Bush Family has Stolen Bones

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Skull and Bones mystery deepens
Is secret society holding stolen objects and human remains?

Posted: October 20, 2003 - 11:40am EST
by: Brenda Norrell / Correspondent / Indian Country Today

SAN CARLOS, Ariz. - Alexandra Robbins, author of "Secrets of the
Tomb," said law enforcement officers should determine if the secret Skull
and Bones Society, to which the Bush family belongs, has stolen items in its
possession, including the remains of Geronimo.

"Why haven't law enforcement officers been in there in the last 200
years," Robbins said of the secret tomb in Connecticut.

"If they truly do have Geronimo's skull, then that is appalling,"
Robbins told Indian Country Today in a telephone interview, following her
appearance on 60 Minutes.

Robbins spoke with about 100 Bonesmen for her new book and believes a
1918 Skull and Bones logbook is authentic. It chronicles grandfather
Prescott Bush and other army officers desecrating the grave of Geronimo in
Fort Sill, Okla.

"We know that Skull and Bones has a history of stealing. It is a
regular Skull and Bones Yale identity. We know there is a skull in the Skull
and Bones Tomb, which Society members have referred to as Geronimo's."

Since the release of her book and her interview on 60 Minutes, she has
received reactions from American Indians.

"I have heard from a lot of Native Americans that want to set up a
protest. I think they should, to settle this matter once and for all.

"I think it is ridiculous that there are stolen items in Skull and
Bones and no one from law enforcement has been in there for 200 years."

Robbins points out that the Skull and Bones membership includes some
of the most powerful men in the United States, including both President
George W. Bush and his father former President George H. W. Bush.

Neither has denied their membership.

Robbins said President George W. Bush usually changes the subject when
asked about his membership in Skull and Bones. His father, former President
H.W. Bush, relayed a comment to Robbins through his press secretary.

"President Bush said that he preferred it remain secret," Robbins
said, quoting Bush's press secretary.

Secret, however, it is not.

Raleigh Thompson, former San Carlos Apache councilman in Arizona, told
the gathering at the Mount Graham Sacred Run in August that Skull and Bones
Society officers met with an Apache delegation, including then-chairman Ned
Anderson and a tribal attorney, in a series of meetings in New York in 1987.

Jonathan Bush, George H.W. Bush's brother (President George W. Bush's
uncle) was present in the Skull and Bones delegation that met with Apaches.
The Bonesmen offered to return the skull in exchange for the Apaches keeping
the matter secret. Thompson said the skull was that of a child and the
Apache delegation did not accept it.

"They admitted that they called this skull Geronimo. They gave us the
skull, but the skull was so small that it looked like a young boy's skull,"
Thompson said. He said it is time to bring Geronimo home to the mountains
that he loved and wanted to return to, the San Carlos Apaches' Triplet
Mountains.

However, Apache efforts for the past 17 years have not resulted in
Geronimo being returned for burial.

In the Skull and Bones Tomb, a glass case houses the skull they call
Geronimo's. Thompson said they also have other bones of Geronimo's and
portions of his horse's bridle from the Apache leader's grave.

Robbins quotes Anderson as to what happened after the Apache
delegation rejected the child's skull.

"The Bonesmen then tried to persuade Anderson to sign a document
stipulating that the society did not have Geronimo's skull, that he would
take home the display case, and that he would never talk about the matter
again. Anderson refused."

Robbins also quotes from the Skull and Bones logbook in her book. She
describes six army officers, including Grandfather Prescott Bush raiding
Geronimo's grave at Fort Sill in 1918. "An axe pried open the iron door of
the tomb, and Pat Bush entered and started to dig. We dug in turn .

"Finally Pat Ellery James turned up a bridle, soon a saddle horn and
rotten leathers followed, then wood and then, at the exact bottom of the
small round hole, Pat James dug deep and pried out the trophy itself ." The
log then describes how they cleaned the bones and concludes with the logbook
author writing, "I showered and hit the hay . a happy man ."

Robbins writes, "Today the display case remains in the tomb, with a
skull - perhaps the skull from the meeting, perhaps not - that Skull and
Bones members told me they still call Geronimo."

Robbins says the Skull and Bones Society is about power.

"This is probably the most powerful alumni club in the country. Their
scope is so staggering because Skull and Bones is a tiny club. There are
only 800 living members at any one time, yet we could have two of them
facing off for the presidency."

Robbins said the presidential race could be between two Bonesmen,
Republican President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.

"The purpose of Skull and Bones is to get people into positions of
power, and from there for Bonesmen to hire other Bonesmen into positions of
authority.

"That is something President Bush did, and his father did it too."

The most recent revelation about Bonesmen is that Homeland Security
author Edward McNally is a member of Skull and Bones.

The most surprising to Robbins personally is the involvement with the
atomic bomb. As described in her book, a troop of Bonesmen oversaw the
construction and deployment of the atomic bomb.

While Robbins describes the Bush family as the most powerful political
dynasty of Skull and Bones, she points out that the membership includes
prominent attorneys, finance heads and CIA officers. Cabinet members and
heads of corporations are among those in the "ultimate old boys' club,"
including some of the prominent families: Bush, Bundy, Harriman, Lord,
Phelps, Rockefeller, Taft and Whitney, writes Robbins.

During the interview, Robbins said while she was a student at Yale she
became familiar with the Skull and Bones Society, which led to the research
for the book.

She was curious how much of an effect Skull and Bones had on Bush's
life. "It turned out to have a surprisingly broad effect."

Robbins, former staff writer at The New Yorker, earlier gained
attention for writing about President Bush's poor academic grades. Since
release of her book, the 27-year-old author said she has received threats in
the form of comments that she would be destroyed as a journalist.

After appearing on 60 Minutes Bonesmen complained to New York Daily
News that Robbins did not reveal that she was a member of a rival Yale
society, Scroll and Key.

"I thought that was funny. Of all the things to complain about!"