International Security Council, a group within the Moonies' political arm, CAUSA. Died in 1997.

Leo Tindermanns former Belgian Prime Minister in 1985. Belgium. Bilderberg Group, President of the European Parliament in 1985, longstanding supporter of PEU. Minister, Foreign

former Gen Pierre Cremer Pierre Pflimlin

The first conference of the EIS, held in the Belgian Foreign Ministry's palace, concentrated on how to promote NATO against peace movement opposition. In March 1982, the EIS Board expanded to include a number of new members, several of whom would attend the second EIS conference in Luxembourg in April 1982: Franz Josef Strauss Gerhard Lwenthal ZDF; President of the DeutschlandStiftung from 1977 to 1994; Brsewitz Centre; Brgeraktion Demokraten fr Strauss; Konservative Aktion; SWG; Resistance International; WACL; CAUSA. CSU MEP from 1979 to 1988; VicePresident of the German PEU section; Brsewitz Centre; Ludwig-Frank-Stiftung. ISP; SWG, Deutschland-Stiftung; Brsewitz Centre; Konservative Aktion. former Regional Prime Minister of Bavaria, CSU MEP from 1979 to 1984, Board member of PEU. Chief of the German Air Force until August 1974, then German representative to the Military Council of NATO. In October 1974, took a free trip to South Africa, sponsored by the South Africa Foundation, touring the Pelindaba nuclear research site. Exposure of the visit in September 1975 led to great public controversy. A stalwart defender of South African interests in Germany.

Dr. Heinrich Aigner

former Brig-Gen Heinz Karst

Alfons Goppel

former General Rall

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Dr Ludwig Blkow

Bilderberg Group, Managing Director of Messerschmitt Blkow Blohn, the major armaments company (Strauss sat on the MBB Board), prominent CSU member and linked to Starfighter scandal with Strauss, named President of NATO arms standardization committee in 1976. Luxembourg, MEP, former Vice-President of European Parliament, member of Bureau of the European Parliament conservative fraction EPP with Archduke Otto, served on PEU International Council from 1984 on.

Nicolas Estgens

In 1983, the EIS split because of policy differences, and Close left to found the Brussels-based Institut Europen pour la Paix et la Scurit (IEPS), perhaps a remoulding of the earlier Cercle group in Belgium, the Rassemblement pour la Paix dans la Libert. The IEPS would also be well-connected to the Cercle complex: besides Close's rle as MAUE Vice-President, other IEPS members included another MAUE Vice-President, Jacques Jonet, as well as Crozier and Huyn. Within the IEPS, the Heritage Foundation and the ASC were represented by Generals Robert C. Richardson and Daniel O. Graham, both members of the Political Action Committee of the ASC involved in the anti-Carter campaign of 1980. In 1981, following Reagan's election victory, Generals Graham and Richardson had also been Founder and Founding Vice-President respectively of High Frontier, a group which lobbied for space-based missile defence, a project adopted by Reagan in 1983 as the Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly known as Stars Wars. One IEPS Vice-President was Wolfgang Reinecke from Germany, a speaker for Graus Swiss ISP in 1975 and member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. The IEPS administrator was Belgian Colonel Henri Bernard, former history lecturer at the Belgian Military School. Bernard had been one of Damman's earliest partners, serving as a speaker for the Belgian PEU section in the early 1960s when it was still called AENA; Bernard was also a longstanding CEDI member. Other IEPS luminaries included IEPS Vice-President Belgian Count Yves du Monceau de Bergendal, a PSC senator and supporter of Opus Dei, the former Belgian Justice Minister during the strategy of tension Jean Gol, EEC Commissioner Willy Declercq and prominent figures from the Belgian French-speaking Liberal Party, the PRL (413). The Cercle Pinay also had a presence in several other anti-disarmament propaganda institutes. Key Cercle and 6I member Huyn was a Board member of the American European Strategy Research Institute (AESRI), an offshoot of the German section of Western Goals. The founding meeting of the Munich-based Western Goals Europe was held on 17th May 1981, attended by Huyn, Hans Klein of

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the Brsewitz Centre and the Deutschland-Stiftung, former Admiral Poser (former head of NATO Security and Intelligence), EIS member former Major-General Jochen Lser, Carl-Gustav Strhm, the Eastern European correspondent for the newspaper Die Welt and speaker for Grau's SWG, Larry McDonald of the John Birch Society, and former Generals George Patton and Lewis Walt. Larry McDonald put up $131,982 starting capital. AESRI was then founded in Munich on 8th July 1981 by Huyn, Klein, McDonald, Patton, CDU MP and Program Director for Western Goals Europe Helmut Sauer, BND agent Stefan Marinoff and American industrialist Robert Stoodard. AESRI had branches in Heidelberg, Bonn and Munich (414)*. In May 1982, AESRI member Huyn aroused a media storm with a publication entitled Fr Frieden in Freiheit (For Peace in Freedom), which accused a prominent German Christian peace group of communist sympathies and returned to an old theme, Soviet subversion in the Churches via the Christian Peace Conference. Huyn's conclusions would also be reported in the Dutch daily, De Telegraaf as well as other European and American newspapers. Another frequent writer for AESRI and Western Goals Europe was Professor Hans-Werner Bracht, the former senior lecturer at the Army School for Psychological Warfare who had worked with Lwenthal in the Deutschland-Stiftung, the Brsewitz Centre and Konservative Aktion; Bracht would take over as President of Western Goals Europe in March 1983. AESRI would again court controversy in 1985 by publishing allegations of communist agitation at Bielefeld University, having infiltrated it (415). One main transatlantic relay in the propaganda chorus was of course the NSIC; another significant US strategy group with links to the Cercle was the ASC and its main operational arm, the Coalition for Peace through Strength, one of the most vocal anti-disarmament groups in the 1980s. The ASC had links to the Cercle complex through five ASC Board Members: Gen. Richard G. Stilwell attended the January 1980 Cercle/6I meeting, senior 6I member; Gen. Daniel O. Graham ASC/Heritage representative on IEPS Board in 1983;

Gen. Robert Richardson ASC/Heritage representative on IEPS Board in 1983; Gen. Lewis Walt Adm. John S. McCain founding member of Western Goals Germany in 1981; 1974 launch of Centre du Monde Moderne; Board member of US Committee for the ISC (416)*.

Generals Stilwell and Graham also ensured Cercle access to the Moonies' CAUSA and their American geostrategic propaganda outlet, the US Global Strategy Council (USGSC), the two Generals serving on the Board with Pipes under the Chairmanship of Ray Cline in the late 1980s (417).

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