FOX News Live
11:30 am - Saturday, 6/19/04
Paige Hopkins: … Senator John Kerry, also a member. But none of them of them will talk about it. So is the secret Skull & Bones society a fraternal club for the elite or is there something more to it? Well, Kris Millegan is the editor of a book soon coming out in paperback, Fleshing Out Skull & Bones, Investigations into America’s [Most] Powerful Secret Society. And Kris is actually joining us from Portland Oregon. Kris Welcome
Both President Bush, John Kerry are members they were both tapped on the same night, I guess, what is that sort of inaugurated? Are you surprised that neither one of them will speak about it?
Kris Millegan: Huhm. Yes, I am. It-it is something that are known to do is to not talk about it. One of the rules used to be that if Skull & Bones was mentioned that they were supposed to leave the room.
And I find it very concerning for the American public. Where does their [Bonesmen] allegiance lie? Does it lie to this little secret society or to the – or to our Republic?
P: This is almost out of a novel, you know, the president and his rival for the White House both were tapped on the same night. The club is so shrouded in secrecy. Tell us little bit about it. Does it admit women, minorities?
K: Uh, Yes, it started admitting women in 1991. And actually they got tapped on different nights. Uh-uh Kerry was a member-uh-in 1965 and George Bush was a member in 1968.
P: Oh, is that right.
K: Both of them seem to rely on the group for a — well, John Kerry married two ladies who are relatives to Bones and then also George Bush went to Bones a lot of times when he needed money for his business associates. And then he has appointed 10 members of Skull & bones into his Cabinet [Administration]. And has another one as a nominee.
P: So what are the common denominators of the members?
K: The common denominator
P: Wealthy, what is it?.
K: Well, when you look at a sociological standpoint a secret society is a lot like an onion or a pyramid. You have a lot of members on the outside -um- or at the bottom [of the pyramid.] In Masonic circles they call them porch brethren. And then you have an administrative cadre and then you have a core group. The core group seems to be all related. –uh- The basic family group at Skull & Bones is the Whitney and the Cabot family.
P: Aha! Well, let’s take a look at some of the illustrious members if my producer can put up this list Henry Luce, for instance was one of the members. He was known to hire a lot of members. William Buckley, Jr., Averill Harriman James Whitmore, certainly not guys whom you’d think of as sinister guys. I mean I guess the questions is, to those of us on the outside what do they do? Do they get together and have dinner together? What is the point of this club?
K; Well, some say that point of the club is bonding. I look at it through the eyes of a social historian and when you look at the grouping of people and the jobs that they have. you find a rather large amount of the membership has been involved in intelligence. And then one of the most disturbing things is that the family groups have been involved in drug running since the early 1800s. And it seems …
P: Drug running?
K: Yes, the founder of Skull & Bones was William Huntington Russell and his family business was Russell & Company. Which was the –er- America’s largest opium smuggler, the third largest in the world.
P: Wow, Kris Millegan, unfortunately we are out of time and we are going to have to leave it at that. A fascinating subject — an author of a book on Skull & Bones, thank-you, so much.