Below is a blurb about it from the Wiki … of course there is much, much more to the story of Le Cercle. Just a rabbit hole in which I have an interest. Le Cercle started up shortly after the "end’ of WWII.
Le Cercle is a invitation-only foreign policy forum. Initially its focus was opposing communism and, in the 1970s and 1980s, supporting apartheid when the group had intimate ties with and funding from South Africa. The group was described by British MP Alan Clark as “an Atlanticist society of right-wing dignitaries”.
As an elite conference, it is comparable to the Bilderberg meeting, but it is considered more secret and has no public and little media presence. Only selected and invited members are admitted to the meeting, and they are obliged to maintain secrecy.
Agenda items and lists of participants are not published. Members include diplomats, high-ranking politicians, journalists, businessman, intelligence agents, civil servants, members of the high nobility and other influential personalities.