Ford
Foundation's Skull & Bones Link
by
bob feldman
A few years ago a movie called SKULLS—which seemed to draw
its initial inspiration from Yale University's secretive Skull
and Bones society—was shown in some theatres around the United
States . According to the 1998 edition of SHARING THE PIE: A CITIZEN'S
GUIDE TO WEALTH AND POWER IN AMERICA by Steve Brouwer:
"Skull and Bones is a small, secret society of Yale University.
During the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth
century it was home to many rich, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant
young men who went on to run the country, including William Howard
Taft, Republican president from 1908 to 1912; Averell Harriman,
the leading financier of the Democratic Party from 1932 to 1992;
Prescott Bush, the manager of Harriman's bank, Republican senator,
and father of George Bush; and George Bush, Republican president
from 1988 to 1992 [and the father of the current U.S. president,
George W. Bush]. The list could be filled out with the names of
scores of very influential Americans--for example, Henry Stimson,
Republican financier and two-time secretary of war, and Henry
Luce, the nation's leading publisher (TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE, etc.).
"In the first half of the twentieth century, George Bush's father
and his generation of Bonesmen were intimately involved in maintaining
family wealth, looking after the welfare of America's largest
banks and corporations, running the affairs of both political
parties, and directing U.S. foreign and domestic policies."
The 1990 book TELEVISION AND THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY by Douglas
Kellner also observed that former President George "Bush's father
Prescott had connections with the intelligence service, was involved
in the secret investment bank...and, like his son, was a member
of the secret Skull and Bones society at Yale..."
Like George W. Bush's father, the president of the Ford Foundation
between 1966 and 1979, McGeorge Bundy, was a member of the Skull
and Bones society. In addition, both the father [Harvey Bundy]
and the brother [William Bundy] of former Ford Foundation President
Bundy were members of Skull and Bones. According to NATION magazine
contributing editor Kai Bird's MacArthur Foundation, LBJ Foundation
and Rockefeller Foundation-subsidized book, THE COLOR OF TRUTH:
MC GEORGE BUNDY AND WILLIAM BUNDY--BROTHER IN ARMS:
"In his junior year Harvey [Bundy] was selected to the most
exclusive and ritualistic of fraternities, Skull and Bones. Only
fifteen men were tapped for membership each year in the secretive
club. [Harvey] Bundy was enormously pleased...
"Nothing affected him more at Yale than the people he met at
Skull and Bones. They met twice a week, and [Harvey]Bundy claimed
the friendships he formed were such that Skull and Bones `did
more for us than any other single experience in our lives.'...
"Skull and Bones had been founded in 1832...William H. Russell...endowed
Skull and Bones with a considerable fortune, managed by the Russell
Trust Association...The clubhouse and its dining facilities were
one thing, but the Russell Trust also owned a summer house on
Deer Island, a rustic retreat in the Thousand Islands region of
upstate New York. The Russell Trust also reportedly had a special
fund from which any Bonesman caould withdraw up to $15,000 in
a lifetime for any purpose...
"Skull and Bones...reinforced the paridigm of the Bundy brothers'
Boston Brahmin upbringing..."
The Ford Foundation's Vice President for Educational Programs
who also chaired the Ford Foundation's Public Policy Committee
when McGeorge Bundy was Ford Foundation President--Harold Howe--was
also a member of Skull and Bones. Under Skull and Bones member
Howe's chairmanship, the Ford Foundation's Public Policy Committee
"dispersed several million dollars a year on projects which were
seen as too far afield from Ford's guidelines," according to THE
COLOR OF TRUTH.
Another Skull and Bones member who has been playing a prominent
role in U.S. Establishment politics since the now-deceased McGeorge
Bundy moved out of his Ford Foundation office in 1978 is U.S.
Senator John Kerry--who has been mentioned as a possible Democratic
Party presidential candidate in 2004.
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