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[The following is from a "white paper" written for
Japanese readership. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the
views of ParaScope or its editors]

George Bush,
Skull & Bones and the New World Order

Paul
Goldstein
Jeffrey Steinberg

George Bush, Skull &
Bones and the New World Order

A New American View --
International Edition White Paper

April
1991

TABLE OF
CONTENTS

Introduction .............................ii

The Order of Skull & Bones.......... ......2

Initiation and Ritual......................7

The Spartan Model ........................10

Henry Stimson: Master Bonesman............13

Stimson's Kindergarten and the Cold War...16

Vietnam: The Bonesmen's Debacle.......... 19

Bush in Profile...........................23

The Order's Network.......................25

The New World Order.......................28

The Persian Gulf War......................31

Implications for Japan ...................34

Bibliography..............................38

Some Prominent Members....................39

Selected Quotations.......................43

Introduction

This special report is
intended to assist the Japanese audience in more fully understanding the present
policies of the United States under the administration of President George Bush.
It explains the thinking behind America's military adventure in the Persian Gulf
and its current attitudes toward the Middle East region.

In so doing, we
provide a glimpse into the most powerful organization in America--the Order of
Skull & Bones. This secret fraternity is based at Yale University in New
Haven, Connecticut, where many of the leading members of the U.S. government and
the American intelligence community received their formal education. The Order,
as it is referred to by its members, is a bastion of White Anglo Saxon
Protestant (WASP) culture, which is at the core of the American 20th century
outlook.

The reader will learn that President George Herbert Walker
Bush's concept of the New World Order is an old idea, one which has its origins
in the philosophy and beliefs of the secret Skull & Bones fraternity. Today
in particular, this is the prevailing outlook of the U.S. government, many of
whose most influential members, like the president himself, are part of the
Skull & Bones network. These men seek to recreate the American imperium of
the immediate post-World War II period, an era which President Bush frequently
refers to as "the American Century."

The powerful men of Skull &
Bones genuinely believe that they have a strategic and moral "right" to control
world affairs. Consequently, they take upon themselves the authority to crush
any rivalrous threat to U.S. imperial leadership, whether by current allies,
such as Japan, Germany or Great Britain, or by Cold War adversaries, like the
Soviet Union. The members of the Order, due to their narrow WASP upbringing,
view with particular suspicion the maneuverings of Zionist Israel and its
affluent, influential lobby in the United States.

Bush, his fellow
Bonesmen and their like-thinking elitist allies in the American Establishment
see themselves as New World Order warriors, an American samurai caste of sorts,
whose mission is restoring American greatness. They intend to utilize the
institutional networks of the U.S. government and key private agencies, such as
the New York Council on Foreign Relations, to advance their purpose.

The
Skull & Bones members believe in the idea of "constructive chaos." By
keeping their true policy intentions secret, by constantly sending out mixed
signals on all critical policy issues, they consciously seek to sow confusion
among both their nominal "friends" and "enemies" alike.

The fulcrum for
the policy of constructive chaos is, at present, the Middle East situation.
Although U.S. military action in the region has for the time being subsided,
America's military power will remain a critical determinant in the future of
that vital zone of conflict. American military power is aimed at securing
undisputed control over the vast reservoir of oil -- not at necessarily
fostering any permanent alignment of local states or combinations of regional
interests.

If President George Bush and his fellow true believers are
successful, the United States will be first among equals in the New World Order.
This is their goal. It is also the quest of the Bonesmen of the Order of Skull
& Bones -- America's warrior aristocracy.

THE ORDER OF SKULL & BONES

Skull
& Bones was founded at Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut in 1832. It is
the oldest and most prestigious of Yale's seven secret societies. Among the
others are: Scroll & Key, Book & Snake, Wolf's Head, Eliahu, and
Berzelius. These fraternities serve as a recruiting ground for young men
destined for careers in government, law, finance and other influential sectors
of American life. Skull & Bones is the elite of the elite among these secret
societies. Only Scroll & Key can claim a near equal influence on American
affairs over the past 160 years.

Unlike the Greek fraternities on most
other American university campuses, Skull & Bones and its similar secret
societies exist exclusively at Yale. They are not part of any nationwide public
association. The other elite Ivy League colleges, Harvard and Princeton have
similar exclusive secret societies. Yet, even among these few universities, the
secret societies of Yale -- led by Skull & Bones -- are unchallenged in
their influence on American political affairs.

According to some
accounts, the Skull & Bones secret society at Yale has an underground
affiliation with two other societies which were simultaneously founded at two
other locations. The number "322" that appears under the skull and crossbones on
the Order's emblem is believed to indicate the year of its founding -- 1832 --
and the fact that it is the second lodge within an international system. By some
accounts, the lodge holding the number "1" is in Germany and the lodge numbered
"3" is based at another American college.

Since its founding, Skull &
Bones has only inducted about 2,500 members. At any given time, only about 600
or so members of the Order are alive. This small number underscores the
tremendous concentration of power in the hands of its members.

If the
members of Skull & Bones were to select a Hall of Fame from among their own
elite ranks, some of the people whose names would almost certainly appear at the
top of the list would be:

Alphonso Taft, a founding member of the Order who served as the Secretary
of War under President Rutherford B. Hayes (1876-1880).

William Howard Taft, the only man to ever serve as both the President of
and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Henry Lewis Stimson, partner in the Wall Street law firm of Root and
Stimson, Secretary of War under President Taft (1908-1912), 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).

Averell Harriman, investment banker with Brown Brothers Harriman, director
of the Lend-Lease program of the U.S. State Department (1941-1942), U.S.
Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1943-1946), Governor of New York, Under
Secretary of State for Asia (1961-1963), and presidential secret envoy to
Soviet leaders Stalin, Krushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov.

Robert Lovett, partner in Brown Brothers Harriman, Assistant Secretary of
War for Air (1941-1945), Deputy Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Defense
(1950), leading member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations.

Harold Stanley, investment banker, founder of Morgan Stanley.

Robert A. Taft, United States Senator (1938-1950).

Prescott Bush, investment banker and partner in Brown Brothers Harriman,
United States Senator from Connecticut, father of George Herbert Walker Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush, United States Congressman (1964-1970),
Chairman of the Republican National Committee, United States Ambassador to the
United Nations, first American Diplomatic Liaison to the Peoples Republic of
China, Director of the Central Intelligence Ageney (1975-1977). Vice President
of the United States (1980-1988), President of the United States (1988- ).

John Thomas Daniels, agro-industrialist, founder of Archer Daniels
Midland.

Hugh Wilson, foreign service officer, Counselor to Japan (1911- 1921),
U.S. Minister to Switzerland (1924-1927), Assistant Secretary of State
(1937-1938). Ambassador to Germany 1938), Special Assistant to the Secretary
of State (1939-1941), Office of Strategic Services (1941-1945)

The
members of the Order of Skull & Bones, true to their firm belief in
"constructive confusion," have intentionally allowed a series of conflicting
mythologies to spring up about the origins and history of their secret
fraternity. According to one version of the Order's founding, it was an
outgrowth of an earlier British or Scottish freemasonic grouping first
established at All Soul's College at Oxford University in the late 17th century.
Another version of the history of Skull & Bones is that it grew out of the
German "nationalistic" secret .societies of the early 19th century. Still a
third explanation is that Skull & Bones is an uniquely American institution
which adopted some of the rituals of European freemasonry, but molded these
rituals and beliefs into a new form.

Regardless of these conflicting
accounts, it can be stated with certainty that the Order was first established
on the Yale campus in 1832 It was officially incorporated only in 1856 under the
name Russell Trust Association. According to virtually all the available
biographical data on its early members, the money required to sustain the secret
order's campus affairs and its broader role in placing its members into key
positions of influence upon their graduation from Yale, derived from the opium
trade in the Far East. That trade was set up by the British East India Company
and was flourishing by the time the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783 ending
the American War for Independence. The East India Company during this period was
controlled by the Baring Brothers Bank (Toward the closing decades of the 17th
century, the British House of Rothschild would supplant the Baring Brothers as
the controlling financial interests in the China opium trade.

Through the
sponsorship of the Barings and also the Rothschilds, a number of leading New
England families, some of whom had sided with Great Britain during the American
Revolution, were brought into the opium trade as junior partners. These merchant
families ran fleets of clipper ships and became in many cases fabulously wealthy
as the result of their association with the British East India Company. Among
these key New England merchant families were: Cabot, Coolidge, Forbes,
Higginson, Sturgis, Lodge, Lowell, Perkins and Russell.

These New England
merchant families founded the United Fruit Company and the Bank of Boston. The
founding families of Skull & Bones included the Russell and Perkins
families, Over several generations, however, all these families heavily
intermarried and became, in effect, one extended power grouping.

William
Huntington Russell incorporated Skull & Bones as the Russell Trust
Association. Throughout the 20th century, the Russell Trust Association listed
the New York City headquarters of Brown Brothers Harriman as its
address.

Russell was valedictorian of his class at Yale in 1833. He and
his Skull & Bones comrades considered themselves to be a special elite among
the merchant banking and Puritan pilgrim elite of Yale. They took the Puritan
beliefs of the early New England settlers, that they were "elected by God," and
pre-ordained to rule North America.

The founding of Yale College in 1701
pre-dates the American Revolution by several generations. Many of the founders
of Yale were righteous men of the Puritan heritage who devoutly believed in God
and country. Some of these patriotic souls later made up the core of Benjamin
Franklin's political coalition which ultimately broke with the mother country,
Great Britain. Many graduates of Yale were active in the American Revolution and
the founding of the United States.

Two critics of the Order, historian
Antony Sutton and investigative journalist Ron Rosenbaum (himself a Yale
graduate), both concluded that Skull & Bones has degenerated since its
founding and has taken on more of the occult and ritualistic trappings of the
majority of European freemasonic and Illuminati secret societies. Sutton charges
that the Order is secretly known among its initiates as the "Brotherhood of
Death" and has become an evil instrument in the hands of America's secret power
elite. Rosenbaum claims that the society's Germanic origins are inherently
wicked and pre-Nazi.

In a long 1977 article in Esquire magazine,
Rosenbaum charged that the Skull & Bones building on the Yale campus houses
remnants from Hitler's private collection of silver. While these stories cannot
be dismissed out of hand, it must be noted that authors Rosenbaum and Sutton may
be biased. As a young Jewish student at Yale, Rosenbaum was almost automatically
excluded on religious grounds from the inner sanctum of the campus's secret
societies. Sutton, a British-born eccentric historian, proudly admits his strong
British biases, frequently citing philosopher John Stuart Mill as the spiritual
mentor in his book on the Order.

Despite the possible personal biases in
these two accounts of the history of the Order of Skull & Bones, it must be
acknowledged that the membership of the society has tended over generations to
converge upon a small group of New England families who have intermarried and
then sponsored their sons and nephews into the Order. This kind of inbreeding
always tends to produce narrow-mindedness and prejudice against outsiders, which
can be a serious shortcoming, particularly among individuals responsible for
charting the course of a nation as powerful as the United States.

It can
be documented by comparing the family charts of the early Bonesmen that there is
today a core group of no more than 20 to 30 families who form the nucleus of the
Order. The majority are old-line Puritan families who came to North America in
the very first wave of settlers in the 17th century. Among these prominent
families are: Whitney, Lord, Phelps. Wadsworth, Allen, Bundy, Adams, Stimson,
Taft, Gilman and Perkins. A second group of families in the Skull & Bones
core earned fabulous fortunes during the 18th and 19th centuries and thus won a
rite of passage into the New England elite, even though they were not among the
earliest settlers. The leading Skull & Bones families in this second
category are: Harriman, Rockefeller, Payne, Davison, Pillsbury and
Weyerhauser.

A few of the Jewish banking families who made their way from
Germany to the United States during the 18th and l9th centuries were eventually
granted limited access to the WASP inner sanctums. Some families, like the
Schiff, Warburg, Guggenheim and Meyer families, were unofficially designated as
intermediaries between the New England WASPs and their cousins in London. This
was especially true after the Rothschild interests supplanted the Anglican
Baring group as the most powerful financial cabal in the City of London. Some of
these German Jewish families became so absorbed into the WASP or Anglican
society that they eventually converted from Judaism to Protestantism and were
gradually ostracized from the Jewish aristocracy.

The WASP families,
however, never saw the prominent Jewish investment banking families of America
as equals. The Jews were considered politically and culturally different by the
WASPs, and have never been accepted into the latter's inner circle. For the most
part, these Jewish merchant bankers are viewed with suspicion and distrust by
the members of the Order. Moreover, the Jewish fraternal societies, such as
B'nai B'rith, were formed out of the British-based Scottish Rite Freemasonry.
Their sponsors in America, the Rothschilds and the Cecil Rhodes Trust (also
known as the British Round Table Group), are connected with the British Foreign
Office and its secret intelligence apparatus.

INITIATION AND RITUAL

To be initiated
into the Order of Skull & Bones, one must endure a ritual of selection
called "tapping". It is conducted by 15 senior classmen of Yale University who
make up the current membership of the secret society. They select 15 members of
the junior class to be the Bonesmen the following year. Historically, Skull
& Bones kept blacks, Jews and all other non-WASPs from its ranks. Within the
last 30 years, however, token members from these groups have been occasionally
selected to join. Thus, in the most recent list of initiates to the Order, there
is one Yalie with a Jewish surname and even one with a Chinese name. According
to author Rosenbaum, in recent years, the Order has inducted members of
homosexual rights groups on the campus into its ranks.

Among the
criterion for selection -- apart from family ties to the order, which has always
been an important factor -- is what is referred to by historians and members as
the "Three Ordeals." These ordeals are intended to measure the prospective
Bonesman's ability to "make it" in the world beyond the university
campus.

The first ordeal is boarding school. The overwhelming majority of
Bonesmen, given their wealthy blueblood family pedigrees, attend one of the
prestigious New England preparatory schools, i.e, private high schools. (Whereas
a large number of the most elite of the Harvard University students attend
Groton, a school with close ties to the Anglican-Episcopal Church, where they
receive a thoroughly Anglophilic education, the preferred prep schools for the
future Bonesmen are the two Puritan Calvinist-sponsored Phillips
Academies.)

The second of the ordeals is that of nature. The prospective
Bonesmen are judged on their skills as outdoorsmen. Hunting in the New England
countryside or, better yet, traveling to distant locations like Africa, the
jungles of South America or even the American badlands of the Plains states, is
a prerequisite for admission to the Spartan elite ranks of the Order.

The
third of the ordeals is war. The experience of combat during wartime is
considered to be of special significance for the Bonesmen, who see themselves as
the elite of the New England WASP warrior caste. Many Yale Bonesmen of President
George Bush's generation, as the result of the outbreak of World War II, went
directly from prep school into the military service prior to their entering
Yale. For a majority of Bonesmen, the preferred military service has
historically been with the U.S. Navy. During World II the Naval air corp was a
particularly important track for future Bones initiates. In peacetime,
participation at Yale in military officer's training is desirable but not
essential. The commitment to enter some branch of the military upon graduation
is viewed with favor.

After the formal selection of the next group of
prospective Bonesmen, there is an invitation followed by a formal initiation
ceremony. First the 15 senior class members who are the members of the Order
select a group of junior class members who are to be "tapped" for Skull &
Bones. A group of Bonesmen proceed to the dormitory room of the "tappee." Upon
reaching the door, they pound loudly. When the prospective member opens the
door, a Bonesman will tap him on the shoulder and yell, "Skull and Bones: Do you
accept?" If the candidate accepts, a message wrapped with a black ribbon sealed
by black wax with the skull and crossbones emblem and the mystical Bones number
322 is handed to the "tappee." The message appoints a time and a place for the
candidate to appear on initiation night. Candidates are instructed to wear no
metal objects or clothing.

According to a 1940 Skull & Bones
document, the initiation ceremony involves the following kinds of things: "New
man placed in coffin -- carried into central part of building. New man chanted
over and reborn into society. Removed from coffin and given robes with symbols
on it. A bone with his name on it is tossed into the bone heap at the start of
every meeting."

Within the Skull & Bones Crypt, also known as "the
Tomb," there is what is referred to as a "sacred room" with the number 322, On
the arched wall about the vault entrance is inscribed in German: "Who was the
fool, who was the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same
in death."

This quotation from a German Freemasonic ritual remains a
source of controversy surrounding the origins of Skull & Bones. It is one of
the bits of "evidence" cited by some of the Order's most ardent critics that the
group is "Nazi like" and singularly "Germanic". In fact, the rituals of the
Order are very much like the rituals employed by Scottish and English
freemasonic lodges.

Some of the mystery and confusion surrounding these
occult symbols and rituals is intentionally fostered by the Order itself. Among
the principles taught to the members of the Yale secret society are the value of
ambiguity and secrecy. These values are not taught as part of a purely mystical
or occult quasi-religion. They are taught as valuable tools to be applied by the
Bonesmen when they leave the insulated environment of the Yale campus and become
officials of government, the intelligence community, the military or the private
sector.

A careful study of the often confusing and self-contradictory
behavior and public statements of President Bush and his closest advisers
throughout the months of the Persian Gulf crisis of last year and war that
followed offers a valuable example of how ambiguity and secrecy are applied by
Bonesmen.

For the initiates of the Order, the question of whether secrecy
and ambiguity are used for the purpose of accomplishing "good" or "evil" is of
secondary importance. Secrecy and ambiguity are essential instruments for
wielding power. The effective wielding of power is one of the overarching goals
of all Bonesmen. The secret ties built up during the Bonesmen's senior year of
active membership in the Order are maintained for life. Those ties link each
Bonesman to every other initiate, especially to those initiates who were members
of the Order in the same year.

Thus, every member of Skull & Bones
is, in real and practical terms, part of a small elite group of young Yale
graduates -- most from wealthy and powerful WASP families -- who enter the world
of politics, business, finance, intelligence or education and who proceed to
make their mark on the world.

According to several sources, President
George Bush to this day frequently consults with several of his fellow Yale
Bonesmen, and has, on occasion, called upon Skull & Bones members to carry
out secret diplomatic missions for the White House.

THE SPARTAN MODEL

These rites of passage
into the upper ranks of the WASP Establishment are capped by the experience the
Bonesmen go through in their final year at Yale -- the year in which they
actively participate in the Order. For the vast majority of the initiates, the
process of inculcation with the ideas of WASP supremacy, an American Calvinist
version of what British imperialist writer Rudyard Kipling called the "White
Man's Burden," began at prep school.

According to the biographical
accounts of a number of the leading Bonesmen, the prep school experience is
paramount. At prep school, intellectual pursuits are encouraged, but special
emphasis is also placed on athletic performance. Future Yale Bonesmen are
expected to excel in some team sport, such as baseball and football, both
American inventions. (Members of Skull & Bones were involved in the
development of both games.) Team sports supposedly prepare the future Bonesman
to accept leadership responsibility, and more importantly, teach him to "respect
the rules of the game."

According to one biographer, when George Bush was
a Yale undergraduate he was a member of the university baseball team. Although
he was apparently not a very good baseball player, he eventually became captain
of the Yale team. One day during the Yale baseball season, he excitedly visited
his mother to proudly proclaim that he had hit his first home run. She
reportedly looked back at him with patrician coolness, and asked, "Yes, George,
but did your team win the game?"

The particular emphasis on team sports
during the prep school and Yale years is, according to several historians, part
of the Spartan training that is so essential to the Skull & Bones
philosophy. In the world of Skull & Bones, one of the greatest virtues is
the ability to steer the nation into war and to successfully prosecute the
war.

To the Bonesmen, the use of military power is a natural and
essential corollary to political power. The Bonesmen are taught that, although
ideas have their place, to truly transform history, military force is almost
always required. Critics of the Order have pointed out that this philosophy of
power and the imperial use of military force comes straight from the chronicles
of the Roman Empire -- especially the Roman Empire during its phase of decline
and collapse.

The criticism may prove to be most prophetically true of
the current generation of Bonesmen who are leading the United States under the
presidency of George Bush. During the final phase of the Roman Empire, legions
were deployed out around the world to conquer and subjugate vast territories,
while back in Rome, there was a breakdown, a crisis in which the entire social
and cultural fabric of the early Roman republic was eroding and giving way to
something akin to the drug, rock-sex counterculture of today. The Roman imperial
policy of attempting to gloss over the decadence at home by engaging in constant
wars of expansion led ultimately to the total collapse of Rome.

In this
regard, the Spartan-Roman imperial outlook of the American WASP warrior caste,
exemplified by Skull & Bones, cannot be precisely compared to the Japanese
samurai code of Bushido. The Japanese Bushido code emphasized honor among the
warriors and presumed a fundamentally moral or ethical vision of the
world.

No such emphasis on morality and honor exists in the code of Skull
& Bones. On the contrary, the Skull & Bones philosophy, according to
several of its most astute critics and historians, emphasizes the "double-cross
system." The "double-cross" is symbolically represented by the crossbones on the
emblem of the Order. According to this philosophy, anyone who is not an initiate
is inferior, and can be lied to and manipulated to further the power of the WASP
Establishment. To the extent that Japanese leaders view their American WASP
counterparts as men of honor whose word is sacred and whose intentions are
presumed to be virtuous, they will miss the fundamental character of the
American imperium. This is of special importance today, with a leading member of
the Skull & Bones system occupying the White House.

Skull & Bones
philosophy first manifested itself at the American national political level in
the late l9th century. At that time, the men of the Order adopted all the
critical features of the British imperial system, especially the belief in the
Anglo Saxon God-given right to rule over all the other races. Even countries
like Japan, which were never colonial possessions of the Anglo-American
combination, were viewed as inferior nations to be treated no differently from
the colonies in Africa, India or Latin America.

In 1898, President
William McKinley, one of the last of the American presidents to manifest any of
the early republican (anti-British imperialism) traditions of the Founding
Fathers, was under enormous pressure from the Skull & Bones-led American
imperialists. Eventually, he went to war against Spain to "free" Cuba and seize
the Philippines. This was the first time that the United States entered a war
through devious manipulation and purely in order to expand its territories. It
marked the beginning of a new epoch in American history which would forever
alter the vision of the United States. It was the first evidence that the men of
the Order were at the helm of the ship of state.

President McKinley's
capitulation to the WASP warriors would prove to be fatal to himself and, some
would say, for his country, too. The Spanish-American War of 1898 catapulted the
Skull & Bones crowd into a position of dominance within the Republican
Party. At the 1900 party presidential nominating convention, McKinley was forced
to accept Teddy Roosevelt as his vice presidential running mate. The
McKinley-Roosevelt slate was swept into office, in part as the result of the
jingoist climate built up by the just-concluded Spanish-American War. Those
circumstances were not all that different from the mood that prevails in America
in the aftermath of the Gulf War of 1991.

Within months of his
inauguration of 1901, President McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist while
traveling through Buffalo, New York. Thus, Teddy Roosevelt became president, and
the Order of Skull & Bones for the first time moved into the White House.
Roosevelt surrounded himself with Bonesmen. His successor in 1908, William
Howard Taft, was himself a second generation member of Skull &
Bones.

HENRY STIMSON: MASTER
BONESMAN

According to a January 1991 article by the
Washington syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, when President
George Bush was making his final decision to use military force to crush Saddam
Hussein and decimate Iraq, he spent most of the Christmas holidays closeted at
Camp David reading a newly published biography of one of his true heroes, fellow
Skull & Bones initiate Henry Stimson. While most White House advisers
thought that the gulf crisis would be ultimately resolved through diplomacy,
unbeknownst to them, President Bush had already decided on the use of
devastating military force -- regardless of what measures the world community or
the Iraqi leaders took to avert war. Intimate Bush advisers described the
president as being in a "mesmerized" state of mind as he walked around the
presidential retreat in the Maryland mountains with his Stimson biography, "The
Colonel: The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson," under his arm at all
times.

Indeed, for most contemporary Bonesmen, Henry Lewis Stimson, the
quintessential WASP warrior, was the very personification of the Order's full
ascent to power during the period of World War II.

A member of the
Order's class of 1888, Stimson served seven U.S. presidents: Theodore Roosevelt,
William Howard Taft (a fellow Bonesman), Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge,
Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S Truman. As the Secretary
of War under FDR and Truman, Stimson oversaw the Manhattan Project, which
developed the atomic bomb. Stimson personally decided on the use of that
devastating weapon against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Years
earlier, as the chairman of the American delegation at the London Naval
Conference and as Secretary of State under President Hoover (1929-1933), Stimson
had played a pivotal role in restricting the size of the Japanese Imperial Navy.
He would be an architect of the FDR 's administration's economic provocations
against Japan which ultimately helped induce Japan into the attack at Pearl
Harbor, thus bringing the United States formally into World War II. And Stimson
was also ultimately responsible for the FDR administration's decision to intern
the Nisei (Japanese-Americans) after Pearl Harbor.

Yet, it was also
Stimson who ordered American bombers to refrain from attacking the old Japanese
imperial capital of Kyoto, a city rich in religious and historical tradition and
artifacts. And, according to at least one of Stimson's biographers, it was also
"the Colonel" who decided at the close of the war that the Japanese emperor
should not be deposed. His sensitivity to Japanese culture and the importance of
allowing Japan to retain honor even in defeat is widely to his close adviser,
Joseph Grew, a longtime U.S. ambassador to Japan and an accomplished historian.
Whether this report of Stimson's involvement in the decision to maintain the
emperor is accurate or whether it underplays the role of Gen. Douglas MacArthur,
the fact remains certain that Stimson was the key policymaker overseeing the
postwar occupations of both Japan and Germany.

To fully understand
President George Bush's attitudes and policies toward Japan, one must first
appreciate the overarching influence that Stimson had on the current occupant of
the White House.

According to his British biographer Geofrey Hodgson,
Stimson's membership in Skull & Bones was "the most important educational
experience in his life." Unlike most of his fellow Bonesmen, Stimson earned his
membership solely on the basis of his achievements at Yale -- not through family
money. His parents were not wealthy, although his forefathers did come to
America as early Puritan colonists. But Stimson made up for his lack of
financial credentials by his fierce competitive spirit. As he himself put it,
the "idea of a struggle for prizes, so to speak, has always been one of the
fundamental elements of my mind, and I can hardly conceive of what my feelings
would be if I ever was put in a position or situation in life where there are no
prizes to struggle for."

Although Stimson did not come from classic
blueblood background, he married into wealth and power. His wife, Mabel White,
came from a prominent Establishment family with longstanding ties to the Order.
Thus, upon graduation from law school, Stimson became a partner in the law firm
of Eliahu Root, President Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of War.

Although
Stimson and Roosevelt would have a falling out in later years, early on
Roosevelt and Root provided "the Colonel" with the critical sponsorship and
training required to succeed in the world of Establishment politics. According
to Stimson's biographers, Roosevelt would frequently taunt the young Bonesman
about the fact that he, unlike the president, had never been in the military or
fought in any wars. (Roosevelt had resigned as Under Secretary of the Navy to go
off and fight in the Spanish-American War.) Thus, at the ripe old age of 44,
Stimson joined the Army during World War I and served in the American
Expeditionary Force in Europe.

Among the other lasting interests that
Roosevelt would pass on to Stimson was his deep passion for the Pacific.
Roosevelt was convinced that America's imperial destiny was dependent upon its
domination of the Pacific Ocean and the Far East. The Spanish-American War,
which marked the beginning of America's imperial phase -- and the virtual
abandonment of the republican principles upon which the nation had been founded
-- began the U.S. colonial occupation of the Philippines, which would continue
through half of the next century. Ultimately, Stimson would himself serve as the
American Governor General of the islands.

In 1900, Roosevelt wrote to
Stimson: "Our people are neither craven nor weaklings, as we face the future
high of heart and confident of soul, eager to do the great work of a great
power... wish to see the United States the dominant power on the Pacific Ocean."

STIMSON'S KINDERGARTEN AND THE COLD
WAR

Henry Stimson's towering influence on George Bush and
many other current members and like-thinking allies of the Order was based not
only on "the Colonel's" lifetime of achievements. It was also rooted in the fact
that Stimson used the World War II period to groom a successor generation of
young WASP warriors who would dominate American policymaking during the Cold War
and beyond. Although not every member of what came to be known as the "Stimson's
Kindergarten" was a member of Skull & Bones, or even a Yale graduate, many
were. All were inculcated with the Skull & Bones philosophy and methodology
of wielding power. It is through this alliance and patronage system that the
influence of the Order has been extended far beyond its small membership
roster.

Among the leading members of the "Stimson Kindergarten"
were:

John J. McCloy, who was Assistant Secretary of War and later served as the
High Commissioner for Germany during the postwar occupation.

Robert Lovett, a member of Skull & Bones and a partner in the Order's
preeminent Wall Street investment house Brown Brothers Harriman. He became
Stimson's Assistant Secretary of War (Air Section). Lovett remained an
influential policymaker through the presidency of John F. Kennedy.

Harvey Bundy, another Bonesman, who became Stimson's special assistant at
the War Department. Harvey Bundy's two sons, McGeorge and William, fresh out
of Yale University and Skull & Bones, joined their father on Stimson's
personal staff. McGeorge Bundy would co-author Stimson's memoirs In Active
Service in Peace and War.

Dean Acheson, Assistant Secretary of State, Yale graduate (he was not a
member of the Order, but, rather, of one of the other Yale secret societies,
Scroll Key) and senior policy adviser to FDR and Truman, who ultimately made
him Secretary of State.

Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the armed forces during World
War II and later Truman's Secretary of State.

This group of
high-powered policymakers of World War II and immediate post war period were
known as the "Stimson-Marshall-Acheson Circle." They shaped America's Cold War
containment policy against the Soviet Union and Communist China, including the
involvement of the United States in the Korean War. It was also this group
which, for better or worse, directed the postwar reconstruction programs in
Germany and Japan.

Another influential member of Skull & Bones,
Averell Harriman, was personally responsible for the sacking of Gen. Douglas
MacArthur. It was Harriman, a banker, intriguer and former American Ambassador
to Moscow, who convinced President Truman to fire MacArthur.

The
predominant role that Averell Harriman would play over the course of 40 years of
postwar American policymaking underscores the fact that not all leading members
of Skull & Bones share the identical policy outlook. While some members of
the Stimson inner circle were critical of Harriman, whom they considered to be
too personally ambitious (he was also a liberal imperial Democrat in a secret
fraternity dominated historically by moderate Republicans), Harriman
nevertheless stands out as one of the Order's most active figures. The fact that
he was a business partner and social intimate throughout his adult life of
fellow Bonesman and Republican Sen. Prescott Bush Sr., the father of the current
president underscores that point.

Henry Stimson died in 1950, leaving
behind a core group of political offspring led by members of his old secret
society, Skull & Bones. In the final years of his life he was involved in
helping to shape a number of postwar government agencies which would become
bastions of power and influence for the Order for years to come. Through this
active role in shaping the key institutions of the Cold War era, Stimson was
able to establish a continuity of power that would more than compensate for the
fact that no single figure among his "kindergarten" emerged as a clear
successor, and that several, like McGeorge Bundy, would prove ultimately to be
rather disappointing students.

The National Security Act of 1947
transformed Stimson's old War Department into the Department of Defense, a
sprawling civilian bureaucracy which would in future years house many of the
most important members of the Order. Robert Lovett, for example, would become
the Secretary of Defense in 1950. The 1947 act also established the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) as the permanent successor to the wartime Office of
Strategic Services (OSS). In the early 1950s, the State Department's Office of
Policy Coordination was merged into the CIA, giving the secret agency total
control of America's clandestine operations. The National Security Agency (NSA)
also was established, under the direction of the Department of Defense, vastly
expanding America's signal intelligence capability.

Of all these agencies
of the Cold War era, the CIA would stand out as a singular power center for Yale
University alumni in general and Skull & Bones initiates in particular. The
term "spooks," the well-known CIA term for a clandestine operator, was
originally Yale campus argot for a secret society member. According to a
recently published article in the Covert Action Information Bulletin, there is
reportedly a "Bones club" within the CIA which helps promote the intelligence
careers of members of the Yale secret society.

It should be pointed out
that bureaucratic standing is not a real measure of power within the CIA. Very
often, individuals in relatively insignificant positions within the
organizational chart wield tremendous clout and maintain access to the most
sensitive information and policy. Thus, for example, the present U.S. Ambassador
to Beijing, James Lilley, a member of Skull & Bones and a career CIA man, is
being suggested to replace William Webster as Director of Central Intelligence.
For Lilley to step in as director of CIA would at this moment represent a
demotion for the senior field operator. It is, however, a demotion he might
accept as a personal favor to fellow Bonesman and longtime intimate pal George
Bush.

The predominance of Yale graduates inside the CIA is also a part of
the Stimson legacy. During World War II, many Yale students and even several
leading faculty members entered the OSS. The X-2 Branch of OSS, the
counterintelligence unit, was dominated by Yale students, as well as Yale
English Literature professor Norman Holmes Pearson. One of the Yale men in X-2,
James Jesus Angleton, went on to a legendary career as director of the CIA's
counterintelligence staff.

Yale Skull & Bonesman and Stimson
"Kindergartener" William Bundy assumed a senior post at CIA during the 1950s, as
did Yale graduates Richard Bissell and Cord Meyer and Yale professor Sherman
Kent.

VIETNAM: THE BONESMEN'S
DEBACLE

According to author David Halberstam's
best-selling critique of the Kennedy years, "The Best and the Brightest," the
JFK presidency marked the high point of Skull & Bones postwar power. But it
also marked the beginning of the secret fraternity's fall from the position of
unchallenged power, and the beginning of America's precipitous decline as a
world power. All these factors are summed up in one word: Vietnam.

John
Fitzgerald Kennedy's Cabinet was largely handpicked by Skull & Bones elder
statesman Robert Lovett, who was personally approached by Joseph Kennedy, the
president's father, and asked to shape the direction of the new administration.
Lovett had been one of the architects of the World War II industrial
mobilization under President Franklin Roosevelt, which helped bring the United
States out of the Great Depression. He had been a factional opponent of Averell
Harriman within the Skull & Bones circles, initially opposing the Cold War
containment doctrine and pushing the idea of Atoms for Peace during the early
years of the Eisenhower presidency (l952-1960).

Kennedy had personally
asked Lovett to join his Cabinet, but Lovett, a partner in Brown Brothers
Harriman, preferred to shun formal government service. Instead, he placed a
number of younger Bonesmen into the critical posts. McGeorge Bundy was appointed
Kennedy's National Security Adviser. Averell Harriman was made Under Secretary
of State for Asian Affairs, a position that placed him in charge of many of the
most critical decisions along the way to disaster in Vietnam. William Bundy
remained in a senior post at CIA.

The decision to escalate the American
military involvement in Vietnam -- a rejection of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
prophetic warning that the United States should never engage in a ground war in
Asia -- was made by members of the Order. According to some accounts, President
Kennedy began to have serious second thoughts about escalating the war,
particularly after several private Oval Office discussions with
MacArthur.

With Kennedy's assassination, American soldiers began pouring
into Southeast Asia. Harriman remained a fixture of Vietnam policy under
President Lyndon Baines Johnson. McGeorge Bundy remained on as LBJ's National
Security Adviser untill , when he left government service to assume the
presidency of the Ford Foundation, the largest tax-exempt philanthropic agency
in the United States. The Ford Foundation annually dispenses of nearly $3
billion in grants.

In his capacity as president of the Ford Foundation,
Bundy helped finance the anti-Vietnam War movement. The National Student
Mobilization Committee, the umbrella group for the entire New Left of the late
1960s and early 1970s, was led by David Dellinger, a Yale graduate. Episcopal
Church activist William Sloan Coffin, a Bonesman, a second leading figure in the
anti-war protest movement, had previously served as a CIA officer.

Thus,
the Order had its hands in two critical elements of the policy debacle of the
second half of the 1960s. Some leading Bonesmen helped shape the disastrous
limited war strategy in Vietnam, while other members of the Order, at least
tacitly, contributed to the growth of the drug-rock-sex counterculture by
nourishing the New Left soil from which it sprang.

As a result of the
Vietnam debacle, the "Stimson Kindergarten" literally drove itself out of the
corridors of power which it had occupied without challenge for the previous 20
years. With the election of Richard Nixon as president of the United States in
November 1968, a different team came into prominence. The politics of that team
were personified by Henry A. Kissinger, Nixon's National Security Adviser and
Secretary of State.

In a May 1982 speech in London at the Chatham House
headquarters of the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Kissinger boasted
that he was an enthusiastic follower of the late British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, and that throughout his years in senior government posts under
Presidents Nixon and Gerald Ford (1974-1976), he had always consulted more
frequently with his counterparts in the British Foreign Office than he had with
officials of his own government.

Although Kissinger had enjoyed early
patronage from McGeorge Bundy, when the Bonesman was Dean of Harvard University
and Kennedy's NSC adviser, the Kissinger era marked a low point in Skull &
Bones' government power. The Central Intelligence Agency, a hub of the Order's
clout, was decimated by scandals that only compounded the damage done to the
Agency as the result of its role in the Vietnam disaster.

According to
some respected writers, for example, Jim Hougan, author of "Secret Agenda," the
CIA attempted to reverse the route by helping to bring down Richard Nixon in
Watergate. There is significant evidence to bolster some of these
accounts.

When Gerald Ford became president in August 1974 following
Nixon's resignation, Skull & Bones made a brief comeback. In what came to be
known as the "Saturday Night Massacre," Ford, in the autumn of 1975, removed
Henry Kissinger from his post as NSC Adviser, replacing him with Gen. Brent
Scowcroft. Kissinger ally James Schlesinger was fired as Secretary of Defense
and replaced by Donald Rumsfeld. And CIA Director William Colby, who had dueled
with Angleton, was fired and replaced by Skull & Bones member George
Bush.

If these maneuvers were intended to be the first step in a more
ambitious comeback by the WASP warrior faction, the plan was short-circuited
with the election in November 1976 of Jimmy Carter as president. It would really
not be until the inauguration of George Bush as president in January 1989 -- a
dozen years later -- that Skull & Bones would resurface with the same degree
of governmental power that it had enjoyed during the Stimson years. George
Bush's selection as Ronald Reagan's vice presidential running mate in the 1980
and 1984 elections was the transition back to that power.

Many things had
gone wrong in the years since Vietnam to drive the Bonesmen off the center
stage. With more than a little input from Bonesmen like McGeorge Bundy and
Averell Harriman, the United States had gone into a period of scientific,
technological and industrial retreat. The Nixon decision on August 15, 1971 to
remove the dollar from a fixed, gold-backed exchange rate system, had triggered
a move toward double-digit inflation, urban decay, rising unemployment and
soaring interest rates. The Kissinger-orchestrated Iranian-Middle East oil
crisis in the early 1970s had contributed to a rate of deindustrialization that
ultimately transformed the United State from the biggest creditor nation in the
world to the world's biggest debtor nation. According to estimates compiled
around the time of George Bush's inauguration as president, the total U.S.
internal indebtedness had skyrocketed to more than $12
trillion.

Moreover, the period of the 1970s and 1980s had given rise to a
new and powerful political-financial combination demanding a share of government
clout. This new grouping, with its principle power bases in the U.S. Congress,
in Hollywood and on Wall Street, was known as the Zionist lobby.

Although
Jewish names had been prominent in the legal profession and on Wall Street since
the founding of the American republic, in the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War
between Israel and her Arab neighbors, Zionist power took on a whole different
proportion. Again, Henry Kissinger's position in the Nixon administration
symbolized the fact that the pro-Israel lobby had moved in with a vengeance to
the corridors of power in the nation's capital. Even on Wall Street the 1970s
and 1980s had seen a new generation of Jewish financiers come into power,
replacing their more cultured and Anglicized predecessors. The WASP
Establishment had developed a tolerance of and working relationship with the
largely German Jewish bankers known among themselves as "Our Crowd." The new
upstart Wall Street Zionists, however, were viewed by the WASPs as a collection
of gangsters.

If the Skull & Bonesmen needed a legitimate
justification for reviving their ever-present dislike of the East European
Ashkenazic Jews, the Wall Street Zionists who became known as the so-called "New
Crowd" provided them with all the excuses necessary. When Jonathan Jay Pollard,
a Naval intelligence analyst, was arrested in November 1985 and charged with
spying for Israel against the United States, there was a resurgence of more
unabashed antisemitism among the Bonesmen and their blueblood upperclass mates.
It has since become a hallmark of the Bush White House. Even when practical
political affairs have demanded that the Bush administration deal with the
American Zionist lobby or the right-wing Shamir government of Israel, there has
been a distinctive undertone of distrust bordering on overt
hostility.

BUSH IN
PROFILE

Unlike Averell Harriman, who reportedly coveted
personal political power and drew sharp criticism from some of his fellow
Bonesmen, George Bush has been a long-term "project" of Skull & Bones. The
Bush presidency in real and symbolic terms represents the effort by the Order to
restore the lost spirit of the WASP warrior Henry Stimson. With the passage of
time and the decay of the WASP elite, the Bush presidency may yet prove to be a
tragic replay of past American dreams.

George Bush's career was sponsored
every step of the way by Skull & Bones members, mostly of his father's
generation. Prescott Bush (Skull & Bones Class of 1917), a Brown Brothers
Harriman partner who would serve one term in Congress as senator from
Connecticut, sent George to the traditional private preparatory school, Phillips
Academy in Andover, New Hampshire, which grooms young New England squires for
later studies at Yale.

It was while finishing his prep school training at
Andover that Bush was first exposed to Henry Stimson. Reportedly, Stimson
delivered a stirring patriotic speech to the Phillips student body in l940
arguing forcefully for American intervention in the war in Europe. Ironically,
at that very moment on the Yale campus, the majority of Skull & Bonesmen
were leading the America First movement, which opposed any such U.S.
entanglement in Europe.

When war with Japan broke out a year later,
George Bush enlisted in the Navy and was trained as a pilot. He flew more than
50 missions before being shot down in the Pacific. At Yale after the war, Bush
captained the baseball team and followed his father's footsteps into the
Order.

Political legends have it that George Bush shunned his family's
patronage and went off on his own to launch a business career as an oil
wildcatter, or speculator, in Texas. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Bush moved to Texas to work for Dresser Industries selling oil drilling
equipment. The job was arranged for him by his father with Dresser president
Neil Mallon, who was a fellow member of Skull & Bones. Desser, according to
several sources, had close ties with the CIA.

After a few years with
Dresser, George Bush set up his own company, Zapata Oil, to explore new oil
fields in Texas and Mexico. Again, Bush was heavily backed by member of his
family. Uncle George Herbert Walker, also a Skull & Bonesman, put up a large
amount of capital, as did Brown Brothers Harriman. Lazard Brothers, a Jewish
brokerage house with longstanding friendly ties to the New England WASPs, put up
some money as well, at the urging of Andre Meyer, the owner of the Washington
Post Corporation and the father of the current Post publisher Kathanne Graham.
Zapata Oil sunk the first offshore well for the Kuwaiti government.

Even
with that kind of backing, George Bush was less than a success as a businessman.
In 1964, a longtime Bush friend, William Farrish III of Scotland, bought the
majority of shares in Zapata for $3.2 million to keep the business afloat, while
George, in a major career shift, ran for U.S. Congress from a wealthy district
in Houston, Texas. He won.

During his three terms in Congress (Bush lost
the 1970 Senate race to Lloyd Bentsen), George Bush distinguished himself as an
advocate of zero population growth and a defender of the eugenics movement. Both
of these positions, radical for their day, were probably the result of Bush's
close friendship with William Draper Jr. -- a fellow Bonesman and a longtime
advocate of population reduction schemes in the Third World.

The 1970s
were for George Bush years of grooming in high-level politics and foreign
policy. During the Nixon re-election campaign of 1972, George Bush was the
chairman of the Republican National Committee. He later joined the chorus
calling for Nixon's resignation. After a tour as the U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations, Bush was sent off to Communist China as the Chief Liaison
Officer prior to the formalization of diplomatic relations. Bush shared the
Beijing experience with Winston Lord, a fellow Skull & Bones member who was
the CIA station chief. Lord went on to become president of the New York Council
on Foreign Relations (CFR) in 1983. (The Lord family founded the city of
Hartford, Connecticut, has a large number of Skull & Bones members on its
family tree, and set up one of the most powerful old-line Wall Street law firms,
Lord Day Lord.) In 1975, George Bush completed his "grooming" with a brief stint
as Gerald Ford's CIA director.

In 1980, Bush ran a short-lived campaign
against Ronald Reagan for the Republican Party's presidential nomination. Future
running mate Reagan cut short Bush's 1980 presidential hopes by defeating him
soundly in the primary election in New Hampshire, in the heart of New England.
Reagan blasted Bush for his membership in the internationalist Trilateral
Commission, which had attained notoriety because 20 members of the unpopular
Carter administration had served on the commission. Bush's campaign was
otherwise noteworthy because a significant number of his campaign volunteers
were CIA officials; his campaign organization was directed by six top Agency and
Pentagon retirees.

THE ORDER'S
NETWORK

With Bush in the White House, the WASP
Establishment is seeking to re-conquer lost territory, not only within the
domain of national politics, but within the financial community, the legal
profession and big business. A struggle between some elements of the WASP crowd
and the Jewish "New Crowd" on Wall Street has been playing out in the newspapers
and federal courts for the past six years, beginning with the criminal
indictments of junk bond dealers Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken and the
bankrupting and criminal prosecuting of the powerful Zionist-run brokerage house
Drexel Rurnham Lambert.

To some extent these wars reflect the kind of
scramble that always takes place during a financial crisis and shakeout, when
certain formerly powerful financial institutions are wiped out and others profit
from their rivals' adversity. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the
House of Morgan came out on top. Not coincidentally, Morgan Guaranty Trust and
Morgan Stanley have been cornerstones of the Skull & Bones grouping on Wall
Street since their founding during the last century. Founding partner Harold
Stanley was a Bonesman.

One hub of the Order's postwar economic power,
the major multinational oil corporations, have clearly benefited greatly from
President Bush's "charming little colonial war" in the Persian Gulf. The leading
oil companies which are linked to the Order are: Standard Oil Trust Corporation,
Shell Oil of America, Creole Petroleum Corporation and Pennzoil Corporation. The
founder and present chairman of the board of Pennzoil started out in the oil
business in partnership with George Bush in Zapata Oil. It is interesting to
note in the context of the Bonesmen's deep involvement in the world petroleum
business that George Bush, during his early days as a Texas oilman, had worked
closely with the Kuwaitis.

Eight major Wall Street and Washington, D.C.
law firms stand out as practically wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Order of
Skull & Bones. Each of these firms was founded by members of the Order, and
each of these firms continues to provide up-and-coming Order initiates in the
legal community with training, credentials and connections. A review of the
major corporate clients of these firms would reveal many of the most powerful
companies among the Fortune 500.

The Skull & Bones law firms
are:

Lord Day Lord

Davis Polk Wardwell

Simpson Thacher Bartlett

Debevoise Plimpton Lyons & Gates

Cravath Swaine & Moore

Covington & Burling

Dewey Ballantine Palmer & Woods

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy.

In addition to their
corporate clientele and their direct involvement in government through the
frequent appointment of partners to Cabinet posts, these firms also specialize
in handling the personal financial affairs and investment portfolios of the
leading WASP families. In this respect, the Skull & Bones-centered WASP
Establishment imitates the Venetian model. During the height of power of Venice,
which was the trading capital of the Byzantine Empire, the leading families used
their personal wealth to establish insurance companies, family funds and
cultural programs through which they extended their political
power.

Today, the prominent law firms listed above play a special role in
directing the affairs of the leading tax-exempt foundations which shape the
culture and public opinion of the United States and many foreign countries. We
have already seen that McGeorge Bundy, a leading Bonesman, left his position as
National Security Adviser to President Lyndon Johnson in 1966 to assume the
presidency of the Ford Foundation. During the nearly two decades that Bundy
spent directing the $3 billion tax-exempt fund, he arguably wielded more power
than he did during his six years as the National Security Adviser to two
presidents. Under the Bundy reign the Ford Foundation spent hundreds of millions
of dollars to launch the environmentalist movement and funded scores of projects
devoted to population reduction in the Third World.

From its early
decades, the Order has concentrated much of its efforts at establishing,
controlling and, in some instances, capturing the major tax-exempt philanthropic
foundations of America. The Russell Sage Foundation, which specializes in
"social control" programs, was founded by Bonesmen. Among the leading functions
of the Russell Sage Foundation today is the maintaining of a centralized
tracking of the finances of all the large tax-exempt foundations in the United
States. The Peabody Foundation, the Slater Foundation and several of the
Rockefeller foundations were all either started by members of the Order or have
been dominated by Bonesmen from their inception. Other major family funds, like
the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment, were wrestled from family
control by the Skull & Bones apparatus. During the tenure of McGeorge Bundy,
two members of the Ford family resigned from the Ford Foundation in disgust over
the direction in which Bundy had taken the philanthropic agency.

THE NEW WORLD ORDER

Between
1983-1986, the British-born conspiracy theorist Antony Sutton wrote a series of
pamphlets about the Order of Skull & Bones. According to informed sources,
Sutton was one of several historians who were provided with a large file of the
Order's internal documents, including minutes of some meetings, descriptions of
rituals, and what would appear to be a rather complete list of its members from
its founding through to the early 1980s. The short pamphlets were compiled into
one volume and published as a book in 1986.

For someone closely following
the just-concluded Persian Gulf War and attempting to gain some insight into
George Bush's performance during that largely orchestrated affair, one recurring
theme in the Sutton volume stands out like a sore thumb: the New World
Order.

According to the Skull & Bones documents used by Sutton in his
somewhat flawed profile of the Order, the creation of a New World Order is a
primary goal of the Bonesmen and has been for decades. For the initiates into
the Order, the term New World Order has a very specific meaning.

It is a
world dominated by American military power and American control over all
strategic raw materials. Just as the Greek city-state of Sparta provided the
Skull & Bones with the image of a WASP warrior caste, the Persian Empire,
with its system of coalitions of satrap armies, provides the model for the
Bonesmen's New World Order. The image of Secretary of State James A. Baker III
traveling from foreign capital to foreign capital demanding military legions or
chests of gold to finance the war for a New World Order is an image straight out
of the chronicles of the Persian Empire.

According to the recent
biography of Henry Stimson, the man who inspired President Bush was firmly
convinced that it was essential for America to go to war once every generation
or so. It was, for Stimson, a spiritually cleansing process which enables the
nation to rally behind a cause and overcome its weaknesses and shortcomings in
one grand burst of military fervor. The romantic mystique of the purgative
powers of combat is key to understanding the political philosophy of Skull &
Bones.

Although America's Vietnam debacle remains a bitter memory of the
Bonesmen's failure in war, the recent Persian Gulf conflict, with its massive
overkill and the use of highly advanced weapons and technologies, is now the new
glorious symbol of the WASP warrior caste's reincarnation. When President Bush
vowed that the Gulf War would not be another Vietnam, he was speaking first and
foremost to his fellow Bonesmen -- not to the American people. If such thinking
smacks of dangerous fantasy on the part of a major world power in the modern
era, it is indeed.

On a more practical political level, the Gulf War was
a gambit to save the Bush presidency from a mounting pile of domestic financial
woes, not the least of which was the savings and loan (S&L) crisis and a
pending series of failures of major commercial banks. In the months preceding
the Gulf showdown, the president's own son, Neil Bush, came under intense media
scrutiny for his role in the failure of a large S&L in Colorado. Neil's
photograph, testifying under oath before a congressional committee probing fraud
among top S & L managers, became a familiar front-page feature in every
major newspaper in America, threatening dangerous popular disillusion with the
Yale Bonesman in the White House. With a U.S. federal government deficit
projected at nearly a half a trillion dollars for Fiscal Year 1991, in large
part because of the S&L crisis and a shrinking business tax base, the
Democratic Party majority in the U.S. Congress was pressing for deep cutbacks in
defense spending now that the Cold War had ended.

On the international
stage, the reunification of Germany, clearly the most dramatic event of 1990,
posed new challenges to the Bush team. Germany was about to emerge as the
dominant power in continental Europe by virtue of its advanced industrial
infrastructure and its long tradition of independent political dealings with
Moscow. Just months before the outbreak of the Gulf crisis, Germany's Chancellor
Helmut Kohl had met with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and signed a long
term economic assistance pact. As a result, Gorbachev dropped all remaining
objections to the immediate reunification of Germany.

At that point, the
Bush administration changed its tactics. Previously, in sharp contrast to the
Thatcher government in Great Britain, it had been nominally in favor of German
reunification. But at the Houston economic summit of the Group of Seven
Industrialized Countries in the summer of 1990, the United States blocked (with
Britain) Germany's plan of unconditional economic aid to the Soviet Union.
President Bush took the position that the Soviet Union must submit to
International Monetary Fund requisites as a precondition for any substantive
economic assistance.

In the Far East, Japan's continuing growth in
manufacturing also posed a threat to Washington's desire to retain superpower
status. If President Bush and his Bonesmen coterie were unaware of a stunning
historical analogy, their British "cousins" were quick to pick up on the
parallels between the global strategic situation in July 1990 and the identical
international situation that existed 100 years earlier.

In the 1890s,
France, under the brilliant political leadership of Foreign Minister Gabriel
Hanataux, was attempting to forge a Eurasian alliance with Germany, Russia and
Meiji Japan. The idea was to link continental Europe with Japan and China
through a series of large overland infrastructure projects, beginning with the
Trans-Siberian Railroad. Through treaties covering key areas of economic and
security matters, Hanataux hoped to create a zone of prosperity, built on a
foundation of rapid economic growth and extensive trade.

Such a
political-economic common interest alliance threatened the imperial hegemony of
Great Britain. At the turn of the 20th century, Britain looked to the United
States (as its English-speaking ally) to join in sabotaging the Hanataux plan.
Through the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the Russo-Japanese War of 1905,
Britain and her American junior partner (by then led by Henry Stimson's old
mentor Teddy Roosevelt) managed to disrupt the French-German-Russian-Japanese
economic axis. Two world wars and the Great Depression were the consequences of
that interference.

THE PERSIAN GULF
WAR

It was against this historical backdrop that
President Bush, invoking the World War II imagery of his Skull & Bones idol
Henry Stimson, went to war against Iraq. There is even speculation that
President Bush was personally instrumental in luring Saddam Hussein into
invading Kuwait, thereby provoking the American-led military response. Many news
accounts have emphasized that a two-hour private meeting between the president
and Margaret Thatcher in the Aspen, Colorado vacation chalet of U.S. Ambassador
Henry Catto on August 2, 1990 helped finalize Bush's decision to immediately
deploy military force.

Recently, an astute Japanese analyst drew a
disturbing parallel between Bush and FDR, who was greatly influenced by Stimson.
According to the writer, FDR lured Japan into World War II through an intricate
series of economic warfare maneuvers which left Japan with little choice but to
strike-back. In much the same way, said the analyst, Bush had lured Saddam
Hussein into Kuwait in order to launch a new Gulf War that would have
consequences reaching far beyond Iraq and the Middle East.

As a result of
the military victory over Iraq, the United States is in the process of
establishing a string of permanent military bases throughout the Persian Gulf
and Near East. The oil sheikdoms of the region, led by Saudi Arabia, are now
thoroughly dependent on the American military presence to ensure the survival of
their regimes. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is
effectively captured by Washington. American bankers aided by U.S. gunboats now
are setting world oil prices. Thus, one consequence of the Persian Gulf War is
that the United States now has an oil weapon -- pointed principally at Germany
and Japan. Ironically, America's two chief economic rivals have paid out a total
of $27 billion to date to help finance a Bush administration military adventure
which put the oil weapon in Washington's hand.

Another telling example of
how the Order's man in the Oval Office intends to administer a crumbling U.S.
domestic economy while imposing the New World Order on the rest of the world is
to be found in the recent buyout of the majority of stock in Citicorp, the
largest U.S. commercial bank, by Saudi Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz. Citicorp is
one of the major American commercial banks on the verge of collapse, but which
is considered by the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve System to be
"too big to fall." The stock purchase amounted to a Saudi Royal Family bail-out
of Citicorp, using the increased profits being enjoyed by the House of Saud as a
result of the massive jump in Saudi oil production since the beginning of the
Gulf crisis in August 1990.

There points up a striking difference between
the role of the United States in World War II and the Bush administration's
handling to date of the Middle East crisis. During World War II, the United
States went through a genuine economic revival. Skull & Bones historian
Samuel Huntington described it as a "neo Hamiltonian" policy, a reference to the
first United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. Beginning in
1939, America became a major supplier of military and industrial goods under the
Lend-Lease program to the European states fighting Hitler. At the same time, the
federal government began issuing low-interest credits to revive the nation's
manufacturing base which had been gutted by a decade of economic depression. The
industrial buildup accelerated once the United States formally entered .World
War II, leading to the establishing of entirely new industrial sectors, such as
aerospace and petrochemicals.

This time around -- at least to date --
there has been no such marshaling of the U.S. domestic industrial base. Despite
moderate increases in the production of certain high-tech weapons systems, the
U.S. economy continues its gradual slide into what could be a new depression.
Unemployment is greater than at any point in the last decade. Some sociologists
fear that the complete disintegration of America's urban centers could produce
new race-riots as early as the summer of 1991.

The single greatest
challenge to George Bush and the Order is: Can they capitalize on the current
revival of the American spirit to reverse the disastrous post-industrial society
dogmas, and launch their own version of the World War II neo-Hamiltonian
industrial recovery? So far, some doomsayers claim, it appears that Bush and his
administration plan instead to direct their efforts at looting and blackmailing
the rest of the world -- especially the gulf oil sheikdoms, Japan and Germany --
into bailing out the bankrupt U.S. financial houses and federal government and
financing the posting of American-led foreign legions at every corner of the
globe where there are large deposits of strategic raw materials. If this policy
is not altered, George Bush may soon find himself presiding over a new disaster
that will make the Vietnam debacle appear insignificant in
comparison.

The politics of the New World Order appear to be borrowed
largely from the pages of the decline and fall of the British Empire. Political
columnist Patrick Buchanan, an early vocal opponent of the Bush Persian Gulf
strategy, warned as early as August 1990 that the White House was falling into
the trap of British "balance of power" politics, the very politics that left
Great Britain on the scrap heap of world powers at the close of World War II,
and put Winston Churchill, the architect of World War II and the Cold War, out
of a job.

Since the crushing military defeat of Iraq by a technologically
far superior American-led coalition, the Bush administration has vacillated on a
postwar policy for the region. It has pursued a pragmatic power balancing game
which is rife with potential problems. The two key elements of the American
balance-of-power politics in the region are the preservation of a weakened but
territorially whole Iraq to offset the other would-be regional-powers Iran and
Syria. At the same time, it is tilting toward a nominally more "pro-Arab"
position with regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

While the harsh
reparations terms being imposed upon a war-devastated Iraq are probably, in the
mind of Bush, aimed at dissuading any future regional military power from
launching-cross-border aggressions, they amount to the slow, excruciating
extermination of the population of that country. As one seasoned observer noted
recently, earlier air wars had caused greater immediate losses of life, due to
the inaccuracy of bombs and rockets, but had generally left basic
infrastructures intact. The precision bombing of Iraq's entire infrastructure
has caused what a United Nations team has called an "apocalypse." The greater
loss of life will occur in the aftermath of the combat as a country with 16
million inhabitants is suddenly thrown into a "pre-industrial" state with no
electricity, no water or other necessities. American humanitarian aid,
administered by occupying troops, will not offset this apocalypse -- especially
if harsh war reparations and asset seizures deprive Iraq of the financial
resources needed to begin a rebuilding process.

Regardless of the fact
that the United States has not thrown the full weight of its military presence
behind the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime, the shortsightedness of the
present Bush policy may very well lead to a Lebanon-type protracted civil war in
Iraq. Such a war could potentially spread throughout the region.

IMPLICATIONS FOR
JAPAN

Throughout this short study of the Order of Skull
& Bones, emphasis has been placed on the philosophy, the rituals and the
modus operandi of the Bonesmen who have devoted their post-Yale careers to world
politics. This particular emphasis was chosen in order to provide the Japanese
reader with an insight into how the Bush presidency views the rest of the world,
so that it will be possible for Japan to better understand what it faces in the
post-Persian Gulf War strategic environment.

The implications of Skull
& Bones domination over American policymaking under the Bush presidency are
enormous. Japan must be prepared to meet what amounts to a fundamentally new
challenge. Few of the postwar experiences in U.S. Japanese relations will have
prepared the Japanese government and the leaders of Japanese industry and
finance for-what they now face.

In the recent past, the policy of
Washington toward Japan has been simply to use political leverage, mostly
related to Japan's regional security concerns, to exact compromises and
concessions in the economic and financial sphere. But the United States, under
its policy of free trade, privatization of the monetary and credit mechanisms,
and the transition to post-industrial service-oriented forms of economic
activity at home, has suffered a gradual but steady decline over the past 20 to
30 years. Japan, meanwhile, has prospered under a more protectionist and
industry oriented policy.

In the past decade, Japan has been increasingly
thrust into the role of scapegoat for the decline of American prosperity, while
at the same time coming under mounting pressure to help finance the United
States out of its economic mess. The pressures upon Japan to bail out its
postwar big brother have caused tensions between Washington and Tokyo, but the
Cold War had provided a common security interest that generally offset the
occasional rough language.

Under the George Bush Skull & Bones regime
at the White House all that has changed. True to the Bonesmen's credo of
constructive chaos and global political domination by the WASP Establishment,
the United States is now out to dominate U.S.-Japanese relations with a degree
of brutal frankness that will fly in the face of all previous American
sensitivities to Japan's honor. Gone are the days of former U.S. Ambassador
Michael Mansfield, who always sought to maintain a public climate of friendship
and cooperation between the two nations even when behind the scenes he was
taking the toughest of stands on the most divisive issues.

Under the
American-led New World Order, Japan can expect to be treated with far less
respect publicly. It can expect that the Bush administration, including his
coterie of former top CIA men now working directly out of the Oval Office, will
be constantly interfering, covertly in the internal affairs of
Nippon.

This shift in style has held sway since the Bush inauguration and
the subsequent appointment of Michael Armacost as U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo.
Armacost has assumed the posture of a Roman pro-consul, dictating policy to a
weak satrap, rather than to engage, in diplomatic dialogue. Armacost's
performance even before the recent events in the Persian Gulf reestablished
American military might as the defining factor in world affairs -- should have
provided the Japanese leadership with a clue as to the shift under way in
Washington's new policy approach.

The Bush policy can best be described
as a sophisticated containment policy. The new approach to Pacific affairs was
telegraphed in the early days of the Bush administration when the president
deployed three of his most trusted senior spooks to three critical Asian
diplomatic posts: Armacost was sent to Tokyo; Bush's vice presidential national
security aide and former career CIA operator Donald Gregg was sent to Seoul; and
John Lilly, another career CIA man and a fellow Yale Skull & Bones member,
was sent to Beijing. The fact that three of the CIA's most experienced
clandestine field operators were assigned the senior diplomatic posts says a
great deal about the Bush administration's intentions to conduct sophisticated
political-warfare and sow confusion among the three major nations of the Far
East. Bush clearly intends to pursue the historic Skull & Bones mission of
extending America's dominion over the entire Pacific region. The idea of even
paying lip service to equal partnership between Washington and Tokyo is over, at
least for the time being.

The process of internally weakening Japan's
resistance to this overarching domination by Washington's New World Order began
with the Recruit scandal, when the Takeshita government was brought down through
a U.S.-inspired secret intelligence operation. One of the primary targets of
that operation was Yashuhiro Nakasone, the former prime minister and the
architect of Japan's post-1973 effort to develop independent ties to the
oil-producing Arab states of the Persian Gulf.

It is important to
understand that Bush's WASP warriors, while adopting a similar approach of
non-compromise and domination over Israel and the Zionist lobby inside the
United States, will not hesitate to use the Jewish lobby as an instrument for
bashing Japan into line. Thus, Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher went out of
his way to encourage the Anti-Defamation League's leadership convention, which
he addressed last year, to join with the Bush administration in pressuring Japan
to submit to American free trade demands.

The Bush administration will at
times encourage the Zionist lobby and Israel to mercilessly attack Japan and
will at other times severely criticize Zionist "insensitivity" to Tokyo. This
will all be part of the Bush strategy to dominate the Pacific Rim by playing one
country or faction off against another, using hard cop-soft cop and other
classic techniques of the intelligence trade.

Japan will be offered a
limited junior partner status in the New World Order, while coming under
mounting pressure to continue providing tribute to finance the American
imperium. Above all else, Japan will be forbidden from developing any
independent foreign policy toward its neighbors, the Soviet Union, the Arab
world or anyone else. Such programs as the Global Infrastructure Fund, to the
extent that they pose an alternative to the U.S.-dominated international regime,
will be vetoed.

As a subservient junior partner in the New World Order
arrangement, Japan's financial and economic muscle will be used as the
piggy-bank for U.S. imperial objectives. The $14 billion "contribution" to the
U.S.-led Gulf-War coalition was another benchmark in the transition in
U.S.-Japanese relations, as was President Bush's abrupt cancellation of his
long-sheduled state visit to Tokyo. When the chairman of the Liberal Democratic
Party (LDP) attempted to visit Kuwait immediately after the gulf cease-fire in
March l991, the U.S. State Department refused to grant him permission to go into
the American-occupied territory. These intentional diplomatic affronts should be
understood as telling signs of the new American-Japanese relationship.

On
the other-hand, President Bush also suddenly scheduled a brief summit with
Japanese Prime Minister Kaifu in Newport Beach, California for April 4, 1991.
One purpose of the sudden meeting was to lay out clear parameters of acceptable
behavior on the part of the Japanese government when the prime minister meets
later in April with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Japanese Soviet
relations, like all other crucial Japanese foreign relations, will be expected
to conform with those of the U.S.

An essential blackmail "stick" that the
Bush administration intends to hold over Tokyo is-Japanese dependency on Persian
Gulf oil. As-the result of the Gulf War and the post war American military
occupation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other-key oil-producing sheikdoms, the
Bush administration will exert unabashed control over world oil supplies -- and
prices. In the New World Order, Japan's oil supply will be increasingly linked
to concessions on a range of monetary and economic issues, including the Global
Agreements on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) talks, which broke up last year as the
result of largely Japanese and continental European resistance to the pure
free-trade system sought by Bush and Thatcher. Assistant Treasury Secretary
David Mulford, a former senior official at White Weld Securities, Inc., which
restructured Saudi Arabia's entire financial apparatus, has recently announced
that he will seek to prosecute Japan for its violations of the GATT regulations
that call upon Tokyo to surrender government control over interest rate policies
to the international banking community.

The Bush presidency, with its
ambitious drive for domination over former friends and foes alike, poses an
unprecedented challenge to Japan. While this is neither the time nor the place
to offer a solution to the growing dilemma, the profile of the men of Skull
& Bones in this white paper should provide the Japanese reader with helpful
insights into the nature of the American WASP warrior class and the secret
society which spawned it.

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Peace and War. Octagon Press, New York, 1949

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Winks, Robin. Cloak and Gown Scholars in
the Secret War William Morrow, New York, 1987.

Some Prominent Members of Skull &
Bones:

William F. Buckley, Jr. (Bones Class of
1950):
Founder of National Review, the leading conservative magazine
in the United States. Brother James (Skull & Bones l944) is now a member of
the U.S. Court of Appeals. William F. Buckley, Jr., former CIA officer in
Mexico, also built the political grassroots conservative movement in the U.S. in
the 1960s. President Bush and Buckley have recently split over Buckley's strong
pro-lsraelism.

McGeorge Bundy (Skull & Bones initiate of
1940):
Scion of the Skull & Bones Bundy family. Father Harvey H.
Bundy was Skull & Bones, as was brother William P. Bundy. McGeorge served in
the War Department during World War II as Henry Stimson's assistant and later
became the National Security Adviser to President Kennedy. William Bundy became
a CIA official and later served in key positions at the Departments of State and
Defense. McGeorge headed the Ford Foundation (1968-1980) and William chaired the
Council on Foreign Relations (1972-1983).

George Bush (initiated
in 1948):
President of the United States. Comes from a complete
Bones family. Father Prescott, a Bones initiate of the class of 1917. Uncle
George Herbert Walker, Bones Class of 1927. U S Federal District Court Judge
John Walker is also a relative and a Bonesman.

Alfred Cowles
(Class of 1913):
Built the Cowles Communication empire based on the
Des Moines (lowa) Register and the Minneapolis (Minnesota) Star and Tribune.
These two newspapers play a significant role in shaping the early presidential
primaries, especially in Iowa.

Hugh Cunningham (Bones
1934):
CIA man from 1947 to 1973. He served in top positions in the
Clandestine Services, the Board of National Estimates and later as Director of
Training.

Thomas Daniels (initiated in 1914):
Founder
of the largest agro-business and grain cartel company in Minnesota --
Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM). Served in the Foreign Service and later during
World War II as head of the Fats and Oils Section of the War Production Board.
ADM Corporation's new head Dwayne Andreas is one of the most powerful figures in
U.S.-Soviet trade relations. Daniels's only son, John (Bones 1943), also works
in ADM. The bank which underwrites ADM stock issues is the Morgan Stanley
investment bank

Richard Ely Danielson (Skull & Bones
1907):
Past publisher of the Atlantic Monthly magazine, one of the
leading magazines for seeing which policy line on a variety of issues is coming
out of the Eastern Establishment.

Russell Wheeler Davenport
(initiated in 1923):
Fortune magazine writer and editor, made this
magazine the leading authority on financial matters in the United States.
Davenport created the Fortune 500 companies list.

Henry P.
Davison (Bones Class of l920):
Key senior partner in the Morgan
banking and financial trust networks. His fellow Bonesman Harold Stanley (1908)
founded the investment bank Morgan Stanley. Davison and his family helped set up
the Guaranty Trust Corporation which became Morgan Guaranty Thomas Cochran (1904
Bonesman) was one of the most powerful partners in the Morgan bank. The
influence of the Morgan banking system can be seen in its relationship with the
hierarchy of U.S. intelligence. The head of the Office of Strategic Services,
Gen. William Donovan, worked as a Morgan intelligence operative in the 1920s and
prepared the intelligence reports for the Morgan banking concerns on
developments in Europe. F. Trubee Davison became CIA Director of Personnel in
1951 and placed key Bonesmen in the right positions inside the
CIA.

Averell Harriman (1913 initiate):
Scion of the
Harriman railroad family. His brother Roland (Skull & Bones 1917) ran the
investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman. Averell was one of the most powerful
members of the Skull & Bones fraternity, His government posts ranged from
Ambassador to Russia during World War II and various State Department positions
to chief negotiator on the Vietnam Talks. Confidential adviser to Presidents
Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and later Nixon and Carter. His investment
banking firm is virtually a Skull & Bones bank‹nine senior partners are from
Skull & Bones. President Bush's father worked in Brown Brothers Harriman
after helping to merge several companies in the United Rubber Corporation of
America.

Winston Lord (Bones Class of 1959):

Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations (1983-l988). Former
State Department official and CIA officer in Asia. China expert. Six members of
the Lord family were Skull & Bones, including Charles Edwin Lord, former
Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury. Oswald Bates Lord
(Skull & Bones l926) married Mary Pillsbury of the Minnesota based Pillsbury
Flour Corporation. Winston Lord is their son.

Robert A. Lovett
(1918 initiate):
Put together the Brown Brothers Harriman merger
and later organized the aviation industry mobilization for World War II. Became
part of the most exclusive power group in World War II under Henry Stimson.
Lovett was one of the five or six most powerful men in the United States for
nearly 40 years until his death in 1986.

Henry Luce (initiated in
1920):
Built the Time-Life publishing empire. Became the leading
publicist of the "American century" doctrine.

Dino Pionzio (Bones
Class of 1950):
CIA deputy chief of station in Chile during the
overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende. Now works at the investment
firm Dillion Read.

Alphonso Taft (initiated in 1833):

Secretary of War (1876), Attorney General (1876-1877) and later
Minister to Austria and Russia. Co-founder of Skull &
Bones.

Robert A. Taft (1910 initiate):
Speaker of the
House of Representatives (1921-1926) and Senator (R-Ohio). Leader of the
Isolationist movement in the 1930s. His son Robert A. Taft, Jr., also senator
from Ohio, led the right-wing of the Republican Party in the 1950s and 1960s.
Robert A. Taft, Jr., however, was the only member of the Taft family who was not
Skull & Bones.

William H. Taft (Skull & Bones 1878):

President of the United States (1908-1912) and appointed Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court (1921-1930). Secretary of War (1904-1908). Trustee,
Carnegie Institution. Part of the long line of Tafts who served in the U.S.
government.

William Collins Whitney (initiated 1863):

Secretary of the Navy (1885-1889). Promoter of the Naval Shipyards
and financier. Part of the Whitney family which sent eight of its members to
Yale to become Skull & Bonesmen. Family intermarried with the Payne,
Harriman and Vanderbilt clans. The Whitneys became some of Wall Street's most
powerful financiers through the Guaranty and Knickerbocker Trust
Companies.

Current U.S. senators who are Skull & Bones
members:

Sen. Jonathan Bingham
(D-N.M.).

Sen. David Boren (D-Okla.) is chairman of the
Senate Intelligence Committee.

Sen. John Chafee
(R-R.I.); Former Navy Secretary and on the Senate Intelligence
Committee.

Sen. John Heinz (R-Pa.): Recently killed in
an airplane crash. was a Bonesman as was his father. The Heinz family has one of
the largest food-producing companies in the world.

Sen. John
Kerry (D-Mass.): Formerly on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Kerry
is now on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Selected Quotations:

-- During the Cuban
missile crisis in October 1962, two Skull & Bones advisers to President
Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy and Robert Lovett, met in the west wing of the White
House to discuss strategy. According to author Godfrey Hodgson, there was a
photograph of master Bonesman Henry L. Stimson, their mentor, on Lundy's desk.
"All during the conversation the old Colonel seemed to be staring me straight in
the face," recalled Lovett. Finally, he said to Bundy, "Mac, I think the best
service we can perform for the president is to try to approach this as Colonel
Stimson would."

-- At the Potsdam summit in 1946 when President Truman
first met Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Stimson told the president: "The chief
lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man
trustworthy is to trust him."

-- Commenting on the plan of Robert
Morgenthau, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Treasury Secretary, to
deindustrialize Germany after World War II, Stimson wrote: ". . . just such a
crime as the Germans themselves hoped to perpetrate on their victims . . . a
crime against civilization itself?" He added rather ironically that the plan was
like "a beautiful Nazi program! This is to laugh!"

-- "They possessed a
common background, common experience, and a common liking for old wines, proper
English and Savile Row clothing," wrote the biographer of former U.S. Ambassador
to Japan Joseph Grew. A top level diplomat and State Department powerhouse
during the first half of the 20th century, Bonesman Hugh Wilson adds, "The
Foreign Service [is] a pretty good club."

-- "These men helped establish
a distinguished network connecting Wall Street, Washington, worthy foundations
and proper clubs," wrote historian and former JFK aide Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
"The New York financial 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."

-- British author Godfrey Hodgson stated in an essay on the
American Establishment that it was "characteristic of these men to take on the
burdens of world power with a certain avidity... It reflected a grim but grand
duty that was a legacy from half-buried layer of New England
Puritanism."

-- Averell Harriman's father, owner of the largest railroad
company in the United States at the turn of the century, told his son: "Great
wealth is an obligation and responsibility. Money must work for the
country."

-- "I scoffed at Harvard's Porcellian club. It was too smug.
But to get into Bones, you had to do something for Yale, wrote Averell Harriman.
He would frequently return to the "Tomb on High Street." During the Paris Peace
Conference on the Vietnam War, Harriman was quite upset about not being able to
attend a "Bones Reunion." In the book The Wise Men, Harriman is described as
willing to talk openly about national security affairs, but "he refused,
however, to tell [even] his family anything about Bones... so complete was his
trust in Bones's code of secrecy..."

-- Stimson during the liberation of
France in 1944 wrote about the need for France's reconstruction following the
Nazi occupation of France: "America cannot supervise the elections of a great
country like France. Consequently, we must eventually leave the execution of the
State Department formula to the French themselves... where we ourselves will
assume responsibility in part or more for its execution according to Anglo-Saxon
ideals."

-- Stimson on Austria and Germany following World War II: "They
[the British] haven't any grasp apparently of the underlying need of proper
economic arrangements to make peace stick... If they restore Austria to her
position in which she was left by the Versailles arrangement 25 years ago, why
they would reduce her to a non-self-sustaining state [is beyond me]... Central
Europe after the war has got to eat. She has got to be free of tariffs in order
to eat."

-- Stimson was "opposed to a Carthaginian Peace" in which
Germany was reduced to a non functioning society. He wrote, "The Ruhr and
Saarland... [must not] be turned into a second rate industrial land . . .
regardless of what it means to Germany... [rather] to the welfare of the entire
continent "

-- In 1948, the debate within the U.S. government over the
creation of the state of Israel was reaching critical intensity. President
Truman was the "dark horse" candidate to defeat the Republican nominee, Thomas
Dewey. Truman thought he needed the Jewish groups to mobilize in his support in
order to get elected. He also believed that after so many years of suffering and
persecution, the Jews deserved a homeland of their own. However, his most
trusted foreign policy advisers, George Marshall, Dean Acheson and Robert
Lovett, were, according to the book The Wise Men, "all dead set against the
birth of Israel... However humanitarian a Jewish homeland might seem... it posed
a real risk to U.N. national security. It was absolutely vital that the U.S.
maintain its pipeline to Mideast oil. Supporting the Zionist cause would only
antagonize the Arabs." Lovett said, "Israel was one ally too many "

-- On
Japan, Stimson and McGeorge Bundy wrote their book On Active Service in Peace
and War: "Since 1937, when the Japanese attacked China, Stimson had been urging,
as a private citizen, an embargo on all American trade with Japan, and this
attitude he carried with him into the Cabinet [when he became Secretary of
War]." Stimson prepared a memorandum in 1940 pointing out how Japan had yielded
before American firmness, in her withdrawal from Shantung and Siberia in 1919
and her acceptance of naval inferiority in 1921. "Japan," Stimson wrote, "has
historically shown that she can misinterpret a pacifistic policy of the United
States for weakness. She has also historically shown that when the United States
indicates by clear language and bold actions that she intends to carry out a
clear and affirmative policy in the Far East, Japan will yield to that policy
even though it conflicts with her own Asiatic policy and conceived interests.
For the United States now to indicate either by soft words or inconsistent
actions that she has no such clear and definite policy towards the Far East will
only encourage Japan to bolder action."

-- On December 7, 1941, Stimson
wrote in his diary: "When the news first came that Japan had attacked us, my
first feeling was of relief that the indecision was over and that crisis had
come in a way which would unite all our people. This continued to be my dominant
feeling in spite of the news of catastrophes which quickly developed. For I feel
that this country united has practically nothing to fear, while the apathy and
division stirred by unpatriotic men have been hitherto very
discouraging."

-- On the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
Stimson wrote in an article for Harper's Weekly in 1947: "My chief purpose was
to end the war in victory with the least possible cost in the lives of men in
the armies which I had helped to raise. In the light that no man, in our
position and subject to our responsibilities, holding in his hands a weapon of
such possibilities for accomplishing this purpose and saving those lives, could
have failed to use it and afterwards looked his countrymen in the
face."

-- At the Truman White House in the presence of Secretary of State
James Byrnes, Adm. Leahy and Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, according to
his biographer: "Stimson had argued consistently for a commitment to allow the
Japanese to keep their Emperor, not because- with the memory of Manchuria in his
mind‹he had any special sympathy for him, but because only the Emperor could
persuade the Japanese to surrender and therefore save American lives."

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