Bones alumni would appear throughout the public and private history of both wartime and peacetime intelligence. Established in 1832, Skull and Bones is the oldest secret society at Yale, and thus at least theoretically entrusted its membership with a more comprehensive body of secrets than any other campus group. And no secret society was more suited to the spy establishment than Skull and Bones, for which Poppy Bush, like his father, was tapped in his junior year. Yale’s society’s boys were the cream of the crop, and could keep secrets to boot. “Yale has always been the agency’s biggest feeder,” recalled CIA officer Osborne Day (class of’43), “In my Yale class alone there were thirty-five guys in the agency.” Bush’s father, Prescott, was on the university’s board, and the school was crawling with faculty serving as recruiters for the intelligence services. The CIA recruited heavily at all of the Ivy League schools in those days, with the New Haven campus the standout. In 1945, with the end of the war, George H. The friends and connections he made during this time would serve him well for the rest of his life - including his early start in the oil business. In Part 2 of this series, we take a close look at Bush’s membership, while he was a college student at Yale, in America’s oldest and perhaps most elite secret society, Skull and Bones. To get the full picture, here is another excerpt from WhoWhatWhy founder and Editor-in-Chief Russ Baker’s book, "Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years." But there is a hidden backstory to Bush’s rise to power - and it has everything to do with coming from privilege, and working to maintain that privilege for his own family and those in the same circles. If you’re like us you can’t help but notice that all of the retrospectives are flowery and lack any sense of balance.Īpart from describing his military service, these encomiums tend to focus on his later years, after he had been elected to high office. The media are now saturated with obituaries and glowing reviews of former President George H.W.
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