XI SKULL AND BONES

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L'Ordre de Yale

«La dernière année (de mes études à Yale), je suis devenu membre du Skull and Bones, une société secrète,
si secrète en vérité que je ne peux en dire davantage. Je m’y suis fait 14 nouveaux amis».
G W BUSH, Avec l’aide de Dieu, Paris, éditions Odile Jacob, 2000, p. 76


Le Skull and bones (littéralement 'crâne et os') est une société secrète de l'université de Yale aux États-Unis. Ce groupe est aussi connu par les anglophones sous les noms «Chapter 322» et «Brotherhood of Death» ('confrérie de la mort'). Ce serait la première société secrète qui ait vu le jour à Yale, sous l'impulsion de William Huntington Russell en décembre 1832. À la fin du XIXe siècle, elle constitue l'une des plus prestigieuses sociétés secrètes américaines, avec "Scroll and Key", "Wolf's Head", "Book and Snake" et "Berzelius". La "Jason Society" (ou Jason-Scholars) est l'élite de l'ordre de Yale.
Quelques sociétés d'honneur implantées dans d'autres universités ont visiblement été inspirées par le Skull and Bones ou possèdent un prestige similaire, ses membres étant reconnus comme l'élite par les étudiants. Ce sont par exemple le "Cap and Skull" à l'université Rutgers, la société "Bishop James Madison" au College of William and Mary ou l' "Iron Arrow Honor Society" à l'université de Miami.
Il existe d'autres sociétés portant le nom Skull and Bones : à la Pennsylvania State University ou encore à l'Université Vanderbilt, mais ce ne sont que des clubs d'anciens élèves qui n'ont, à part le nom et le logo, absolument rien à voir avec le Skull and Bones originel.
L'Ordre de Yale n'est qu'une extension de l' Ordre des Illuminés de Bavière fondé au XVIIIe siècle par le sinistre Adam Weishaupt. Tous les cercles mondialistes (Trilatérale, Bilderberg, CFR, Pilgrim Society, Conseil Atlantique, Bohemian Club de San Francisco, ... ) ne sont que des cercles extérieurs de l'Ordre de Yale, un des plus importants "noyaux dirigeants" de la subversion, à l'échelle de la planète. La domination mondiale demeure leur préoccupation majeure. Le blason est celui des "Skull and Bones" (crânes et os) qui figurait aussi sur les uniformes des SS. Le nombre 322 est un homage à Adam Weishaupt. Financé par la famille Rotschild, l'Ordre des "Illuminati" a été créée par Adam Weishaupt, un professeur de loi Canonique à l'Université d'Ingolstadt en Allemagne. Etant né un 6 février 1748 dans une famille Juive, puis converti au Catholicisme Romain, il devînt Jésuite. Franc-maçon, s'étant séparé de l'Eglise Romaine Catholique, il était lourdement impliqué dans la pratique de la sorcellerie. Il est mort le 18 Novembre 1830 à Gotha. Ce 18 Novembre était le 322e jour de l'année.

ORIGINES

William Huntington Russell, un cousin de Samuel Russel, étudie en Allemagne de 1831 à 1832. L’Allemagne est alors une terre d'idées nouvelles. La méthode scientifique y est appliquée à toutes les études sur le comportement humain. Samuel Russell, cousin de William Russell, est un important protagoniste de la guerre de l’opium. De nationalité états-unienne, il est le fondateur de la Russell & Company en 1813, qui va concurrencer, dans les années 1820, la domination britannique sur le trafic de drogue en direction de la Chine. L’un des membres éminents de la société était Warren Delano, Jr, le grand-père de Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
La Prusse se reproche la défaite de ses forces armées contre celles de Napoléon en 1806 alors que ses soldats sont considérés comme étant les meilleurs au monde. C'est ainsi qu'en 1817, les universités allemandes créent un nouveau type de système éducatif basé sur les principes, toujours appliqués à l'heure actuelle, établis par Jean-Jacques Rousseau et John Locke. Johann Gottlieb Fichte, dans son « adresse au peuple allemand », déclare que les enfants doivent désormais prendre les rênes de l’État. Sa chaire à l’Université est reprise par Hegel qui y enseignera jusqu’à sa mort en 1831. C'est avec ce dernier que la philosophie idéaliste allemande issue de Kant atteint son point culminant.
L'Allemagne possède des sociétés secrètes composées d'étudiants. William Huntington est ainsi initié dans une de ces sociétés d'étudiants. De retour à Yale, en 1832, il y crée avec Alphonso Taft la société du Skull and Bones. Le terme Bones s'avère être le chapitre d’un corps au sein d'une université allemande.
Au début du XVIIIe siècle, l’ensemble des universités américaines, qu’il s’agisse d’Harvard, Dartmouth, Williams, Bowdoin, Middlebury ou encore Amherst, ont été fondées par des Congrégationnalistes. Mais ils subissent alors la concurrence des Presbytériens, ce qui incite le président d’Harvard, Increase Mather, à agir. En 1701, il quitte son poste et créée une nouvelle université, «afin que l’Intérêt de la Religion soit préservé, et que la Vérité soit transmise aux générations futures». Avec l’aide de dix pasteurs, dont neuf viennent d’Harvard, il parvient ainsi à fonder le Collegiate School of Connecticut. En 1711, Isaac Newton, Richard Steel et Elihu Yale sont approchés pour transmettre des livres de leur collection personnelle à la jeune institution. Les contacts avec Yale, devenu extrêmement riche grâce à ses activités au sein de la Compagnie des Indes orientales et en tant que gouverneur de la colonie de Madras, sont particulièrement fructueux. Il finance également largement l’université, qui lui rend hommage en prenant son nom, à partir de 1720, Yale University.
Les liens avec le congrégationnalisme garantissent le puritanisme de l’enseignement et du mode de fonctionnement de Yale. Les étudiants et professeurs doivent prononcer une profession de foi à leur entrée dans l’établissement, et peuvent être renvoyés si leur sincérité est sérieusement mise en doute. À ce puritanisme s’ajoute un élitisme forcené : les étudiants sont classés, dès leur arrivée à Yale, non pas en fonction de leurs capacités, mais de la position sociale de leurs parents. En tête de classe, les fils ou petit-fils de gouverneurs, de vice-gouverneurs. Puis viennent les membres des familles de juges de la Cour suprême. Un plus bas dans le classement, on trouve les fils de pasteurs et d’anciens élèves. En queue de peloton, les fils de fermiers, de marchands et d’artisans. Ce classement décide de la place attribuée à chaque élève dans les salles de classe, à la chapelle et à la cantine. Ainsi Yale devient l’exemple idéal-typique d’une institution reproduisant les élites et leur hiérarchie interne. Le déclassement est en général occasionné par un manquement disciplinaire, et sanctionne le fait que l’élève a ainsi entaché l’honneur de sa famille. Il faut ajouter à ce mode de fonctionnement peu banal la licence explicitement donnée aux élèves plus âgés de bizuter, voire de brimer et d’humilier les étudiants des classes inférieures. Le règlement prévoit une série de mesures visant à assurer le respect de la hiérarchie la plus arbitraire, fondée uniquement sur l’âge. Lyman Bagg a raconté dans un ouvrage, Quatre ans à Yale, paru anonymement en 1871, comment il analysait les mécanismes mis en place par l’institution. Ces pratiques autorisées reflètent selon lui le « pouvoir énorme des "coutumes" de l’école dans la création d’une folie temporaire qui fait des hommes faibles des êtres cruels et des hommes bons des êtres sans pitié ».
Cette propension à l’élitisme, à la hiérarchie brutale et au puritanisme incite les élèves, à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, à monter plusieurs sociétés parallèles à l’université. Il s’agit au départ d’associations littéraires, telles que Linonia et Brothers in Unity. L’ensemble des élèves est appelé à adhérer à l’une ou l’autre des organisations. Ce qui n’est pas assez élitiste pour ceux qui souhaitent une stricte reproduction de la nouvelle « aristocratie » états-unienne. En 1780 la branche Alpha de l’organisation Phi Betta Kappa est fondée à Yale. Plusieurs autres sociétés fleurissent à l’époque : la Beethoven Society, l’Hexahedron Club... Petit à petit, les salons littéraires perdent de leur importance, remplacés par des sociétés secrètes, plus élitistes et plus fermées. Au milieu du XIXe siècle, on en dénombre trois principales : les Skull and Bones (Crâne et os), les Scroll and Key (Parchemin et clé) et Wolf’s Head (Tête de loup). Parallèlement, le corps enseignant de Yale décide de suivre le mouvement.
Il est difficile d’établir avec précision les circonstances de la création de la société secrete. Il s’agirait, au départ, d’une réaction à l’exclusion d’un membre des Phi Beta Kappa, Eleazar Kingsbury Forster. Indigné par le procédé, et souhaitant redonner sa vitalité à Yale, William Russell aurait condamné Phi Betta Kapa, pris Forster sous son aile et fondé, avec treize autres étudiants de Yale (dont Alfonso Taft), une société encore plus secrète et encore plus forte, originellement intitulée le Club Eulogie, du nom de la déesse grecque de l’éloquence. Sous l’influence d’un récent voyage en Allemagne, Russell importe bon nombre de références germanques dans le rituel. En 1833, les jeunes membres adoptent la tête de mort et les ossements comme emblème. À la même époque, le chiffre 322 devient le "chiffre clé" de l’organisation. C’est en effet en 322 avant JC qu’est mort l’orateur grec Démosthène. Selon la "tradition Skull and Bones", la déesse Eulogie aurait alors rejoint le paradis, avant de redescendre en 1832 et de rejoindre la société secrète.
Depuis 1832, à Yale, quinze juniors sont brutalisés chaque année par leurs aînés afin d’être initiés et intégrés au groupe l’année suivante. On dit que chaque initié reçoit 15 000 dollars et une montre de grand-père. Loin d’être une sorte de maison du plaisir dont l'activité se réduirait aux seules années de campus, le groupe conserve par la suite des relations suivies afin de favoriser la réussite de ses membres dans le monde post-universitaire.
Le fonctionnement de l’organisation est aujourd’hui mieux connu. Quinze membres sont recrutés chaque année, ce qui permet d’estimer à environ 800 le nombre de membres vivants de l’organisation à n’importe quelle date donnée. Encadrés par des membres plus anciens, les quinze nouveaux impétrants se réunissent deux fois par semaine pendant un an, pour discuter à la fois de leur vie, de leurs études ou de leurs projets professionnels. Des débats sur des questions politiques et sociales ont également lieu. Une fois par an, la société organise une retraite à Deer Iland, une vaste île située dans le fleuve Saint-Laurent, près de New York, où a été construit un club cossu à l’anglaise, conformément à la volonté de George D. Miller, membre des Skull & Bones et généreux donateur de la résidence.

INFLUENCES

Dans son livre L’Établissement secret américain, Anthony Sutton dénonce la capacité du SandB à établir des chaînes d’influences verticales et horizontales, ce qui permet d’assurer une continuité dans leur plan de domination de la politique.
Le lien Whitney-Stimson-Bundy représenterait la "chaîne verticale". W. C. Whitney (1863), qui a marié Flora Payne (de la dynastie Standard Oil Payne), a été secrétaire de la Navy. Son avocat était un homme nommé Elihu Root. Root engaga Henry Stimson (1888), à sa sortie de l’école de droit. William Howard Taft, le 27e président des USA et bonesman lui aussi engagea Stimson au poste de secrétaire de la guerre en 1911. Plus tard ce dernier devint gouverneur-général des Philippines de. Hollister Bundy (1909) fut l’assistant spécial de Stimson et un homme essentiel au Pentagone durant le projet Manhattan . Ses deux fils furent également membres du S&B : William Bundy (1939) and McGeorge Bundy (1940) furent très actifs dans les affaires gouvernementales grâce à leurs positions dans la CIA, le département de la défense et le département d'état, et en tant qu'aides spéciaux aux Présidents Kennedy et Johnson. Ils ont ainsi exercé un impact significatif sur l'écoulement de l’information et de l’espionnage pendant le guerre du Vietnam. William Bundy continua à être rédacteur de Foreign Affairs , le trimestriel très influent du Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). McGeorge devint president de la Fondation Ford. Deux autres familles de bonesmen très influents furent les Harriman et les Bush. Averil Harriman (1913) est considéré comme un "sage" au sein du parti démocrate. Son frère Roland Harriman (1917) en était également un partisan très actif.
La présence dans l'organisation des familles américaines les plus prestigieuses est une évidence. Lord, Whitney, Taft, Jay, Bundy, Harriman, Weyerhaeuser, Pinchot, Rockefeller, Goodyear, Sloane, Stimson, Phelps, Perkins, Pillsbury, Kellogg, Vanderbilt, Bush, Lovett et ainsi de suite. Le Skull and Bones c'est tout simplement le club de l’élite, de l'établissement (establishment). Ainsi, tout président des États-Unis passé par Yale a été membre des Skull & Bones : il s’agit de William Howard Taft, de George H.W. Bush et de George W. Bush. De même on ne compte plus les personnalités membres de l’organisation qui ont occupé, par la suite, d’importantes fonctions dans le monde politique, diplomatique, médiatique, ou même du renseignement. En 2004, l'élection présidentielle américaine opposa 2 membres de l'organisation, George Walker Bush et John Kerry. Yale ne pouvait pas perdre ces élections!
L’organisation dispose d’importantes connexions dans le milieu diplomatique, et notamment au sein du Council on Foreign Relations. Ainsi, Henry Stimson, secrétaire à la Guerre de Franklin Delano Roosevelt, l’ambassadeur des États-Unis en Union soviétique, Averell Harriman, ou J. Richardson Dilworth, gestionnaire des intérêts de la famille Rockefeller, étaient membres des Skull and Bones. Des membres de Skull & Bones ont également joué un certain rôle dans l’univers des médias. Henry Luce et Briton Haden, tous deux membres de l’organisation depuis 1920, auraient notamment eu l’idée de créer le journal Time lors d’une réunion à "la Tombe", le quartier général des Skull & Bones, situé sur le campus de l’université de Yale et baptisé. Averell Harriman, de son côté, a fondé le journal Today qui fusionna en 1937 avec une autre revue pour devenir Newsweek.
Les connexions au sein de la CIA sont particulièrement impressionnantes : William F. Buckey, membre ultra-conservateur de l’Agence et propagandiste réputé, a été membre de l’association, tout comme son frère, James Buckley, sous-secrétaire d’État à la Sécurité, aux sciences et aux technologies, dans le gouvernement de Ronald Reagan, un poste où il supervisait l’octroi de l’aide militaire états-unienne à destination des régimes de droite. Hugh Cunningham (Bones 1934) a lui aussi accompli une longue carrière dans les services états-uniens, de 1947 à 1973. C’est également le cas de William Bundy, Bonesman de la promotion 1939, et de Dino Pionzio (Bones 1950), chef de station de la CIA à Santiago en 1970, où il s’employa à déstabiliser le régime de Salvador Allende.

SKULL & BONES ET ILLUMINATI

Les illuminés de Bavière, s'ils n'ont pas duré longtemps (1776-1785) ont néanmoins eu une influence considérable sur la politique qui conduisit à la chute de Napoléon en Bavière et sur la réunification de l'Allemagne ensuite. Cette influence s'est manifestée par le truchement de nouvelles sociétés secrètes qui utilisèrent les méthodes prônées par Adam Weishaupt. Néanmoins, il y eut un changement de cap. D'internationalistes et égalitaristes, certains anciens illuminés sont devenus patriotes et élitistes. Avant l'invasion des territoires de la future allemagne par Napoléon, celle-ci était morcellée en plus de 300 états, villes, évéchées, etc. Les guerres napoléoniennes allaient motiver d'anciens illuminés qui se reconvertirent dans la lutte contre l'occupant français via de nouvelles sociétés secrètes comme le Tugend-Bund et les chevaliers noirs. Tout comme Weishaupt l'avait compris, c'est en s'attachant à la jeunesse que l'on changerait les choses. C'est ainsi que des professeurs d'Universités mirent sur pieds des sortes de loges (chapîtres) au seins des universités allemandes. L'influence de ces sociétés fut déterminante dans la chute de Napoléon. L'argent venait, entre autre, de gens comme les Rothschild qui commençaient à devenir de plus en plus puissants. Voici ce que Adam Weishaupt disait: « Par ce plan, nous dirigerons toute l’humanité de cette manière. Et par la plus simple des manières , nous mettrons tout en feu et en flammes. Les occupations doivent être tellement réparties et arrangées, que nous pourrions, en secret, influencer les transactions politiques".
Mais attention, il ne faut pas croire que le Skull and Bones est la première société secrète du genre à avoir existé au sein d'universités américaines. En effet, le 5 décember 1776, des étudiants du William and Mary College fondèrent, bien avant Russell et Taft, une société secrète, la Phi Beta Kappa. Un second chapitre de cette société de seniors fut formé à Yale en 1780, soit 53 ans avant la création du SandB.
Dans The Cyclopedia Of Fraternities, un tableau généalogique de toutes les fraternités de collèges de grec aux USA, montre que Phi Beta Kappa est la source, le parent de tous les systèmes de fraternités américains des hautes écoles. Il y a ainsi une ligne entre la fraternité Phi de Yale de 1780 et le SandB de 1833, ainsi qu'à travers d’autres sociétés de seniors, mais « seulement de Yale » comme la Scroll and key et la Wolf’s Head. Phi Beta Kappa sont les trois premières lettres greques pour "Philosophie Biou Kubernetes" ou "amour de la sagesse, le timonier de la vie." Au niveau symbolique on retrouve ainsi chez les deux fraternités : un crâne et un bateau.
John Robison, un maçon écossais, rentra dans l’ordre des illuminati mais après avoir découvert ce qui se tramaît, publia en 1798, un livre appelé "Proofs Of A Conspiracy". Il envoya son livre à tous les rois d'Europe mais ne fut guère écouté, voire pas du tout. Le Skull and Bones a bel et bien hérité, non pas des buts louables des illuminés de Bavière (qui se battaient contre l'obscurantisme) mais de certaines pratiques et surtout des méthodes des illuminati. La ressemblance entre certains rituels décrits dans "Proofs Of A Conspiracy" est frappante. Robison décrit ainsi la cérémonie d’ initiation du "Regent degree" de l’illuminisme bavarois. Dans ce rituel "un squelette est placé près de l’initié, dont aux pieds sont étendues une couronne et une épée. Lui est alors demandé si c'est le squelette d'un roi, d’un noble ou d'un mendiant. Comme il ne peut pas décider, le président de la réunion lui déclare que "seul est important le caractère de l'homme". Or dans le sanctuaire du SandB, on peut lire, en allemand, "Wer war der Thor, wer Weiser, Bettler oder Kaiser? Ob Arm, ob Reich, im Tode gleich.", ce qui signifie : "qui était l'imbécile, qui était le sage? Le mendiant ou le roi. Pauvre ou riche, on est tous égaux dans la mort."

SKULL & BONES ET L'ALLEMAGNE NAZIE

Un des membres de l'organisation, Prescott Bush, était le directeur général de l'Union Banking Corporation (UBC) qui a aidé au financement de l'arrivée au pouvoir d'Adolf Hitler. Les relations d'affaires établies par Bush en 1923 se sont poursuivies même après que la guerre ait commencé. Cependant, les USA interdisant le commerce avec l'ennemi (Trading with the Enemy Act) suite à l'attaque de Pearl Harbour en 1941, les actions de l'UBC, dont celles de Prescott Bush, sont saisies le 22 octobre 1942. Le gouvernement constate que la banque de Bush « gère les bénéfices de la famille Thyssen (Fritz Thyssen était le banquier personnel d'Hitler) et appartient à des ressortissants d'une certaine nation ennemie ». Prescott Bush est dénoncé comme collaborateur. Il conserve cependant sa fonction jusqu'en 1943 grâce au soutien de l'avocat Allen Dulles, l'homme qui créera plus tard la CIA. A la mort de Fritz Thyssen, en 1951, les actionnaires de Brown Brothers & Harriman récupèrent leur argent. Prescott Bush reçoit 1,5 million de dollars pour sa part dans UBC, qu'il donne à son fils, George Herbert Walker Bush, pour se lancer dans le secteur du pétrole.

Skulls & Bones

The Order of the Skull and Bones
Everything you always wanted to know, but were afraid to ask.
By Kris Millegan
Editor, Conspiracy Theory Research List
RoadsEnd@aol.com

1. The Secret Origins of Skull & Bones

The story begins at Yale, where 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 merged with the Perkins (Boston) syndicate in 1830 and became the primary American opium smuggler. 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. Some say 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.

2. Secrets of the "Tomb"

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, he acquired funding for Yale's science departments (Sheffield Scientific School) and 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 John Dewey and Horace Mann, this trio continues to have an enormous impact on education today.

3. Networks of Power

In his book "America's Secret Establishment," Antony Sutton outlined the Order of Skull and Bones' ability to establish vertical and horizontal "chains of influence" that ensured the continuity of their conspiratorial schemes.
The Whitney-Stimson-Bundy links represent the "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 quarterly 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 Harriman ('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.
Bonesman share an affinity for the Hegellian ideas of the historical dialectic, which dictates the use of controlled conflict -- thesis versus anti-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 of 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 bringing Dick on board as Ike's running mate in 1952.

4. Name Roster of the Secret Establishment

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 ('09)
  • Reuben Holden ('40)
  • Charles R. Walker ('16)
  • Yale's 'unofficial' Secretary of War, Robert D. French ('10)
  • Archibald MacLiesh ('15)
  • Dino Pionzio ('50), CIA Deputy Chief of Station during Allende overthrow
  • William and McGeorge Bundy
  • Richard A. Moore ('3?)
  • Senator David Boren ('63)
  • Senator John Kerry ('66)

...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 ('14), founder Archer Daniels Midland
  • Gifford Pinchot ('89), President Theodore Roosevelt's chief forester
  • Fréderick 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 ('31)
  • 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 (50), the Defense Department, UN and Import-Export Bank
  • Dean Witter, Jr.('44), investment banker
  • Senator Jonathan Bingham ('36)
  • Potter Stewart ('36), Supreme Court Justice
  • Senator John Chaffe ('47)
  • Harry Payne Whitney ('94), husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt, investment banker
  • Russell W. Davenport ('23), editor Fortune Magazine, created Fortune 500 list
  • Evan G. Galbraith ('50), Ambassador to France and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley
  • 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

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.

5. China and the Opium Wars

Why all this interest in China? Well, China, among other things, is one of the largest producers and users 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".

6. The War on Drugs: An "Intellectual Fraud"

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 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. One of the largest makers 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.

7. George Bush, Skull & Bones and the JFK Assassination

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."

8. Motives for the Conspiracy

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 plans 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.

9. The Illuminati: Subverting the Body Politic

Why this attack against our body politic?
In 1785, a bolt of lightning struck a courier en route 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."

10. Skull & Bones = Illuminati?

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 ('51) 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"?

11. World History: Plan or Accident?

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 U.S. 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, 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?


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