An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones - vHo

Council which sounds vaguely like a government policy organization, but is concerned merely with marketing
fish fillets. If the oher Bundys had followed in Fred's honest, industrious footsteps and confined their activism
to fish fillets, the world would be a lot safer, saner place.
Unfortunately, they didn't. The other three Bundys - Harvey Hollister and two of his three sons, William
Putnam and McGeorge - we key activists and the activism has a Hegelian pattern, i.e., creation :r conflict to
bring about change.
Let's take a look at each of the activist Bundys:
Harvey Hollister Bundy
Born Grand Rapids, Michigan 1888, died 1963. His grandfather was a lawyer and Congressman, and his
father was a lawyer too. Harvey Hollister described himself as lawyer and government official. Bundy was
initiated into The Order in 1909. After a Harvard law degree and some world travel he became law clerk to
Supreme Court Associate Justice Wendell Holmes (1914-1915). By coincidence, Alger Hiss, later convicted of
perjury in the celebrated Chambers-Hiss trials involving Soviet espionage, was also a law clerk to Justice
Holmes (1929-1930).
Harvey Hollister Bundy senior had five children, of whom three linked themselves to The Order.
The eldest son, Harvey Hollister, graduated Yale 1938, but was not initiated into Skull & Bones. He's a
banker who, like Fred, keeps away from activism.
The next eldest is William Putnam Bundy, initiated in 1939. The next son is McGeorge Bundy, initiated in
1940. The eldest daughter, Harriet Lowell Bundy, married Gasper d'Andelot Belin, a partner in Covington
and Burling and initiated with William Bundy in 1939. The youngest daughter, Katherine Lawrence Bundy,
married Hugh Auchincloss, Jr. The two Bundy boys have been the real activists.
William P. Bundy
Here's William Bundy's career in brief:
• 1947-1951 Law firm Covington & Burling in Washington.
D. C.
• 1951-1961 Central Intelligence Agency
• 1960 Staff Director of Presidential Commission on Na
tional Goals
• 1961-3 Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Inter
national Security Affairs
• 1964-9 Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and
Pacific Affairs in the Vietnam War period.
• 1969-71 Visiting Professor at Center for International
Studies, MIT
Editor of Foreign Affairs, the Council on
Foreign Relations (CFR) quarterly and the most
• 1972 pres tigious foreign affairs journal in the U.S. A
guide for all policy makers. Winston Lord (The
Order) is Chairman of CFR.
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Bundy is a member of the American Assembly and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Clearly, Mr. Bundy has been appointed to some very influential positions in the last 30 years. As the
Washington law firm of Covington &
Burling is intimately linked to Government regulatory affairs, it's reasonable to presume that Bundy probably
had CIA dealings in the 1947-51 period and then moved to CIA to expand on these projects. The firm of
Covington & Burling represents more than 100 top U.S. firms in Washington. Former partners have included
William Bundy's father-in-law, Dean Acheson, and brother-in-law, Gasper Belin, (The Order).