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Alexandre de MarenchesDirty Work - The CIA in Western EuropePhilip Agee - Louis Wolf (cet extrait date de 1976)
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Sur deux personnes ayant travaillé avec Alexandre de Marenches : Roussin et de Marolles
Il en est question dans "Rogue Agents" de David Teacher :
https://isgp-studies.com/miscellaneous/cercle-david-teacher/2017-rogue-agents-le-cercle-6i-private-cold-war-1951-1991-david-teacher-4th-expanded-edition.pdf
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Dans ce livre, il est aussi intéressant de faire une recherche sur Alexandre de Marenches car David Teacher revient sur son conflit avec Jean Violet.
Malgré tout le respect que j'ai pour Peter Dale Scott (PDS), je crois qu'il fait erreur quand il écrit (dans plusieurs livres) que Alexandre de Marenches a fait partie du "Cercle".
Voici en effet des
éclaircissements de David Teacher lui-même :
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ENCORE ce foutu article du Lobster 18 de 1989 que j'ai renie a des multiples reprises mais qui continue a faire surface malgre le fait que Crozier a corrige le tir dans ses memoires en 1993 et que l'article est de loin depasse suite a la publication de Rogue Agents en 2008.
Pour etre clair, je suis convaincu que de Marenches n'a jamais appartenu au Cercle. PDS a donc tort a l'affirmer/ le re-re-reaffirmer. Il y le grand merite de publier beaucoup mais n'est pas a 100% fiable car il ne cherche pas de nouvelles informations/actualisations qui nieraient ce qu'il a ecrit il y a longtemps. Vous noterez son commentaire a la page 2 de Rogue Agents 4, ecrit en 2015: "This is mind-boggling research which I have just begun to digest" - Peter Dale Scott, former Professor, University of Berkeley, California; noted parapolitics author. Depuis lors, pas un seul mot de lui ...
Donc, en 2016, il repete des informations fausses que j'ai niees en detail dans Rogue Agents depuis 2008. En parlant de mes articles dans le Lobster, Crozier attire l'attention du lecteur precisement sur la question d'une appartenance eventuelle de de Marenches au Cercle.
Rogue Agents 4, pgs 182-183; la citation est plutot longue car elle traite egalement de l'article 10/1980 du Spiegel que vous m'avez envoye ainsi que de la lettre de Huyn a Strauss a propos de Turki:
Referring to this author's previous research on the Cercle published in Lobster
magazine in 1988-89, Crozier writes, not without some guile:
"Much has been written about the Cercle, from the outside, and much of it has
been false or misleading. For example, it has been alleged that it was a forum
for bringing together 'international linkmen of the Right', such as myself and
Robert Moss, with secret service chiefs like Alexandre de Marenches, long-time
head of the French SDECE, and Sir Arthur ('Dickie') Franks, sometime head of
MI6. There are pitfalls in writing about confidential matters from the outside,
and drawing on similarly handicapped material. In fact, neither [de]
Marenches nor Dickie Franks ever attended a Pinay Cercle meeting during the
years I was involved with it: between 1971 and 1985. There was a very good
reason why [de] Marenches would never have been invited. The inspirer and
long-serving organizer of the Pinay Cercle was Jean Violet, who for many years
had been retained by the SDECE as Special Advocate [...] Inevitably he had
made enemies. One of them was a close friend of the Comte de Marenches
who, on being appointed Director-General of the SDECE in 1970, closed down
Violet's office without notice. The two men – [de] Marenches and Violet - never
met. As for Dickie Franks, he never attended Cercle meetings, for the reason
that Directors of SIS do not involve themselves in such private groups. So he
was never invited" (Crozier, pg 191).
This denial of links between the Cercle, de Marenches and Franks is certainly
disingenuous if not deliberately misleading, seeking to use the lack of formal
involvement in the Cercle to discount any cooperation with it. Whilst serving
Directors of SIS or the SDECE might not like to be seen at Cercle meetings,
Langemann repeats information from Cercle and 6I insider Stauffenberg that Franks
did accompany the 6I core of Crozier and Elliott – not to a Cercle gathering but to to a
working meeting with Thatcher shortly after her election victory. As for de
Marenches, aside from any animosity with Violet, the French Count had for many
years been an intimate advisor to Cercle co-founder Franz Josef Strauß.
The "undesirable negative publicity" feared by Langemann did indeed arise:
the Spiegel got wind of Strauß's international links and published a two-part series in
February and March 1980. Besides documenting Strauß's support for Spínola and
Arriaga and his covert funding of Fraga Iribarne, Silva Muñoz and Martínez
Esteruelas, the Spiegel articles revealed Strauß's close friendship with the Comte de
Marenches, reporting that Strauß frequently met de Marenches, either at the Piscine
(SDECE headquarters) or at Strauß's Paris hotel, le Bristol. The Spiegel also
reproduced a letter from Huyn to Strauß dated 13th February 1979, which mentioned
the Cercle Pinay for the first time:
"Furthermore, I would like to inform you that I have just received news from
Riyadh confirming that Prince Turki al-Faisal, head of the Saudi intelligence
service and brother of the Foreign Minister, will be attending the Cercle
meeting in Wildbad Kreuth [since 1975, the international conference centre of
the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung]. I think his participation will be of particular
interest in view of the Middle East situation [i.e. the overthrow of the Shah one
month previously]"
Spiegel 9/1980 pgs 22-29 at
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-14327589.html
and 10/1980 pgs 20-28 at
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-14315032.html
Spiegel-Buch, pg 109.
Sans qu'il appartienne au Cercle, de Marenches etait certainement un "operateur"; notez bien la note 411 de Rogue Agents 4:
(411) Woodward, pgs 39-41. For a 2004 account of a December 1980 meeting
between de Marenches and Reagan attended by Arnaud de Borchgrave, see
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jun/10/20040610-105843-8888r/?page=all#pagebreak
At that time, although he did not know it, de Marenches
himself had less than six months left as head of the SDECE; after eleven years at the
helm, the arch-conservative abruptly resigned in May 1981 following the election of
France's first post-war socialist government without even staying for his
replacement's customary "breaking-in" period. De Marenches also planned to combat
Mitterrand's arrival after leaving office, as Crozier wrote to William A. Wilson,
Reagan's channel to the Cercle, on 9th January 1981: "I had a long talk with Arnaud
de Borchgrave two days ago. He told me about his meeting with Mr Reagan,
accompanied by the Count de Marenches not long ago. As you may know, [de]
Marenches is planning to do something rather similar to our own work on retiring
from his job as Head of the French intelligence service (SDECE) in May. I therefore
decided to "level" with Arnaud, as it would be absurd to work on parallel lines but
never to pool our resources" - see
https://tueriesdubrabant.1fr1.net/t2517p100-brian-crozierRien n'est connu a ce jour sur un eventuel reseau de resistance monte par de Marenches apres 1981 ... personnellement, je suis d'accord avec vos commentaires sur le site TBW a la difference pres du role que vous attribuez au Safari Club. Je crois comme vous que c'est parmi les membres belges du Cercle/6I/AESP/MAUE/RAPPEL/IEPS qui faut chercher l'inspiration et les commanditaires des TBW - de Bonvoisin, Bougerol et de Decker en savent long, je suis sur. Mais je ne suis pas encore persuade qu'il y a eu une main etrangere dans l'affaire, et le Safari Club ne semble pour moi pas plus qu'un reseau de cooperation des services monte par de Marenches.
Matiere a creuser ...
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J'ai posé la question de l'appartenance de Alexandre de Marenches au "Cercle" à Peter Dale Scott mais je n'ai pas eu de réponse.
Je me range donc à l'avis de David Teacher : Alexandre de Marenches n'a pas fait partie du "Cercle".
Encore une fois, il y a des erreurs dans les meilleurs livres.
Cela ne change rien aux liens entre Alexandre de Marenches avec le "Safari Club", avec Vernon Walters, Ronald Reagan, Franz Josef Strauß, etc