-Caveat Lector-
an excerpt from-
America's Secret Establishment
An introduction to The Order of Skull & Bones
by ANTONY C. SUTTON
Liberty House Press
2027 Iris
Billings, Montana 59102
1986
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Highly reccomended. There is more in this book than can be presented here.
Many charts and reproductions of orginal source material.As always, Caveat
Lector.
In stock at: A-albionic Research, PO Box 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220-0273
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Memorandum Number Four:
Who Is In This Secret Society?
The membership list of about 2500 initiates into The Order has very
obvious features:
* Most members are from the Eastern seaboard United States. As
late as 1950 only three members resided in Los Angeles,
California, but 28 members resided in New Haven, Connec-
ticut.
* Members are all males and almost all WASPS (White Anglo
Saxon Protestant). In great part they descended from English
Puritan families, their ancestors arrived in North America in the
1630-1660 period.
* These Puritan families either intermarried with financial power
or invited in sons of money moguls. e.g., Rockefellers,
Davisons. and Harrimans, whose sons became members of The
Order.
From this preliminary information we can derive Hypothesis One
THERE EXISTS IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY, AND HAS EX-
ISTED SINCE 1833, A SECRET SOCIETY COMPRISING MEMBERS
OF OLD LINE AMERICAN FAMILIES AND REPRESENTATIVES OF
FINANCIAL POWER.
The chart on page 19 presents a simplified layout of this hypothesis
Full information remains for a later book _ for now we'll give details of
just two key families, the Whitneys and the Harrimans.
The Whitney Family
A key family is the Whitneys, descended from English Puritans who
came to the U.S. about 1635 and settled in Watertown. Mass. Eight
Whitney's have been members of The Order. Of these, three had brief
lives; Emerson Cogswell Whitney died a few months after initiation and
Edward Payson Whitney "disappeared in 1858" according to his
biographer. However, three Whitneys. William Collins Whitney and his
two sons, are the core of Whitney influence in The Order which survives,
today through the Harriman family and intermarriage with Paynes and
Vanderbilts.
Whitneys In The Order:
Initiation Name Field
1851 Emerson Cogswell Whitney Education: "Died December
1, 1851."
1854 Edward Payson Whitney Medicine: "Disappeared
1858"
1856 James Lyman Whitney Library work: Boston Public
Library
1863 William Collins Whitney Secretary of Navy (1885-9)
Promoter and
Financier
1878 Edward Baldwin Whitney Law: Justice, New York
Supreme Court
1882 Joseph Ernest Whitney Education: "Died Feb. 25,
1893"
1894 Payne Whitney Finance : Knickerbocker
(son of W.C. Whitney Trust Co.
1898 Harry Payne Whitney Finance : Guaranty Trust
(son of W.C. Whitney) and Guggenheim Explora-
tion Co.
Hypothesis Number One: A Secret Society
Dominated By Old Line American Families
And New Wealth Has Existed From 1833
To The Present Day.
THE ORDER
PHELPS FAMILY
(1630, Dorchester, Mass.)
PERKINS FAMILY
(1631, Boston, Mass.)
WADSWORTH FAMILY
(1632 Newtown, Mass.)
BUNDY FAMILY
(1635, Boston, Mass.)
LORD FAMILY
(1635, Cambridge, Mass.)
WHITNEY FAMILY
(1635, Watertown, Mass.)
STIMSON FAMILY
(1635, Watertown, Mass.)
GILMAN FAMILY
(1638, Hingham, Mass.)
TAFT FAMILY
(1679, Braintree, Mass.
ROCKEFELLER FAMILY
(Standard Oil)
HARRIMAN FAMILY
(Railroads)
PAYNE FAMILY
(Standard Oil)
DAVISON FAMILY
(J. P. Morgan)
WEYERHAEUSER FAMILY
(Lumber)
PILLSBURY FAMILY
(Flour milling)
SLOANE FAMILY
(Retail)
William Collins Whitney (1841-1904) is a fine example of how
members of The Order rise to fame and fortune. W.C. Whitney was in-
itiated in 1863 and by 1872 had only advanced his career to Inspector
of Schools for New York. However, in the last three decades of the cen-
tury, he rolled up a massive fortune, became a power behind the throne
in the Cleveland Administration, and directed the often unscrupulous
activities of a cluster of capitalists known as "the Whitney Group". A
brief quotation suggests the power that Whitney amassed in a brief 30
years. This is a list of Whitney estates at the turn of the century:
". . . a city residence in New York, a Venetian palace and 5,000
acres in Wheatley Hills, near Jamaica, L.I.; a Sheepshead Bay
house, with a private track covering 300 acres; a mansion at
Berkshire Hills, Mass., with 700 acres of land; October Mountain
house, with a large tract of land; Stony Ford Farm, New York,
used as an auxiliary to his Kentucky Stock Farm; an Adirondack
game preserve of 16,000 acres; a lodge at Blue Mountain Lake
with a fine golf course, a Blue Grass farm of 3,000 acres in Ken-
tucky; and an estate at Aiken, S.C., comprising a mansion, race
course, and 2,000 acres of hunting land."
William C. Whitney married Flora Payne, daughter of Standard Oil
Treasurer Oliver Payne. The Paynes are not in The Order, but adding
the Payne piece of the Standard Oil fortune made Whitney's fortune
that much larger. Their two sons, Harry Payne ('94) and Payne
Whitney ('98), went to Yale and became members of The Order. After
Yale, Harry Payne promptly married Gertrude Vanderbilt in 1896 and
so the Whitney-Payne fortune now joined some Vanderbilt money
This financial power was channeled into Guaranty Trust, the J. P.
Morgan and Guggenheim outfits.
And it gets more complicated. For example, the son of Harry Payne
Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, married Marie Norton. After
their divorce, Marie Norton Whitney married W. Averell Harriman (his
first wife) who is today at 91 a key member. It is these tightly woven
family and financial interlocks that make up the core of The Order
So let's take a look at the Harriman family.
The Harriman Family
In the first few days of June 1983 a prominent American, a private,
citizen. flew to Moscow for a confidential chat with Yuri Andropov. A
State Department interpreter went along.
This American was not the President, nor the Vice-President, nor the
Secretary of State, nor any member of the Reagan Administration
was a private individual - W- Averell Harriman. The first time any
American had talked with Yuri Andropov since the death of his
predecessor, Brezhnev. So who is W. Averell Harriman?
The elder Harriman, a prominent and not too scrupulous railroad
magnate, sent both his sons to Yale. William Averell Harriman ('13)
and Edward Roland Noel Harriman ('17) joined The Order. A good ex-
ample of how old line families in The Order absorbed new wealth
families, although as history has unfolded it may be that Harriman and
his fellow investment bankers have dominated the direction of The
Order in the past few decades.
[Copy of an advertisement from Wall Street Journal listing partners, 7/11/72]
In the 1930s W.A. Harriman & Company merged with Brown
Brothers. This was an older financial house whose partners were also
members of The Order. Alexander Brown was founded 1800 in New
York and Philadelphia.
By the 1970s the relatively unknown private international banking
firm of Brown Brothers. Harriman, with assets of about one half billion
dollars, had taken in so many of "the Brotherhood" that out of 26 in-
dividual partners, no fewer than 9 were members of The Order
We don't know of any greater concentration of members.
And to make it more interesting, Prescott Bush. father of Vice Presi-
dent George Bush (both in The Order. was a partner in Brown
Brothers, Harriman for over 40 years.
Finally. because Brown Brothers, Harriman is a private banking firm
it has relatively no government supervision and does not publish an-
nual report. In other words, we know NOTHING about its operations
- at least we know nothing from Brown Brothers, Harriman sources
Here's a line-up of Brown Brothers, Harriman partners who were
also members of The Order in the mid 1970s:
Name of Partner Date Initiated
Walter H. Brown 1945
Prescott Sheldon Bush 1917
Granger Kent Costikyan 1929
Edward Roland Noel Harriman 1917
W. Averell Harriman 1913
Stephen Young Hord 1921
Robert Abercrombie Lovett 1918
John Beckwith Madden 1941
Knight Woolley 1917
It's worth thinking about this concentration of names and the power it
represents in the light of outside comments on The Order over the
years.
After the title page of this volume we reprint the verse of an
anonymous Yale student of the 1870s. He commented on the require-
ment to put The Order ahead of all else.
The Editor of The Iconoclast (also in the 1870s) wrote:
And on their breasts they wear a sign
That tells their race and name
It is the ghastly badge of death
And from his kingdom came
The son of Satan, son of sin
The enemy of man.
Another writer in the 1870s called The Order the "Brotherhood of
Death":
Outside already, in the doubtful dawn,
Thither, from this side and from that, slow sweep,
And settle down in silence solidly,
Crow-wise, the frightful Brotherhood of Death.
Black-hatted and black-hooded huddle they,
With black cravats a-dangling from each neck;
So take they their grim station at the door,
Torches lit, skull-and-cross-bones-banner spread.
Ron Rosenbaum in his 1977 Esquire article a century later, was no
less caustic. Rosenbaum called it a Mafia.
From evidence to be presented later this author would term The
Order "an international Mafia" . . . unregulated and all but unknown.
To the outside world, however, it's merely Brown Brothers, Har-
riman, 59 Wall Street, New York. But obviously Yuri Andropov over in
Moscow knows who holds the cards.
The British Connection
Some well read readers may raise a question - how does The Order
and its families relate to Cecil Rhodes secret society, Milners Round
Table, the Illuminati and the Jewish secret society equivalents How do
these fit into the picture?
We are concerned here only with the core of a purely American
phenomenon with German origin. It is undoubtedly linked to overseas
groups. The links between The Order and Britain go through Lazard
Freres and the private merchant bankers. Notably the British establish-
ment was also founded at a University - Oxford University, and
especially All Souls College at Oxford. The British element is call.
"The Group"
.
The Group links to the Jewish equivalent through the Rothschilds in
Britain (Lord Rothschild was an original member of Rhodes "inner
circle"). The Order in the U.S. links to the Guggenheim, Schiff and
Warburg families. There were no Jews at all in The Order until very
recently. In fact, The Order has, as Rosenbaum suggests, some definite
anti-Semitic tendencies. Token Jews (and token blacks) have been ad-
mitted in recent years.
There is an Illuminati connection. Some details are in the Esquire article,
more details will be in our future volumes.
All these groups have cooperative and competitive features. But to
argue that all the world's ills can be ascribed to any one of these groups
is false. The core of The Order, like the core of "The Group" in
England, comprises about 20 families. In the U.S. case they are mostly
descendants from the original settlers in Massachusetts. New wealth did
not enter The Order until the mid-19th century and until recently, has never
dominated The Order. On the other hand, key families, the
Whitneys and the Harrimans, are linked to their own banking interests
In many ways these old line Yankee families have outsmarted the
bankers. The Puritans diverted bankers' wealth to their own objectives
without always absorbing the banker families. The Order controls the
substantial wealth of Andrew Carnegie, but no Carnegie has ever been
a member of The Order. The Order used the Ford wealth so flagrantly
against the wishes of the Ford family that two Fords resigned from the
board of the Ford Foundation. No Ford has been a member of The
Order. The name Morgan has never appeared on the membership lists
although some Morgan partners are with the inner core, for example
Davison and Perkins. Interestingly, the Astor name is prominent
"The Group" in England, but not in The Order in the U.S.
pps 17-24
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Omnia Bona Bonis,
All My Relations.
Adieu, Adios, Aloha.
Amen.
Roads End
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