Yale University: A Devil’s Workshop?

By William P. Litynski “FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR YALE…”

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. partners appear for a formal portrait in 1959. E. Roland Harriman, former Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett, Knight Woolley, John B. Madden, and Stephen Y. Hord were members of SKULL & BONES. John C. West was a member of SCROLL & KEY. Moreau D. Brown and Thomas McCance were members of WOLF’S HEAD. (Source: Fleshing Out Skull & Bones by Kris Millegan) Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. partners (from left to right) Thatcher M. Brown, Ray Morris, H. D. Pennington, Prescott S. Bush, Thomas McCance, and Knight Woolley pose for the camera at their office in City in July 1945. Ray Morris, Prescott S. Bush, and Knight Woolley were members of SKULL & BONES at Yale University. Thatcher M. Brown and Thomas McCance were members of WOLF’S HEAD at Yale University. (Photo: Herbert Gehr/Time Life) Yale graduates include George H.W. Bush, Porter Goss, and R. James Woolsey (graduate of Yale Law School). (Source: At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA by George Tenet)

Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey (left) listens as U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) talks to the press on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on July 20, 2004. Woolsey is a graduate of Yale Law School. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Averell Harriman (left) and Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett (center) chat with Secretary of State Dean Acheson in January 1951. (Photo by Lisa Larsen/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. (left) talks with Averell Harriman (center) and Pennsylvania Governor David L. Lawrence (right) in Los Angeles, in July 1960. Robert F. Wagner Jr. was a member of Scroll & Key at Yale University; Averell Harriman was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. (Photo: Grey Villet/Life Magazine) Left to right: Secretary of State Dean Acheson, U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower (the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe), Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett, and Council on Foreign Relations director W. Averell Harriman stand together in 1952. All four men in that photo were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Dean Acheson was a member of Scroll & Key. Robert Lovett and W. Averell Harriman were members of Skull & Bones. (Source: Partners in Banking: A Historical Portrait of A Great Private Bank Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., 1818-1968 by John A. Kouwenhoven)

Clockwise, left to right: Ambassador-at-Large Averell Harriman, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn E. Thompson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and National Security Advisor Walt Rostow meet privately at the Glassboro Summit Conference in Glassboro, New Jersey on June 25, 1967. Averell Harriman, McGeorge Bundy, and Walt Rostow graduated from Yale University. (Photo: Yoichi R. Okamoto, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library) Army Chief of Staff Gen. Harold K. Johnson, Secretary of the Army Stanley Resor, National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy, President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara meet to discuss the Vietnam War on July 22, 1965. Stanley Resor is a member of Scroll & Key. McGeorge Bundy was a member of Skulll & Bones. (Photo: Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library)

President Lyndon B. Johnson (left) meets with Council on Foreign Relations members Walt Rostow, William Bundy, Cyrus Vance, and former President Dwight Eisenhower aboard Air Force One on April 18, 1968. Walt Rostow, William Bundy, and Cyrus Vance were graduates of Yale University. Morgan bankers Harold Stanley (left), George Whitney (center), and Russell Leffingwell discuss banking matters in 1939. All three men were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Harold Stanley was a member of Skull & Bones. Harold Stanley and Russell Leffingwell were graduates of Yale University.

From left to right: Philip Habib, Cyrus Vance, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster, Averell Harriman, President Lyndon B. Johnson, and William Jorden walk in the Rose Garden on May 8, 1968. Cyrus Vance was a member of Scroll & Key, and Averell Harriman was a member of Skull & Bones. President poses with his Cabinet on January 20, 1984. (Photo: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)

Front row, left to right: , Secretary of the Treasury; Vice President George H.W. Bush; President Ronald Reagan; , Secretary of State; , Secretary of Defense

Second row, left to right : , Secretary of Education; , U.S. Representative to the United Nations; , Director, Office of Management & Budget; , Attorney General; , Secretary of Transportation; Donald Hodel, Secretary of Energy; , Secretary of Health & Human Services

Third row, left to right: John Block, Secretary of Agriculture; Raymond Donovan, Secretary of Labor; Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce; Samuel Pierce, Secretary of Housing & Urban Development; William Clark, Secretary of the Interior; William Casey, Director, Central Intelligence Agency; , III, Counselor to the President; William Brock, U.S. Trade Representative

Yale University graduates include George H.W. Bush (a member of Skull & Bones), Malcolm Baldrige (a member of Wolf’s Head), and Edwin Meese III. John Negroponte (left), the Director of National Intelligence, watches President George W. Bush (right) shakes hands with Central Intelligence Agency Director Porter Goss (center) in the Oval Office on Friday, May 5, 2006, after Porter Goss announced his resignation. All three men graduated from Yale University. (White House photo by Eric Draper)

U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) (L), a supporter of presidential candidate U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), debates with U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) (2nd L), a supporter of presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), as moderator Tom Brokaw (R) looks on during a taping of "Meet the Press" at the NBC studios in Washington, D.C. on August 3, 2008. Lieberman and Kerry discussed issues related to the presidential elections in November 2008. Joseph Lieberman and John Kerry are graduates of Yale University. ()