The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School

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0:04 Welcome to another edition of Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with War Hamster Brady and myself, Colonel Roxanne Towner Watkins. How are you doing today, Brady? I am well. How are you? Great. Well, you had an interesting suggestion last week on what we ought to do this show, and it was a real good one. And we had left off last week with...

0:45 new New Hampshire Congress critter by the name of Maggie Goodlander. And I was going through her background. You know, I mentioned that she went to the Groton School, which is, of course, a private high school specializing. It's in a place called Groton, Massachusetts, not too far from here. And we come across that name a few other times when we've been going through the background of some of these Skull and Bones members. And there's a reason for that.

1:13 So at the Colonel's suggestion, we did some homework on that. And what we found is there's going to be an awful lot of the same connections. These people go to the private, they come from the oldest and wealthiest families in New England, for the most part. They go to private high schools, a lot of them boarding schools, which serve as basically kick, I guess, kickstand or kickboards through launching pads into the Ivy League schools.

1:42 Our focus has been for now on Yale University because an awful lot of these people end up in the secret society known as Skull and Bones. And yet somehow all of these people, time after time, end up in these places of influence in the military, in the State Department, in the CIA, in the court system, in the corporate boardrooms and on these NGOs over and over and over again. And it's just so it's mathematically impossible that this is not just.

2:09 a little bit of intermingling of families or friends or fraternal you know type stuff like that the patterns just happen way too often you got to start to think okay there's a little something a little bit more sinister to why the same people and same families end up there over and over again fair enough yes fair all right so uh we talked a bit a couple weeks ago about the horus man school which was ranked really highly in a niche magazine or niches company that does this list of the top private high schools and

2:41 Horace Mann School gets number one quite often, but another one that got number one in 2024 is the Groton School. And let's just talk about, well, let's show the Groton School real quick. I'll pull it up on screen. This is the Groton School's website, also known as The Circle. You can see it on the map. Wait a minute. So we just did an entire segment of a thing called The Circle in France, which...

3:18 is basically the entire Operation Gladio apparatus that dealt with anti-communism from the French perspective. They're not very original, are they? No, there's definitely some symbolism going on here. When I saw the circle, that's sort of like the skull and bones is the order. They love their symbolism. Yeah.

3:46 So it's a very nice-looking school. I am not going to go pay you a visit. They talk about scholarship, leadership, family. I like their new headmaster, Temba Makabela. He's from South Africa. It says, inclusion in all respects, including socioeconomic inclusion, is an important ingredient of an outstanding education. Middle-income families need to understand that we will help put a grotten education within their reach. Wait a minute.

4:14 The same South African that's killing the Boer white farmers? Well, yeah, that would be the same country. That's his version of inclusion. Okay. But, you know, that South African party, what is it? I forget what the name of the South African party. It is pure communist. And a lot of that shares a lot of the same globalist things. So they talk about 380 students representing 28 states and 23 countries. Now, this diversity is new for Groton. So we'll get into that as we go through the story.

4:45 About 44% of the students receive financial aid because they've got now a $511 million endowment. Student-faculty ratio is 4 to 1. 11 students per class on average. It used to be smaller. And they're proud. 51% of their students are of color. 480 acres of campus. And this is what you see. Like I said, this has done a lot of changing over the years.

5:22 So let's get in the background of the Groton School, because it's a little interesting. It's considered a private college preparatory day and boarding school located in Groton, Mass. It's affiliated very much so with the Episcopal tradition. I was raised in an Episcopalian church, so that caught my attention. We talked about a lot of the 1800s bonesmen, skull and bonesmen had a background in the clergy, a lot of them Protestants, Puritans.

5:51 We had several bones that have been Episcopalian bishops. So this is not a surprise that that's going to come up. The motto of the school is qui servere est regnare, which is translated in either in whose God and whose God's service is perfect freedom or to serve God is to reign, which is interesting. Serve God is what? To reign, R-E-I-G-N.

6:23 Which I find is interesting because when you start looking at the philosophy of some of these masters of the universe, these Puritans that did everything from founding the CIA and all the State Department positions, they really believed in this Puritan ethic that they were holier than thou. And they believed in this destiny to rule the world. You can hear that in their own writings. Like you recently, wasn't it you that recently read one of the Rockefeller books? Yes. Yeah.

6:53 Brought up to think like that. Yes. I will be done. Yes. But they will convince themselves they're doing it for God's glory, what have you. But the Puritans have a long, interesting tradition of doing some really interesting things in the name of God. Yeah. All right. So it's founded by a guy by the name of Endicott Peabody. Oh, he just came up too. Did he? Keep going. But the Peabody family has been around.

7:26 So he's known as the Reverend Endicott Peabody, and he's an Episcopal priest. He's born in 1857 in a town called Salem, Massachusetts, which I visited recently. I've been to the witch house. It's a pretty cool spot. So the Peabody is one of the oldest of Massachusetts families. Lieutenant Francis Peabody moved to Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1635. So literally, they're one of the founding families.

7:56 The Reverend Peabody's great-grandfather was a guy named Joseph Peabody. He was a shipowner and a privateer. He made his fortune importing pepper from Sumatra, and he was one of the wealthiest men in the United States. What's another word for a privateer? That would be a pirate with a piece of paper. Yeah. All right. So that's the family money he's made on, you know, we've got to figure there's some opium on those ships as well.

8:31 And how many times have we seen that? Some of these wealthy families made their money in the shipbuilding slash smuggling slash privateering. Right. What else about his family? His paternal grandmother was descended from the Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Endicott. And that's another one of the founders who founded Salem, Massachusetts in 1628. John Endicott's interesting historical guy. He was known for his Puritan zeal. I mean, you know, he was he'd hold his Bible up and.

9:02 cast down anybody who did not follow the Bible exactly as he thought it should be done. And it was that Puritan zeal that led to the Salem witch trials, which happened two years after he passed away. Interesting thing about the Salem witch trials. Massachusetts colony, while he was a governor, passed something called the 1641 Body of Liberties, and it made witchcraft a capital offense in America or in Massachusetts.

9:29 And it's taken straight from the Bible, Exodus 22, 18, which says, Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. And it's modeled after England's 1604 Witchcraft Act, which was in place when we did the Salem Witch Trials in 1692. So that's Endicott's family history. And again, anybody who has studied the Salem Witch Trials, they were burning innocent girls alive at the stake, which is...

9:58 Not exactly what I just call a biblical endeavor. Like child sacrifice. Something like that. And that's that same Puritan zeal that created, you know, we saw it after the robber barons brought all the wealth to like New York City in the Gilded Age. Those are the same Puritans, the same Puritan families that created America's class system. And that's not what we're supposed to have. We're not supposed to have a class system here in America, but it's been there from day one.

10:28 All right, so back to Endicott Peabody. How did he get his money to start this school? Well, it's interesting. His father was a Boston merchant and a very close associate of a guy that keeps coming up by the name of J.P. Morgan. Yeah. Yeah, so this is Morgan money. His mother was the daughter of John Clark Lee, who founded the financial firm of Lee Higginson and Company.

10:55 Lee Higginson was a financial firm that financed the growth of General Motors and then collapsed as they got caught in what's called the Swedish Match Scandal in 1932. Swedish Match Scandal is pretty funny. This guy out of Sweden was basically creating a monopoly on the making of matches, like how you would light a fire, matches. And he was doing this all over the world, but he financed it in a Ponzi scheme set up. And some really smart people got taken to the cleaners. And when the Great Depression hit in 1932,

11:26 uh that whole thing collapsed it's one of the biggest ponzi schemes in history and that took out part of his family's fortune all right continuing endicott's cousin was alice hathaway lee who of course was the first wife of theodore roosevelt the president um there's a lot of there will be roosevelt's all day today he uh married uh endicott peabody married his first cousin fanny peabody

11:58 His son, Malcolm Peabody, was a bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York. Okay, so let's get his background a little bit more. That's his family. 1871, he's 13 years old. He gets sent to England to attend Cheltenham College. Graduated there in 1876. He studied law at Trinity College at Cambridge. So there's an English connection going here. And he went away to private boarding school.

12:25 His parents then moved over to England in 1875 after his dad accepted a partnership at J.S. Morgan, which was the J.P. Morgan predecessor. So his dad's partner, J.P. Morgan, working on the England side of things, of the Atlantic. So did you catch that his mom's name, you know how during this time the women always used their maiden names as their middle name and her name's Cabot?

12:53 Yeah, I skipped over that. Was there something there that needs to be? Well, I'm just saying that the Cabot Lodge people, the Cabot, that whole family, she obviously is associated with that family. Yeah, I would imagine anybody from the Peabody family is going to only marry someone from the right bloodlines. Yes. That's almost a given with a family this old like the Peabody's. Yeah.

13:22 So he converts from the family's Unitarianism to Anglicanism over his mom's objections. So he grew up as a Unitarian. Then when he's in England, he becomes an Anglican. Anglican is very similar to Episcopalianism back in the day. He got his degrees. He lost his interest in law and finance, so he went to an Episcopal theological school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And then he becomes a minister, or what do we call him, a reverend.

13:53 And his first congregation is in all places, Tombstone, Arizona. Yeah, that tombstone. He actually arrived there three months after the gunfight at the OK Corral. And what he's known for there is people like them. He was really good at raising money and was able to raise $5,000 to build the St. Paul's Episcopal Church in 1882, which is the oldest Protestant church building in Arizona to this day. That's crazy. Nice little diversion.

14:24 Tombstone, Arizona. By the way, Wyatt Earp's family donated to that church. And I laugh at this. If you can believe my grandmother, our family somehow in Texas is somehow disrelated to Wyatt Earp. But nobody's ever been able to prove that to me. The family all thinks that it's true, though. So I'll take their word for it. I don't know. It was a big family. All right. So he, Peabody, returns to Massachusetts.

14:53 tried to get the job as the headmaster for what's called the St. Mark's School, which is where his brother's alma mater, but he got turned down. Someone else got the job, and he decides to start his own school, a boarding school, which is the Groton School. He chooses Groton, Massachusetts, because that's where his in-laws lived. So in 1884, he opens a school, and he fashions the curriculum and lifestyle for boys from upper-class families.

15:21 Remember I said now they're trying to give out all these scholarships to middle class people? That's not how the school was founded. He preached something called muscular Christianity. He imposed a Spartan education system. In other words, he's the headmaster of a private boarding school, and he is one strict son of a gun. The type of guy that belts your hand with a ruler or worse. Tell me if this is familiar.

15:52 He had an emphasis on public service. And he says, this is a quote from his writings. He goes, if some Groton boys do not enter political life and do something for our land, it won't be because they have not been urged. So he's pushing his students to get into politics. So basically he's grooming them for future leadership positions. That's what I was just going to say. He is grooming them, not pushing them. Yeah. Yeah. Grooming is a word I would use. And we'll get to that in a second. There's more of that.

16:25 strict disciplinarian, like these rich kids that can only have like a 25 cent allowance per week. He authorized hazing. And what they would do is this thing called pumping, which is a form of waterboarding. And that's how the students were disciplining themselves. So this was a very tough place to go to school. He was a big fan of football that he emphasized. And Groton had apparently a storied football history for a school with only 380 students. It was fewer back then, but.

16:56 here's another quote from him in these days of exceeding comfort the boys need an opportunity to endure to endure hardness and it may be and if maybe suffering football has in it the element which goes to make a soldier and he also had another saying called corrective salutary deprivation which sort of torture i guess is what he's talking about it sounds like torture to me no no no wonder all of these guys default to torture

17:30 That's, yeah, that's kind of how they're raised. I didn't get a lot of torture at my public high school, did you? No. Well, yeah, I got a little bullying, but anyway. I think it's torturers have to sit through boring classes. We already knew the answers. All right. So in society, he was the vice president, this is the early 1900s, of the Boston Watch and Ward Society.

17:58 And what's the Boston Watch and Word Society? They're all in a censorship of books. So, again, this is the Puritan mindset right around the time of the Gilded Age. And he's one of the leaders of it. To get all this acreage funded for this school and to get it built and things like that, he had some very rich donors like J.P. Morgan and their friends. I didn't write down the name of the guy that donated the entire thing.

18:27 that our land is built on. But yeah, this is definitely a blue blood school. How about this? He refused to let divorced people set foot on school grounds into the 1930s. If you've ever been divorced, you cannot be coming here. Is that crazy? Yeah, well, this is how society was. You know how you get shunned from society in the Gilded Age? This is the same thing. This is why I'm always...

19:00 railing on about the puritans because i've read enough about it it's just what a terrible way to live just you know by other people to leave and it's it's a class system it's bad all right he would uh go because there's more people wanted to get in than can get in he ended up founding another school called the brooks school it was named after his personal mentor a guy named phillips brooks i think that's in new york he also funds another school called the baguio school which is in the philippines baguio bag a b-a-g-u-i-o it's a school it's a boarding school in the philippines

19:31 and his own son malcolm taught there philippines again colonel yeah so i was gonna say i first came across that um when they were grooming people for leadership in asia in the philippines after we basically um overthrew that country um and they were bringing people from the um asian um theater in there and it basically was doing

20:01 for that area what you're describing uh groton is for the united states yeah that's exactly what it sounds like and you know obviously we took over the philippines in 1898. well how many times have we seen these connected figures bonesmen etc that have served over in the philippines yes yeah and understanding that history is that they were vicious um in

20:31 Everybody will recall when we did the Philippines in our Around the World tour that they actually found out that they were very like mystic believing culture and they believed that there were vampires. And so what they did was they took the last guy on a return trip into a village and they killed him.

20:58 And they poked two holes in his neck and turned him upside down. So he bled out and it looked like a vampire had killed him. And they did that to freak everybody else. That was part of their operation propaganda to psychological operations to scare the shit out of everybody. And a lot of those people that were in charge of all of those missions come from these schools. Yeah.

21:25 and we'll get more philippines later today and the other philippines connection of course we can't neglect to mention is that's where operation golden lily came from where an awful lot of the cia where an awful lot of cia money came from so yes there's a lot to meet there's more than meets the eye to the philippines and i have been there it is a gorgeous place fantastic scuba diving didn't know the history when i went all right so peabody eventually what's that it probably kept you safer safer

21:57 Yeah, you know, it's funny in Manila, which is a really disgusting capital city, just very, very crowded. You know, I'm 6'3", and walking down the streets, they can see me coming from like, because everyone out there is like a foot shorter. So they actually, the hotel we stayed at, the One Night Manila, they wouldn't let me leave the gated grounds without armed security. Yes. They said you're way too much of a target. Yes.

22:23 the outer islands are gorgeous i loved it i like the people there quite a bit but manila itself is it's worse than los angeles in the worst neighborhood all right so peabody eventually retires and passes the torch as the headmaster i'll go through that pretty quickly the guy named crocker would lead for like 25 years until 1965. uh it was known for you know overlapping the civil rights movement um the first black student attends

22:52 Groton School in 1951. And Crocker, the headmaster himself, and 85 students would march with MLK in Boston during the Civil Rights Movement. So they are progressive at this point in time. I bring that up because American progressivism came over with the Fabian Society. While the blue blood American robber barons are marrying off their daughters into British royalty, that's how we're getting this Atlantic mixing of cultures.

23:22 And our progressive movement came straight from the Fabian Society through these schools. And the Puritans were the ones who adapted it. So if you want to know where the woke culture comes from, this is it. Groton becomes co-ed in 75. The first couple of classes, the Boyd-Grela ratio was 3 to 1, which made for some pretty interesting dances, I would imagine. It's now 50-50.

23:53 And I would imagine at this point in time, they don't have to necessarily declare their gender. We get to 77. We have a couple of grandmasters or headmasters that are worth mentioning. Polk and a guy by the name of Commons. They upgraded the campus buildings. They internationalized the admissions process. And that's a big deal. That's why they're switched to this globalist admissions and curriculum, which is the opposite.

24:20 First of all, it was very exclusive just to Protestant American families, and now it's all over the world. So you can see where their morals have gone. Current headmaster, of course, is the South African Temba Makubela. A couple scandals have happened. You're not going to be shocked to know that in 1999, the Middlesex County DA investigated claims of three Groton seniors who alleged sexual abuse by other students. We saw the sexual abuse scandals with the Horace Mann School as well.

24:56 And we've talked about how they possibly use sexual blackmail, et cetera, to keep people in line, like with Skull and Bones. There's a lot of supposition about that. So this does not come as a shock. 2005, the school pleads guilty to criminal misdemeanor for failing to report a latter student's sexual abuse complaint. And for that, the school got to pay a $1,250 fine.

25:27 Woo. Yeah. So that's kind of the background of this school, Groton School. You know, it fits the description of what you'd expect. You know, very exclusive, now very globalist. We've got the sexual predator, you know, the grooming, all of that. But it's a good school. 2023, they had a combined SAT. The average SAT score was 1490.

25:58 I don't know if that's with the old standard or the newer, but the old one, 1490s, 99 percentile. That's ridiculously good. Yeah. Academically, not good in general. Yeah. So it's traditionally it was a feeder school for Harvard, not Yale. And a statistic I pulled up somewhere said in from 1906 to 1932, 405 of their students applied to Harvard and 402 of them got in. So that was the definition of a feeder school.

26:31 Yeah, yeah. That changed. It changed when one of our favorite skull and bones men, a guy by the name of McGeorge Bundy, became the faculty dean at Harvard in charge of their admissions. The Bundy family shows up again. Well, Bundy also, four years later, becomes a Groton trustee in 1957. And he basically says he thinks these entrance exams are doing a really poor job of identifying the best students.

27:04 And he's urging for diversification. So since then, it is not as effective of a feeder school. And they're taking kids from all over the place. The ones who can't afford it, they give scholarships out of their huge endowment. Now they're taking kids from all over the world. So this is now a globalist center that's trying to produce future leaders, sort of like your young global leaders. That's what their new mission is.

27:29 And, of course, we're really just talking about the global technocracy. They want the future people to go in these NGOs and other parts of government. That's what this place has become a pipeline for. And I'd imagine all the Ivy League schools have no problem taking their students. All right. All right. That went pretty quick. Let's talk about their alumni. OK. Because some of them are familiar. This is going to be alphabetical order. Some of these names we've gone over before, so we're not going to go into too much depth. So starting with the letter A.

28:05 We've had two Atchisons attend Groton School, both Dean Atchison in 1911, who was the U.S. Secretary of State and whose daughter married Bonesman, William and Bundy, and his son, David Atchison, also attended. And he's a U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. Now, we spent some time. Yeah, go ahead. He was the architect of U.S. foreign policy for the Cold War, instrumental in forming NATO, which.

28:39 orchestrates Operation Gladio. Thank you. Yeah, let's do that. I'm going to give a real high level and you jump in with the details. How's that sound? Sure. Okay. Well, that's the Atchison. And on this series, we spent a good half an hour talking about the Atchisons. So yeah, they're definitely prominent alumni. Yep. Also, we have the famous Auchincloss family, where five of them have gone to the school. Wow. Uh-huh.

29:09 The Auchincloss family is also known for Yale, but it's a different secret society. That's the Scroll and Key family line. But their kids all went to high school at Groton. You had James Auchincloss in 1904. He was a New Jersey congressman. You had Hugh D. Auchincloss in 1916. You had Louis Auchincloss in 1935. Kenneth Auchincloss in 1955. He was the editor of Newsweek. There's the propaganda.

29:41 Then, of course, you had Hugh Auchincloss in 1967, and he was the former director of the NIAID, Dr. Fauci's organization. Yep. Now, if we spend time on scroll and key, we're going to be talking about the Auchinclosses quite a bit. One of our researchers in our little circle has done a lot of work on the Auchinclosses, and we're going to borrow some of that research.

30:10 But that is a family to remember. They are one of the true blue blood families of American history. Anything to add on the option class? Nope. Okay. Let's see. Next one we have is a C. Tracy Barnes, Groton class of 1929. Have you come across that name? Oh, yeah. This is known as being a CIA officer who helped plan the Bay of Pigs. Yeah. Okay. He definitely did that.

30:46 So that's another Groton alumni. Remember, this is only 380 students. Back then it was about 250. And somehow they end up in the same places. It's not like a big high school of 2,000 people. Right. Next one I have is a Francis M. Bator. B-A-T-O-R. Groton class of 1943. He wasn't too important. Just a deputy U.S. national security advisor. For who?

31:19 You're going to ask some of them. I have a pretty, pretty handy. So give me one second. Where did I put those? Oh, where it is? All right. Hang on. He was, since he's class of 40, he was in his role. Let's see. He was army infantry. Okay. Here we have, he served as senior economic advisor in the USAID, special consultant to the treasury of the treasurer.

32:01 He was also a consultant to the Rand Corporation. I thought I recognized his name. Yeah, that's why I asked. Yeah, and McKinsey and Company. So he's CIA, CIA, CIA. And then who was he National Security Assistant? 1965 to 1967, while he's also a Special Assistant to Lyndon B. Johnson. Yeah, so he was in charge of the coordination of the Phoenix program on the National Security Council.

32:30 Now that's where I know that name. Yeah. Yeah. He was worth bringing up, I think. Oh yeah. We've got the Biddle family, B-I-D-D-L-E. We stumbled upon that family a little bit in our journeys. They actually had some, you know, they actually have some revolutionary war connections. There was George Biddle in 1904, was from Groton. And then his brother was Francis Biddle, 1905. Francis is the more famous of the two.

33:05 Francis is known, he was the U.S. Attorney General, and then he was the Chief American Justice at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II. Yep. Once again, you got to have an insider running the Nuremberg Trials. Because we're letting all them Nazis everywhere else. Yeah. The Nazis that these other connected families had sponsored in the first place. Correct.

33:34 The Nazis that were brought over here with Operation Paperclip by the CIA, set up by the Dulles brothers, who are connected to all these same families. Correct. Yeah. So Biddle's the justice over there. That's why the Nuremberg trials were an absolute show trial. Correct. Okay. Next family I've got. I've got one, two, three Binghams. Remember how we talked about the Binghams early on in our series? Yes. That was one of the Bluebud families that I really focused on.

34:07 is being, see if I can find that notes real quick on them. Yeah, that was Hiram Bingham was the, uh, first Protestant missionary to Hawaii. We talked about, and we had the other Hiram Bingham was also a missionary to Hawaii. Um, and we've got a USS Naval ship laying, naming up the U S Hiram Bingham. And why would that be? Because U S Navy is the one that helped them, um, overthrow the queen on Hawaii. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And these are all part of the founding families of,

34:41 of skull and bones that's why we talked about the bingham so three of the bingham boys went to high school here and who were they we had woodridge bingham in 1920 i didn't do too much we had hiram bingham iv graduated 21 he was a diplomat and he is known for helping uh varian fry actually evacuate jews during the holocaust yeah and of course there was a jonathan brewster bingham 1932 he was a new york congressman so u.s house of representatives

35:12 So another really old family, very wealthy family, Eastern, blue blood, spent three of their children to the Groton School to be groomed. Moving on. We're only on the B's right now, Colonel. There's a lot of things that are worth mentioning. We've got Richard M. Bissell, Jr. He's at Groton School in 1928. And we know him because he was once the CIA Deputy Director for Plans.

35:46 And he also helped plan both the Bay of Pigs and the U2 spy plane. Correct. How do we get two of the planners of the Bay of Pigs come from the same private high school? Well, that's because they're doing all of this together for their families to make money. Yeah. There you go. The family business is espionage. And of course, all espionage and intrigue starts from...

36:24 basically international commerce i mean it's it's of course there's another one that is going to come up too that was in on the bay of pigs but keep going if i skip it make sure you don't let me get past it okay um oh here's a fun one we got a william mccormick blair jr class of 1936 he was the u.s ambassador to denmark and the philippines of course he was

36:55 How many times do we have to see the Philippines pop up? It was a very strategic place from a porting perspective and all the trade in Southeast Asia. All right. Oh, and by the way, let me just add this. The Singlub, General Singlub was responsible for that vampire shit and all that other stuff that happened on the Philippines. And all of the assassins, terrorists that he trained,

37:32 on the philippines to overcome the indigenous people in the philippines resistance to wanting not to be ruled by america he took to vietnam and um this uh blair jr while he was there um was part of that operation to have them infiltrate into vietnam yeah of course as the ambassador he knows everything that's going on correct

38:02 Notice how many of these people are juniors, thirds or fourths. I mean, they love their family names. Your name is a free passage to any party you want to go to. Class system. Okay, next one I have is an Edward Pete Bowditch Jr., class of 1899. Familiar pattern here. What is his job? Well, he's the aide-de-camp to General John J. Pershing in World War I, another gatekeeper.

38:34 Yes, and that's what aide-de-camp is. It's what we refer to as the butt boy, but you don't get to see the general without going through the aide. Yeah, and General Pershing was a pretty high-ranking general, so that's a very prestigious position for Mr. Bowditch, Jr. All right, we're still on the Bs. I've got to talk about the Bundy family again because they sent three of their kids to the Groton School.

39:04 Here's one we have. James was Groton's class of 1977. He's now the dean of the Yale School of Drama. It's kind of interesting, huh? Yeah, very unusual, actually. And of course, there's William Bundy, class of 35, who we've talked about a bunch. He was a foreign affairs advisor to both Kennedy and Johnson, among other things. You can elaborate on him if you'd like.

39:31 Well, I mean, he's just obviously intimately involved in Vietnam and all of the chaos. He was intimately involved in the USS Liberty and all of that other stuff based on the jobs that he had during that time. He's definitely not a good guy. No, there's a reason we spent previous time on him and the old Bundy family. There's a third Bundy. He was George Bundy, 1962. I didn't have anything juicy on him, but just the fact that he's part of the family legacy.

40:01 The Bundys keep popping up in strange places, don't they? Ah, here's a fun one. S. Sloan Colt, C-O-L-T, class of 1910, chairman of the Port Authority of New York, New Jersey, and the chairman of Bankers Trust, which we've talked about before with a bunch of bones. Yeah. But look when he was the Port Authority for New Jersey and New York.

40:36 That would be the guess, but let's confirm that. When was he there? He was president of Bankers Trust from 31 to 56. When did he was the Port Authority guy? He's appointed in 1946 by Governor Thomas E. Dewey as commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Son of a bitch. All right. Why is that important? Because.

41:13 Operation Underworld just happened a few years earlier. The Germans had blown up allegedly some ships in New York Harbor. The only way the military is going to be able to get control back of the port is they had to go through the mafia who actually controls the docks. To do that, they went and let out Lucky Luciano, who had just been arrested or been put away by none other than Thomas E. Dewey himself. Thomas E. Dewey is the guy who barely lost to Truman for president a few years later.

41:42 This is the launch of Operation Underworld. So now military intelligence is working with the mafia to patrol the New York docks. But once the mafia gets their teeth into you, they never let go. This is how exactly how the mafia became part of our intelligence. Something happened right there. And the mafia were more than happy because they hated Mussolini because Mussolini locked up all the mafia dons in Sicily. And that's why the mafia helped lead our invasion of Sicily in World War II. Correct. And this guy.

42:12 Was running the Port Authority when that was going on, right after Operation Underworld. Yep. Wow. I didn't catch that earlier. I'm glad you asked me the question when he was there. And he's the chairman of Bankers Trust, which is a huge, very large asset management company. Well, you have to have a place to launder your money. Come on, Brady. Jeez. All right.

42:44 Good job, Sloan Colt. Next one we have. OK, we've talked about the Davison family a number of times and we've got two of them that went to Groton school. One we've talked to about a lot is F. Truby or Truby Davison, whose Groton's class in 1914 would go on to become the CIA director of personnel. Yeah. Anything you want to add on Truby or we beat him? We beat him up pretty good last time. Yeah. Yeah, we're good.

43:15 Yeah, there's another Daniel P. Davison. And by the way, the Davison family is another very old New England family. Daniel P. Davison, class of 1943. He's known for being the president of the U.S. Trust Company. Seen anybody from there yet? Yeah, but I mean, again, that all had to do with where they park money. Yeah. Next name I thought was important was C. Douglas Dillon.

43:47 I don't know if it's related to Dylan from Dylan Reed. I didn't get that connection, but he's class of 19. It might be because he's class of 27. And he was once the U.S. Secretary of the Treasurer and our ambassador to France. And he was undersecretary of state from 59 to 61, which is when we killed Lumumba. Interesting. Next name on there. Of course, we can't skip by Henry Francis and Henry Francis DuPont, class of 1899.

44:20 We haven't done enough on the DuPont family. We need to spend some time on them. But, you know, anytime you start talking about the Banana Republics and United Fruit, DuPonts are all very much involved in that part of international entry. Absolutely. I think they have a tendency to stay behind the scenes quite a bit. They don't make as many headlines as some of the other families. Correct. They deserve a deeper dive. All right, moving along. We've got a Marshall Green, class of 1935.

44:53 He was a U.S. ambassador to, among other places, Indonesia, Australia, Nauru. So let's talk about Indonesia. He's there when they do the coup. Australia, he's there when they're destabilizing that to take down the guy that wanted to close Pine Gap, the CIA tracking station. And he was assistant secretary of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

45:22 which would have been during the time that the World Anti-Communist League was put together and very active in coordinating Operation Gladio activities. This guy. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you know what else he did? He was one of the few people who accompanied Nixon to China in 1972. Yep. Yeah. All right. Where were we at next? Marshall Green, important guy.

45:58 Next guy we have is Joseph Grew, G-R-E-W, class of 1898. Yeah, his name comes up repeatedly. There's a reason for that. Well, first of all, he's a secretary to the U.S. delegation at the Treaty of Versailles, which is also there with John Foster and Alan Dulles as they were carving up the Middle East and other places and making sure Germany could never rebuild after World War I. This guy's there.

46:28 And then he becomes the U.S. ambassador to Japan from 1932 to 1941. And what are we doing to Japan at that time period? Well, Japan's actually going all over Asia and conquering country after country after country. And this guy's pretending like they're not even doing it.

46:49 He's sending cables back saying, oh, it's no big deal. They're just making deals for resources while they were imprisoning people and stealing all their shit. And he is there during the lead up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and was one of the people that was responsible for the miscommunications that resulted in Pearl Harbor. And also he's part of the embargo that drove Japan to attack. Correct.

47:17 At the oil embargo, we cut off their oil supplies. Yeah, this guy's from Groton too. It's amazing. All these guys went to this. I went to a pretty good public school, but our wall of fame has maybe two professional athletes and maybe a small politician. That's about it. I would say he's probably, if not the, I mean, I understand Roosevelt's role in the whole thing as far as orchestrating it, but from a non-presidential.

47:47 To me, of all the research I've done in World War II, instrumental in causing us to get into the war because of the attack on Pearl Harbor. This is the guy right here. He's certainly involved. All right. Next Groton alumni is a Morris Hadley, class of 1912. He was a founder of a law firm called Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCloy. Oh, that comes up often.

48:19 Oh, yeah. This Milbank, it's mainly called, the firm's called Milbank. It's one of the founders, really known because their biggest clients were the Rockefeller family and Chase Manhattan Bank. So a little bit connected there. Yeah, that's where you'll find McCloy, too. Yeah, that's the same McCloy family, by the way, I looked. Yeah.

48:44 They're also the first law firm, American law firm, to have offices in Japan in 1977. Even though the Japanese didn't want them there, they were able to stay around for a while. So it's a very influential law firm. Another Groton boy. Next name I have is a Charles Barney Harding. Why do you know him? Well, he was one of the class of 1918 and is one of the founders of Smith Barney, one of my former employers. And he was also the chair of none other than the New York Stock Exchange.

49:16 Kind of a big deal. Since we're on the H's, we may as well mention that there are two Harrimans, because of course there are. One of the wealthiest families in American history. 1909, that's where W. Averill Harriman went to school, and his younger brother E. Roland Harriman graduated there in 1913. We've talked about the Harrimans a lot. They're basically the ones who funneled the American money to the Nazis. Well, just to mention,

49:51 He's the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union in the immediate aftermath of World War II that was responsible for a whole bunch of the Iron Curtain Soviet Union bad, even though they knew it had been decimated and they weren't really a threat. He played a large role in the propaganda created around that. And one of my telltale.

50:13 signs as to where they fall in the pecking order is whether or not they're ambassador to the UK. And of course he was. That is the premier ambassadorship for the elite. And then he also, critical role in the aftermath of World War II was the US Secretary of Commerce when they're setting up all of those trade deals and doing the Marshall Plan all over the...

50:42 um european theater which was helped um and if anybody would have known it um it would have been him because a whole bunch of the marshall plan was used to set up operation gladio as opposed to just trade so this guy he's an international investment banker too so that's you know that's that's how intelligence is actually done and state's craft is basically investment bankers correct i neglected to share a picture earlier on so let me take a break and show you the picture of endicott

51:11 Peabody. Hang on. There he is. I just recently did the whole dig into that family. The Peabody's? Yeah. Here's the Reverend heading out the tombstone to save souls. To do something. Alright. That was the only picture I brought this week, but I didn't want to skip over it. Guys, it's a pretty good picture.

51:50 I had to have Harriman's there. All right. Next one I have from a class of 45 is a guy named Richard Helly Hutchinson. He is the 8th Earl of Donnemore in Ireland. It is a family title, so they had some royalty going to school here. Next one I have is a Stephen A. Higginson. He's been in the news. He was Groton's class of 1979. He is currently a judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

52:25 Next one I have is a George Holding, class of 1986, who is a congressman from North Carolina. We've got a Pierre Jay, class of 1888, who would go on to become the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. How many Federal Reserve shares we had throughout these connections? It's almost like it's an insider club that runs our monetary policy, huh? Right. Whoever gave me that idea.

52:59 Remember, there's like three skull and bones when we're the very first chairs of the New York Fed and chairs of the Federal Reserve itself. It was all the same Yale connections. Next name I have is a Devereux Josephs, class of 1911. Why is he important? Well, not only was the chairman of New York Life, but he's also the president of the Carnegie Corporation because, of course, he was a CIA funder.

53:30 Absolutely. I mean, we've been beating up on the Carnegies quite a bit the last few weeks, and they deserve it. They financed an awful lot of, shall we say, shenanigans. All right, this next one I want to spend a little time on because he's important today. Class of 1982, this guy by the name of Gregory G. Katsas. He is a judge. I'm sorry. Hold on. Say his name again. You kind of blipped out there. Okay, Gregory G. Katsas, K-A-T-S-A-S. Okay. He's currently in play.

54:04 He is right now a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for Washington, D.C. Previously, OK, first of all, he's a Trump appointee to that position. Previously, he wrote a paper called Targeted Drone Killings, the Legal Justifications Under the Bush and Obama Administrations. That's Mr. Katz's. He recused himself on the Mueller probe because he had some kind of connection to the probe. He also dissented.

54:39 on Fisher v. U.S. recently on the January 6th case regarding 18 U.S.C. 1512C, which of course was the conspiracy they were throwing on all the charges on, which now got wiped. He's already been considered a potential Trump Supreme Court nominee. He's a member of the Federalist Society, and if there is a vacancy for the Supreme Court during this Trump administration, Katz is going to be on the short list.

55:10 So he is a name to know. And the Federalist Society thing is not necessarily a badge of honor because they do not interpret the Constitution the way I think it should be done. And the track record's interesting. Yeah, it sucks. That's Mr. Katsas. He's one to keep an eye on. He's from Groton School, too. It's a funny one. A guy by the name of Moorhead Kennedy, Groton Class of 1948.

55:40 The only reason we have no him is because he's one of the prisoners during the Iran hostage crisis. Well, well, there's a lot more to that than what most people know. There's a lot of people and a lot of evidence, actually, that suggests that entire thing was a Gladio operation to set up Carter. So just FYI, wouldn't be at all surprised to find somebody from this school there.

56:10 Yeah, they didn't. I mean, I didn't bother looking too hard. Didn't look like he had too exciting of a life other than that. But interesting. Yeah. Next name I have is a Francis Kneppel, K-N-E-P-P-E-L, class of 1934, U.S. Commissioner on Education and the Dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education. It's a nice little gatekeeper position. We have two members of the Key family. We had David Key.

56:42 Class of 1918. And of course, he's the U.S. ambassador to Burma. And I know you're going to ask when. So I looked it up. 1950 and 51. Oh, my gosh. That just so happens to coincide when we're trying to set up Chiang Kai-shek's KMT there to take over their opium fields. Just got to be a coincidence. I'm sure it is. I thought you'd like that one.

57:11 Yeah, I think his son is Albert Key. He's a class of 1944. He's just an investment banker and the chair of the New York Historical Society. And that's a pretty important position. Historical societies are where a lot of the muckety-mucks go to rub elbows. Well, it's also how you craft your version of history. Oh, without a doubt. You know, I go to some of the local historical society events here, you know, up in historical Portsmouth.

57:43 You get some, well, it's the multimillionaire and billionaire class, that's for sure. And, you know, given, you know, my love of constitutional history, let's just say they don't get it quite perfect. They get their version out there. We've got a guy named Hunter Lewis, 1965. I've run into this guy a lot because he writes for both the Wall Street Journal and Barron's.

58:12 He's a good writer, actually. And he's also the founder of an investment firm I've done some business with called Cambridge Associates. So he's a very successful guy and a very sharp Wall Street mind. I couldn't skip him over just because I've read him. I've read Barron's on a regular basis for the last 23, 24 years. I think it's one of the most important things I read for business or finance. And so his name's in there a lot. Next guy, professor of English literature at Yale, none other than class of 1938, George.

58:45 DeForest Lord. Yeah, that's the same Lord family. Okay, here's another famous family, the McVees. M-A-C-V-E-A-G-H. This guy's name is Lincoln McVee. 1909 class. He was the U.S. ambassador to Spain, Portugal, Greece, Yugoslavia, South Africa, and Iceland, all from 1933 to 1953. Whoa. Yeah. Whoa. Basically World War II.

59:23 So he was there for Hugo Spain. Pretty good career for him, right? Yeah. All right, moving on. We have a Greg Maffei, M-A-F-F-E-I, class of 1978, CEO of Liberty Media. It's kind of a big deal. I guess. A little bit. Yeah. Oh, 1959, Peter McGowan, managing partner, general partner of the San Francisco Giants. Boo.

1:00:02 What can I say? I'm a Padres fan. At least he's not a Dodger. Right, Ron? We've got three members of the McCormick family. None of them are all that special. Just another family with a lot of people that went to the same school. Here's a fun one. Got me the Walter Russell Mead, M.E.A.D., class of 1969. He is a Henry A. Kissinger chairman at the Council of Foreign Relations.

1:00:36 Because of course he is. Of course, because we've never seen anybody at the CFR come from these places. Hi, we have another family that's prominent. And this is the Moffat family, M-O-F-F-A-T. The first one is a J. Pierpont Moffat, which the name Pierpont means he's going to be related to J.P. Morgan, because that's the name Pierpont. He's the class of 1913, became the U.S. ambassador to Canada.

1:01:08 He has a brother named Ebbet Lowe Moffat. It's a funny sounding name. Class of 1919. He's also a diplomat. And the third one we have is J. Pierpont Moffat Jr., class of 49, who was a U.S. ambassador to Chad. And yes, that was during a period of time where we had unrest in Chad. I'm shocked. Yes, I'm sure you are.

1:01:38 How am I doing on a pace here? Yeah, we'll get done in time. Okay. Next name. We've got three people from a family called the Morgans. Yeah. 1919, you had Henry Sturgis Morgan, who, of course, is the founder of Morgan Stanley. We also had Henry Sturgis Morgan Jr. in 1942, who became a U.S. Navy Rear Admiral. And another one, John Adams Morgan, 1949. Anything you want to add on the Morgans? Nope, you're good.

1:02:14 Okay. Garrison Norton, 1919, U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy. How do these guys all end up in military command? Primarily always the Navy, too, because of all the troops. Yeah, a lot of Navy. We had some Army on this list, too, but yeah, mostly Navy. It really does. Yeah. All right. J. Graham Parsons, 1925, U.S. Ambassador to Laos and Sweden, and also the Deputy U.S. Rep for the SALT Talks.

1:02:51 Drugs, drugs, and drugs. Yeah. The Sweden connection I found interesting. What do we know about comes out of Sweden outside of Ericsson? Military. Yeah. Telecommunications. Yeah. In the military. Have you gone very deep into that deeper side of Ericsson? Oh, yeah. Okay. I have a whole slew of people that feed me nothing but Ericsson.

1:03:25 uh that follow us on um x there's like a entire camp of swedish people and i love them yeah the guy who the guy who wrote the ericsson reports a friend of mine i had him on a show once um he's a good guy i can't find the ericsson report anymore he's now selling it but it's good stuff it was good research and there's a lot of it was new to me in fact i uh i had him on a show where i was guesting uh on patriot soapbox i had him and ghost and pat based out here hanging on at the same time for a two-hour show and it was good conversation i bet uh

1:03:57 Two of Peabody's kids went there, both Endicott Peabody II, who would go on to become the governor of Massachusetts, and his other son, Malcolm Endicott Peabody, who became the Episcopal Bishop of New York. All went to the Peabody School, founded by their father or whatever. Another, Alan Pfeiffer, class of 1940, was also a president of the Carnegie Corporation. Two guys, same high school, both become presidents of the Carnegie Corporation. What are the odds? We have Frank Polk.

1:04:34 about Groton. Apparently. Next name is Frank Polk, class of 1890. He was the U.S. Undersecretary of State for Woodrow Wilson. Nothing ever happened during that period of time, did it? No, nothing at all. Nothing good. World War I, maybe. He's also the co-founder of that famous law firm we've talked about a lot, Davis Polk. This guy's the co-founder of that. That's that Polk. Next name I have is Samuel Reber.

1:05:08 r-e-b-e-r class of 1921 he was the u.s deputy high commissioner for germany after world war ii right what do you think he was doing colonel operation gladio with the um senior general eisenhower that goes on to do president and then expands operation gladio so yeah

1:05:40 You think he would have known a certain Reinhard Galen? He would have not only known him, but remember, this is during the time that the Marshall Plan's going on, and the money's being skimmed off the top of that to do Operation Gladio, with the Rockefellers chipping in some, too. Yeah. Okay, next name is a Stanley Rogers Rezor, R-E-S-O-R, class of 1935. He was the U.S. Secretary of the Army.

1:06:14 and the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. When was he the defense for policy? Well, he graduated high school class of 1935, so he's probably serving in the 60s. Okay. Because that's the one that does the coordination with the CIA. Okay. Let's see if I can find any more around him. Hang on.

1:06:43 Yeah, don't keep going. I just wanted to point that out, that that's the office in the Pentagon. If it's post-World War II, that was the belly button for the CIA. OK, we got a Warren B.D. Robbins, class of 1904. He was a U.S. ambassador to both Canada and El Salvador. Where the death squads were. All right. Next family we're going to talk about are the Roosevelt's. How many Roosevelt's do you think went to Groton school?

1:07:21 Well, I know two of them that was in the CIA. How about 13 of them? That's a lot. First one we have, we have an Archibald Bullock Roosevelt, class of 1914. We had Archibald Bullock Roosevelt Jr., 1936, who was a CIA officer. We had Elliot Roosevelt, class of 29, who was U.S. Army Air Corps Brigadier General. You had, of course, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was President of the United States. Yeah, he was there.

1:07:57 He got his son, FDR Jr., class of 33, became a New York congressman. We've got a James Roosevelt, class of 1926, who was a California congressman and a U.S. Marine brigadier general. We've got Kermit Roosevelt, who a lot of people have heard of, but this is the dad. In 1908, he was an explorer in the Amazon, Himalayas, and Southeast Asia. Interesting place to be an explorer. Well, hold on.

1:08:27 Are you going to say something else about him? No, I'm done with him. Go ahead and drop in because it's interesting where he was. Well, the explorer is a misnomer. These were scouts to find resources for them to then justify the overthrowing of governments. They're not explorers in the way you and I would think about them. They're scouts looking for resources like gold mines and oil, and they were able to do that.

1:08:54 especially after um the creation of aircraft but before that they used balloons because geographically there's um or geology wise there's certain things you look for from the air and these guys these explorers were um well versed in not only just like the shape of the uh to um the land to and the

1:09:23 The way oil, when it's present, there's certain things to look for that they can do from the air. So they weren't explorers in the normal sense of the word explore. Outstanding point. His son is Kermit Roosevelt Jr., Groton School, class of 1934, CIA officer, and he is responsible for organizing Operation Ajax. Colonel, what is Operation Ajax?

1:09:57 The 1953 overthrow of Mossadegh as prime minister of Iran because he dared to take his oil when BP Oil wouldn't renegotiate the concession to be something other than 86-14, giving them 14 pennies of every dollar while they pocketed the other 86. He wanted a 50-50 split.

1:10:22 And the British refused to do that and tried to coup him themselves. And they were so inept that they not only didn't coup him, they got kicked out and had their embassy closed. So they came hat in hand to the CIA and they put Kermit Frog on the overthrow or Kermit Frog, Kermit Roosevelt on the overthrow. He was successful in doing it. And as the end of the story and the moral of that story is BP only ended up getting 50% because Alan Dulles.

1:10:54 demand was that you had to cut in Standard Oil for the remaining piece up to the 50%. And so they ended up with like 34% of the concession. So the moral of the story, the UK only ever got 50%. He could have done that without any loss of life and leaving most of the day in place, but he refused to do that. But Standard Oil got the profit from Allen Dulles' operation, not the American people.

1:11:22 And it did set the stage for everything that's happened into Iran ever since. So good job, Kermit. Thanks for nothing. Correct. Kermit had a more colorful career, but I'm going to skip past him in the interest of time. We had a Quentin Roosevelt, Groton School, class of 1915, who was an interesting guy, a U.S. Army Air Service pilot. And he's the only child of a president of the United States who ever did die in combat. He was shot down. Quentin's son, Quentin Roosevelt II.

1:11:55 Class of 1937 was killed in a mysterious plane crash in China. Also, the two plane crashes, one family. It's interesting. He was director of something called China National Aviation Corporation, and he crashed on Basalt Island near Hong Kong. And it's considered a very mysterious plane crash. Now, I looked up, you know what we know about the different American-based flying tigers and stuff like that in Asia.

1:12:25 China National Aviation Corporation was actually communist Chinese run. I'm trying to figure out why Roosevelt is the director of it. I have no clue. Do you got anything on that? If you go back in time, there's a lot of circumstantial evidence that says that just like we set up the Bolsheviks, we also set up Mao. Okay. Still interesting that Roosevelt would be the director of their aviation corporation.

1:12:57 There's probably more to that than me. I need to look into that more. Yeah, I came across it one time, and I just don't have it off the top of my head. There is a lot more to that story. All right. Well, get back to me if you find out, and I'll do the same. Okay. Of course, here's the one. Theodore Roosevelt III, Groton School of 1906. He became a U.S. Army Brigadier General who led the D-Day assault on Utah Beach. That's pretty darn impressive. Of course, his dad was president.

1:13:29 And then he would become the governor general of, of all places, the Philippines. Yep. Another Groton school. We have Theodore Roosevelt, the fourth class of 1932. He was nothing much, just the Pennsylvania secretary of commerce. And then of course we have Theodore Roosevelt, the fifth class of 1961 and still going. He was in the U S Navy seal. He was also a U S foreign service officer in the state department. Upper Volta is where he served.

1:14:04 What's that? Where'd he start? Upper Volta. Yeah, and that's basically the CIA. Uh-huh. He was a SEAL in Vietnam. Two years. Know what he was doing. Would you believe me if I told you he was also a member of the CFR? Yes, I would. Uh-huh. He's also the Economic Club of New York. And he also endorsed Kasich in 2016 over Trump.

1:14:34 But that's the Roosevelt clan all going there. Kind of familiar patterns, huh? Yes. All right. Let me hammer out these last few names. We got a George Rubley, 1886. He's the very first graduate of the Groton School. The very first. And he became the commissioner of the FTD. And he's also a former partner of law firm Covington and Burling, who we've talked about before. Yeah.

1:15:11 A guy by the name of Hardwick Simmons, class of 1958, who he was just the president of NASDAQ. Yeah, like almost the same as the New York Stock Exchange, the younger version of it. We've got a James Hopkins Smith, Jr., class of 1927, became the U.S. Secretary of Navy for the Air. Remember we talked about how the founder of the Groton School wanted everyone to serve and push them towards sports to get you to the military? Yeah. They seem to have taken that to heart.

1:15:48 Here's a fun one. David Thorne, class of 1962. He became the U.S. ambassador to Italy. He actually was the real-life name they used when they wrote this. Remember the books, The Omen, Damian the Omen? That was Damian Thorne, whose father in the book, or in the movie, was the U.S. ambassador to Italy. That's the guy they modeled him after for that book. So real-life guy that they used. They took his name and everything.

1:16:23 Fun little side note. If you look at his picture, you can understand it. I read the books as a kid. Cyrus Vance Jr. Yeah, he's the son of Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State. And he became a Manhattan DA as well. Here's another one. How about George Herbert Walker III, class of 1949? Yes, part of those Walkers and Bushes family. They sent one of their sons there too.

1:16:55 I got three member of the Webb family and I'm going to finish with the Whitney's. We have talked about the Whitney's. They were one of those original founding fathers of America on founding families. I should say very wealthy old school family. They absolutely get invited to every single debutante ball. And here are their alumni from Groton school. You had a Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney class of 1917. Now, does that just name just reek of privilege? Yes, it does.

1:17:28 Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 1917. He became a film producer. He did a film called The Searchers he was known for. You had a Harry Payne Whitney, class of 1894, who became a horse breeder, big polo guy, country club guy. You had a John Hay Whitney, class of 1922. He would be the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain from 57 to 61. It's kind of an important position.

1:17:59 You know, royalty gets to go visit it with royalty. And Whitney was American royalty. You had William Payne Whitney, just a philanthropist. And the last one we're going to close on is a Richard Whitney, class of 1907. He was the president of the New York Stock Exchange. But there's more to his story. Before the October crash of 1929, which is known as Black Tuesday, before that was something called Black Thursday, four days earlier.

1:18:34 And what happened was Richard Whitney was a banker, got together with a bunch of other bankers and said, we see this crash happening. We saw it in the panic of 1907 and JP Morgan was able to end up and step in and basically shore up the markets. So we're going to try to do the same. So he pulls up a bunch of money and he loudly goes on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and starts putting in bids for the biggest blue chip companies at well above market price. And it worked.

1:19:05 They've restored confidence in the markets for three whole days until the markets completely tanked on Black Tuesday. But he actually got the nickname at the time. Newspapers called him the White Knight of Wall Street, Mr. Richard Whitney. There's more to his story. He'd been taking on some very speculative investments that weren't working out during the roaring 20s. And he was in a position to embezzle a lot of money.

1:19:38 Embezzled money from the New York Stock Exchange's gratuity fund. He embezzled money from the New York Yacht Club. And he embezzled over $800,000 in bonds from his father-in-law's estate. That's not good. But you figure a guy with his kind of privilege, you're going to get off scot-free, right? No, he gets charged by none other than a New York District Attorney named Thomas E. Dewey. Same Dewey that went after Luciano and ran for president against Truman.

1:20:10 Takes this guy down. He ends up spending like eight years in Sing Sing prison. And when they sent him off, there were thousands lining the streets to see his bus get taken off to Sing Sing to see this Wall Street prince of his noble family go to jail in shackles. And that's Mr. Richard Whitney, our final alumni of Groton School for today. But I love that story about him. I do too. But I have two. One. Actually, one and a half. Sumner Wells.

1:20:40 Class of 1910, Undersecretary of State from 37 to 43, which of course is World War II, and an integral player. He goes on, I come across his name in Thou Thy Will Be Done under Nelson Rockefeller because he was the Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America. And he also was an advisor to FDR.

1:21:08 with a lot of his policy as it related to Latin America. And he's probably most famous for a thing that he wrote in 1940 called the Wells Declaration, which condemned the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. But here's your mic drop moment. Do you know who went to Groton and didn't graduate? Richard Helms. That Richard Helms.

1:21:40 That Richard Helms, the director of the Central Intelligence from 1966 to 73, an ambassador to Iran in 73 to 77, who were setting up the SABAC and all of the rest of the integral pieces of Iran during the Shah's tenure. Helms also was intimately involved in all of the covert IE Operation Gladio as it relates to all of that stuff to include

1:22:10 um a whole bunch of overthrows based on oil he attended but then did not graduate i think that's a good one to close on me too so i don't know what do we prove today that's that all of these people that you think are in these positions um are there

1:22:42 You know, you would think at least some of them, based on competency, and I'm not saying they're incompetent, but I am saying they are there because they were groomed to be there. Yeah, and they're representing the United States of America in all these positions, but they're not. They're actually representing their families and their friends of their families' interests. And I think that's really the point is it's this oligarchical control that they sell to us.

1:23:08 in the guys. They tell us we're a meritocracy. They tell us we're a democracy. And I think we're showing that really we're not. We're not all created equal. And we were supposed to be, but these people, you know, they think that they are a superior class. And I think we've shown that it's been that way for more than two centuries. I agree. All right. Well, we got it done in under 90 minutes, as I hope to. So good job, Colonel.

1:23:38 i am traveling next week but we'll try to carve out time as long as you can try to be flexible depending on i don't know what we have planned when we're there but i will have my computer with me and uh i should have access to pretty good wi-fi and decent lighting so i will be in touch okay so our um segment next week is tbd we'll shoot for the regular thursday slot but no guarantees got it all right

1:24:08 Thanks for tuning in everybody. Cheers.

Entities here

Endicott Peabody15 Philippines8 Operation Gladio8 Skull and Bones6 Groton School6 New York Stock Exchange6 Theodore Roosevelt5 Richard Whitney5 Kermit Roosevelt5 World War II5 Joseph Grew5 Bush family5 Harriman family4 Peabody family4 S. Sloan Colt4 Franklin D. Roosevelt4 Gregory G. Katsas4 William P. Bundy3 Quentin Roosevelt3 Marshall Green3 Thomas Dewey3 Iran3 Bingham family3 Port Authority of New York and New Jersey3 Japan3 McGeorge Bundy3 Nazi Party3 Marshall Plan3 J.P. Morgan3 Auchincloss family3 Francis M. Bator3 Allen Dulles3 Mafia2 Richard M. Bissell Jr.2 David Key2 Donald Trump2 Rockefeller2 Ericsson2 Vietnam2 Archibald Roosevelt Jr.2

Claims made here

Maggie Goodlander member_of Groton School host_asserted ▶ 0:45

“new New Hampshire Congress critter by the name of Maggie Goodlander. And I was going through her background. You know, I mentioned that she went to the Groton School, which is, of course, a private hi…”

Groton School front_for Skull and Bones host_asserted ▶ 1:42

“Our focus has been for now on Yale University because an awful lot of these people end up in the secret society known as Skull and Bones. And yet somehow all of these people, time after time, end up i…”

Francis Peabody member_of Peabody family documented ▶ 7:26

“So he's known as the Reverend Endicott Peabody, and he's an Episcopal priest. He's born in 1857 in a town called Salem, Massachusetts, which I visited recently. I've been to the witch house. It's a pr…”

Endicott Peabody member_of Peabody family documented ▶ 7:26

Joseph Peabody member_of Peabody family documented ▶ 7:56

“The Reverend Peabody's great-grandfather was a guy named Joseph Peabody. He was a shipowner and a privateer. He made his fortune importing pepper from Sumatra, and he was one of the wealthiest men in …”

John Endicott member_of Peabody family documented ▶ 8:31

“And how many times have we seen that? Some of these wealthy families made their money in the shipbuilding slash smuggling slash privateering. Right. What else about his family? His paternal grandmothe…”

John Endicott carried_out_attack Salem Witch Trials host_asserted ▶ 9:02

“cast down anybody who did not follow the Bible exactly as he thought it should be done. And it was that Puritan zeal that led to the Salem witch trials, which happened two years after he passed away. …”

Lee Higginson & Co. financed_via Swedish Match Scandal documented ▶ 10:55

“Lee Higginson was a financial firm that financed the growth of General Motors and then collapsed as they got caught in what's called the Swedish Match Scandal in 1932. Swedish Match Scandal is pretty …”

Alice Hathaway Delano member_of Peabody family documented ▶ 11:26

“uh that whole thing collapsed it's one of the biggest ponzi schemes in history and that took out part of his family's fortune all right continuing endicott's cousin was alice hathaway lee who of cours…”

Malcolm Peabody member_of Peabody family documented ▶ 11:58

“His son, Malcolm Peabody, was a bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York. Okay, so let's get his background a little bit more. That's his family. 1871, he's 13 years old. He gets sent to En…”

Alice Hathaway Delano member_of Cabot Family host_asserted ▶ 12:25

“His parents then moved over to England in 1875 after his dad accepted a partnership at J.S. Morgan, which was the J.P. Morgan predecessor. So his dad's partner, J.P. Morgan, working on the England sid…”

Endicott Peabody founded Groton School documented ▶ 14:53

“tried to get the job as the headmaster for what's called the St. Mark's School, which is where his brother's alma mater, but he got turned down. Someone else got the job, and he decides to start his o…”

J.P. Morgan funded Groton School host_asserted ▶ 17:58

“And what's the Boston Watch and Word Society? They're all in a censorship of books. So, again, this is the Puritan mindset right around the time of the Gilded Age. And he's one of the leaders of it. T…”

Endicott Peabody funded Groton School host_asserted ▶ 17:58

Endicott Peabody founded Brooks School documented ▶ 19:00

“railing on about the puritans because i've read enough about it it's just what a terrible way to live just you know by other people to leave and it's it's a class system it's bad all right he would uh…”

Endicott Peabody founded Baguio School documented ▶ 19:00

Malcolm Peabody headed Baguio School documented ▶ 19:31

“and his own son malcolm taught there philippines again colonel yeah so i was gonna say i first came across that um when they were grooming people for leadership in asia in the philippines after we bas…”

Douglas Crocker II headed Groton School documented ▶ 22:23

“the outer islands are gorgeous i loved it i like the people there quite a bit but manila itself is it's worse than los angeles in the worst neighborhood all right so peabody eventually retires and pas…”

Douglas Crocker II member_of Fabian Society host_asserted ▶ 22:52

“Groton School in 1951. And Crocker, the headmaster himself, and 85 students would march with MLK in Boston during the Civil Rights Movement. So they are progressive at this point in time. I bring that…”

Temba Makabela headed Groton School documented ▶ 24:20

“First of all, it was very exclusive just to Protestant American families, and now it's all over the world. So you can see where their morals have gone. Current headmaster, of course, is the South Afri…”

McGeorge Bundy headed Groton School documented ▶ 26:31

“Yeah, yeah. That changed. It changed when one of our favorite skull and bones men, a guy by the name of McGeorge Bundy, became the faculty dean at Harvard in charge of their admissions. The Bundy fami…”

McGeorge Bundy member_of Skull and Bones documented ▶ 26:31

David Acheson member_of Groton School documented ▶ 28:05

“We've had two Atchisons attend Groton School, both Dean Atchison in 1911, who was the U.S. Secretary of State and whose daughter married Bonesman, William and Bundy, and his son, David Atchison, also …”

Dean Acheson headed U.S. State Department documented ▶ 28:05

Dean Acheson founded NATO documented ▶ 28:05

William P. Bundy member_of Skull and Bones documented ▶ 28:05

Dean Acheson member_of Groton School documented ▶ 28:05

Kenneth Auchincloss member_of Auchincloss family host_asserted ▶ 29:09

“The Auchincloss family is also known for Yale, but it's a different secret society. That's the Scroll and Key family line. But their kids all went to high school at Groton. You had James Auchincloss i…”

Janet Auchincloss member_of Auchincloss family host_asserted ▶ 29:09

Hugh Auchincloss member_of Auchincloss family host_asserted ▶ 29:09

Louis Auchincloss member_of Auchincloss family host_asserted ▶ 29:09

Hugh Auchincloss headed NIAID host_asserted ▶ 29:41

“Then, of course, you had Hugh Auchincloss in 1967, and he was the former director of the NIAID, Dr. Fauci's organization. Yep. Now, if we spend time on scroll and key, we're going to be talking about …”

Hugh Auchincloss member_of Auchincloss family host_asserted ▶ 29:41

Tracy Barnes carried_out_attack Bay of Pigs Invasion host_asserted ▶ 30:10

“But that is a family to remember. They are one of the true blue blood families of American history. Anything to add on the option class? Nope. Okay. Let's see. Next one we have is a C. Tracy Barnes, G…”

Francis M. Bator member_of USAID host_asserted ▶ 31:19

“You're going to ask some of them. I have a pretty, pretty handy. So give me one second. Where did I put those? Oh, where it is? All right. Hang on. He was, since he's class of 40, he was in his role. …”

Francis M. Bator member_of McKinsey & Company host_asserted ▶ 32:01

“He was also a consultant to the Rand Corporation. I thought I recognized his name. Yeah, that's why I asked. Yeah, and McKinsey and Company. So he's CIA, CIA, CIA. And then who was he National Securit…”

Francis M. Bator headed Phoenix Program host_asserted ▶ 32:01

Francis M. Bator member_of RAND Corporation host_asserted ▶ 32:01

Francis Biddle member_of Biddle Family host_asserted ▶ 32:30

“Now that's where I know that name. Yeah. Yeah. He was worth bringing up, I think. Oh yeah. We've got the Biddle family, B-I-D-D-L-E. We stumbled upon that family a little bit in our journeys. They act…”

Francis Biddle headed Nuremberg trials host_asserted ▶ 33:05

“Francis is known, he was the U.S. Attorney General, and then he was the Chief American Justice at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II. Yep. Once again, you got to have an insider running the Nurem…”

Dulles family carried_out_attack Operation Paperclip host_asserted ▶ 33:34

“The Nazis that were brought over here with Operation Paperclip by the CIA, set up by the Dulles brothers, who are connected to all these same families. Correct. Yeah. So Biddle's the justice over ther…”

Hiram Bingham member_of Bingham family host_asserted ▶ 34:07

“is being, see if I can find that notes real quick on them. Yeah, that was Hiram Bingham was the, uh, first Protestant missionary to Hawaii. We talked about, and we had the other Hiram Bingham was also…”

Jonathan Brewster Bingham member_of Bingham family host_asserted ▶ 34:41

“of skull and bones that's why we talked about the bingham so three of the bingham boys went to high school here and who were they we had woodridge bingham in 1920 i didn't do too much we had hiram bin…”

Hiram Bingham member_of Bingham family host_asserted ▶ 34:41

Hiram Bingham recruited Varian Fry host_asserted ▶ 34:41

Richard M. Bissell Jr. carried_out_attack Bay of Pigs Invasion host_asserted ▶ 35:46

“And he also helped plan both the Bay of Pigs and the U2 spy plane. Correct. How do we get two of the planners of the Bay of Pigs come from the same private high school? Well, that's because they're do…”

William McCormick Blair Jr. carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted ▶ 37:32

“on the philippines to overcome the indigenous people in the philippines resistance to wanting not to be ruled by america he took to vietnam and um this uh blair jr while he was there um was part of th…”

Edward Pete Bowditch Jr. member_of John J. Pershing host_asserted ▶ 38:02

“Notice how many of these people are juniors, thirds or fourths. I mean, they love their family names. Your name is a free passage to any party you want to go to. Class system. Okay, next one I have is…”

William P. Bundy carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted ▶ 39:31

“Well, I mean, he's just obviously intimately involved in Vietnam and all of the chaos. He was intimately involved in the USS Liberty and all of that other stuff based on the jobs that he had during th…”

William P. Bundy carried_out_attack USS Liberty incident host_asserted ▶ 39:31

S. Sloan Colt headed Port Authority of New York and New Jersey host_asserted ▶ 40:36

“That would be the guess, but let's confirm that. When was he there? He was president of Bankers Trust from 31 to 56. When did he was the Port Authority guy? He's appointed in 1946 by Governor Thomas E…”

S. Sloan Colt headed Bankers Trust host_asserted ▶ 40:36

Thomas Dewey appointed S. Sloan Colt host_asserted ▶ 40:36

Thomas Dewey covered_up Lucky Luciano host_asserted ▶ 41:13

“Operation Underworld just happened a few years earlier. The Germans had blown up allegedly some ships in New York Harbor. The only way the military is going to be able to get control back of the port …”

Mafia carried_out_attack Sicily host_asserted ▶ 41:42

“This is the launch of Operation Underworld. So now military intelligence is working with the mafia to patrol the New York docks. But once the mafia gets their teeth into you, they never let go. This i…”

Daniel P. Davison headed Aster Trust Company host_asserted ▶ 43:15

“Yeah, there's another Daniel P. Davison. And by the way, the Davison family is another very old New England family. Daniel P. Davison, class of 1943. He's known for being the president of the U.S. Tru…”

C. Douglas Dillon carried_out_attack Patrice Lumumba host_asserted ▶ 43:47

“I don't know if it's related to Dylan from Dylan Reed. I didn't get that connection, but he's class of 19. It might be because he's class of 27. And he was once the U.S. Secretary of the Treasurer and…”

DuPont family member_of United Fruit Company host_asserted ▶ 44:20

“We haven't done enough on the DuPont family. We need to spend some time on them. But, you know, anytime you start talking about the Banana Republics and United Fruit, DuPonts are all very much involve…”

Marshall Green carried_out_attack Indonesia host_asserted ▶ 44:53

“He was a U.S. ambassador to, among other places, Indonesia, Australia, Nauru. So let's talk about Indonesia. He's there when they do the coup. Australia, he's there when they're destabilizing that to …”

Marshall Green carried_out_attack Australia host_asserted ▶ 44:53

World Anti-Communist League carried_out_attack Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 45:22

“which would have been during the time that the World Anti-Communist League was put together and very active in coordinating Operation Gladio activities. This guy. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you know what else he…”

Joseph Grew carried_out_attack Attack on Pearl Harbor host_asserted ▶ 46:49

“He's sending cables back saying, oh, it's no big deal. They're just making deals for resources while they were imprisoning people and stealing all their shit. And he is there during the lead up to the…”

Morris L. Ernst founded Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCloy host_asserted ▶ 47:47

“To me, of all the research I've done in World War II, instrumental in causing us to get into the war because of the attack on Pearl Harbor. This is the guy right here. He's certainly involved. All rig…”

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCloy financed_via Chase Manhattan Bank host_asserted ▶ 48:19

“Oh, yeah. This Milbank, it's mainly called, the firm's called Milbank. It's one of the founders, really known because their biggest clients were the Rockefeller family and Chase Manhattan Bank. So a l…”

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCloy financed_via Rockefeller host_asserted ▶ 48:19

Charles Barney Harding headed New York Stock Exchange host_asserted ▶ 48:44

“They're also the first law firm, American law firm, to have offices in Japan in 1977. Even though the Japanese didn't want them there, they were able to stay around for a while. So it's a very influen…”

Charles Barney Harding founded Smith Barney host_asserted ▶ 48:44

Averell Harriman member_of Harriman family host_asserted ▶ 49:16

“Kind of a big deal. Since we're on the H's, we may as well mention that there are two Harrimans, because of course there are. One of the wealthiest families in American history. 1909, that's where W. …”

Harriman family financed_via Nazi Party host_asserted ▶ 49:16

J. Pierpont Moffat member_of Moffat family host_asserted ▶ 1:00:36

“Because of course he is. Of course, because we've never seen anybody at the CFR come from these places. Hi, we have another family that's prominent. And this is the Moffat family, M-O-F-F-A-T. The fir…”

J. Pierpont Moffat member_of Moffat family host_asserted ▶ 1:01:08

“He has a brother named Ebbet Lowe Moffat. It's a funny sounding name. Class of 1919. He's also a diplomat. And the third one we have is J. Pierpont Moffat Jr., class of 49, who was a U.S. ambassador t…”

Ebbet Lowe Moffat member_of Moffat family host_asserted ▶ 1:01:08

Henry Sturgis Morgan member_of Morgan family host_asserted ▶ 1:01:38

“How am I doing on a pace here? Yeah, we'll get done in time. Okay. Next name. We've got three people from a family called the Morgans. Yeah. 1919, you had Henry Sturgis Morgan, who, of course, is the …”

John Adams member_of Morgan family host_asserted ▶ 1:01:38

Henry Sturgis Morgan founded Morgan Stanley host_asserted ▶ 1:01:38

Alan Pfeiffer headed Carnegie Endowment for International Peace host_asserted ▶ 1:03:57

“Two of Peabody's kids went there, both Endicott Peabody II, who would go on to become the governor of Massachusetts, and his other son, Malcolm Endicott Peabody, who became the Episcopal Bishop of New…”

Frank Lyon Polk founded Davis Polk host_asserted ▶ 1:04:34

“about Groton. Apparently. Next name is Frank Polk, class of 1890. He was the U.S. Undersecretary of State for Woodrow Wilson. Nothing ever happened during that period of time, did it? No, nothing at a…”

Samuel Reber member_of Operation Gladio guest_asserted ▶ 1:05:08

“r-e-b-e-r class of 1921 he was the u.s deputy high commissioner for germany after world war ii right what do you think he was doing colonel operation gladio with the um senior general eisenhower that …”

Dwight D. Eisenhower member_of Operation Gladio guest_asserted ▶ 1:05:08

Rockefeller funded Operation Gladio guest_asserted ▶ 1:05:40

“You think he would have known a certain Reinhard Galen? He would have not only known him, but remember, this is during the time that the Marshall Plan's going on, and the money's being skimmed off the…”

Marshall Plan financed_via Operation Gladio guest_asserted ▶ 1:05:40

Reinhard Gehlen member_of Operation Gladio guest_asserted ▶ 1:05:40

Archibald Roosevelt Jr. member_of Delano-Roosevelt family host_asserted ▶ 1:07:21

“Well, I know two of them that was in the CIA. How about 13 of them? That's a lot. First one we have, we have an Archibald Bullock Roosevelt, class of 1914. We had Archibald Bullock Roosevelt Jr., 1936…”

Elliot Roosevelt member_of Delano-Roosevelt family host_asserted ▶ 1:07:21

Franklin D. Roosevelt member_of Delano-Roosevelt family host_asserted ▶ 1:07:21

Franklin D. Roosevelt member_of Delano-Roosevelt family host_asserted ▶ 1:07:57

“He got his son, FDR Jr., class of 33, became a New York congressman. We've got a James Roosevelt, class of 1926, who was a California congressman and a U.S. Marine brigadier general. We've got Kermit …”

Kermit Roosevelt member_of Delano-Roosevelt family host_asserted ▶ 1:07:57

James Roosevelt I member_of Delano-Roosevelt family host_asserted ▶ 1:07:57

Kermit Roosevelt member_of Delano-Roosevelt family host_asserted ▶ 1:09:23

“The way oil, when it's present, there's certain things to look for that they can do from the air. So they weren't explorers in the normal sense of the word explore. Outstanding point. His son is Kermi…”

Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack Operation 40 host_asserted ▶ 1:09:23

Operation 40 overthrew Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted ▶ 1:09:57

“The 1953 overthrow of Mossadegh as prime minister of Iran because he dared to take his oil when BP Oil wouldn't renegotiate the concession to be something other than 86-14, giving them 14 pennies of e…”

BP Oil targeted_for_regime_change Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted ▶ 1:09:57

Allen Dulles ordered_assassination_of Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted ▶ 1:10:54

“demand was that you had to cut in Standard Oil for the remaining piece up to the 50%. And so they ended up with like 34% of the concession. So the moral of the story, the UK only ever got 50%. He coul…”

Quentin Roosevelt member_of Delano-Roosevelt family host_asserted ▶ 1:11:22

“And it did set the stage for everything that's happened into Iran ever since. So good job, Kermit. Thanks for nothing. Correct. Kermit had a more colorful career, but I'm going to skip past him in the…”

Quentin Roosevelt headed China National Aviation Corporation host_asserted ▶ 1:11:55

“Class of 1937 was killed in a mysterious plane crash in China. Also, the two plane crashes, one family. It's interesting. He was director of something called China National Aviation Corporation, and h…”

Theodore Roosevelt member_of Delano-Roosevelt family host_asserted ▶ 1:12:57

“There's probably more to that than me. I need to look into that more. Yeah, I came across it one time, and I just don't have it off the top of my head. There is a lot more to that story. All right. We…”

Theodore Roosevelt member_of Delano-Roosevelt family host_asserted ▶ 1:13:29

“And then he would become the governor general of, of all places, the Philippines. Yep. Another Groton school. We have Theodore Roosevelt, the fourth class of 1932. He was nothing much, just the Pennsy…”

George Rubley member_of Covington & Burling host_asserted ▶ 1:14:34

“But that's the Roosevelt clan all going there. Kind of familiar patterns, huh? Yes. All right. Let me hammer out these last few names. We got a George Rubley, 1886. He's the very first graduate of the…”

Hardwick Simmons headed NASD host_asserted ▶ 1:15:11

“A guy by the name of Hardwick Simmons, class of 1958, who he was just the president of NASDAQ. Yeah, like almost the same as the New York Stock Exchange, the younger version of it. We've got a James H…”

David Hoadley Thorne member_of The Omen host_asserted ▶ 1:15:48

“Here's a fun one. David Thorne, class of 1962. He became the U.S. ambassador to Italy. He actually was the real-life name they used when they wrote this. Remember the books, The Omen, Damian the Omen?…”

George Herbert Walker member_of Whitney family host_asserted ▶ 1:16:23

“Fun little side note. If you look at his picture, you can understand it. I read the books as a kid. Cyrus Vance Jr. Yeah, he's the son of Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State. And he became a Manh…”

Cyrus Vance member_of Whitney family host_asserted ▶ 1:16:23

Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr member_of Whitney family host_asserted ▶ 1:16:55

“I got three member of the Webb family and I'm going to finish with the Whitney's. We have talked about the Whitney's. They were one of those original founding fathers of America on founding families. …”

John Hay Whitney member_of Whitney family host_asserted ▶ 1:17:28

“Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 1917. He became a film producer. He did a film called The Searchers he was known for. You had a Harry Payne Whitney, class of 1894, who became a horse breeder, big polo g…”

Harry Payne Whitney member_of Whitney family host_asserted ▶ 1:17:28

Richard Whitney headed New York Stock Exchange host_asserted ▶ 1:17:59

“You know, royalty gets to go visit it with royalty. And Whitney was American royalty. You had William Payne Whitney, just a philanthropist. And the last one we're going to close on is a Richard Whitne…”

Richard Whitney member_of Whitney family host_asserted ▶ 1:17:59

William Payne Whitney member_of Whitney family host_asserted ▶ 1:17:59

Thomas Dewey exposed Richard Whitney host_asserted ▶ 1:19:38

“Embezzled money from the New York Stock Exchange's gratuity fund. He embezzled money from the New York Yacht Club. And he embezzled over $800,000 in bonds from his father-in-law's estate. That's not g…”

Richard Whitney laundered_money_for New York Stock Exchange host_asserted ▶ 1:19:38

Sumner Welles member_of Franklin D. Roosevelt host_asserted ▶ 1:20:40

“Class of 1910, Undersecretary of State from 37 to 43, which of course is World War II, and an integral player. He goes on, I come across his name in Thou Thy Will Be Done under Nelson Rockefeller beca…”

Sumner Welles member_of Thy Will Be Done host_asserted ▶ 1:20:40

Richard Helms member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:21:40

“That Richard Helms, the director of the Central Intelligence from 1966 to 73, an ambassador to Iran in 73 to 77, who were setting up the SABAC and all of the rest of the integral pieces of Iran during…”

Richard Helms member_of SAVAK host_asserted ▶ 1:21:40