Skull and Bones

Skull and Bones is an “elite secret society based at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut.”¹ The society was formed in 1832, apparently as a result of a dispute over the Phi Beta Kappa awards among Yale’s debating societies.

The Skull & Bones society is also the subject of Antony C. Sutton’s America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of the Skull & Bones.²

When I first became aware of this book, I was already familiar with Mr. Sutton’s work – specifically Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1917 – 1930.³ So I immediately wondered, who was this seemingly enigmatic man who was by all accounts a staid economics professor and how did he go from researching western technology aid to Russia to writing about the Order of Skull and Bones? That seemed like quite a leap.

But after reading many interviews and excerpts on Sutton’s work, about the West’s technology transfer to communist Russia and what happened to him as a result of that research, I started to understand the progression of his research and his subsequent books.⁴ It seemed apparent he was looking for the group of people who destroyed his career while at Stanford’s Hoover Institution.

The following are a series of video interviews with Dr. Sutton in which he discusses the history of the Skull and Bones society and how he became aware of the group.

In this second video, Dr. Sutton discusses how members of the society use Hegelian dialectic to incite conflict, “make [social] progress”, and to prepare society to “take orders from the State.”

In this third video on the Skull and Bones society, Dr. Sutton discusses how members of the order mold U.S. foreign policy and created war and revolution – “managed conflict” – in countries such as Russia and Germany.

In this fourth video on the Skull and Bones society, Dr. Sutton elaborates how Hegelian dialectic is used in foreign policy to create and manage conflict. One of the purposes of the order is to create political power that is used to bring about a new world order or “one world” using Hegelian techniques in the creation of conflict. In this scenario, individuals become cogs in the state with no individual rights – a principle espoused by the German idealist Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

The following Fox News video on Skull and Bones with author Kris Milligan aired in June 2004.

For more information about Skull and Bones, see the transcript of Morley Safer’s review of Skull and Bones at 60 Minutes or Alexandra Robbins’ web site Skull & Bones Society.

Sources:

1. “Skull and Bones“. Wikipedia. 7 November 2008.↩
2. Sutton, Antony C. America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of the Skull & Bones. Walterville, Oregon: Trine Day, 2002. Lulu has a free PDF at America’s Secret Establishment – The Order of Skull and Bones. 7 November 2008. See also Scribd at America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of the Skull & Bones. 7 November 2008.↩
3. Sutton, Antony C. Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development. Three volumes. Stanford: Stanford University – Hoover Institution Press, 1973.↩
4. See “Antony C. Sutton – In Memoriam“. Antony Sutton. 19 November 2008; and “The Works of Antony C. Sutton“. Antony Sutton. 19 November 2008.↩