Some curiosities about the relations of the CONTROL scheme.

Skull and Bones (the Russell Trust) was founded at Yale in 1832.

The Palladian Order of Skull and Bones was founded by Pike in 1876.

>From what the former freemasons told me, this senior-year secret society was founded on the ideal that Pike could control Arkansas politics by producing class year after class year of loyal, educated men who were bound to later join the Masonic Order.

Logically speaking, if Pike's S&B have to enter the Lodge.. Well, it'd be strange if the organization that also bore the name "Skull and Bones" (From Yale, which was established before Pike's) was not linked to similar oaths.

Anyone happen to know of any credible reading on American Freemasonry in the 1800s?