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America's Secret Establishment
An introduction to The Order of Skull & Bones
by ANTONY C. SUTTON
Liberty House Press
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1986
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Memorandum Number Nine:
The Bundy Operation
If The Order had a reasonably "normal" life style, there would be no
necessity for, and no substance in, this book. Unfortunately for us they
do not have a normal life style.
The Order does not just go to college, look for a secure post with an
establishment law firm, intermarry with the sisters and daughters of
other members, get noisily drunk at the country club and go to church
on Sunday. These may be reasonably "normal" patterns, but certainly
not topics for research and analysis.
A proportion of The Order follows a life style which can best be
described as:
AMBITIOUS ACTIVISM TOWARDS A NEW WORLD ORDER GOAL.
Let's select one family - the Bundy family - fairly typical of another
20 or so families in The Order, and take a closer look.
The Bundy family came to the United States from England before
1635 and settled first in Boston, then in Taunton, Massachusetts. The
family is one of lawyers and politicians with four members in The Order.
Date
Initiated Name Key Activities
1909 Harvey Hollister Bundy Special assistant to Secretary
of War Stimson.
1921 Frederick McGeorge Bundy Selling fish fillets
1939 William Putnam Bundy CIA, Editor Foreign Affairs
1940 McGeorge Bundy Government and foundation
official.
Frederick McGeorge Bundy is an example of a member who is initiated and
then, apparently, is disinclined to do more. We can safely ignore Fred: his
great achievement in life was Chairman of the North Atlantic Fillet Council
which sounds vaguely like a government policy organization, but is concerned
merely with marketing fish fillets. If the other 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
are key activists and the activism has a Hegelian pattern, i.e.. creation
of 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
* 1972 Editor of Foreign Affairs, the Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR) quarterly and the most pres-
tigious foreign affairs journal in the U.S. A
guide
for all policy makers. Winston Lord (The Order) is
Chairman of CFR.
Bundy is a member of the American Assembly and the Council on
Foreign Relations.]
Clearly, Mr. Bundy has been appointed to some very influential posi-
tions 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).
An interesting aspect of this law firm, where the Bundy family consists
of the single most influential element in the past few decades, is its crea-
tion of -left wing" political activity. This creative activity brings to mind
the McCarthy Senate hearings on subversion of the 1953 era when
Senator Joseph McCarthy wanted to call William Bundy as a witness
before the Committee and found the establishment strongly arrayed
against this idea (Bundy had given $400 to the Alger Hiss Defense
Fund). In retrospect it may have been more than McCarthy's harsh
treatment of witnesses - which is on the record - that prompted
establishment horror. There may indeed have been some skeletons in
the closet (and perhaps some bones) that the Senator could have un-
wittingly unearthed, and these skeletons had nothing to do with
domestic communism.
In any event, as Quigley pointed out in Tragedy and Hope, the J.P.
Morgan firm had financed the non-communist left in the United States
for political control. It seems that Covington & Burling may well be
another conduit. Some preliminary evidence:
* Covington & Burling partner John Douglas is the son of Paul H.
Douglas - who was one of the most prominent radicals of the
30s and 40s and an outspoken member of the non-communist
left. John Douglas was a key coordinator in the 1972 George
McGovern campaign: McGovern, of course. being on the left
end of the political spectrum.
* Another former partner is Senator Charles Mathias, whose
political stance is more or less at the left end of the Republican
Party and along the lines of George Bush's (The Order) interna-
tionalist line.
* Yet another partner is Michael Boudin. son of Leonard Boudin
and brother of Kathy Boudin. This should raise some eyebrows
as Kathy was on the FBI "Most Wanted" list. Leonard Boudin is
the long time communist front lawyer and member of the Na-
tional Lawyers Guild ("The foremost legal bulwark of the Com-
munist Party"). New Masses ("a communist periodical") and a
dozen other Communist fronts. Kathy was a founder of
Students for a Democratic Society and a leader in its terrorist
Weathermen faction. A bomb manufacturing enterprise got the.
group into trouble with the law and Kathy onto the FBI list.
In brief, we have the elements of a hypothesis that left wing activity in
the U.S., down to bomb making and outright terrorism, may link to
Covington and Burling - and the CIA. This is not a new assertion
Statements have been made before that the CIA has funded the left in
the U.S. This claim hasn't received too much publicity for two reasons:
(a) it offends the establishment media. which prefers to pose the CIA as
a "right" organization and (b) it doesn't make much sense.
It certainly doesn't make any sense unless you throw your mind back
to Memorandum Number Six and the Hegelian dialectic process. In this
process change requires conflict, and conflict requires the clash of op-
posites. You can't just have a "right", you must have a "right" and a
"left". You can't have just a pro-Vietnam War policy, you must also
have an anti-Vietnam War policy. Else the dialectical process won't
bring about change. An interesting thought.
To move on, in 1960 Bundy, while still at CIA, became Staff Director
for the newly formed Presidential Commission on National Goals. Such
a commission, even in its title, assumes conscious direction. If you have
goals, you logically need a device to achieve these goals. In a society
like the U.S. it should be a superfluous sort of commission unless there
is some "guiding hand", something more than the voting booth and the
market place at work.
The Report of this Commission came up with some quotes which
almost pure Hegelianism:
(a) "a role of government is to stimulate changes of attitude"
(b) "in the 1960s every American is summoned to extraordinary
personal responsibility, sustained effort, and sacrifice"
(c) "The American citizen in the years ahead ought to devote a
larger portion of his time and energy directly to solution of the
nation's problems . . . many ways are open for citizens to par-
ticipate in the attainment of national goals."
Now the basic set of rules governing our society is the Constitution
and the Bill of Rights. There is nothing in these constitutional
documents to support any of these demands. What the demands imply
is that an American citizen has a DUTY to advance the will of the State
But such an assumption is definitely NOT implicit in the philosophy
under which the United States was founded and presumably operates
today.
In 1972, after a stint of government service. Bundy took over Foreign
Affairs. the most prestigious and influential foreign affairs journal in the U
S : the bible for policy makers.
So William Bundy is a very influential man. Enough that three
aspects of his career require further investigation:
* The Hegelian tinge, that a citizen has a duty to the State,
* The operation of the Hegelian dialectic and whether any "left
operations can be traced more directly to Covington and
Burling.
* Whether Bundy's service in Government shows promotion of
"right" operations, needed to balance off the "left" operations.
McGeorge Bundy
Preferential treatment has been accorded McGeorge Bundy all the
way along the line.
Graduating Yale and joining The Order in 1940, Bundy spent a while
at Harvard and then joined the U.S. Army "as a private".
Within 12 months Bundy had rocketed to captain and staff officer
working on Operation Husky (the invasion of Sicily) and Operation
Overlord (the invasion of Normandy).
If there is one job in this world that requires experience, it must be a
staff planning officer for an amphibious operation. Only experience can
make the calculations of timing and logistics for personnel and supplies
come out right. And men's lives depend on this experience. Can a
23-year-old, with no military experience. undertake planning for am-
phibious operations? The answer is obviously no even if his father (The
Order) is in the Pentagon as an aide to the Secretary of War (The
Order).
The war in Europe finished, Bundy now a veteran of 27 years, went
straight to the Pentagon as assistant to the Secretary of War, Henry
Stimson. We have already noted Bundy worked on the manuscript of
On Active Service In Peace And War and was rewarded with coauthor-
ship, a definite leg up in his career.
Then, in quick succession, Bundy became consultant to the
Economic Cooperation Administration, although he presumably knew
no more about economics than amphibious landing, then foreign policy
analyst for Presidential candidate Thomas Dewey, then analyst for the
Council on Foreign Relations. By 1949 Bundy was invited to Harvard
University and in four years (1953) was made Dean of the Faculty of
Arts and Sciences.
We are asked to believe that out of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
experienced academics with decades of hard-won credentials, an assis-
tant professor who has been skipping around the non-academic world
for ten years is the most talented for the post of Harvard Dean! We
might accept the lack of experience in amphibious warfare planning and
economic programs planning, but Dean of a prestigious Harvard
department in four years! No, that's too much. It smells of "pull" and
few readers with dispute that conclusion.
From 1961 to 1966 Bundy was Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. There is a significant aspect of this
sensitive post which only surfaced under Henry Kissinger.
The post can be used to screen information reaching the President: in
fact, that is one of its major purposes, to stop a flood of paper reaching
the Presidential desk.
The other side to this screening process is that it could place the Presi-
dent in an artificial information environment. If the options presented to
the President are controlled, so are the decisions. Selected information
can control the options.
McGeorge Bundy was National Security Adviser in the early years of
the Vietnam debacle. While McGeorge Bundy (The Order) was in the
White House his brother, William P. Bundy (The Order) was in key
positions relating to the Far East in Defense and State Departments. By
acting jointly, the Bundy brothers could have controlled absolutely the
flow of information relating to Vietnam from Intelligence, State and
DOD. We are not saying this happened. We believe it to be a
hypothesis worthy of examination. As they are blood brothers in a
secret organization of which we know very little - and nothing volun-
tarily - we have reason to make this further examination.
In 1966 McGeorge Bundy was appointed President of the Ford
Foundation, a post he retained until 1979. While at Ford, Bundy
brought in as Vice President in charge of Education and Research Divi-
sion another member of The Order - Harold Howe II.
Howe's qualifications, apart from a Yale undergraduate degree,
be described in Howe's own words:
". . . in the old scheme of things I would not have qualifications to be
a professor - I have no PhD degree, no scholarly research publications
to my credit. I once applied to the Yale Graduate School but was turned
down as academically unpromising." (Apparently The Order doesn't
reach everywhere, even at Yale).
Some of the half-baked ideas Howe and Bundy promoted with Ford
Foundation money probably stem from Howe's philosophy. In Howe's
own words, "When in doubt, do it.- For example. we have this gem
from Howe:"
". . . we will have to re-think American values regarding cooperation
and competition . . . many schools (particularly secondary schools)
would define as "cheating" the kinds of cooperative activities whereby
students help each other instead of competing for places on the ladder
of academic success."
--This is pure Hegelian collectivism. It undoubtedly works to the advan-
tage of The Order: this moves the citizen to a dependency role and
away from reliance on individual faculties
It is noteworthy that both Fords on the board resigned in disgust with
Ford Foundation policies.
pps. 47-52
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Aloha, He'Ping,
Om, Shalom, Salaam.
Em Hotep, Peace Be,
Omnia Bona Bonis,
All My Relations.
Adieu, Adios, Aloha.
Amen.
Roads End
Kris
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