Skull & Bones Society
"America's Secret Establishment", by
Antony C. Sutton, 1986,
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 - patriarches 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 Liberty House Press, 4400 Loma Vista Drive, Billings, Montana 59406, for $20.00.