Intro

(todo)

Members

Number of members: 26,000 celibate members (excluding volunteers) (87,000 members including volunteers) [1]

Most live in their private homes, leading traditional family lives with secular careers, while the rest are celibate and sometimes live in official Opus Dei centers. [2]
todo: breakdown into their hierarchy

Jean Violet
- "Violet's political formation came in the 1930s in Le Comite Secret pour l'Action Revolutionnaire (CSAR). A far-right political cult modeled on a Freemasonic movement, complete with Masonic-style rites and rituals..., CSAR was sort of a predecessor of Licio Gelli's P-2. It was intensely secretive in all but its admiration of Franco and Mussolini, and after the war some of its members were accused of being Nazi collaborators. In the 1950s, with his own record pronounced clean, Violet became a collaborator of French intelligence, and an active supporter of Opus Dei." Le Cercle member: Jean Violet
- Great Oil Sniffer Hoax
Philippe de Weck
Federico Silva Munoz
Antoine Pinay (1891-1994)