Fleshing Out Skull & Bones: Investigations Into America's Most Powerful Secret Society

Book Overview

This chronicle of espionage, drug smuggling, and elitism in Yale University's Skull & Bones society offers rare glimpses into this secret world with previously unpublished documents, photographs, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B004HJYV3C
• ISBN13: 9780975290606
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Trine Day
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Skull & Bones

This book is a huge (well over 700 pages) collection of essays and articles by various authors on Yales Skull & Bones society. This book runs the gamut from the wildly conspiratorial to reprints of mainstream historical type articles on the fraternity system and elitist secret societies at Yale. Some of the topics discussed in this are Bonesmen being involved in the drug trade, from the Chinese opium wars in the 1800's to CIA planes smuggling cocaine in the 1980's, the Bush family and other S & B members being involved with bankrolling both the Nazis and the Bolsheviks, the various shenanigans that can be attributed to Bonesmen involved with the CIA, Skull & Bones and 9-11, the disproportionate amount of world elites that came out of this very small group, 15 members of every senior class at Yale, even both candidates for the US presidency in the last elections were Bonesmen. Also among LOTS of other stuff it goes into the what is known of the weird occultic rituals and initiations that members go through. This is a great book for anybody into conspiracy stuff, wants to know more about various shady CIA deeds or anybody interested in some of the foul things the Bush family have been involved with. My take on Skull & Bones is its like a minor league team where they are picked out of the pile and groomed for bigger things. Depending on how they "perform" they get strings pulled and doors opened for them. Not all S & B people become Presidents, Senators, supreme court judges, members of the CFR, or Bilderburgers, high ranking CIA officials, or Presidential cabinet members, but an awful lot of them do and when you consider the track record of many former Bonesmen I have to say there is obviously "rotten in Denmark" going on with these people.

A testament to the evil forces running this country

Conspiracy has become a sensitive word, and to those who never read this book, it's meaning may continue to be unclear. But not so for those who are willing to honestly assess the past and present of Yale University and the power struggles behind it by reading this book. The breadth and variety of the articles is at times overwhelming and sometimes overreaching its boundaries(ie a brief history of college fraternities), but there is more than enough to make even the most hardened fan of the US administration scratch their heads. Regardless of the conclusions one makes from this book, Skull and Bones is a very real organisation that clearly has a malicious intent. What I respect most about this work is does not stop at scratching the surface of Skull and Bones, but goes to great lengths to suggest that it is in many ways an organisation founded on the human misconception of elitism. From the puritanical sect of Calvinism that broke off from Protestant England in the 17th century, Yale itself was formed on the idea that Jesus died not for everyone, but for the few 'pre-ordained'. In instances such as the Opium wars, to the rise of bolshevism and naziism, skull and bones, or some variation of its constituents, has been involved. There is a great article contained therein which gives a precise analysis of the secret society based on the scientific method. Other articles explaining the varying societies that exist within Yale and their struggle for hegemony, shed light on just how deeply the need for seperatism is ingrained into the human psyche. Just about the only major flaw that can be attributed to this amass of insights is the lack of a comprehensive index, relegating the book to less respectable in the eyes of serious analysts. Seeing as the 'dumbing down' of America is taking place right before our eyes, it seems appropriate to end with a quote from a man who the history books have chosen a prestigious, almost matryical role for, Abraham Lincoln: "Wise statesman....established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began..."

Best book on Bones thus far

In the midst of a 2004 presidential race in which the media are oblivious to the Bones in both candidates' closets, Kris Millegan's "Fleshing Out Skull and Bones" is a superb antidote to the reigning agnosticism concerning the Yale secret society. This book is anything but "twaddle." The essay by Steve Sewall, son of Yale's distinguished Dean Richard B. Sewall, the preeminent biographer of Emily Dickinson, is indicative of the measured and sophisticated tenor of this anthology, which does not pretend to "unlock the key to the mystery of S & B," but is instead an informed, profusely illustrated sourcebook and rumination, sustained by Millegan's restrained reportage, quirky intellect and unrestrained candor. "Fleshing Out" doesn't "solve" all the mysteries, but it is indispensable as a groundwork for pursuing one of the Cryptocracy's nodal points for the dispensation of patronage and the recruitment of the "best and brightest" (though GW Bush was patently recruited for other reasons). For the aspiring sleuth, the case starts here. [The reviewer is the author of "Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare"]

Believe It

This is THE book to read on Skull and Bones. When the super rich get together, they plot how to increase their market share of the world's essential industries and resources in secret. Although the mechanism and apparatus for controlling and handing down power from one generation to the next has been largely hidden, recently researchers like Millegan have been able to probe inside their networks. The worst part about Skull and Bones is that the society was built on opium addiction and slave running. They are undoubtedly involved in some of the nastiest criminal activity on the planet and they certainly control much of the oil industry today. Skull and Bones runs the White House, tv news, major newspapers, Yale University, legal drugs, illegal drugs, and much of the prison industrial complex, which is turning into a gulag with 10 million people currently in jail, on probation or awaiting sentencing. Only the truth can set us free.