in America connections are everything it is secret societies that provide the highways which grant members lifelong access to the dark corridors of power skullenbones is one such network emanating from a temple tomb at Yale University and stretching all the way up to George W Bush himself [Music] we met a wall of secrecy when we called past members to uncover the story of skullenbones many try to deny all knowledge of the private club formed in 1832 the symbolism of course is the skull and crossbones right the deaths head or totem cop I guess as they as
the SS called that during the Second World War it's a very sinister symbolism it is obviously free masonic but now the club's rituals and old boy networks are coming to light most people want to get along to gain power and prestige and they know the way to do that is to listen to the guy above you so if someone say in skullenbones calls people he knows and these people know what the powers gone bones it all it takes is a hint or suggestion what we have here is a private network acting merely in violation of
the United States Constitution infesting the White House the National Security Council the State Department the Pentagon the CIA and other government institutions and yet all this power stems from the lifelong bonds formed in the skullenbones rituals where an oath of secrecy is sworn you know how it all started out and the emissaries of the various secret societies would come up behind them tap them on the shoulder and say something like skullenbones do you accept and generally of course they did accept and then the as the people were tapped they then left the courtyard and proceeded
to the vault like or mausoleum like headquarters of these secret societies that I think since has been abolished or moved indoors or somehow is no longer so easy to observe as it might have been say 50 or 100 years ago part of the problem is source of information we have very little about bones from the tomb itself and most comes indirectly such as an article written by a student that went to to Yale and actually lived in the Jonathan Edwards dorm and he had this to say it was part of the Jonathan Edwards folklore that
on the April evening following tap night at bones if one could climb to the Tower of we're hall the odd castle that overlooks the bones courtyard one could hear strange cries and moans coming from the bowels of the tomb as the 15 newly tapped members were put through what sounded like a harrowing ordeal returning alone to my room late at night I would always cross the street rather than walk the sidewalk the past right in front of bones even at that safe distance something about it made my skin crawl if you were invited to join
the tomb cults you became part of the East Coast anglo-saxon elite joining the Rockefellers the Harriman's and the bushes and so the the core as you go through the early 20th century is comprised of 15 or 20 families partially from old-line American families going back to the Pilgrims and partially from money conversation at that level is all off the record there's no press involved so it's like the men are getting kind of a first-hand understand he may not be any big trade secrets or anything but they're getting this kind of off-the-record understanding of the way
things are or the way things should be and I think this certainly gives them an advantage in the world in the economic world because you know you know what the directions are what the movers and shakers are thinking and what some of the major policy considerations that are being considered are there any famous members or well-known members need George Bush and yet membership of skull and bones seems to result in remarkable careers among its members are three presidents a clutch of judges CIA officials and various tycoons they swear to take care of each other's interests
and they do it and when that that in the normal conduct of life is probably okay but when one of them becomes president of the United States it's time to ask questions what have you sworn to do for your brothers and what interests are you pushing that our really on their agenda not on the agenda the American people's George W Bush has been asked about his membership of the skullenbones with Bush we reached the bottom of the barrel in terms of American politicians you have to look at him again and again and say how did
this guy make it bonesman help fund George w's extraordinary rise to power spending millions on a bush billboard campaign in key swing states no family has produced more Club members than the Bush's nine members of the Klan including Bush's father the 41st president are among its alumni devotees are supposed to leave the room if the Society's name is mentioned in case they betray its secrets okay mm you ever met Lucia Bush senior's skullenbones name was Magog the name given to the most sexually experienced bondsman George ee is known as temporary since he was too lazy
to change his initial name skullenbones is just one of many secret societies scattered around the United States there's still dominate the paths to power in San Francisco there is the men only Bohemian Grove Club you have a group that sees itself as superior to all others within society and I think that is the element which is carried over from Skull and Bones into these organizations this superiority this is what happened when we tried to film at the Bohemian Grove Club founded in 1872 by media and businessman modern day members have included Ronald Reagan and Henry
Kissinger well okay we got the hospitality the negative hospitality of the San Francisco Bohemian Club there have been cases where people have written about the club and or snuck in dirk matheson from People magazine stuck snuck in and was actually spotted by a by a Time Warner executive and expelled from from from the club I mean from the Grove and he in fact lost his job six months later although they they claimed that it wasn't related to that but it was certainly a coincidental these secret networks have also taken their elitist mentality a stage further
skullenbones and George Bush Senior have both been linked to the uther genex movement belief in the superiority of the anglo-saxon race and fellow bones Ian Averell Harriman has been strongly implicated with US business funding for Hitler in the 1930s are they done no there's all that tradition and it has to be protected and it has great wealth to protect and how do they protect it they'll find new means they'll they'll hold offices they'll hold a point of offices and elective offices and they will be in charge of huge amounts of money that's gone above today
is one of a number of groups it happens to be now a semi semi secret group if this is one secret organization and I was fortunate enough to get the membership list how do I know or anybody know they're not other secret groups where I've known nobody else has had the membership list so we also have to take the hypothesis in mind that there could be other groups which are truly secret nobody here is aware of their existence which have this which have this purpose [Music]
