reply to post by Masonic Light
W.H. Russell (cousin of Samuel Russell, founder of Russell & Co, a major opium smuggling syndicate back in the day) and Alphonso Taft (father of
President Taft, also S&B) co-founded Skull & Bones (aka The Brotherhood of Death) in response to the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society being forced to go
public.
All conspiracies aside, people are right to worry about the motives of a secret society with so much influence. Many members end up in the
intelligence community, banking and finance, the DoD, politics, etc. They've served as Supreme Court Justices, Presidents, Directors of the CIA,
President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Pierre Jay (1892), FIRST chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank), it goes on and on.