Devine, James wrote: for what it's worth, that "Tomb" is the building of the Skull & Bones secret society, the most elite of the Yale secret societies, which probably includes both Dubya and his father. It's been linked to the CIA and clearly is a formal organization of the most elite of the "old [White Anglo-Saxon] boys' network" of US business. Allegedly, they promise Bonesmen an annual income of something like 1/2 a million dollars, but never have to shell out money, since they guarantee members good jobs. Maybe Doug Henwood knows this stuff, though he was not a member (as far as I know).
No I wasn't. The only weird group I belonged to at Yale was the Party of the Right. Most of what I know about Bones comes from Alexandra Robbins book Secrets of the Tomb (and it was Jim Craven who put me onto her). I wrote up the book for the Nation's website <http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20021216&s=reading20021203> and interviewed her on my radio show <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>. I heard Kevin Phillips on the radio. He seemed to think that the early Bush/CIA connection made sense in terms of the evidence. Phillips argued in Post-Conservative America (1986 or so) that the CIA did Nixon in, because the Eastern Establishment never trusted him. Doug
