George HW Bush: Who are the Skull and Bones? The Yale secret society
with three presidents among its ranks
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/george-hw-bush-skull-bones-yale-secret-society-us-president-dubya-kerry-a8340596.html
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The organisation assigns its members nicknames taken from famous literary characters and only began accepting female pledges in 1991.
The Skull and Bones crest is the same as that flown on a pirate ship's flag with the date 322 emblazoned beneath it, thought to refer to 322 BC when the Greek orator Demosthenes died, a moment that saw ancient Athens begin its transition from democracy to plutocracy, implying the group's belief that America should follow suit and surrender the responsibilities of government exclusively to the wealthy.
The group meets in "The Tomb", its campus headquarters built in 1856 - the same year the Russell Trust Administration was founded, the council that controls the group's assets.
The Skull and Bones have attracted a huge amount of speculation over the decades as to their true purpose.
One unsubstantiated rumour has it that The Tomb houses the stolen skulls of eighth president Martin van Buren (1782-1862), Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (1878-1923) and Apache warrior Geronimo (1829-1909) - this last act of grave-robbing allegedly carried out by Prescott Bush, George HW's father, in 1918 - while others centre around its supposed ambitions for world domination.
The fact that three of its alumni became president seems to have driven this conspiracy theory, while Bonesmen James Jesus Angleton and George HW's prominence within the CIA led to suggestions they sought to control state intelligence.
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