In 1962, Prescott founded the National Strategy Information Center, with his son, Prescott Bush, Jr. This was an effort to provide money and cover for arming the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, and to coordinate published attacks on opponents of the program. In the ’80s, the Richardson Foundation was a “private donors steering committee,” working with the National Security Council to coordinate the Office of Public Diplomacy. It participated in MK-ULTRA, a secret CIA domestic psychological-warfare operation, and helped to finance the testing of psychotropic drugs, including LSD, at Bridgewater Hospital in Massachusetts in the ’50s. Richardson, the maker of Vick’s cough drops and Vapo-Rub, wrote in a letter to Senator Bush “I want to get your advice and counsel on a subject-namely what should be done with the income from a foundation, which my brothers and I are setting up.”Įugene Stetson (S&B 1934), an assistant manager at Brown Brothers, Harriman, organized the H. They created a framework to run covert operations and psychological warfare. Averell Harriman (S&B 1913), worked closely with fellow “Bonesman” Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett (S&B 1918) to organize US intelligence activities in the early Cold War. He had served as a US Army Intelligence liaison officer during World War I. He was one of President Dwight Eisenhower’s favorite golfing partners and a member of Washington’s elite Alibi Club.īut there was more to Prescott than met the resume. His grandfather, Prescott Bush (S&B, 1917) was a senator from Connecticut from 1952-62, a partner in the Brown Brothers, Harriman investment-banking firm, and a director for CBS, Pan Am and Prudential. Bush is the third generation of Bush Bonesmen to become prominent in national politics. Bush (S&B 1968) is the leading contender for the presidency. Bonesmen have held myriad lesser appointed posts and positions, with a particular affinity for the Central Intelligence Agency. There have been two Skull and Bones presidents, at least 10 senators, two chief justices of the Supreme Court and many US representatives and state governors.
From Yale, “Bonesmen” went into and were very influential in the worlds of commerce, communications, diplomacy, education, espionage, finance, law and politics. Many New England and Southern families in the “China Trade” sent their sons to Yale, and many were “tapped” into Skull and Bones. His cousin Samuel Russell’s family enterprise, Russell & Company, was the largest American opium smuggler, working with the Scottish firm Jardine-Matheson, the world’s largest. The Order of Skull and Bones is a secret society founded at Yale by William Huntington Russell (S&B 1833). Minorities were brought in in the 1950s, and the first women were admitted in 1991. Around 2,500 have been members, mostly white males from wealthy Northeastern families: Bush, Ford, Goodyear, Harriman, Heinz, Jay, Kellogg, Phelps, Pillsbury, Pinchot, Rockefeller, Taft, Vanderbilt, Weyerhauser and Whitney are some of the names on its roster. College kids having fun? Not quite.įifteen juniors are tapped on a Thursday in May each year. It’s a symbol used by pirates and poisons, but it’s also a “fraternity’’ at Yale University. Like, was he was talking about the Order of Skull and Bones? “The Vietnam War,” he said soberly, “is about drugs.” Many years later I finally had some understanding of what Dad was talking about. During the early ’50s he was a CIA branch chief, head of the East Asia intelligence analysis office. “These secret societies are behind it all,” my father told me many years ago. Kris Millegan tries to find out if the secret police really controls the planet. Bush connected to the most dangerous society in America? Could Yale alumni be the real power behind the “Secret Government”? In this January, 2000 High Times story, R.A.
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