#3: Skull and Bones
Founded at Yale in 1832, Skull and Bones selects a tiny group of students each year and surrounds its rituals with deliberate secrecy. Its alumni roster includes presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, senator John Kerry, financiers, diplomats, journalists, and numerous powerful Yale figures. That extraordinary network naturally generated conspiracy theories. Membership demonstrates elite connections, not proof of coordinated secret rule. Sometimes a society becomes influential simply because it repeatedly recruits people who later become influential themselves.
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