![]() ![]() Mallon’s primary credential was that he was “one of them.” Like Prescott Bush, Mallon was from Ohio, and his family seems both to have known the Bushes and to have had its own set of powerful connections. Prescott Bush and his partners installed an old friend, H. Harriman and Company, which had brought Prescott Bush aboard two years earlier, purchased Dresser in 1928. Instead of controlling the oil, Dresser’s strategy was to control the technology that made drilling possible. One was for a packer that made it much easier to remove oil from the ground the other was for a coupler that made long-range natural gas pipelines feasible. At the time, Dresser’s principal assets consisted of two very valuable patents in the rapidly expanding oil industry. Harriman - who had only recently set up a merchant bank to assist wealthy families in such endeavors. Averell Harriman - the sons of railroad tycoon E. eager buyers in Prescott Bush’s Yale friends Roland and W. Dresser Manufacturing Company had been a small, solid, unexceptional outfit. Between the lines of its official story can be discerned an alternate version that could suggest a corporate double life. ![]() Dresser has never received the scrutiny it deserves. Out of Yale, Bush went directly into the employ of Dresser Industries, a peculiar, family-connected firm providing essential services to the oil industry. Bush, with naval intelligence work already under his belt by the time he arrived at Yale, would have been seen as a particularly prime candidate for recruitment. When Bush entered Yale, the university was welcoming back countless veterans of the OSS to its faculty. Bones alumni would appear throughout the public and private history of both wartime and peacetime intelligence. Established in 1832, Skull and Bones is the oldest secret society at Yale, and thus at least theoretically entrusted its membership with a more comprehensive body of secrets than any other campus group. And no secret society was more suited to the spy establishment than Skull and Bones, for which Poppy Bush, like his father, was tapped in his junior year. Yale’s society’s boys were the cream of the crop, and could keep secrets to boot. “Yale has always been the agency’s biggest feeder,” recalled CIA officer Osborne Day (class of’43), “In my Yale class alone there were thirty-five guys in the agency.” Bush’s father, Prescott, was on the university’s board, and the school was crawling with faculty serving as recruiters for the intelligence services. The CIA recruited heavily at all of the Ivy League schools in those days, with the New Haven campus the standout. In 1945, with the end of the war, George H. The friends and connections he made during this time would serve him well for the rest of his life - including his early start in the oil business. ![]() In Part 2 of this series, we take a close look at Bush’s membership, while he was a college student at Yale, in America’s oldest and perhaps most elite secret society, Skull and Bones. To get the full picture, here is another excerpt from WhoWhatWhy founder and Editor-in-Chief Russ Baker’s book, "Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years." But there is a hidden backstory to Bush’s rise to power - and it has everything to do with coming from privilege, and working to maintain that privilege for his own family and those in the same circles. If you’re like us you can’t help but notice that all of the retrospectives are flowery and lack any sense of balance.Īpart from describing his military service, these encomiums tend to focus on his later years, after he had been elected to high office. The media are now saturated with obituaries and glowing reviews of former President George H.W. ![]()
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