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Skull and Bones is a secret senior society at Yale University. Public accounts and circulating lists identify numerous alumni, including prominent political figures, as members of Skull and Bones.
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- Documented · A medical-history article connects Yale Skull and Bones networks to the beginnings of Johns Hopkins.
- Documented · Alexandra Robbins wrote Secrets of the Tomb, a book on Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and paths of power.
- Documented · Skull and Bones is a secret senior society at Yale University.
- Official · U.S. presidential library finding aids and search indexes include records and FOIA material related to the Skull and Bones Society.
- Contested · Conspiracy and investigative literature portrays Skull and Bones as an unusually powerful secret society shaping American elite networks.
- Contested · Public accounts and circulating lists identify numerous alumni, including prominent political figures, as members of Skull and Bones.
- Contested · Purported Skull and Bones membership lists annotate some names with ties to groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg, and the Trilateral Commission.
Kris Millegan1
- Documented · Kris Millegan’s Fleshing Out Skull & Bones compiles investigations casting the society as among America’s most powerful secret societies.
The Tomb1
- Documented · The society is commonly associated with a windowless campus building known as the Tomb.