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their goal was to make philosophy, not religion, the guiding principle of man’s actions. They had
secret hand signals and handshakes up to 1831, when it was reorganized and changed from a
social organization, to an honorary society for upper classmen with high scholastic standing.
During the 1700’s, when it looked as through the fraternity would fold, one of its members,
Elisha Parmele, received a grant to establish chapters at Yale in 1780 (Yale Professor of History,
Gaddis Smith, said: “Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other
university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.”), and at Harvard in 1781. They
later grew to have chapters on 270 campuses, and with more than 500,000 members.
Among their member have been: Tom Brokaw (NBC commentator), Glenn Close (actress),
Francis Ford Coppola (noted film director), Henry Kissinger (U.S. Secretary of State, 1973 to
1977; Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, 1969-75), Kris Kristofferson
(singer/actor), Dean Rusk (Presidential advisor), Howard K. Smith (ABC commentator), Caspar
Weinberger (U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1981-87), John D. Rockefeller III, Nelson Rockefeller,
President George H. W. Bush, President Jimmy Carter, President Bill Clinton, President Franklin
Roosevelt, President Woodrow Wilson, Gov. Jeb Bush (from Florida), Sen. Joseph Lieberman
(from Connecticut), Byron White (Supreme Court Justice), and Elihu Root (Secretary of State,
1905-1909; served in the U.S. Senate, 1909-1915; was president of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, 1910-1925).
To be fair here, I have to say that the inclusion of Phi Beta Kappa is by no means intended to
downplay the academic achievements of its thousands of members, or to give the connotation of
it being an evil organization. However, its dubious beginnings, and the fact that many people in
influential positions have come from their ranks, it certainly is reason enough to take note. But
more than that, when you see their membership cross over into other organizations such as the
Bilderbergers, Council on Foreign Relations, and Trilateral Commission; then you begin to see it
as a possible breeding ground for people who are favorable to the international agenda that is
leading to one-world government.
SKULL AND BONES
The Skull and Bones organization was founded at Yale University in 1832 by General
William Huntington Russell (who later served in the Connecticut State legislature 1846-47) and
Alphonso Taft (U.S. Secretary of War in 1876, Attorney General 1886-87, U.S. Minister to
Austria 1882-84, U.S. Ambassador to Russia 1884-85, and the father of former president
William Howard Taft); and incorporated in 1856 by Russell and Daniel Colt Gilman, under the
name ‘The Russell Trust Association.’ Russell had visited Germany that year, where he was
exposed to the Illuminati, and possibly initiated. He wanted to establish a similar group in
America, where their sons could become members of a secret Order that would give them a
favored status.
It became a black lodge of Freemasonry. In 1873, some Yale students broke into their
headquarters, a windowless building called ‘The Tomb’ adjacent to the campus, where they
discovered their insignia– the skull and bones, along with some real skulls and bones. They
wrote in the Yale newspaper, the Iconoclast: “Year-by-year the deadly evil of the Skull and
Bones is growing.”
The Russell Trust is endowed by $54 million in alumni grants, and it is the alumni who
control the group. Antony C. Sutton, a former Economics professor at Stanford University, wrote