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an excerpt from:
High Times
January 2000
No. 283
ISSN D362-630X
Trans-High Corporation
New York, N.Y.
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A current piece as it appeared in High Times. Truly a longer story, but a
least High Times has shown more courage and conviction than other members of
our vaunted "free" press. I have and shall be posting a much more expanded
piece. And if any body out there knows of a publishing house out there with
"cajones, " there is a quite a story to tell in a book length manuscript.
I hope I did all the changes correctly from my drafts to how it appeared.
Excusa for any typos or erratta.
Om
K
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Skull and Bones
Do the secret police really control the planet?
Is George W. Bush connected to the most dangerous secret society in America?
Could Yale alumni be thereal power behind in the "Secret Government"?
by R.A. Kris Millegan
"These secret societies are behind it all," my father told me many years
ago. During the early fifties he was CIA Branch Chief, Head of East Asia
Intelligence Analyst Office. "The Vietnam War," he said soberly, "is about
drugs." Many years later I finally had some understanding of what Dad was
talking about. I wish I had asked more questions. Like, was he was talking
about The Order of Skull and Bones?
It's a symbol used by pirates and poisons, but it's also a "fraternity" at
Yale University. College kids having fun? Not quite.
Fifteen juniors are tapped on a Thursday in May each year. Around 2,500
have been members, mostly white males from wealthy Northeastern families:
Bush, Ford, Goodyear, Harriman, Heinz, Jay, Kellogg, Phelps, Pillsbury,
Pinchot, Rockefeller, Taft, Vanderbilt, Weyerhauser and Whitney are some
of the names on the roster. Minorities were brought in in the 1950s and the
first
women were admittedd in 1991.
The Order Skull and Bones is a secret society founded at Yale by William
Huntington Russell(S&B 1833). His cousin, Samuel Russell's family enterprise,
Russell & Company was the largest American opium smuggler working with the
Scotch firm Jardine-Matheson, the world's largest.
Many New England and Southern families in the "China Trade" sent their sons
to Yale and many were "tapped' into Skull and Bones. From Yale, "Bonesmen"
went into and were very influential in the worlds of commerce,
communications, diplomacy, education, espionage, finance, law and politics.
There have been two Skull and Bones Presidents, at least 10 Senators, two
Chief Justices of the Supreme Court and many US representatives and state
governors. Bonesmen have held myriad lesser appointed posts and positions,
with a particular affinity for the Central Intelligence Agency. This year,
a Bonesman—George W. Bush(S&B 1968) is the leading contender for the
Presidency.
The Bush Bonesmen
Georgw W. Bush is the third generation of Bush Bonesmen to become prominent
in national politics. His, father President George H. W. Bush, joined S&B in
1948. His grandfather Prescott Bush (S&B, 1917), was a Senator from
Connecticut from 1952-1962, a partner in the Brown Brothers Harriman
investment banking firm, and a director for CBS, Pan Am and Prudential. He
was one of Ike's favorite golfing partners and a member of Washington's elite
Alibi Club.
But there was more to Prescott than met the resume. He had served as a US
Army Intelligence liaison officer during World War I. Prescott's boss W.
Averell Harriaman (S&B 1913),worked closely with fellow "Bonesman", Secretary
of Defense Robert Lovett (S&B 1918) to organize US intelligence activities.
They created a framework to run covert operations and psychological warfare.
In 1954, H. S. Richardson, the maker of Vick's cough drops and Vapo-Rub,
wrote in a letter to Senator Prescott Bush; "I want to get your advice and
counsel on a subject—namely what should be done with the income from a
foundation, which my brothers and I are setting up."
Eugene Stetson (S&B 1934), an assistant manager at Brown Brothers, Harrimans
organized the H. Smith Richardson Foundation. It participated in the
MK-ULTRA, a secret CIA domestic psychological-warfare operation and helped to
finance the testing of psychotropic drugs, including LSD, at Bridgewater
Hospital in Massachusetts in the 50's.
In the '80's, 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 the public in favor of and run cover for the Iran-Contra
operations, and to coordinate published attacks on opponents of the program.
In 1962, Prescott founded the National Strategy Information Center, with his
son, Prescott Bush, Jr. and future CIA director William Casey, investment
banker and veteranof the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the CIA's
predecessor. The center laundered funds for the dissemination of CIA
authored "news stories" to some 300 newspapers.
Gordon Gray, another of Prescott's, golfing buddy was Eisenhower's National
Security advisor and first director of the Psychological Strategy Board in
the early 50's. Along with Averrel Harriman and others, he created the modern
wall of deniality for US covert Actions, such as the overthrow of the leftist
governments in Iran in 1953 and Guatemala in 1954.
Gray's son, C. Bowden was President Bush's White House counsel. As
"protector of the president, come what may", he helped to keep Bush "out of
the loop," as George became embroiled in the evolving Iran-Contra scandal.
Iran-Contra, Watergate and other scandals have many of the same players—the
Cubans from the "secret war" against Fidel Castro.
What did you do in the secret war , Daddy?
Henry Neil Mallon (S&B 1917), Prescott's classmate at Yale and Dresser
Industries Chairman of the Board, on April 10, 1953, wrote a letter to CIA
Director Allen Dulles about a proposed meeting at the Carlton Hotel. At this
meeting Mallon, Prescott Bush and Dulles discussed the use of drilling rigs
in the Caribbean. Dresser Industries had "often provided cover employment to
CIA operatives."
In reaction to Castro's take-over of Cuba in 1959, VP Nixon and the National
Security Council formed a working group—the "5412 Committee." Members
discussing "plausible deniablity" and the option of assassination of the
leaders of the Cuban revolution, decided to use a "cut-out" for the
operation.
The "cut-out", code-named Operation 40 was mobster Santos Trafficante. He had
plenty of reasons to want Castro gone— and any actions could easily be laid
at his doorstep. And with groundwork already laid through the WWII mob/docks
deal and subsequent black-market activities in Italy; an informal financing
arrangement between "intel", the mob, assassins and arms and drug trafficking
was made.
Zapata Off Shore, an offshore oil-drilling company headed by George Bush,
provided convenient cover. CIA veterans from the 1960s covert actions against
Castro" maintain Zapata was used "as a front" and Zapata's or their
subsidiaries "off-shore drilling platforms being used in "operations." And
according to "former senior CIA Operations Directorate officials, Bush was a
paymaster for "contracted services."
As liaison between the CIA and the Pentagon during the 1961 Bay of Pigs
invasion of Cuba, Fletcher Prouty was put in charge of ordering supplies
for the attack. "The CIA had code-named the invasion 'Zapata,'" recalls
Prouty. "Two boats landed on the shores of Cuba. One was named Houston, the
other Barbara. They were Navy ships that has been repainted with new
names." At the time George Bush was living in Houston. His oil company was
called Zapata and his wife's name was Barbara.
In July 1988, The Nation published a memo from FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover, stating that "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency"
was providing information about State Department anxieties concerning the
reaction of "some misguided anti-Castro" Cubans to President John F.
Kennedy's assassination.
After Richard Nixon resigned as President, his staff revealed Nixon's code
name for the Kennedy assassination was that "Bay of Pigs thing."
One of the most important pieces of evidence in the assassination, Abraham
Zapruder's film, was purchased by Time, Inc., and locked in a vault. Time,
Inc. was founded by Henry Luce (S&B, 1920).
The Zapruder film got its first public screening after being subpoenaed by
Judge Jim Garrison, who tried to prove CIA involvement in the killing.
Ellen Ray, who now publishes Covert Action magazine, went to New Orleans to
do a documentary on Garrison. After receiving many death threats, she
canceled the project, but not before she met Prescott Bush at a private
dinner arranged by a writer for the New Yorker. At the dinner, Prescott
tried to pump her for information about Garrison's investigation
Numerous government and CIA employees say under Bush's successor Richard Gow
(S&B 1955), the US and other governments used drill rigs owned by Zapata Off
Shore's and its subsidiary Rowan International for covert operations
involving support and logistics for arms and drug trafficking operations.
" A great many of the drug smugglers in Miami today are Bay of Pigs veterans.
That's why they are so tough. They are intelligence trained. That's why were
having such a tough time. "
--Florida Drug Prosecuter 11/86
In 1998 former Green Beret William Tyree filed suit a $63 million federal
lawsuit against Bush, the CIA and others. His court documents allege that US
military personnel were used to assist arms and drug trafficking. Tyree had
started to become disenchanted with this "official" mission and his wife,
Elaine who was working for Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID),
started to keep diaries. She was found beheaded with a hunting knife. Tyree
was charged with the murder.
The charges were dropped by Judge James Killiam, "I didn't believe a word the
prosecution's chief witness said," in a recent A&E special. The case had been
refiled by the Middlesex DA office to the Massachusetts State Judicial
Supreme Court. A young John Kerry(S&B 1966) was assistant DA at the time. In
the late '80s, Kerry chaired a special Senate committee on drugs, law
enforcement and foreign policy, which made much noise about
government-assisted drug-trafficking, but took no action. Much in the
committees files is still "classifed.
One Army Intelligence and Five Special Forces colonels associated with Tyree
and these operations have since died, some under mysterious circumstances.
Several have left some amazing affidavits that detail massive hard drug
trafficking by government personnel under the aegis of "national security."
One of the Colonels, known as a "money man" had phone numbers for Bill Casey
and a Gambino family crime boss in his addressbook.
The explosive lawsuit progresses slowly and nary a peep is heard from the
media.
But it hasn't been the first time
On October 20, 1942, 10 months after Pearl Harbor, the US government
ordered the seizure of "all the capital stock of the Union Banking
Corporation, a New York corporation," by the Alien Property Custodian. The
order stated "all of which shares are held for the benefit of members of
the Thyssen family, [and] is property of nationals of a designated enemy
country."
It seems that Averell and Prescott—along with corporate lawyer John
Foster Dulles and his brother Allen Dulles, spymaster for the CIA and its
predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services—and others were involved in
the build-up of Nazi Germany, supplying the Third Reich with capital and
financial
arrangements. This was kept quiet. Only a small notice appeared in the New
York
Times—years later—on Dec. 16, 1944: "The Union Banking Corporation, 39
Broadway, New York has received authority to change its principal place of
business to 120 Broadway."
No mention was made of the fact that the property had been seized for
trading with the enemy, or that 120 Broadway was the address of the Alien
Property Custodian.
Origins of the Order
The Order of Skull and Bones was founded in 1832 by William Huntington
Russell and Alphonso Taft. Many historians claim its appearance was because
Phi Beta Kappa, America's oldest Greek-letter college secret society, had
abandoned secrecy.
Phi Beta Kappa was "founded with impressive ritual and high solemnity" on
Thursday, December 5, 1776, at William and Mary College, in Williamsburg,
Virginia. On November 13, 1780 the official foundation meeting was held at
Yale.
"Three weeks and a day later," the chapter at William and Mary came to "an
end." because of the threat of British invasion during the War of
Independence, making the group at Yale the oldest extant chapter.
Phi Beta Kappa became an "open honorary organization" in 1832. In protest,
apparently, William H. Russell, Yale valedictorian of 1833, got Alphonso
Taft and 13 others "to form what is now perhaps the most
famous secret society in the United States."
>From the very beginning there was resentment from fellow students. Faculty
sent warning letters to early members' parents. But the chapter persisted
and flourished, and by 1884 two other senior secret societies at Yale had
been formed, Scroll and Key, and Wolf's Head. Also Phi Beta Kappa was
revived after disappearing in 1871.
On September 29, 1876, the Order of File and Claw broke into the "Tomb,"
the windowless Bones-owned and built meeting house. They saw its walls
"adorned with pictures of the founders of Bones at Yale, and of the members
of the society in Germany, when the Chapter was established here in 1832."
In the cellar, they found a small room, with an "always-burning lamp" and
"a dilapidated human skull." Upstairs, three rooms were found, a lodge room
with its walls covered in black velvet, a table with skull and crossbones,
and the "sanctum sanctorum," furnished in red velvet.
The Order of File and Claw also reported an old engraving that, along with
the decor, represented aspects of the Regent's degree in the outlawed
Bavarian Illuminati.
The Links of Power
For some understanding of the complex links between members of Skull and
Bones, consider the first Bonesman to become President, William Howard Taft
(S&B 1878), who is the only man to have been both President and Chief
Justice of the United States. His father, Alphonso Taft (S&B co-founder
1833) was appointed Secretary of War by President Ulysses Grant, and was
later Attorney General.
William Howard Taft was appointed by President William McKinley to be the
first civil governor of the Philippines, displacing a disgruntled General
Arthur MacArthur—General Douglas MacArthur's father—who had been the
military governor. Theodore Roosevelt, who became president after the
assassination of McKinley, appointed Taft Secretary of War (1904-08). While
Secretary, he was the "master overseer and troubleshooter" for the Panama
Canal, provisional governor of Cuba, and played a key role in foreign
policy.
Taft was elected President in 1908. He had the last cow and the first
official automobile at the White House. During his administration,
constitutional amendments for the direct election of Senators and a federal
income tax were sent to the states, and the foundation for the Federal
Reserve banking system was laid. Taft was appointed Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court by President Warren Harding in 1921, and served until just
before his death in 1930.
President Taft made Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888) his Secretary of War
(1911-13). Stimson was appointed to high government posts by seven
presidents. He was Governor General of the Philippines (1926-1928),
Secretary of State under President Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) and Secretary
of War under Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S Truman
(1940-1946). He was "ultimately responsible" for the internment of
Japanese-Americans in World War II, and oversaw the Manhattan Project,
building the atomic bomb. He also took credit for swaying Truman into
dropping the bomb.
Stimson groomed a generation of "Cold Warriors," in what was known as
"Stimson's Kindergarten." Among these protoges were General George C.
Marshall, John J. McCloy, Dean Acheson, and fellow Bonesmen Robert A.
Lovett, William Bundy(S&B 1939) and his brither McGeorge Bundy (S&B 1940.)
"These men helped establish a distinguished network connecting Wall Street,
Washington, worthy foundations and proper clubs," historian and Kennedy
adviser Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., wrote. "The New York and legal community
was the heart of the American Establishment. Its household deities were
Henry L. Stimson and Elihu Root; its present leaders, Robert A. Lovett and
John J. McCloy; its front organizations, the Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie
foundations and the Council on Foreign Relations."
Harriman and the Bundy brothers in their positions in the State
Department, Department of Defense, the CIA and as advisers to
presidents Kennedy and Johnson, exercised significant impact on the flow of
information and intelligence during the Vietnam "police action." Harriman
had busy careers in business and politics, and led peace negotiations with
North Vietnam in 1968. William Bundy went on to be editor of Foreign
Affairs, the influential quarterly of the Council on Foreign Relations.
McGeorge became president of the Ford Foundation.
The Fox and the Henhouse
George Bush was appointed by President Nixon to the White House Cabinent
Committee on International Control in 1971. As vice-president, he was the
highest U. S. official involved in the "war on drugs", as Chairman of
President Reagan's cabinet-level working group and as Director of the
National Narcotics Interdiction System, .
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."
Bonesmen have helped create a prohibition where plants and their by-products
are sold at a blackmarket for precious-metal prices and uses a corrupted
"secret government" for trafficking and propaganda. A cabal that uses an
unconstitutional Drug War for political, economic and social control.
*****
DRUG PEACE not War.
MHO
OM
K
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