke Otto von Habsburg. The Germans and Frenchmen, soon joined by government members from Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 5:03
Le Cercle affiliated_with
Opus Dei host_asserted
“The background of its early members was a result of Le Cercle's activities. They also had an affinity for anyone that was affiliated with the Catholic Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta. And as we know, all of the leading members of Operatio…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 7:01
Le Cercle affiliated_with
Knights of Malta host_asserted
“The background of its early members was a result of Le Cercle's activities. They also had an affinity for anyone that was affiliated with the Catholic Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta. And as we know, all of the leading members of Operatio…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 7:01
Nelson Rockefeller member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“In Germany's parliament from 69 to 72. In the 70s, Le Cercle evolved into an Atlantic organization between Europe and the United States. High-ranking American people thus began attending Le Cercle meetings to include Nelson Rockefeller and …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 9:18
Henry Kissinger member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“In Germany's parliament from 69 to 72. In the 70s, Le Cercle evolved into an Atlantic organization between Europe and the United States. High-ranking American people thus began attending Le Cercle meetings to include Nelson Rockefeller and …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 9:18
Le Cercle formed_network_of
World Anti-Communist League host_asserted
“which attacked both the Soviet Union and the perceived leftist governments or opposition movements throughout Europe and any other country that they deemed necessary. Which again, if you guys have followed Operation Gladio, I'm describing O…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 10:21
Hans-Adam Graf von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“until 1976 when he himself got elected, serving until 1990 and acting as a key foreign and defense policy spokesperson for the CSU. Hahn's multiple contact with Le Cercle networks dated back to early 1970s, and he joined Le Cercle itself in…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 17:47
Le Cercle planned_influence_on
Rhodesia host_asserted
“plans were discussed for the international promotion of Franz Joseph Strauss standing as a candidate in the German chancellorship elections in 1980 and to influence the situation in Rhodesia and South Africa, 1980s. That, remember, in the 1…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 20:11
Le Cercle planned_influence_on
South Africa host_asserted
“plans were discussed for the international promotion of Franz Joseph Strauss standing as a candidate in the German chancellorship elections in 1980 and to influence the situation in Rhodesia and South Africa, 1980s. That, remember, in the 1…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 20:11
Vernon Walters member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“because you're not allowed to talk to them, and they don't want to lose their boogeyman. The plans included the organization of demonstration and diplomatic pressure, especially through the U.S. ambassador in Bonn, none other than General V…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 21:15
William A. Wilson served_as_link_for
Le Cercle host_asserted
“directly to President Reagan. William A. Wilson, a Knights of Malta member, had long been an intimate friend of Reagan. He was appointed not only to the post of Reagan's first ambassador to the Vatican, but also, more confidentially, served…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 24:44
Anton Rupert member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“leaders had cooperated with the South African Department of Information, which is their propaganda arm, on secret propaganda programs to improve the image of South Africa, despite it being an apartheid regime. There were, however, other Sou…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 27:36
Conservative Council on Eastern Europe funding_front_for
Le Cercle host_asserted
“the membership themselves, the German party political foundations, European companies, i.e. the international syndicate, and the South African government. Contributions were sometimes channeled through funding fronts, such as the Conservati…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 31:00
Konrad Adenauer Foundation sponsored
Le Cercle host_asserted
“the membership themselves, the German party political foundations, European companies, i.e. the international syndicate, and the South African government. Contributions were sometimes channeled through funding fronts, such as the Conservati…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 31:00
Hans Seidel Foundation sponsored
Le Cercle host_asserted
“the membership themselves, the German party political foundations, European companies, i.e. the international syndicate, and the South African government. Contributions were sometimes channeled through funding fronts, such as the Conservati…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 31:00
Philips contributed_to
Le Cercle host_asserted
“La Circle meetings, including mills and accommodations, no less than seven times between 1977 and 86. Contributions to La Circle expenses were also made by major industrial powers and bankers from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Britain, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 31:53
Valmondi contributed_to
Le Cercle host_asserted
“La Circle meetings, including mills and accommodations, no less than seven times between 1977 and 86. Contributions to La Circle expenses were also made by major industrial powers and bankers from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Britain, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 31:53
Standard Electric Lorenz contributed_to
Le Cercle host_asserted
“La Circle meetings, including mills and accommodations, no less than seven times between 1977 and 86. Contributions to La Circle expenses were also made by major industrial powers and bankers from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Britain, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 31:53
Alphonse Horton contributed_to
Le Cercle host_asserted
“Valor Actuali, and Le Spectacle du Monde. Other business patrons of Le Circle included Alphonse Horton, A-L-P-H-O-N-S, H-O-R-T-E-N, and Andre Bettencourt, B-E-T-T-E-N, court. The final major source of funds for Le Circle in the 1980s…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 32:54
André Bettencourt contributed_to
Le Cercle host_asserted
“Valor Actuali, and Le Spectacle du Monde. Other business patrons of Le Circle included Alphonse Horton, A-L-P-H-O-N-S, H-O-R-T-E-N, and Andre Bettencourt, B-E-T-T-E-N, court. The final major source of funds for Le Circle in the 1980s…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 32:54
South Africa financed
Le Cercle host_asserted
“was the apartheid government of South Africa. The DFA regularly financed the Le Cercle until South Africa's quote-unquote third force, which was their Gladio-style cadre, and it was referred to as an international covert intelligence agency…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 33:21
Le Cercle advocated_overthrow_of
Soviet Union host_asserted
“The members should do nothing less than provoke the disintegration of the Soviet system and the Soviet empire. The counteroffensive that the Le Cercle advocated had two main components, a rolling back of Soviet and communist influence and t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 34:52
William Clark member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“In September 82, Cozier handed a memorandum entitled The Case for a Rollback in the 1980s to National Security Advisor William Clark, who would himself attend LeCircle meetings throughout the 80s. Clark and President Reagan studied the memo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 36:54
Le Cercle targeted_for_regime_change
Grenada host_asserted
“This planning document, which was also handed to Prime Minister Thatcher, suggested the certain peripheral countries that needed to be attacked. You will not find it at all surprising once I name these countries. Grenada, Angola, Seychelles…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 37:21
Le Cercle attempted_coup_against
Angola host_asserted
“This planning document, which was also handed to Prime Minister Thatcher, suggested the certain peripheral countries that needed to be attacked. You will not find it at all surprising once I name these countries. Grenada, Angola, Seychelles…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 37:21
Le Cercle targeted_for_regime_change
Seychelles host_asserted
“They overthrew Seychelles. They tried to overthrow Nicaragua. And Cuba was just a repeat every single day attempting to overthrow it. So they did the roadmap and Reagan dutifully implemented it, is the bottom line to that. It also then beca…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 37:53
Le Cercle attempted_coup_against
Nicaragua host_asserted
“They overthrew Seychelles. They tried to overthrow Nicaragua. And Cuba was just a repeat every single day attempting to overthrow it. So they did the roadmap and Reagan dutifully implemented it, is the bottom line to that. It also then beca…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 37:53
Le Cercle attempted_coup_against
Cuba host_asserted
“They overthrew Seychelles. They tried to overthrow Nicaragua. And Cuba was just a repeat every single day attempting to overthrow it. So they did the roadmap and Reagan dutifully implemented it, is the bottom line to that. It also then beca…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 37:53
Le Cercle targeted_for_regime_change
Namibia host_asserted
“Given the roles played by the Le Cercle in South African government, it isn't surprising that a major focus of the rollback strategy was in Southern Africa, particularly Nambia, Angola, and Mozambique. The Le Cercle agitated against Nambia …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 38:24
Le Cercle liaisoned_with
UNITA host_asserted
“Le Cercle was also preoccupied with the Angolan War. It liaisoned directly with UNITA, who at the time was the UNITA representative to the U.S., including using the CIA. As for Mozambique, Le Cercle supported RENAMO, R-E-N-A-M-O, which foug…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 38:54
Le Cercle funded
RENAM host_asserted
“Le Cercle was also preoccupied with the Angolan War. It liaisoned directly with UNITA, who at the time was the UNITA representative to the U.S., including using the CIA. As for Mozambique, Le Cercle supported RENAMO, R-E-N-A-M-O, which foug…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 38:54
Fatima Ghaliani member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“which was represented in the circle by Fatima Ghaliani, G-A-I-L-A-N-I, the daughter of the Mujahideen leader, Saeed Ahmed Ghalini, who headed the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan, which basically was the Mujahideen, which we know was f…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 39:53
Le Cercle carried_out_attack
Soviet Union host_asserted
“which drew the Russians into Afghanistan for the 1980s Afghan war. They're, quote-unquote, according to Kissinger, Vietnam. Le Cercle also conducted anti-Soviet propaganda operations targeting the populations of both the Soviet Union and We…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 40:18
Hans-Adolf von der Groeben headed
Le Cercle host_asserted
“was a plan discussed at a meeting in Zurich in 1980 to establish a powerful radio station in Saudi Arabia for propaganda broadcast in Islamic border regions of the Soviet Union. The planning of this operation was led by Hans Graf Hohen, who…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 40:50
Hans-Adolf von der Groeben proposed
Le Cercle host_asserted
“was a plan discussed at a meeting in Zurich in 1980 to establish a powerful radio station in Saudi Arabia for propaganda broadcast in Islamic border regions of the Soviet Union. The planning of this operation was led by Hans Graf Hohen, who…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 40:50
Turki bin Faisal member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“who had already attended a May 1979 Le Cercle meeting in Bavaria. Cohen reported Le Cercle's meeting in Zurich of 1980 that the Saudis were interested and had guaranteed to finance the operation. Besides waging psychological warfare against…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 41:19
Saudi Arabia financed_via
Le Cercle host_asserted
“who had already attended a May 1979 Le Cercle meeting in Bavaria. Cohen reported Le Cercle's meeting in Zurich of 1980 that the Saudis were interested and had guaranteed to finance the operation. Besides waging psychological warfare against…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 41:19
Le Cercle carried_out_attack
Soviet Union host_asserted
“At LaCircle meeting in Bonn in July 1984, plans had been made to launch anti-Soviet propaganda operations to explain the Soviet strategy to the public. Yeah, we're going to explain what we want you to believe. It's not the truth. It's just …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 41:49
Michael Ledeen member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“L-E-D-E-E-N, one of the main propagandists of the idea that KGB was behind international terrorism, let's see, reported on quote-unquote Soviet involvement.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 43:17
Le Cercle member_of
Bilderberg Group host_asserted
“the Bilderbergs, the 1001 Club, the World Wildlife Fund Club. And there's anywhere from a 30 to 40 percent overlap in these different clubs for coordination purposes. And the weird thing about this to me is the more you dig into them, if yo…”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Wildlife Fund Part 3 @ 5:39
Julian Amery headed
Le Cercle documented
“While not a member of the circle, David Sterling was a very close friend of Lord Julian Emery, A-M-E-R-Y, who became the circle's chairman by the 1980s. During the early 60s, Emery, Sterling, and other future circle members like Neal Billy …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 59:56
Neil McLean member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“While not a member of the circle, David Sterling was a very close friend of Lord Julian Emery, A-M-E-R-Y, who became the circle's chairman by the 1980s. During the early 60s, Emery, Sterling, and other future circle members like Neal Billy …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 59:56
Brian Cozier headed
Le Cercle documented
“For the study of conflict. Because they create it. So they're going to study it. So they can create more. The ISC. The Institute for the Study of Conflict. Such an oxy fucking moron. Sorry. Was founded by. Brian Cozier. And we keep coming a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 1:02:51
Le Cercle part_of
Interdoc book_quoted
“coordinated and part of the same network along with the Roundtable movement and the Bilderbergs. What? And we've talked about all of them. Obviously, we've talked about the World Anti-Communist League several times on several different cont…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 13:10
Brian Cozier headed
Le Cercle host_asserted
“And all of the others basically being involved, meeting in Brian Coziers, who was the La Circle chairman at the time in Europe's residence in Madrid, Spain, which I mentioned is during the same time that Otto Skorzeny is there. So it makes …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 0:56
Le Cercle front_for
Bilderberg Group host_asserted
“It was initially organized in 1952-53 timeframe. Colonel, you broke up when you said what group was it? The LeCircle was basically a subsidiary of the Bilderberger Group. And it was set up around the 1952-53 timeframe. And one of the most i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 20:27
Konrad Adenauer member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“was none other than West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Now, keep in mind that Konrad Adenauer is the very same chancellor that was in bed with the CIA and this whole Gladio-NATO concept because he's the one that selected Reinhardt, or …”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 20:58
Anton Pinay member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“Also a part of Le Circle was a guy by the name of Antoine Pinay, P-I-N-A-Y, who represented the French in this collaboration. So sometimes it is referred to as the Pinay group or Le Circle, or sometimes just called The Circle.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 22:27
SDECE member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“Also present were numerous intelligence officers that weren't necessarily members of that, but affiliated with Operation Gladio, especially members of the Western European nations. One of those organizations that participated a lot was the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 26:28
BND member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“I don't know if they actually use that as an acronym, but basically that's their version of the CIA. Also, the German BND, which is their version of the CIA, and the Vatican has its own intelligence organization that all participated in the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 26:55
Julian Amery headed
Le Cercle host_asserted
“spies were veterans of the above-mentioned Special Operations Executive, the SOE, as well as many of these other organizations that had cropped up, the Bilderbergs, the Circle, and many others. One of those was a guy by the name of Lord Jul…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 27:27
Center of Documentation and Information member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“He basically covered the entire spectrum of Operation Gladio front companies that existed at the time. Other key links to the circle were Otto van Habsburg's Center of Documentation and Information, the Brussels-based Academy Europe Science…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 35:28
Academy Europe Science Politics member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“He basically covered the entire spectrum of Operation Gladio front companies that existed at the time. Other key links to the circle were Otto van Habsburg's Center of Documentation and Information, the Brussels-based Academy Europe Science…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 35:28
Committee for the Defense of National Interests member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“the Committee for International Defense of Civilian Forces. It was a French organization. Its acronym is CIDCC. It basically sought a united front of both Catholics and Protestants. It tried to bridge the gap. There was another organization…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 36:23
Le Cercle funded
Institute for Democracy Research host_asserted
“The chief instrument for this support appears to have been a German Circle Auxiliary, meaning the Circle Auxiliary for Germany, known as the Institute and then some crazy 20-letter word basically looking like it means democracy. The acronym…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 41:40
Hans Graf Huyn member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“He was also a member of the Circle and the CSU political party official who served as the foreign policy advisor to Strauss throughout the 1970s. Huynh was also a member of Brian Cozier's 6I Private Intelligence Network, which is an MI6 fro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 42:35
Le Cercle member_of
World Anti-Communist League host_asserted
“And it says other organizations involved American Security Council. It was the number one listed on there in Le Circle, which I've done an expose on as well, because that was Bernard, the WWF and all of those guys is involved in it. And I'm…”
▶ Operation Gladio -NGOs and players @ 1:18:26
Le Cercle member_of
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“Effectively, the World Commerce Corporation brought together virtually all of the SOF, the Special Operation Forces, of the U.S., U.K., and Nazi Germany. These networks were recruited into Gladio and Bloodstone. Then we come across the infa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 22:15
Academy Europe Science Politics member_of
Le Cercle book_quoted
“Which is interesting because we know that all of these people worked exclusively with the Catholic Church to create the rat lines, money launder. So there seems to be extensive ties. And we've come across Opus Dei before. We've covered it. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 23:15
Brian Cozier member_of
Le Cercle book_quoted
“So the UK set up a group called the Institute for the Study of Conflict while also sponsoring the Strategy of Tension, which uses conflict to create the tension. Y'all following along? Okay. So not long after Viollet became involved in the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 26:05
Benoît de Beauvoisin member_of
Le Cercle book_quoted
“Bovoisin would go on to become one of the most notorious members of the Circle Complex ever. Other Circle members and also Opus Dei members was Otto von Habsburg and Alfredo Sanchez Bella would also be affiliated with the Academy for years.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 27:35
Otto von Habsburg member_of
Le Cercle book_quoted
“Bovoisin would go on to become one of the most notorious members of the Circle Complex ever. Other Circle members and also Opus Dei members was Otto von Habsburg and Alfredo Sanchez Bella would also be affiliated with the Academy for years.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 27:35
SDECE funded
Le Cercle book_quoted
“which is the French civilian intelligence service, much like the CIA. And it just so happens that the SDECE was an early backer of the Circle and the Academy. Jean Vallée was a longtime asset of SDECE. So basically, he's a CIA asset, only t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 30:59
Le Cercle similar_to
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“The circle meeting participants constantly deliberated on exactly how to do this, advocating support for anti-communist rebel groups fighting, quote unquote, socialist governments in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In other words, they they…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 35:24
Paul Latinus recruited_into
Le Cercle host_asserted
“B-O-N-B-O-I-S-I-N, Bonvoisin, was linked to them by Latimus, who was basically one of them. He was recruited into it. So Latimus said that the children provided a quote-unquote insurance policy.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 8:54
Le Cercle linked_to
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Regardless, there can be little question that the Circle Complex had extensive links to the Gladio networks. On one hand, both the Circle Complex and Gladio were linked with Catholic orders like Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta. The hierar…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 15:53
Le Cercle linked_to
Opus Dei host_asserted
“Regardless, there can be little question that the Circle Complex had extensive links to the Gladio networks. On one hand, both the Circle Complex and Gladio were linked with Catholic orders like Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta. The hierar…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 15:53
Le Cercle linked_to
Knights of Malta host_asserted
“Regardless, there can be little question that the Circle Complex had extensive links to the Gladio networks. On one hand, both the Circle Complex and Gladio were linked with Catholic orders like Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta. The hierar…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 15:53
Yves Guérin-Sérac member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“But again, Le Cercle and Valet was very much tied into NATO and Operation Gladio as part of Le Cercle. The January 1972 report called European Security and the Soviet Problems. Nothing like telling you what they want you to think. It was fu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 35:03
P2 Masonic Lodge front_for
Le Cercle host_asserted
“General Giuseppe Santavito, he's very well known in this Gladio network. His name came up a lot originally. Another prominent P2 member was Roberto Calvi. He also was rumored to be in the Opus Dei. And P2 seems to clearly have been interact…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 53:23
World Wildlife Fund front_for
Le Cercle host_asserted
“NGOs that they were using look like the World Wildlife Foundation and the 1001 Club and the Safari Club and a whole bunch of others. And the ones like, there's another group called Le Circle, L-E-C-E-R-C-L-E. All of these same, I'd never he…”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Wildlife Fund Part 3 @ 4:48
Brian Cozier member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“Probably the most infamous one that I came across repeatedly is Brian Cozier. And you spell his last name C-R-O-Z-I-E-R. Cozier was not a previous intelligence asset, but he was linked to many of the organizations that had been used as fron…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 28:27
Le Cercle funded
Sixth Eye host_asserted
“It's crazy. And I mean, it's been a couple of years ago when we talked about LeCircle. But, you know, it was that entity was kind of like the feeder for that six eye that, what's his name? Crozer, however you say his name. Yeah, it's just, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shell Game Part 4 @ 1:04:48
David Stirling member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“While not a member of the circle, David Sterling was a very close friend of Lord Julian Emery, A-M-E-R-Y, who became the circle's chairman by the 1980s. During the early 60s, Emery, Sterling, and other future circle members like Neal Billy …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 59:56
Stephen Hastings member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“In addition to Tennant and Sporberg, other key Crozier's backers came from the SOE and included Sir Peter Wilkinson and Stephen Hastings. Stephen Hastings had attended several circle meetings, although there was never any confirmation he wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 28:56
Roland Wynne member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“Amory's other friends, you had Roland Wynne, W-I-N-N, and a Belgian colonel by the name of Henry Bernard. So Sir Peter Tennant also recruited, was recruited into the British SOE by a banker by the name of Sir Charles Hambro. Now we've come …”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 29:57
War Information Office member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“So the PIO was headed by a major Jean-Marie Boutereau, B-O-U-G-E-R-O-L. During the mid-late 1970s, when the PIO was at its peak, he was in regular contact with both the Academy and the Circle. The PIO had been set up to watch Belgium's defe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 58:59
Aginter Press member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“He thinks it's highly debatable. It's not even debatable at all. There are a lot of sources now that verify that. It is. Let's see. If Scott's claim is accurate, it raises the possibility that the events that unfolded in Chile during the 19…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 51:32
Yves Guérin-Sérac founded
Le Cercle host_asserted
“And remember, John Violet is La Circle, and that is another basically semi-secret society that is fascist and was operating behind the scenes in Europe with a lot of Americans on it to implement one world government. He was also the instiga…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 15:53
Harry Bernard member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“Amory's other friends, you had Roland Wynne, W-I-N-N, and a Belgian colonel by the name of Henry Bernard. So Sir Peter Tennant also recruited, was recruited into the British SOE by a banker by the name of Sir Charles Hambro. Now we've come …”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 29:57
Interdoc member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“the Committee for International Defense of Civilian Forces. It was a French organization. Its acronym is CIDCC. It basically sought a united front of both Catholics and Protestants. It tried to bridge the gap. There was another organization…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 36:23
Franz Joseph Strauss collaborated_with
Le Cercle host_asserted
“and perpetual candidate for chancellor. Strauss was one of the most powerful and influential figures for decades in German politics. He appears to have hooked up with the circle complex from the beginning. Strauss also appears to have been …”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 38:50
Paladin Group member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“would have had access to Skorzeny's Paladin Group. Skorzeny's Paladin Group had access to everybody. They would have had access to the Circle and could use the veterans of all of these organizations in any of their operations to include the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 53:01
Le Cercle founded
World Commerce Corporation host_asserted
“and the Nazis in general because they would have been part of the people that got these particular Nazis out of Nuremberg. During the 1950s, this alliance was first forged via the World Commerce Corporation, and by the time of the Pinochet …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 52:31
Flora MacDonald member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“His agenda press also appeared to have been a key node, not just in Gladio, but also in Condor. Now, the guy traces the same people in both networks, but then says there he can't prove that they're connected, which is just a little weird. F…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 42:20
Mentions (120)
▶ 1:18:26
And it says other organizations involved American Security Council. It was the number one listed on there in Le Circle, which I've done an expose on as well, because that was Bernard, the WWF and all of those guys is involved in it. And I'm…
▶ 1:23:49
I would not tell you there's very many inside components from some of the lesser groupings of nations like within Africa. Although we did find the guy that they installed in the Congo, Mubatu, he was a part of the WWF. But most of the time,…
▶ 4:48
NGOs that they were using look like the World Wildlife Foundation and the 1001 Club and the Safari Club and a whole bunch of others. And the ones like, there's another group called Le Circle, L-E-C-E-R-C-L-E. All of these same, I'd never he…
▶ 7:33
that were all coordinating within the WWF. And I will give you the bottom line up front where it relates to these two specific, but LeCircle certainly is true for them as well. These were mechanisms for the planners and the international sy…
▶ 1:04:48
It's crazy. And I mean, it's been a couple of years ago when we talked about LeCircle. But, you know, it was that entity was kind of like the feeder for that six eye that, what's his name? Crozer, however you say his name. Yeah, it's just, …
▶ 50:16
He just got a contract for doing consulting with Disney Cruise Lines. What? You mean the one that goes by Epstein Island and does snorkeling there? That's really weird. In September 2003, Spicer met with the Circle, a powerful network in Eu…
▶ 50:44
to all of Britain's higher-ups, as well as the Netherlands and everybody else all over Germany. So, Colonel David Sterling again, we have the circle and all of their contacts being in bed with this Spicer guy. A year after his meeting with …
▶ 52:41
W-O-N-G-A, sponsored by his former business partner, Simon Mann, that was going on when he was awarded the IRAC contract. No doubt Spicer's contact with the Circle, as well as his friends at the Coalition Provisional Authority, helped. Ages…
▶ 55:30
once they were reviewed after allegations made of them doing bad things, were found they didn't do any bad things. Imagine that. I'm shocked. So at the time, the whole operation was being ran by the former Lieutenant Colonel Tim Spicer. So …
▶ 12:41
He says that the organization's American Security Council, ASC, which we covered, I believe we did that on Alpha's show, but we've had it, we've come across it in other books. He says American Security Council, the World Anti-Communist Leag…
▶ 13:10
coordinated and part of the same network along with the Roundtable movement and the Bilderbergs. What? And we've talked about all of them. Obviously, we've talked about the World Anti-Communist League several times on several different cont…
▶ 20:02
Also very relevant, and that has to do with the royal family there, which we've implicated in everything. The Circle, WWF, the 1001 Club. They are intricately involved in Operation Gladio. Specifically, there is a guy there in the Netherlan…
▶ 0:56
And all of the others basically being involved, meeting in Brian Coziers, who was the La Circle chairman at the time in Europe's residence in Madrid, Spain, which I mentioned is during the same time that Otto Skorzeny is there. So it makes …
▶ 15:59
Another important contact for the colony was a European group that we've covered fairly extensively called La Circle or The Circle. It's also referred to as the Pinay Group, P-I-N-A-Y. Some people have referred to it as the Pasenti Group, P…
▶ 17:00
or the Fabian Society. So, its idea basically come to fruition after World War II. The Pan-European Union and the Anglo-American intelligence officers became concerned that Kalergi was not suitable and active enough in his anti-communist ja…
▶ 19:58
Another organization that grew out of all of this was the Bildersberger Group. Did y'all know that? That had its formation as a part of everything that I just talked about. That forum, of course, we know brought together the U.S. and Europe…
▶ 20:27
It was initially organized in 1952-53 timeframe. Colonel, you broke up when you said what group was it? The LeCircle was basically a subsidiary of the Bilderberger Group. And it was set up around the 1952-53 timeframe. And one of the most i…
▶ 22:27
Also a part of Le Circle was a guy by the name of Antoine Pinay, P-I-N-A-Y, who represented the French in this collaboration. So sometimes it is referred to as the Pinay group or Le Circle, or sometimes just called The Circle.…
▶ 22:51
The circle was a very confidential, almost secret, like the Bilderbergs. They didn't want people knowing who they were because they were covertly working on a united Europe agenda. As time went on, they moved up in status and basically kind…
▶ 23:19
operated alongside the Bilderbergs and not as necessarily a subordinate to it. The Bilderbergs has always been dominated by the U.S. and Europe, mainly the old Western European powers like the Netherlands and the U.K. and those, France, the…
▶ 23:46
In the early days, Le Cercle was primarily dominated by Catholic nations that were more in the central portion of like Spain and some of the others that had a higher percentage of Catholic as a population than the Bilderbergs, which was pri…
▶ 26:02
which also gave them the opportunity to collaborate planning-wise under the guise of being a member of the Knights of Malta, which is very, very interesting, I think. So researcher Robert Hutchinson even went so far as to say that the circl…
▶ 27:27
spies were veterans of the above-mentioned Special Operations Executive, the SOE, as well as many of these other organizations that had cropped up, the Bilderbergs, the Circle, and many others. One of those was a guy by the name of Lord Jul…
▶ 28:56
In addition to Tennant and Sporberg, other key Crozier's backers came from the SOE and included Sir Peter Wilkinson and Stephen Hastings. Stephen Hastings had attended several circle meetings, although there was never any confirmation he wa…
▶ 29:26
There were a lot of people that were invited to meetings based on their area of expertise that were never actual members of the circle. And so it's very difficult because there's no official roster of who's the members. You kind of have to …
▶ 31:26
and an American piece of a front company that's going to be fronting for Operation Gladio. And while Bill Donovan, of course, was a member of the Knights of Malta. So the future Circle members, along with the Knights of Malta, if you compar…
▶ 34:59
circle participant was a guy by the name of Arnold Silver. He just so happens to have been an Army Counterintelligence Corps who transferred after World War II to the CIA. He also worked intimately with Walter Mosig, M-O-S-I-G, and Otto Sko…
▶ 35:28
He basically covered the entire spectrum of Operation Gladio front companies that existed at the time. Other key links to the circle were Otto van Habsburg's Center of Documentation and Information, the Brussels-based Academy Europe Science…
▶ 36:51
that worked inside of the circle for many years. Outside of Europe, they partnered with, drumroll, World Anti-Communist League, of course, which the author notes was made up of a bunch of third world thugs that escaped the World War II tria…
▶ 37:24
They colluded with Western intelligence, with military officers, and the World Anti-Communist League was intimately involved in Operation Condor, which we know that. They also was intimately involved with Operation Gladio, which this guy se…
▶ 38:23
crucial link between it and the circle complex, and that link can be found in Franz Joseph Strauss. I'm going to spell his name. F-R-A-N-Z, middle name J-O-S-E-F, Strauss, S-T-R-A-U-S-S. He was the chairman of the Christian Socialist Union,…
▶ 40:15
In the aftermath of the coup, the Opus Dei crowd would be placed throughout Pinochet's government to operate in the repressive dictatorship to include being in charge. All of the people at the very top of their education system were all Opu…
▶ 40:42
Whether a connection between Opus Dei and the colony exists, there's lots of speculation with not a lot of actual printed documents. Strauss became involved with the colony officially in the 1970s when he joined Gerhard Martin Circle of Fri…
▶ 41:11
He reportedly signed a portrait. There is a signed portrait of Strauss that hung in one of the central buildings in the colony as if he was a benefactor for over 20 years, at least until the late 1990s. Shortly after Strauss had become invo…
▶ 42:07
the Institute for Democracy Research, but they put democracy research all in one word in the German version. So the Institute for Democracy Research, that sounds a lot like something that, like the NED or something. The vice president of th…
▶ 44:54
for the colony that was basically harboring terrorists and pedophiles. On the whole, it would seem that the ties between the colony and the circle, at least the German wing of it, was very, very close. So that's going to do it for today. Th…
▶ 59:45
assessment of there being factions is very well proven in that they don't necessarily all want, just like what we were just talking about right now, the differences between the Calerges and the Posier faction of Le Cercle. That's a perfect …
▶ 22:15
Effectively, the World Commerce Corporation brought together virtually all of the SOF, the Special Operation Forces, of the U.S., U.K., and Nazi Germany. These networks were recruited into Gladio and Bloodstone. Then we come across the infa…
▶ 22:46
A thorough examination is bigger than this book, but he provides two examples of their interaction and overlap. The first one was Opus Dei. The Opus Dei people had assisted the CIA in setting up Gladio networks throughout Europe, even in th…
▶ 25:09
So they could say it's not officially part of NATO. Shortly after the Academy's founding, Damon encountered the man called Jean Violet. Violet, however you say it, B-I-O-L-E-T. He was instrumental in the circle for decades.…
▶ 25:39
Viollet had been looking for a group that would provide an operational framework for the operation he envisioned for the Circle to participate in, basically one world government. He appears to have settled on the Academy and the UK-based In…
▶ 26:05
So the UK set up a group called the Institute for the Study of Conflict while also sponsoring the Strategy of Tension, which uses conflict to create the tension. Y'all following along? Okay. So not long after Viollet became involved in the …
▶ 26:35
Brian Cozier, the guy we keep running across, C-R-O-Z-I-E-R. So he joins the effort. From the beginning, Violet seems to have conceived of the Academy as a kind of meeting group for the elite institutions such as the Circle and the Bilderbe…
▶ 27:05
was also involved in the Academy. Another AESP, which is the Academy, Frenchman, was André Voisin, V-O-I-S-I-N, who also was a co-founder of the Bilderbergs. A prominent Belgian member, Baron Benoit de Beauvoisin, was the son of the Bilderb…
▶ 30:59
which is the French civilian intelligence service, much like the CIA. And it just so happens that the SDECE was an early backer of the Circle and the Academy. Jean Vallée was a longtime asset of SDECE. So basically, he's a CIA asset, only t…
▶ 42:20
His agenda press also appeared to have been a key node, not just in Gladio, but also in Condor. Now, the guy traces the same people in both networks, but then says there he can't prove that they're connected, which is just a little weird. F…
▶ 51:54
The Belgium counterpart was Vittorio Pons, P-O-N-S, and the Hungarian Ernest Tutosi, T-O-T-T-O-S-Y. They were all, he was a member of the P7, the Belgium version of that. So another link between P2 and the circle complex comes in the form o…
▶ 53:23
General Giuseppe Santavito, he's very well known in this Gladio network. His name came up a lot originally. Another prominent P2 member was Roberto Calvi. He also was rumored to be in the Opus Dei. And P2 seems to clearly have been interact…
▶ 57:33
in this storyline. The Westland New Post had its origins in a host of fascist organizations established in Belgium during the 1970s. The author focuses on direct links to the Circle and the Academy, one of the earliest and most significant …
▶ 58:59
So the PIO was headed by a major Jean-Marie Boutereau, B-O-U-G-E-R-O-L. During the mid-late 1970s, when the PIO was at its peak, he was in regular contact with both the Academy and the Circle. The PIO had been set up to watch Belgium's defe…
▶ 59:29
in the Belgian press as questionable. A longtime contact of both the Academy and the Circle. Another key Academy and Circle figure linked to the PIO was the above-mentioned Baron Benoit de Bosvoisen, the son of the co-founder of the Bilderb…
▶ 1:00:54
V-A-N-K-E-R-H-O-V-I-E-N, who also was affiliated with the Academy. There was indications that the funds that the VBN, excuse me, VDB provided funds for the FJ. This is during the same time frame that Black Baron was working closely with the…
▶ 1:21:32
Hey, Colonel. Yeah, I was curious to get your take on what you thought was the connection between the circle that you've been mentioning a lot in this episode and the Pilgrim Society. It seems to me as you were saying that this also, as we …
▶ 1:21:56
And organizations like Circle, which was also very kind of key in the beginning of the creation of the EU and all of that, right? So you have the EEC, all of these characters, whether it's Pinet or Joseph Strauss or Von Habsburg, all of the…
▶ 1:23:48
the to list to come up with that answer. If I find the answer, I'm going to post it. Because what's interesting about, now obviously the Pilgrims are U.S. and U.K. They're basically set up just like the R.I.I.A. and the CFR. But LeCircle ha…
▶ 1:24:14
It is an international like the Al-Fazl, the Prince Turki Al-Fazl. There's a lot of Saudi people in the circle. There's all kinds of different countries that were admitted. There's, let's see, this guy's from Iran, Dr. Houshang Amirat Mahdi…
▶ 1:24:43
He was an Oxford graduate. What you find when you start looking at Le Cercle, from my perspective, it's not true of every one of them. But if they are not American or British or like the elite of Europe, if they're one of these other people…
▶ 1:25:36
remember the last time i looked because we did a whole section on the circle um i made a bunch of posts about it um because i bought a book and the book just blew me away i i had never even heard of it before oh interesting yeah yeah i mean…
▶ 1:26:05
I guess, and who's in and who's out. I'll post an article too that talks about how I think it was specifically, was it Jean Monnet or, sorry, Jean Violet, who was key to recruiting members of British and American as both MI6.…
▶ 1:26:31
And I think at that point, it was a guy called Brian Crozier. And then I think we've talked about Peter Tennant as well, who was chairing circle meetings come the 70s. And so there you have this kind of interestingly, suddenly like, you kno…
▶ 1:27:51
a brain map that would have been would have made something like that very easy because you can just put your cursor over like the circle and then you can put your cursor over um um the pilgrim society and it would you know be able to illust…
▶ 1:28:18
Yeah, totally. And some of these characters were definitely members of both, right? Or at least frequenting. Absolutely. Key sort of moments in which both were sort of participating in key events, whether it was like the Algerian war, like …
▶ 1:59:25
on the duplication of Le Cercle and Pilgrim. And here's the four names. Brian Cossier, Julian Amari, A-M-E-R-Y. So he was a British conservative politician who was known to be part of Le Cercle and had connections to the Pilgrim Society thr…
▶ 1:59:55
and attended meetings of the Le Cercle. Lord Carrington was a prominent member of the Pilgrim Society and affiliated with Le Cercle. So there's at least four overlaps for you. Oh, interesting. Yeah, great. You've come up with those. I saw K…
▶ 2:16
I can't help. I wish I could. OK, there you are. There you are. There you are. Sorry. It was a delay. Thank you. Yeah, sure. OK, we're going to go ahead and get started. Now, keep in mind where we're at. We are talking about the circle and …
▶ 7:14
we still need to be very cautious about what's going on and vocal about what the slippery slope is because there is definitely a slippery slope. Okay, so back to our book. All right, so we talked about the two, well, basically the circle pe…
▶ 8:23
Hold on. All right. Of course, I won't be able to find it right away. Basically, you have members of the circle and they have been intimately involved in vice rings involving children. And they were linked to that. One of the. The.…
▶ 9:56
Latimer's knowledge of these dealings did not seem to do him much good since he quote unquote committed suicide in 1984. We would refer to it based on the circumstances of the suicide as being suicided. So these people in the circle would l…
▶ 11:23
This spurred several witnesses who had been involved in the network to come forward. They named the people in La Circle and these allegations are especially disturbing in light of the accusations that was going on at the Dignity Colony in C…
▶ 11:54
and shipped to Chile. There is at least one direct link between the academy and the colony. Joseph, excuse me, Franz Joseph Strauss, who provided the academy with all of its initial money. Beyond that, von Voisin would become a circle regul…
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Regardless, there can be little question that the Circle Complex had extensive links to the Gladio networks. On one hand, both the Circle Complex and Gladio were linked with Catholic orders like Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta. The hierar…
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lodge offices, and various Belgium people to the strategy of tension, and a genter press and P2 in particular are linked to terrorism, not just in Europe and not just in Italy, but all over the world. As such, it should be little surprise t…
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ties to Condor as well. A crucial figure who links the sprawling network together was the legendary Italian fascist Stefano Dellece. And I'm going to spell his last name. It's two names, D-E-L-L-E-C-H-I-A-I-E. Dellece appears to have been, …
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with a monthly stipend to do their work. Pacente would go on to become a key patron of both the Academy and the Circle. He became an especially influential member of the Circle, and in his autobiography, David Rockefeller mentions the Circl…
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was Watchguard International, another early military intelligence corporation. Watchguard had been founded by SAS co-founder David Sterling, who was a colonel. Sterling was a close associate of the Circle and all of its British partners. As…
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OSS veterans, and by the late 1960s, Skorzeny had become a key factor in this Operation Gladio slash Condor network. His paladin group, along with the Ginger Press and Delachey's Avant-Guardia Nationali, were among the pillars of the networ…
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brought aboard some interesting partners. In the early years, the circle was largely dominated by reactionary Catholic orders like the Knights of Malta and Opus Dei. Beginning in the mid to late 1960s, they began to forge crucial alliances …
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veterans to the Circle Complex. Among the American partners were several former OSS men and current CIA people like William Casey. Casey, it will be recalled, worked for William Donovan's law firm back in Buffalo and the same law firm that …
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They also had connections to the Circle. By the early 70s, the Circle complex appeared to have forged close ties with the Black Orchestra or Operation Gladio, which Otto Skorzeny was a key figure of. The same Otto Skorzeny had forged all of…
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On one hand, the colony was in contact with the Circle via Strasse. The Circle auxiliaries in Europe were mobilized to protect the colony and did so against amnesty international attempts to document what was going on there. On the other ha…
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to participate in the Portuguese strategy of tension with the Jinter Press. Spinola's efforts also appear to have received the support from the same organization, The Circle. The colony seemingly enjoyed impeccable contacts throughout the e…
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He was basically tied to setting up the entire thing. Andriotti enjoyed very close ties to the CIA and the secret services inside of Italy, first as defense minister and then later as prime minister. Andriotti was deeply involved in the Gla…
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was also in attendance at that conference. And you recall that Lombardo was one of the key principal members of the Academy and also a member of the P7 Belgium Operation Gladio elements as well. The Academy appears to have been a key coordi…
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and Galen, the Nazi, was linked to the Circle from early on. This raises some interesting possibilities. The BND had grown out of the Galen organization, of course, I just pointed out, as a Nazi, who was later recruited by the U.S. CIA. The…
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So I just want to make sure everybody stays on the thing sheet of music with that. Okay, so the circle and elements of the Skortaseni network went to such great lengths to protect the colony, despite all of the human rights abuses that was …
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That leads us back to the Circle, and the Circle by the early 70s featured a contingent of SOE, which are the British veterans, and even OSS veterans, which are now basically in the form of the CIA, but even some of them that went back into…
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and the Nazis in general because they would have been part of the people that got these particular Nazis out of Nuremberg. During the 1950s, this alliance was first forged via the World Commerce Corporation, and by the time of the Pinochet …
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would have had access to Skorzeny's Paladin Group. Skorzeny's Paladin Group had access to everybody. They would have had access to the Circle and could use the veterans of all of these organizations in any of their operations to include the…
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to none other than organizations like Le Circle. And I have done a lot of posting about Le Circle, or The Circle, Panay's Circle, however you want to say it, and their kissing cousin, the Bilderberg. Le Circle emerged in 1950 through an eff…
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closely linked to reactionary Catholic orders and Western intelligence, because they all worked together. By the late 70s, Le Circle featured a strong presence in the UK, especially in Veterans of World War II Special Operations Executive, …
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While not a member of the circle, David Sterling was a very close friend of Lord Julian Emery, A-M-E-R-Y, who became the circle's chairman by the 1980s. During the early 60s, Emery, Sterling, and other future circle members like Neal Billy …
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And if you recall, that was the diversion to get the 75,000 Egyptian troops out of Egypt in order for Israel to attack Egypt in retribution for what they had done to the UK. They collectively all work together. You will never find a situati…
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For the study of conflict. Because they create it. So they're going to study it. So they can create more. The ISC. The Institute for the Study of Conflict. Such an oxy fucking moron. Sorry. Was founded by. Brian Cozier. And we keep coming a…
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During the 1980s, several of the ISC researchers would later go on to work for control risk. Isn't that such a small world? Most notably, South African specialist Peter Janke, J-A-N-K-E, and counterinsurgency proponent Major General Richard…
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Other secret societies like Mont Pelerin, P-E-L-E-R-I-N Society, La Circle, and Circle is spelled C-E-R-C-L-E, and also Bible smuggling operations. It included groups called the Assembly of Captive European Nations, A-C-E-N, referred to as …
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All right. We'll try it again. This is still crazy. Yep. Absolutely. Oh, my gosh. All right. So start from the top. Please repost the space so that everybody knows there's an attempt number two. And they don't click on the wrong one and thi…
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And in 1960s, he was actually working for Reinhard Galen, who was running the German BND. So he 100 percent is a Operation Gladio operative. The long serving chancellor of West Germany, Konrad Adenauer, and the prominent Bavarian.…
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If Adenauer was a good guy, he would have never had Reinhard Galen as his chief intel guy, basically Alan Dulles' counterpart. And if they tried to stick him with him, he would have complained about it. He never did. So this just goes to sh…
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was an integral part of it. They appointed Vallée as Secretary General and basically trusted him to run the day-to-day operations of Le Cercle. The promotion of post-war reconciliation between the historic rivals, France and Germany, after …
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The background of its early members was a result of Le Cercle's activities. They also had an affinity for anyone that was affiliated with the Catholic Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta. And as we know, all of the leading members of Operatio…
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Founding Franco-German Axis was shaken when the political pendulum reversed. Willy Brandt, B-R-A-N-D-T, of the Social Democratic Party became German Chancellor and General de Gaulle was ousted from power in France. These new pressures…
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forced Le Cercle to reinvent itself and to expand beyond the original six Christian democratic nations to include a wider array, including Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Britain, and the United States. With the addition of the new countries,…
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grew from the limited 20 to 30 at each meeting. The frequency of meetings were reduced from three to two each year because now they could operate under the auspices of NATO and the ACC and CPC, which was in charge of Gladio. The broadening …
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In Germany's parliament from 69 to 72. In the 70s, Le Cercle evolved into an Atlantic organization between Europe and the United States. High-ranking American people thus began attending Le Cercle meetings to include Nelson Rockefeller and …
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as a key element in the administration of Operation Gladio and its obsession with quote-unquote anti-communism. The leaders of the group increasingly considered strategies to target public opinion, i.e. domestic audiences, and formed a le-c…
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which attacked both the Soviet Union and the perceived leftist governments or opposition movements throughout Europe and any other country that they deemed necessary. Which again, if you guys have followed Operation Gladio, I'm describing O…
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front, posing as organizations, institutes, and think tanks. Again, this is the modus operandi that we have come across every single time. La Circle had evolved to become a confidential forum for influential people and policies advisors of …
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plausible deniability if they were ever caught or discovered. This high-level discussion of policy would then be implemented by individual Le Cercle members working within their respective governments to include the legislative bodies, poli…
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The leaders of the free world can now examine the very great problems which we face in order to determine together possible solutions and then implement them each in their respective sphere. While the modus operandi and concerns of Le Cercl…
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As he approached his 90th birthday, Panay would formally retire from the organization and hand over the chairmanship to a Julian Amari, A-M-E-R-Y, who would run Le Cercle for the next 14 years. Like many of the British members of Le Cercle,…
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nonprofits that allowed him to be an integral player in spreading the information that was decided upon at LaCircle meetings. He also would eventually be elected as a quote-unquote conservative MP and held many senior governmental and parli…
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Amari took over the chairmanship from Panay in 1980, Franz Joseph Bach remained the secretary. The most important organizer of LeCircle's activities from 80 to 85 held no official post at all. In 1980, Jean Vallée, who had health problems, …
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world features. He also ran the Institute for the Study of Conflict, we've talked about it before, ISD, which he set up in London in 1970. Posier, who had been recruited to Le Circle by Jean Vallée in 1971, would stop organizing and partici…
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was a member of the World Anti-Communist League. He was the author of several anti-Soviet books. Hans Graf Heun, Brian Cozier, Franz Josef Bach, and Julian Amari formed the ruling group of Le Cercle well into the 1980s. An executive staff i…
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because we always have to have the international syndicate involved, Carlo Pesenti, P-E-S-E-N-T-I, in the spring of 1976. Pesenti and a group of Le Cercle leaders thought that we had to enlarge the sphere of action from Le Cercle and study …
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was a small command staff to discuss and develop action plans for political issues. The inner circle met occasionally throughout the 80s, for example, in Zurich in 1980. Vallée led this meeting, which included Hans Graf Hohen, Brian Cozier,…
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The inner circle thus occasionally set LeCircle priorities and became obviously a driving factor in the administration of Operation Gladio. LeCircle did not have a constitution or quote unquote formal membership because it was secretive and…
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any of the participants that attended its meetings. And technically, you weren't supposed to be at the meetings if you weren't a member. So, to be invited to attend the meeting, you were considered a member. They included high-ranking polit…
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Intelligence agencies, agents. So again, this is just another meeting venue for Operation Gladio. The grouping of members shared some common characteristics. They were all elite. They were all educated by some of the same organizations. The…
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Notably, Le Cercle members were predominantly anti-communist who had engaged in anti-communist operations and most of them had overlapping membership in the World Anti-Communist League. You know, the thing that was organized by all of the W…