Secret Societies
Skull & Bones
Skull & Bones - America's Secret
Establishment
"America's Secret Establishment" Page 5-6, states: "Those on the inside know it as The Order.
Others have known it for more than 150 years as Chapter 322 of a German secret
society. More formally, for legal purposes, The Order was incorporated as The
Russell Trust in 1856. It was also once known as the "Brotherhood of Death".
Those who make light of it, or want to make fun of it, call it 'Skull &
Bones', or just plain Bones'.
The American chapter of this German order was founded in 1833 at
Yale University by General William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft who, in
1876, became Secretary of War in the Grant Administration. Alphonso Taft was the
father of William Howard Taft, the only man to be both President and Chief
Justice of the United States.
The order is not just another Greek letter fraternal society with
passwords and handgrips common to most campuses. Chapter 322 is a secret society
whose members are sworn to silence. It only exists on the Yale campus (that we
know about). It has rules. It has ceremonial rites. It is not at all happy with
prying, probing citizens - known among initiates as 'outsiders' or 'vandals'.
Its members always deny membership (or are supposed to deny membership) and in
checking hundreds of autobiographical listings for members we found only half a
dozen who cited an affiliation with Skull & Bones. The rest were silent. An
interesting point is whether the many members in various Administrations or who
hold government positions have declared their members in the biographical data
supplied for FBI 'background checks'.
Above all, The Order is powerful, unbelievably powerful. If the
reader will persist and examine the evidence to be presented - which is
overwhelming - there is no doubt his view of the world will suddenly come
sharply into focus, with almost frightening clarity.
It is a Senior year society which exists only at Yale. Members are
chosen in their Junior year and spend only one year on campus, the Senior year,
with Skull & Bones. In other words, the organization is oriented to the
graduate outside world. The Order meets annually - patriarchies only - on Deer
Island in the St. Lawrence River.
Senior societies are unique to Yale. There are two other senior
societies at Yale, but none elsewhere. Scroll & Key and Wolf's Head are
supposedly competitive societies founded in the mid-19 th century. We believe
these to be part of the same network. Rosenbaum commented in his "Esquire"
article, very accurately, that anyone in the Eastern Liberal Establishment who
is not a member of Skull & Bones is almost certainly a member of either
Scroll & Key or Wolf's Head.
.. The selection procedure for new members of The Order has not
changed since 1832. Each year 15, and only 15, never fewer, are selected. In the
past 150 years about 2500 Yale graduates have been initiated into The Order. At
any time about 500-600 are alive and active. Roughly about one-quarter of these
take an active role in furthering the objectives of The Order. The others either
lose interest or change their minds. They are silent drop-outs.
.. The most likely potential member is from a Bones family, who is
energetic, resourceful, political and probably an amoral team player. ... Honors
and financial rewards are guaranteed by the power of The Order. But the price of
these honors and rewards is sacrifice to the common goal, the goal of The Order.
Some, perhaps many, have not been willing to pay this price.
The Old Line American families and their descendants involved in
the Skull & Bones are names such as: Whitney, Perkins, Stimson, Taft,
Wadsworth, Gilman, Payne, Davidson, Pillsbury, Sloane, Weyerhaeuser, Harriman,
Rockefeller, Lord, Brown, Bundy, Bush and Phelps.
For a complete and accurate discussion of the Skull & Bones
Society and the secret shadow government in control of this nation, you should
purchase a copy of American Secret Establishment, by Antony C. Sutton, available
from RIE.
