4. Name Roster of the Secret Establishment
There were so many "Yalies" in the OSS that Yale's drinking tune, the
"Whiffenpoof Song", became an "unofficial" song of the OSS. Many in
the OSS were "Bonesmen" or belonged to the other Yale senior
societies.
Robert Lovett ('18), Harriman's childhood friend, had been tapped into
Skull & Bones by Prescott Bush's cell of '17 and was a director at
Brown Brothers, Harriman.
Again, from "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography":
"On October 22, 1945, Secretary of War Robert Patterson created the
Lovett Committee, chaired by Robert A. Lovett, to advise the
government on the post-World War II organization of U.S. intelligence
activities.... The new agency would 'consult' with the armed forces,
but it must be the sole collecting agency in the field of foreign
espionage and counterespionage. The new agency should have an
independent budget, and its appropriations should be granted by
Congress without public hearings. Lovett appeared before the
Secretaries of State, War, and Navy on November 14, 1945.... Lovett
pressed for a virtual resumption of the wartime Office of Strategic
Services (OSS).... The CIA was established in 1947 according to the
prescription of Robert Lovett, of Jupiter Island."
Gaddis Smith, a history professor at Yale, said, "Yale has influenced
the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving
the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion." And "Bonesman" have been
foremost among the "spooks" building the CIA's "haunted house."
F. Trubee Davison ('18) was Director of Personnel at the CIA in the
early years. Some of the other "Bonesmen" connected with the
intelligence community are:
Sloane Coffin, Jr. ('49)
V. Van Dine ('49)
James Buckley ('44)
Bill Buckley ('50)
Hugh Cunnigham ('34)
Hugh Wilson ('09)
Reuben Holden ('40)
Charles R. Walker ('16)
Yale's 'unofficial' Secretary of War, Robert D. French ('10)
Archibald MacLiesh ('15)
Dino Pionzio ('50), CIA Deputy Chief of Station during Allende
overthrow
William and McGeorge Bundy
Richard A. Moore ('3?)
Senator David Boren ('63)
Senator John Kerry ('66)
....and, of course, George Herbert Walker Bush. Bush tapped Coffin, who
tapped Buckley.
Some other prominent Bonesmen include:
Henry Luce ('20), Time-Life
John Thomas Daniels ('14), founder Archer Daniels Midland
Gifford Pinchot ('89), President Theodore Roosevelt's chief forester
Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser ('96)
Harold Stanley ('08), founder of Morgan Stanley, investment banker
Alfred Cowles ('13), Cowles Communication
Henry P. Davison ('20), senior partner Morgan Guaranty Trust
Thomas Cochran ('04) Morgan partner
Senator John Heinz ('31)
Pierre Jay ('92), first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York
George Herbert Walker, Jr. ('27), financier and co-founder of the NY
Mets
Artemus Gates ('18), President of New York Trust Company, Union
Pacific, TIME, Boeing Company
William Draper III (50), the Defense Department, UN and Import-Export
Bank
Dean Witter, Jr.('44), investment banker
Senator Jonathan Bingham ('36)
Potter Stewart ('36), Supreme Court Justice
Senator John Chaffe ('47)
Harry Payne Whitney ('94), husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt, investment
banker
Russell W. Davenport ('23), editor Fortune Magazine, created Fortune
500 list
Evan G. Galbraith ('50), Ambassador to France and Managing Director of
Morgan Stanley
Richard Gow ('55), president Zapata Oil
Amory Howe Bradford ('34), husband of Carol Warburg Rothschild and
general manager for the New York Times
C. E. Lord ('49), Comptroller of the Currency
Winston Lord ('59), Chairman of CFR, Ambassador to China and assistant
Secretary of State in the Clinton administration
Ever since Nixon re-established America's political relationship with
China, many of our ambassadors to that country have been Bonesmen,
including George Bush, the first Chief U. S. Liaison Officer to the
Peoples Republic of China.
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