Skull & Bones

Yale's tomb: presidents, spymasters, and a numbered brotherhood sworn to "322."

Yale's Order, founded 1832 with Russell trust money rooted in the opium trade; the tomb, the 322, the annual fifteen. The membership rolls are simply public record and simply astonishing: three presidents (both Bushes, Taft), a supreme court chief justice, war secretaries, and an outsized share of early CIA (Bundy, Angleton-adjacent circles) — the 2004 election ran Bonesman against Bonesman, which both declined to discuss on camera. The Geronimo skull suit (2009, filed by the chief's descendants, citing a 1918 Prescott Bush raid) was dismissed on jurisdiction, not facts. Connects the CIA's founding culture and Bohemian Grove's summer chapter.