Everything You Wanted To Know About Skull and Bones But Were Afraid To Ask

Three threads of American social history -- espionage, drug smuggling and secret societies -- intertwine into one.

Elihu Yale was born near Boston, educated in London, and served with the British

East India Company, eventually becoming governor of Fort Saint George, Madras,

in 1687. He amassed a great fortune from trade and returned to England

in 1699. Yale became known as quite a philanthropist; upon receiving a request

from the Collegiate School in Connecticut, he sent a donation and a gift of

books. After subsequent bequests, Cotton Mather suggested the school be named

Yale College, in 1718.

A statue of Nathan Hale stands on Old Campus at Yale University. There is a

copy of that statue in front of the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

Yet another stands in front of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts

(where George H.W. Bush ('48) went to prep school and joined a secret society

at age twelve).

Nathan Hale, along with three other Yale graduates, was a member of the

"Culper Ring," one of America's first intelligence operations. Established by

George Washington, it was successful throughout the Revolutionary War. Nathan

was the only operative to be ferreted out by the British, and after speaking

his famous regrets, he was hanged in 1776. Ever since the founding of the

Republic, the relationship between Yale and the "Intelligence Community" has

been unique.

In 1823, Samuel Russell established Russell and Company for the purpose of

acquiring opium in Turkey and smuggling it to China. Russell and Company

bought out the Perkins (Boston) syndicate in 1830 and moved the primary center

of American opium smuggling to Connecticut. Many of the great American and

European fortunes were built on the "China"(opium) trade.

One of Russell and Company's Chief of Operations in Canton was Warren Delano,

Jr., grandfather of Franklin Roosevelt. Other Russell partners included John

Cleve Green (who financed Princeton), Abiel Low (who financed construction of

Columbia), Joseph Coolidge and the Perkins, Sturgis and Forbes families.

(Coolidge's son organized the United Fruit company, and his grandson,

Archibald C. Coolidge, was a co-founder of the Council on Foreign Relations.)

William Huntington Russell ('33), Samuel's cousin, studied in Germany from

1831-32. Germany was a hotbed of new ideas. The "scientific method" was being

applied to all forms of human endeavor. Prussia, which blamed the defeat of

its forces by Napoleon in 1806 on soldiers only thinking about themselves in

the stress of battle, took the principles set forth by John Locke and Jean

Rosseau and created a new educational system. Johan Fitche, in his Address to

the German People, declared that the children would be taken over by the State

and told what to think and how to think it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel took over Fitche's chair at the University Of

Berlin in 1817, and was a professor there until his death in 1831. Hegel was

the culmination of the German idealistic philosophy school of Immanuel Kant.

To Hegel, our world is a world of reason. The state is Absolute Reason and the

citizen can only become free by worship and obedience to the state. Hegel

called the state the "march of God in the world" and the "final end". This

final end, Hegel said, "has supreme right against the individual, whose

supreme duty is to be a member of the state." Both fascism and communism have

their philosophical roots in Hegellianism. Hegellian philosophy was very much

in vogue during William Russell's time in Germany.

When Russell returned to Yale in 1832, he formed a senior society with

Alphonso Taft ('33). According to information acquired from a break-in to the

"tomb" (the Skull and Bones meeting hall) in 1876, "Bones is a chapter of a

corps in a German University.... General Russell, its founder, was in Germany

before his Senior Year and formed a warm friendship with a leading member of a

German society. He brought back with him to college, authority to found a

chapter here." So class valedictorian William H. Russell, along with fourteen

others, became the founding members of "The Order of Scull and Bones," later

changed to "The Order of Skull and Bones".

The secretive Order of Skull and Bones exists only at Yale. Fifteen juniors

are "tapped" each year by the seniors to be initiated into next year's group.

Each initiate is given $15,000 and a grandfather clock. Far from being a

campus fun-house, the group is geared more toward the success of its members

in the post-collegiate world.

The family names on the Skull and Bones roster roll off the tongue like an

elite party list -- Lord, Whitney, Taft, Jay, Bundy, Harriman, Weyerhaeuser,

Pinchot, Rockefeller, Goodyear, Sloane, Stimson, Phelps, Perkins, Pillsbury,

Kellogg, Vanderbilt, Bush, Lovett and so on.

William Russell went on to become a general and a state legislator in

Connecticut. Alphonso Taft was appointed U.S. Attorney General, Secretary of

War (a post many "Bonesmen" have held), Ambassador to Austria, and Ambassador

to Russia (another post held by many "Bonesmen"). His son, William Howard Taft

('87), is the only man to be both President of the United States and Chief

Justice of the Supreme Court.

The Order flourished from the very beginning in spite of occasional squalls of

controversy. There was dissension from some professors, who didn't like its

secrecy and exclusiveness. And there was backlash from students, showing

concern about the influence "Bones" was having over Yale finances and the

favoritism shown to "Bonesmen".

In October of 1873, Volume 1, Number 1, of The Iconoclast was published in

New Haven. It was only published once and was one of very few openly published

articles on the Order of Skull and Bones.

From The Iconoclast :

"We speak through a new publication. because the college press is closed to

those who dare to openly mention 'Bones'....

"Out of every class Skull and Bones takes its men. They have gone out into the

world and have become, in many instances, leaders in society. They have

obtained control of Yale. Its business is performed by them. Money paid to the

college must pass into their hands, and be subject to their will. No doubt

they are worthy men in themselves, but the many, whom they looked down upon

while in college, cannot so far forget as to give money freely into their

hands. Men in Wall Street complain that the college comes straight to them for

help, instead of asking each graduate for his share. The reason is found in a

remark made by one of Yale's and America's first men: 'Few will give but Bones

men and they care far more for their society than they do for the college....'

"Year by year the deadly evil is growing. The society was never as obnoxious

to the college as it is today, and it is just this ill-feeling that shuts the

pockets of non-members. Never before has it shown such arrogance and self-

fancied superiority. It grasps the College Press and endeavors to rule it all.

It does not deign to show its credentials, but clutches at power with the

silence of conscious guilt.

To tell the good which Yale College has done would be well nigh impossible.

To tell the good she might do would be yet more difficult. The question, then,

is reduced to this -- on the one hand lies a source of incalculable good -- on

the other a society guilty of serious and far-reaching crimes. It is Yale

College against Skull and Bones!! We ask all men, as a question of right,

which should be allowed to live?"

At first, the society held its meetings in hired halls. Then in 1856, the

"tomb", a vine-covered, windowless, brown-stone hall was constructed, where to

this day the "Bonesmen" hold their "strange, occultish" initiation rites and

meet each Thursday and Sunday.

On September 29, 1876, a group calling itself "The Order of File and Claw"

broke into the Skull and Bones' holy of holies. In the "tomb" they found

lodge-room 324 "fitted up in black velvet, even the walls being covered with

the material." Upstairs was lodge-room 322, "the 'sanctum sanctorium' of the

temple ... furnished in red velvet" with a pentagram on the wall. In the hall

are "pictures of the founders of Bones at Yale, and of members of the Society

in Germany, when the chapter was established here in 1832." The raiding party

found another interesting scene in the parlor next to room 322.

From The Fall Of Skull And Bones:

"On the west wall, hung among other pictures, an old engraving representing an

open burial vault, in which, on a stone slab, rest four human skulls, grouped

about a fools cap and bells, an open book, several mathematical instruments, a

beggar's scrip, and a royal crown. On the arched wall above the vault are the

explanatory words, in Roman letters, 'We War Der Thor, Wer Weiser, Wer Bettler

Oder, Kaiser?' and below the vault is engraved, in German characters, the

sentence; 'Ob Arm, Ob Beich, im Tode gleich'."

The picture is accompanied by a card on which is written, 'From the German

Chapter. Presented by D. C. Gilman of D. 50'.

Daniel Coit Gilman ('52), along with two other "Bonesmen", formed a troika

which still influences American life today. Soon after their initiation in

Skull and Bones, Daniel Gilman, Timothy Dwight ('49) and Andrew Dickinson

White ('53) went to study philosophy in Europe at the University of Berlin.

Gilman returned from Europe and incorporated Skull and Bones as Russell Trust,

in 1856, with himself as Treasurer and William H. Russell as President. He

spent the next fourteen years in New Haven consolidating the order's power.

Gilman was appointed Librarian at Yale in 1858. Through shrewd political

maneuvering, to acquire funding for Yale's science departments (Sheffield

Scientific School), he was able to get the Morrill Land Bill introduced in

Congress, passed and finally signed by President Lincoln, after being vetoed

by President Buchanan.

This bill, "donating public-lands for State College for agriculture and

sciences", is now known as the Land Grant College Act. Yale was the first

school in America to get the federal land scrip and quickly grabbed all of

Connecticut's share at the time. Pleased by the acquisitions, Yale made Gilman

a Professor of Physical Geography.

Daniel was the first President of the University of California. He also helped

found, and was the first president of, John Hopkins.

Gilman was first president of the Carnegie Institution and involved in the

founding of the Peabody, Slater and Russell Sage Foundations.

His buddy, Andrew D. White, was the first president of Cornell University

(which received all of New York's share of the Land Grant College Act), U.S.

Minister to Russia, U.S. Ambassador to Berlin and first president of the

American Historical Association. White was also Chairman of the American

delegation to the first Hague Conference in 1899, which established an

international judiciary.

Timothy Dwight, a professor at Yale Divinity School, was installed as

president of Yale in 1886. All presidents since, have been either "Bonesmen"

or directly tied to the Order and its interests.

The Daniel/Gilman/White trio was also responsible for the founding of the

American Economic Association, the American Chemical Society and the American

Psychological Association. Through their influences on Thomas Dewey and orace

Mann, this trio continues to have an enormous impact on education today.

In his book America's Secret Establishment, Antony Sutton outlined the Order

of Skull and Bones' ability to establish vertical and horizontal "chains of

ifluence" that ensured the continuity of their conspiratorial schemes.

The Whitney-Stimson-Bundy links represent a "vertical chain".

W. C. Whitney ('63), who married Flora Payne (of the Standard Oil Payne

dynasty), was Secretary of the Navy. His attorney was a man named Elihu Root.

Root hired Henry Stimson ('88), out of law school. Stimson took over from Root

as Secretary of War in 1911, appointed by fellow Bonesman William Howard Taft.

Stimson later became Coolidge's Governor-General of the Philippine Islands,

Hoover's Secretary of State, and Secretary of War during the Roosevelt and

Truman administrations.

Hollister Bundy ('09) was Stimson's special assistant and point man in the

Pentagon for the Manhattan Project. His two sons, also members of Skull and

Bones, were William Bundy ('39) and McGeorge Bundy ('40) -- both very active

in governmental and foundation affairs.

The two brothers, from their positions in the CIA, the Department of Defense

and the State Department, and as Special Assistants to Presidents Kennedy and

Johnson, exercised significant impact on the flow of information and

intelligence during the Vietnam "War."

William Bundy went on to be editor of Foreign Affairs, the influential

uarterly of the Council on Foreign Affairs (CFR). McGeorge became president

of the Ford Foundation.

Another interesting group of "Bonesmen" is the Harriman/Bush crowd. Averil

arriman ('13), "Elder Statesman" of the Democratic Party, and his brother

Roland Harriman ('17) were very active members. In fact, four of Roland's

fellow "Bonesmen" from the class of 1917 were directors of Brown Brothers,

Harriman, including Prescott Bush ('17), George Bush's dad.

Since the turn of the century, two investment bank firms -- Guaranty Trust and

Brown Brothers, Harriman -- were both dominated by members of Skull and Bones.

These two firms were heavily involved in the financing of Communism and

Hitler's regime.

dialectic, which dictates the use of controlled conflict -- thesis versus

nti-thesis -- to create a pre-determined synthesis. A synthesis of their

making and design, where the state is absolute and individuals are granted

their freedoms based on their obedience to the state -- a New World Order.

Funding and political maneuvering on the part of "Bonesmen" and their allies

helped the Bolsheviks prevail in Russia. In defiance of federal laws, the

cabal financed industries, established banks and developed oil and mineral

deposits in the fledgling U.S.S.R.

Later, Averil Harriman, as minister to Great Britain in charge of Lend-Lease

for Britain and Russia, was responsible for shipping entire factories into

Russia. According to some researchers, Harriman also oversaw the transfer nuclear secrets, plutonium and U. S. dollar printing plates to the U.S.S.R.

In 1932, the Union Banking Corporation of New York City had enlisted four

directors from the ('17) cell and two Nazi bankers associated with Fritz

Thyssen, who had been financing Hitler since 1924.

From George Bush; The Unauthorized Biography :

"President Franklin Roosevelt's Alien Property Custodian, Leo T. Crowley,

signed Vesting Order Number 248 [11/17/42] seizing the property of Prescott

Bush under the Trading with Enemy Act. The order, published in obscure

government record books and kept out of the news, Note #4 explained nothing

about the Nazis involved; only that the Union Banking Corporation was run for

the 'Thyssen family' of 'Germany and/or Hungary' -- 'nationals ... of a

designated enemy country.'

"By deciding that Prescott Bush and the other directors of the Union Banking

Corporation were legally 'front men for the Nazis', the government avoided the

more important historical issue: In what way 'were Hitler's Nazis themselves

hired, armed, and instructed by' the New York and London clique of which

Prescott Bush was an executive manager? ...

"4. New York Times, December 16, 1944, ran a five-paragraph page 25 article on

actions of the New York State Banking Department. Only the last sentence

refers to the Nazi bank, as follows: 'The Union Banking Corporation, 39

Broadway, New York, has received authority to change its principal place of

business to 120 Broadway.'

"The Times omitted the fact that the Union Banking Corporation had been seized

by the government for trading with the enemy, and the fact that 120 Broadway

was the address of the government's Alien Property Custodian."

After the war, Prescott, went on to become a U. S. Senator from Connecticut

and favorite golfing partner of President Eisenhower. Prescott claims

responsibility for getting Nixon into politics and takes personal credit for

getting our favorite, Dick, as Ike's running mate in 1952.

There were so many "Yalies" in the OSS that Yale's drinking tune, the

"Whiffenpoof Song", became an "unofficial" song of the OSS. Many in the OSS

were "Bonesmen" or belonged to the other Yale senior societies.

Robert Lovett ('18), Harriman's childhood friend, had been tapped into Skull &

Bones by Prescott Bush's cell of '17 and was a director at Brown Brothers,

Harriman.

Again, from George Bush; The Unauthorized Biography:

"On October 22, 1945, Secretary of War Robert Patterson created the Lovett

Committee, chaired by Robert A. Lovett, to advise the government on the post-

World War II organization of U.S. intelligence activities.... The new agency

would 'consult' with the armed forces, but it must be the sole collecting

agency in the field of foreign espionage and counterespionage. The new agency

should have an independent budget, and its appropriations should be granted by

Congress without public hearings. Lovett appeared before the Secretaries of

State, War, and Navy on November 14, 1945.... Lovett pressed for a virtual

resumption of the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS).... The CIA was

established in 1947 according to the prescription of Robert Lovett, of Jupiter

Island."

Gaddis Smith, a history professor at Yale, said, "Yale has influenced the

Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the

atmosphere of a class reunion." And "Bonesman" have been foremost among the

"spooks" building the CIA's "haunted house."

F. Trubee Davison ('18) was Director of Personnel at the CIA in the early

years. Some of the other "Bonesmen" connected with the intelligence community

are:

-- Sloane Coffin, Jr. ('49)

--V. Van Dine ('49)

--James Buckley ('44)

--Bill Buckley ('50)

--Hugh Cunnigham ('34)

--Hugh Wilson ('??)

--Reuben Holden ('??)

--Charles R. Walker ('??) Yale's 'unofficial' Secretary of War

--Robert D. French ('10)

--Archibald MacLiesh ('15)

--Dino Pionzio ('50), CIA Deputy Chief of Station during Allende overthrow

--Richard A. Moore ('3?)

--Senator David Boren ('63)

--Senator John Kerry ('??)

--William and McGeorge Bundy

...and, of course, George Herbert Walker Bush. Bush tapped Coffin, who tapped

Buckley.

Some other prominent Bonesmen include:

--Henry Luce ('20), Time-Life

--John Thomas Daniels ('??), founder Archer Daniels Midland

--Gifford Pinchot ('89), President Theodore Roosevelt's chief forester

--Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser ('96)

--Harold Stanley ('08), founder of Morgan Stanley, investment banker

--Alfred Cowles ('13), Cowles Communication

--Henry P. Davison ('20), senior partner Morgan Guaranty Trust

--Thomas Cochran ('04) Morgan partner

--Senator John Heinz ('??)

--Pierre Jay ('92), first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

--George Herbert Walker, Jr. ('27), financier and co-founder of the NY Mets

--Artemus Gates ('18), President of New York Trust Company, Union Pacific,

TIME, Boeing Company

--William Draper III (??), the Defense Department, UN and Import-Export Bank

--Dean Witter, Jr.('??), investment banker

--Senator Jonathan Bingham ('??)

--Potter Stewart ('36), Supreme Court Justice

--Senator John Chaffe ('??)

--Harry Payne Whitney ('94), husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt, investment banker

--Russell W. Davenport ('23), editor Fortune Magazine, created Fortune 500

list

--Evan G. Galbraith ('??), Ambassador to France and Managing Director of

Morgan Stanley

--Judge John Steadman ('??), the Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia

--Richard Gow ('55), president Zapata Oil

--Amory Howe Bradford ('34), husband of Carol Warburg Rothschild and general

manager for the New York Times

--C. E. Lord ('49), Comptroller of the Currency

--Winston Lord ('59), Chairman of CFR, Ambassador to China and assistant

Secretary of State in the Clinton administration

--John Lilley ('??), Ambassador to China

Ever since Nixon re-established America's political relationship with China,

many of our ambassadors to that country have been Bonesmen, including George

Bush, the first Chief U. S. Liaison Officer to the Peoples Republic of China.

Why all this interest in China? Well, China, among other things, is the

largest producer and user of opiates in the world.

For a while, in the 1800s, the Yankee Clippers in Connecticut and

Massachusetts were the fastest ships on the ocean. Speed was crucial to the

opium trade; whoever made the trip from Turkey/India to Macao/Hong

Kong/Shanghai first got the most for their goods.

During the Opium Wars, the U.S. chose to stand on the sidelines and cheer for

the English and French, knowing that treaty obligations would bring the U.S. a

share in the spoils. Russell and Company was at times the only trading house

operating in Canton and used the opportunity to developed strong commercial

ties and handsome profits.

Powerful national interests were behind the drug trade, because American

traders were badly in need of some article the Chinese would buy, since by

this time the seal breeding grounds had been nearly wiped out. If the Chinese

had not bought opium from Americans, then United States imports of silk,

porcelain and tea would have to paid in precious coin, which was in short

supply. In 1843, when the Port of Shanghai was opened, Russell and Co. was

one of its earliest traders.

In 1903, Yale Divinity School set up a program of schools and hospitals in

China. Mao Zedong was among the staff. During the intrigues of China in the

1930s and '40s, American intelligence called upon the resources of "Yale in

China", and George Bush's cousin and fellow "Bonesman" Reuben Holden.

After stints as UN Ambassador and Chairman of the Republican National

Committee for the beleaguered Richard Nixon, George Bush was sent to look

after the "China trade". The Bush family is still very much involved in the

economic activities of "Red" China.

Many researchers contend that George Bush has been with CIA since the early

1950s, and that one of his jobs was to consolidate and co-ordinate the

worldwide narcotics industry, the largest industry on Earth. Some say that one

of the reasons behind the Vietnam "Police Action" was a cover for the

consolidation of the "Golden Triangle".

Before the Vietnam "War", the Golden Triangle was run by French Intelligence

and Corsican mobsters. After the French bailed out and America moved in, the

"war" the triangle was run by U.S. intelligence, with aid from Sicilian

mobsters. This narcotics network is well documented in The Politics of Heroin

in S. E. Asia by Alfred McCoy, The Great Heroin Coup by Henrik Kruger and

Double-Cross by Sam and Chuck Giancana.

Vice-President George Bush, as Chairman of President Reagan's cabinet-level

working group and as Director of the National Narcotics Interdiction System,

was the highest U. S. governmental official involved in the "war on drugs".

Frances Mullen, Jr., former head of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), called

Bush's efforts "an intellectual fraud" and "a liability rather than an asset".

Soon after these statements, Mullen resigned and the resultant General

Accounting Office (GAO) report was buried.

In July, 1985, the suppressed GAO paper reported that there were "no benefits

from the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, directed by George

Bush. In fact, the overall effect was to encourage supply...."

Monika Jensen-Stevenson, a "60 Minutes" producer, quit her job after the CBS

news program refused to air the story she had uncovered relating to the covert

drug trade. Her book, Kiss The Boys Goodbye, details how our intelligence

community used the apparatus of the POW/MIA governmental agencies as a cover

for the trafficking of opiates from the "Golden Triangle".

President Reagan appointed Reform Party founder and Texas billionaire Ross

Perot to the President's Advisory Council on Foreign Intelligence. Reagan made

Perot a special presidential investigator, looking into America's POW and MIAs

from the Vietnam "War".

Ross took the job to heart and spent considerable time and money in pursuit of

the quest. He was given special clearance and access. He asked questions and

interviewed everyone he could find.

From Kiss The Boys Goodbye :

"Relations between Bush and Perot had gone downhill ever since the Vice-

President had asked Ross Perot how his POW/MIA investigations were going.

'Well, George, I go in looking for prisoners,' said Perot, 'but I spend all my

time discovering the government has been moving drugs around the world and is

involved in illegal arms deals.... I can't get at the prisoners because of the

corruption among our own people.'

"This ended Perot's official access to the highly classified files as a one-

man presidential investigator. 'I have been instructed to cease and desist,'

he had informed the families of missing men early in 1987."

The wholesale importation of cocaine into the U.S. during "Iran/Contra" is

also well documented. George Bush, is known "to be in the loop" with many of

the players keeping in contact directly with his office.

Also, there has been much speculation as to the use of the off-shore rigs,

pipelines and other assets of Zapata Offshore being used for narcotic trans-

shipments.

Narcotics such as cocaine and heroin cannot be manufactured without the

precursor chemicals. The largest maker of these precursor chemicals is the Eli

Lilly Company of Indianapolis, Indiana. The Quayle family is a large

stockholder, and George Bush has been on the Board of Directors. Eli Lilly is

also the company that first synthesized LSD for the CIA.

Rodney Stich's book Defrauding America tells of a "deep-cover CIA officer"

assigned to a counter-intelligence unit, code-named Pegasus. This unit "had

tape-recordings of plans to assassinate Kennedy" from a tap on the phone of J.

Edgar Hoover. The people on the tapes were "[Nelson] Rockefeller, Allen

Dulles, [Lyndon] Johnson of Texas, George Bush and J. Edgar Hoover."

Could George Bush be involved in the JFK assassination?

In 1963, Bush was living in Houston, busily carrying out his duties as

president of the Zapata Offshore oil company. He denied the existence of a

note sent by the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover to "Mr. George Bush of the CIA." When

news of the note surfaced, the CIA first said they never commented on

employment questions, but later relented said yes, a "George Bush" was

mentioned in the note, but that it was "another" George Bush, not the man who

took office in the White House in 1988.

Some intrepid reporters tracked down the "other" George Bush and discovered

that he was just a lowly clerk who had shuffled papers for the CIA for about

six months. He never received any interagency messages from anybody at the

FBI, let alone the Queen Mary.

It is also worth noting that a CIA code word for Bay of Pigs was Operation

Zapata, and that two of the support vessels were named Barbara and Houston.

Many say that George Bush was high up on the CIA ladder at the time, running

proprietorial vehicles and placed in a position of command, responsible for

many of the Cubans recruited into "service" at the time. All through the Iran-

Contra affair, Felix Rodriguez, the man who captured and had Che Guevara

killed for the CIA, always seemed to call Bush's office first.

From The Realist , (Summer, 1991):

"Bush was working with the now-famous CIA agent, Felix Rodriguez, recruiting

right-wing Cuban exiles for the invasion of Cuba. It was Bush's CIA job to

organize the Cuban community in Miami for the invasion.... A newly discovered

FBI document reveals that George Bush was directly involved in the 1963 murder

of President John Kennedy. The document places marksmen by the CIA. Bush at

that time lived in Texas. Hopping from Houston to Miami weekly, Bush spent

1960 and '61 recruiting Cubans in Miami for the invasion....

"George Bush claims he never worked for the CIA until he was appointed

Director by former Warren Commission director and then president Jerry Ford in

1976. Logic suggests that is highly unlikely. Of course, Bush has a company

duty to deny being in the CIA. The CIA is a secret organization. No one ever

admits to being a member. The truth is that Bush has been a top CIA official

since before the 1961 invasion of Cuba, working with Felix Rodriguez. Bush may

deny his actual role in the CIA in 1959, but there are records in the Bay of

Pigs invasion of Cuba that expose Bush's role..."

On the Watergate tapes, June 23, 1972, referred to in the media as the

'smoking gun' conversation, Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, were

discussing how to stop the FBI investigation into the CIA Watergate burglary.

They were worried that the investigation would expose their connection to 'the

Bay of Pigs thing.' Haldeman, in his book "The Ends of Power", reveals that

Nixon always used code words when talking about the 1963 murder of JFK.

Haldeman said Nixon would always refer to the assassination as 'the Bay of

Pigs'.

On that transcript we find Nixon discussing the role of George Bush's partner,

Robert Mosbacher, as one of the Texas fundraisers for Nixon. On the tapes

Nixon keeps referring to the 'Cubans' and the 'Texans.' The 'Texans' were

Bush, Mosbacher and Baker. This is another direct link between Bush and

evidence linking Nixon and Bush to the Kennedy assassination."

So, why would an intelligence agency/secret society want to smuggle drugs and

assassinate JFK?

Well, they make a lot of money, and they garner intelligence assets through

their participation. There's also the rationale that the world is a seamy and

unseemly place, and if you're going to be the 'big boy' on the block, you

better know what's going on. And what better way of knowing than by running it

yourself? There are also some who theorize that the covert drug trade fits

with to destabilize American families and society. Through demoralizing and

fracturing the body politic, they can impose their will using psychological

warfare and the political alchemy of the Hegellian dialectic.

James Shelby Downard's article, "Sorcery, Sex, Assassination and the Science

of Symbolism ," an underground classic, links American historical events with

a wild, numerological, grand occult plan "to turn us into cybernetic mystery

zombies". The assassination of JFK, this article contends, was the performance

of a public occult ritual called The Killing of the King, designed as a mass-

trauma, mind-control assault against our U.S. national body-politic.

During Operation Sunrise, Operation Blowback, Operation Paperclip and others,

thousands of Nazi scientists, researchers and administrators were brought to

the United States after World War II. Many were "smuggled" into the country

against direct, written, orders from President Harry S. Truman.

Project Monarch was the resumption of a mind-control project called Marionette

Programming, which started in Nazi Germany. The basic component of the Monarch

Program is the sophisticated manipulation of the mind, using extreme trauma to

induce Multiple Personality Disorder.

Mr. Downward feels that the perpetrators purposefully murdered JFK in such a

way as to affect our National identity and cohesiveness -- to fracture

America's soul. Even the blatancy of their conspiracy was designed to show

"their superiority" and "our futility".

There have been studies that show a correlation between the JFK assassination

and the rise in violence in society, distrust of government and other

extensions of social ills.

Why this attack against our body politic?

In 1785, a bolt of lightning struck a courier enroute to Paris from Frankfort-

on-the-Main. A tract written by Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati,

"Original Shift in Days of Illuminations," was recovered from the dead

messenger, containing the secret society's long-range plan for "The New World

Order through world revolution".

The Bavarian Government outlawed the society and in 1787 published the details

of The Illuminati conspiracy in "The Original Writings of the Order and Sect

of the Illuminati."

In Adam Weishaupt's own words:

"By this plan, we shall direct all mankind in this manner. And, by the

simplest means, we shall set all in motion and in flames. The occupations must

be so allotted and contrived that we may, in secret, influence all political

transactions."

There is disagreement among scholars as to whether or not the Illuminati

survived its banishment. Nevertheless, the group had been quite successful in

attracting members and had allied itself with the extensive Masonic networks.

The Illuminati was publicly founded May 1, 1776 at the University of

Ingolstadt by Weishaupt, Professor of Canon Law. It was a very "learned"

society; Weishaupt drew the earliest members of his new order from among his

students."

On December 5, 1776, students at William and Mary College founded a secret

society, Phi Beta Kappa. A second chapter was formed, at Yale, in 1780. The

anti-Masonic movement in the United States during the 1820s held groups such

as Phi Beta Kappa in a bad light. Because of pressure, the society went

public. This is noted by some researchers as the direct cause of the

appearance of Yale's Order of Skull and Bones.

In "The Cyclopedia Of Fraternities", a genealogical chart of general Greek-

Letter college fraternities in the United States, shows Phi Beta Kappa as "the

parent of all the fraternal systems in [American] higher education." There is

only one "side" lineal descendant: the Yale chapter of 1780. The line then

continues to Skull and Bones in 1832, and on through the other "only at Yale"

senior societies, Scroll & Key and Wolf's Head.

Phi Beta Kappa is the "first three Greek letters, for 'Philosophia Biou

Kubernetes' or 'Love of wisdom, the helmsman of life'." A skull homophone is

scull, a quick, gliding boat and part of Skull & Bones first nomenclature.

John Robison, a professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh University in

Scotland and a member of a Freemason Lodge, said that he was asked to join the

Illuminati. After study, he concluded the purposes of the Illuminati were not

for him.

In 1798, he published a book called "Proofs Of A Conspiracy":

"An association has been formed for the express purpose of rooting out all the

religious establishments and overturning all the existing governments.... the

leaders would rule the World with uncontrollable power, while all the rest

would be employed as tools of the ambition of their unknown superiors."

"Proofs of A Conspiracy" was sent to George Washington. Responding to the

sender of the book with a letter, the president said he was aware the

Illuminati were in America. He felt that the Illuminati had "diabolical

tenets" and that their object was "a separation of the People from their

government."

In "Proofs Of A Conspiracy", Robison printed the ceremony of initiation of the

"Regent degree" in Illuminism. In it "a skeleton is pointed out to him [the

initiate], at the feet of which are laid a crown and a sword. He is asked

'whether that is the skeleton of a king, nobleman or a beggar.' As he cannot

decide, the president of the meeting says to him, 'The character of being a

man is the only one that is importance'".

This is, essentially, the same as the writing in the Skull & Bones "tomb":

"Wer war der Thor, wer Weiser, Bettler oder Kaiser?

Ob Arm, ob Reich, im Tode gleich."

Which reads:

"Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king?

Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death."

Is the Order of the Skull & Bones part of the Illuminati?

When a person is initiated into Skull & Bones, they are given a new name,

similar to the practice of the Illuminati. And many recorded Illuminati

members can be shown to have contact and/or strong influences with many of the

professors that taught "Bonesmen" in Berlin.

When a secret society conspires against the sovereignty of a king, they need

to organize, raise funds, make their plans operational, and hopefully bring

them to fruition.

Could we have in the United States a secret society that has used the

"National Security State" as a cover for their nefarious plans?

From George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography :

"That September [1951], Robert Lovett replaced Marshall as secretary of

defense. Meanwhile, Harriman was named director of the Mutual Security Agency,

making him the U.S. chief of the Anglo-American military alliance. By now,

Brown Brothers, Harriman was everything but commander-in-chief.

"A central focus of the Harriman security regime in Washington (1950-53) was

the organization of covert operations and 'psychological warfare.' Harriman,

together with his lawyers and business partners, Allen and John Foster Dulles,

wanted the government's secret services to conduct extensive propaganda

campaigns and mass-psychology experiments within the U.S.A., and paramilitary

campaigns abroad....

"The Harriman security regime created the Psychological Strategy Board (PSB)

in 1951. The man appointed director of the PSB [was] Gordon Gray.... Gordon's

brother, R.J. Reynolds chairman Bowman Gray Jr., was also a naval intelligence

officer, known around Washington as the 'founder of operational intelligence.'

Gordon Gray became a close friend and political ally of Prescott Bush; and

Gray's son became for Prescott's son, George, his lawyer and the shield of his

covert policy."

So you have the Whitney/Stimson/Bundy clan and the Harriman/Bush boys wielding

a tremendous amount of influence on the political, economic and social affairs

of America and the world. Then you have Prescott Bush's buddy Richard Nixon as

an activist vice-president. Then, a nation-chilling assassination, some time

under LBJ with the Bundy boys keeping things in line, then Nixon as President

with "Bonesmen" aides Ray Price ('??) and Richard A. Moore. Some time out for

a Trilateralist-Democrat-patsy president, followed by Prescott's son as an

activist vice-president under Reagan. Next, we get a Skull and Bones president

who declares a "New World Order" while beating up on his business partner,

Saddam Hussein.

After twelve years of Republican administrations, Bush passes the reins to his

drug smuggling buddy from Arkansas, Bill Clinton, who studied at Yale Law

School. According to some researchers, Clinton was recruited as a CIA

operative while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. Could this be the "old Hegallian

historical dialectic process"?

Will we get another failed Democratic administration? A scandal as disgraceful

as Nixon's fall? When Robert P. Johnson (William Barr) told Clinton in a

bunker in Arkansas that "you are our fair-haired boy, but you do have

competition for the job you seek. We would never put all our eggs in one

basket. You and your state have been our greatest asset.... Mr. Casey wanted

me to pass on to you, that unless you fuck up and do something stupid, you are

number one on our short list for shot at the job you always wanted."

So, you have William Casey -- CIA Director, George Bush's campaign manager and

Sovereign Knight of Malta -- speaking through the proxy of George Bush's last

Attorney General to George's rival in the 1992 federal elections. Is it all

just a show and sham for the hoi polloi?

Perhaps so, if there exists the type of control over the electoral process as

told by Mae Brussell and the suppressed book "VoteScam," written by Jim and

Ken Collier:

"...Your vote and mine may now be a meaningless bit of energy directed by

preprogrammed computers-which can be fixed to select certain pre-ordained

candidates and leave no footprints or paper trail.

"In short, computers are covertly stealing your vote.

"--For almost three decades the American vote has been subject to government-

sponsored electronic theft.

"--The vote has been stolen from you by a cartel of federal "national

security" bureaucrats, who include higher-ups in the Central Intelligence

Agency, political party leaders, Congressmen, co-opted journalists -- and the

owners and managers -- of the major Establishment news media, who have decided

in concert that how America's votes are counted, by whom they are counted and

how the results are verified and delivered to the public is, as one of them

put it, 'Not a proper area of inquiry.'

"--By means of an unofficial private corporation named News Election Service

(NES), the Establishment press has actual physical control of the counting and

dissemination of the vote, and it refuses to let the public know how it is

done."

Is the American electorate subjected to cyclic propaganda, pre-selected

candidates and winners, and psychological warfare to alienate Americans from

the institutions established to serve them by the Constitution? Are the

Democratic and Republican National Parties used for a Hegellian experiment in

controlled conflict?

Pamela Churchill Harriman, Averil's wife, is one of the Democratic Party's

biggest fund-raisers. She once gave Bill a job as director of her "PAM PAC"

when he was defeated for governor in 1980. Bill paid her back by appointing

her as Ambassador to France.

Another Harriman/Bush friend is, Eugene Stetson ('34), was an assistant

manager for Prescott Bush at Brown Brothers, Harriman's New York office. He

organized the H. Smith Richardson Foundation. The foundation, in the late

1950s, participated in the MKULTRA, the CIA's domestic covert psychological

warfare operation. The Richardson Foundation helped to finance the testing of

psychotropic drugs, including LSD, at Bridgewater Hospital in Massachusetts,

the center of some of the most brutal MK-ULTRA experiments.

During the Iran-Contra operations, the H. Smith Richardson Foundation was a

"private donors steering committee," working with the National Security

Council to co-ordinate the Office of Public Diplomacy. This was an effort to

propagandize in favor of and run cover for the Iran-Contra operations, and to

coordinate published attacks on opponents of the program.

The H. Smith Richardson Foundation also runs the Center for Creative

Leadership at Langley to "train leaders of the CIA," as well as another center

near Greensboro, North Carolina, that trains CIA and Secret Service Agents.

Almost everyone who achieves the military rank of general also gets this

training.

This is just the tip of an iceberg. You also have eugenics and population

control, suppressed history and technology, yearly retreats, profitable

partnerships with brutal dictators, deals with "terrorists", the involvement

of the Knights of Malta, war-mongering and profiteering, mind-control, secret

societies for teens, ritual magic and more -- all spinning the dark threads in

the web of conspiracy that our spinning blue ball has gotten caught in.

We've got a whole new crop of "Bonesmen" coming up, including George H.W.

Bush's son George W. Bush ('68), Governor of Texas.

When Don Schollander ('68), the Olympic gold-medalist and only known Skull and

Bones member living in Portland, was contacted by Willamette Week reporter

John Schrang regarding his involvement in the Order, he said, "It's really

something I can't talk about."

Not wouldn't, but "couldn't".

In wake of Antony Sutton's first ground-breaking exposes of the Order, the

Sterling Library at Yale has refused to allow any other researchers access to

the Russell Trust papers.

Daniel Gilman, like most Bonesmen, makes no mention of Skull & Bones or the

Russell Trust in his memoirs or biographies.

So, are we all just 'fodder" for a secret society with satanic overtones that

is attempting to form a one world government with themselves at the helm? Or

is the Order of Skull and Bones just a bunch of frat boys from Yale? Wanna bet

your future on it?

(c) Copyright Little Red Hen, 1996

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Omnia Bona Bonis,

All My Relations.

Adieu, Adios, Aloha.

Amen.

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