Skull and Bones

Skull and Bones   (Deep state milieu)
Skull and Bones class of 1947. George H. W. Bush is to the left of the clock
Formation	1832
Headquarters	Yale University
Type	secret society
Interest of	William Cooper, Kris Millegan
Founder of	American Economic Association, American Historical Association
Membership	•  David Acheson •  Victor Ashe •  William P. Bundy •  McGeorge Bundy •  Harvey Hollister Bundy •  Jonathan James Bush •  Prescott Bush •  Thomas Cochran •  Rex William Cowdry •  Percy Rockefeller •  Charles Edward Adams •  Charles Seymour •  William Howard Taft •  George Leslie Harrison •  W. Averell Harriman •  George Herbert Walker Jr. •  Pierre Jay •  Henry Luce •  E. Roland Harriman •  H. J. Heinz II •  Charles Spofford •  Harold Stanley •  Briton Hadden •  H. Neil Mallon •  Steven Mnuchin •  Andrew Downey Orrick •  George H. W. Bush •  Jonathan James Bush •  Winston Lord •  George W. Bush •  Raymond Price •  Robert William Kagan •  John Kerry •  Austan Goolsbee •  William F. Buckley Jr. •  Stephen A. Schwarzman •  Albert DeSilver •  Harold Stanley •  Robert Alphonso Taft •  George Herbert Walker III •  Andrew Dickson White
The most elite US secret society, largely unknown until its influence was publicised by Antony Sutton, who highlighted in particular its members' apparently insatiable desire for power and their mutual loyalty in spite often of public antagonism.

Skull and Bones is a secret society started at Yale University in 1832, which played a major role in the evolution of the US deep state. A member of the Skull and Bones society is referred to as a 'bonesman'. Until 1992, membership was entirely male. Antony Sutton speculates in The Federal Reserve Conspiracy that the three senior societies at Yale (Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key and Wolf's Head) may in fact be closely allied.

Official Narrative

The society was little known until historian Antony Sutton publicised it through his book America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones. He reports that 15 final year students are initiated into the society every year, and that its members have a great loyalty to one another. The specific purposes of the society are unclear, but Sutton reports that bonesmen are quite predictable in seeking power.

Activities

Sutton claims that the society took de facto control of Yale University within 50 years.

Controlling the discourse

“The Order we are about to investigate [Skull and Bones] had great foresight, back in the 1880s, to create both the American Historical Association and the American Economic Association (most economists were then more historians than analysts) under their terms, with their people and their objectives. Andrew Dickson White was a member of The Order and the first President of the American Historical Association.”
Anthony Sutton (2002) 

Seeking Power

The quotation "We Will Lead Every Revolution Against Us" (widely attributed to Theodor Herzl) seems quite apposite in the context of skull and bones. Webster Tarpley writes that "William Sloane Coffin, tapped for 1949 Skull and Bones by George Bush and his Bone companions, was from a long line of Skull and Bones Coffins. William Sloane Coffin was famous in the Vietnam War protest days as a leader of the left protest against the war..."

Notable Members

Wikipedia has a longer list of members which is probably more or less correct. While some have achieved prominence through sport or art, most are senior figures of political, legal or commercial institutions

• William Howard Taft, US President
• George Herbert Walker, Jr. banker, uncle of George H. W. Bush
• Harold Stanley, banker, co-founder of Morgan Stanley
• Jonathan James Bush, banker, brother of George H. W. Bush
• Prescott Bush, father of George H. W. Bush
• George H. W. Bush, US President
• George W. Bush, US President
• Raymond Price, speech writer for Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush
• Robert William Kagan, co-founder of the Project for the New American Century
• John Forbes Kerry, U.S. Senator, competed against fellow bonesman George W. Bush in the 2004 US Presidential election

Women

Jose Abreu, who says he studied at Yale, relates a story that in the early 1990s the Russell Trust changed the locks to the tomb and kept that year's class out because they allowed women.

322

Kevin Flaherty wrote "I think that 322 at Operation Mockingbird Washington Post is them flipping us the bird and saying, “We got away with it. All of it.”"

The Skull and Bones logo includes the number "322", the significance of which has been the subject of much speculation since the society was founded. Whatever its original meaning, it has become a secret reference to the group.

Exposure

Antony Sutton's magnum opus was an expose of the group. He writes that he began after an anoymous source provided him with an 8 inch stack of documents listing the members.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Election/Fraud	“It is more likely that time, rather than the voting booth, will erode the secret power of this Yale group, Nothing this outrageous can survive forever.”	Antony Sutton	2002

 

Known members

42 of the 215 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Victor Ashe	Kentucky fellow Bonesman, roommate and cheerleader with George W. Bush, who was appointed Ambassador Poland from 2004 until 2009. Bohemian Grove
James Boasberg	"The go-to judge if you don’t want something released to the public"
David Boren	Jobs including Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board
James Buckley
Harvey Hollister Bundy	Special Assistant on Atomic Matters under FDR. Chairman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
McGeorge Bundy	S&B, Deep state actor, National Security Advisor
William Bundy	Skull & bones deep politician and cold warrior who played a key role in the US side of the Bilderberg.
George H. W. Bush	Skull and bones mastermind of the bush family busine$$.
George W. Bush	The 43rd US President, a bonesman, former oil businessman, now being pursued for war crimes.
Jonathan James Bush	American banker who was son of Prescott Bush and brother of George H. W. Bush.
Prescott Bush	Bonesman father of the Bush family
John Chafee	Attended 4 Bilderbergs between 1979 to 1992
Thomas Cochran	American bonesman banker closely associated with the leading J.P. Morgan & Co bankers such as Dwight P. Morrow and Henry P. Davidson in the firms big financial operations during and after World War 1.
Henry Sloane Coffin	leading liberal Presbyterian leader. Bonesman.
William Sloane Coffin
John Sherman Cooper	US lawyer who refused to sign the draft of the Warren Commission Report until a qualifying statement was inserted.
F. Trubee Davison	Son of influential banker Henry Davison. Worked with deep state operatives Judge Gary and Bill Donovan. After WW2 Director of Personnel for the CIA.
Chauncey Depew	US deep state operative, classmate of two future US Supreme Court Justices, a member of Psi Upsilon, Skull and Bones, Corsair Club, The Pilgrims Society...
William Draper	former President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States. He also led the highly strategic United Nations Development Programme, the biggest source of multilateral development grant assistance, and the U.S. Export-Import Bank. Both institution have a huge influence on policies in countries in the global south, an influence which he also made sure was used. Skull and Bones. Atlantic Council. His father was active in population control.
Evan Galbraith	Attended the 1982 Bilderberg as US Ambassador to France
Austan Goolsbee	Skull and Bones economist. Obama advisor. One of the WEF's 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow. Fan of heavy COVID-19 bailouts
Briton Hadden	Co-founder of Time Magazine with Henry Luce, who gained hold of company after Hadden died prematurely in 1928.
E. Roland Harriman	well connected Bonesman banker
W. Averell Harriman
H. John Heinz II	34 Bilderberg meetings, Bilderberg Steering & Advisory Committees
Pierre Jay	First chairman of the New York Federal Reserve in 1913
George Herbert Walker Jr.	"Uncle Herbie" had close relations with later US President George Herbert Walker Bush
Robert Kagan	Co-founder of the Project for the New American Century
John Kerry	US Skull and Bones DSO, in Jeffrey Epstein's Black book ...
Winston Lord	Former Bilderberg Steering committee, bonesman, CFR
Robert A. Lovett
Henry Luce
Henry Neil Mallon	“surrogate uncle” to GHWB
Andrew Downey Orrick
Percy Rockefeller	Rockefeller family member who sat on numerous boards. Skull and Bones.
Charles Seymour	President of Yale University with deep state ties.
Charles Spofford	Penta Bilderberger lawyer and suspected US deep state operative
Harold Stanley	One of the founders of Morgan Stanley
Alphonso Taft	an American jurist, diplomat and politician
George Herbert Walker III
Tali Farhadian Weinstein	Iranian born attorney and academic with multiple deep state connections including Skull and bones
Andrew Dickson White	US bonesman,university president and diplomat.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:The Secret Society That Rules The World	Article	7 November 2018	Bas Spliet	In his 1999 campaign autobiography, President George W. Bush mentioned his membership in passing: "My senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can’t say anything more."
File:America's Secret Establishment.pdf	book	30 July 1983	Antony Sutton	"If I have a magnum opus, this is it."

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