The Secret SocietiesAndover installed a new headmaster in 1933. Claude Moore 
Fuess (rhymes with fleece) replaced veteran headmaster Alfred E. Stear ns, whom 
the Brahmins saw as a dyed-in-the-wool reactionary. Stearns was forced out over 
a "scandal": a widower, he had married his housekeeper, who was beneath his 
social class. 
The new headmaster was considered forward-looking and flexible, to meet the 
challenges of the world political crisis: for example, Fuess favored psychiatry 
for the boys, something Stearns wouldn't tolerate. 
Claude Fuess had been an Andover history teacher since 1908, and gained fame as 
an historian. He was one of the most skillful liars of the modern age. 
Fuess had married into the Boston Cushing family. He had written the 
family-authorized whitewash biography of his wife's relative, Caleb Cushing, a 
pro-slavery politician of the middle nineteenth century. The outlandish, widely 
known corruption of Cushing's career was matched by Fuess's bold, outrageous 
coverup. / Note #1 / Note #4 
During George Bush's years at Andover, his headmaster, Fuess, wrote an 
authorized biography of Calvin Coolidge, the late U.S. President. This work was 
celebrated in jest as a champion specimen of unwholesome flattery. In other 
books, also about the bluebloods, Fuess was simply given the family papers and 
designated the chief liar for the "Bostonian Race." 
Both the Cushing and Coolidge families had made their fortunes in opium 
trafficking. Bush's headmaster named his son John Cushing Fuess, perhaps after 
the fabled nineteenth century dope kingpin who had made the Cushings rich. / 
Note #1 / Note #5 
Headmaster Fuess used to say to his staff, "I came to power with Hitler and 
Mussolini."/ Note #1 / Note #6 This was not merely a pleasantry, referring to 
his appointment the year Hitler took over Germany. 
In his 1939 memoirs, Headmaster Fuess expressed the philosophy which must guide 
the education of the well-born young gentlemen under his care: 
"Our declining birth rate ... may perhaps indicate a step towards national 
deterioration. Among the so-called upper and leisure classes, noticeably among 
the university group, the present birth rate is strikingly low. 
Among the Slavonic and Latin immigrants, on the other hand, it is relatively 
high. We seem thus to be letting the best blood thin out and disappear; while at 
the same time our humanitarian efforts for the preservation of the less fit, 
those who for some reason are crippled and incapacitated, are being greatly 
stimulated. The effect on the race will not become apparent for some generations 
and certainly cannot now be accurately predicted; but the phenomenon must be 
mentioned if you are to have a true picture of what is going on in the United 
States." / Note #1 / Note #7 
Would George Bush adopt this anti-Christian outlook as his own? One can never 
know for sure how a young person will respond to the doctrines of his elders, no 
matter how cleverly presented. There is a much higher degree of certainty that 
he will conform to criminal expectations, however, if the student is brought to 
practice cruelty against other youngsters, and to degrade himself in order to 
get ahead. At Andover, this was where the secret societies came in. 
Nothing like Andover's secret societies existed at any other American school. 
What were they all about? 
Bush's friend Fitzhugh Greene wrote in 1989: "Robert L. 'Tim' Ireland, Bush's 
longtime supporter [and Brown Brothers Harriman partner], who later served on 
the Andover board of trustees with him, said he believed [Bush] had been in AUV. 
'What's that?' I asked. 'Can't tell you,' laughed Ireland. 'It's secret!' Both 
at Andover and Yale, such groups only bring in a small percentage of the total 
enrollment in any class. 'That's a bit cruel to those who don't make AU[V] or 
'Bones,'|" conceded Ireland. / Note #1 / Note #8 
A retired teacher, who was an advisor to one of the groups, cautiously disclosed 
in his bicentennial history of Andover, some aspects of the secret societies. 
The reader should keep in mind that this account was published by the school, to 
celebrate itself: "A charming account of the early days of K.O.A, the oldest of 
the Societies, was prepared by Jack [i.e. Claude Moore] Fuess, a member of the 
organization, on the occasion of their Fiftieth Anniversary. The Society was 
founded in ... 1874.... 
"[A] major concern of the membership was the initiation ceremony. In K.O.A. the 
ceremony involved visiting one of the local cemeteries at midnight, various 
kinds of tortures, running the gauntlet -- though the novice was apparrently 
punched rather than paddled, being baptized in a water tank, being hoisted in 
the air by a pulley, and finally being placed in a coffin, where he was 
cross-examined by the members.... K.O.A. was able to hold the loyalty of its 
members over the years to become a powerful institution at Phillips Academy and 
to erect a handsome pillared Society house on School Street. 
"The second Society of the seven that would survive until 1950 was A.U.V. 
[George Bush's group]. The letters stood for Auctoritas, Unitas, Veritas. 
[Authority, Unity, Truth]. This organization resulted from a merger of two ... 
earlier Societies ... in 1877. A new constitution was drawn up ... providing for 
four chief officers -- Imperator [commander], Vice Imperator [vice-commander], 
Scriptor [secretary], and Quaestor [magistrate or inquistor].... 
"Like K.O.A, A.U.V. had an elaborate initiation ceremony. Once a pledge had been 
approved by the Faculty, he was given a letter with a list of rules he was to 
follow. He was to be in the cemetery every night from 12:30 to 5:00, deliver a 
morning paper to each member of the Society each morning, must not comb or brush 
his hair nor wash his face or hands, smoke nothing but a clay pipe with Lucky 
Strike tobacco, and not speak to any student except members of A.U.V. 
"After the pledge had memorized these rules, his letter of instruction was 
burned. The pledge had now become a 'scut' and was compelled to learn many 
mottoes and incantations. On Friday night of initiation week the scut was taken 
to Hartigan's drugstore downtown and given a 'scut sundae,' which consisted of 
pepper, ice cream, oysters, and raw liver. Later that night he reported to the 
South Church cemetery, where he had to wait for two hours for the members to 
arrive. There followed the usual horseplay -- the scut was used as a tackling 
dummy, threats were made to lock him in a tomb, and various other ceremonies 
observed. 
On Saturday afternoon the scut was taken on a long walk around town, being 
forced to stop at some houses and ask for food, to urinate on a few porches, and 
generally to make a fool of himself. On Saturday night came the initiation 
proper. The scut was prepared by reporting to the cellar in his underwear and 
having dirt and flour smeared all over his body. He was finally cleaned up and 
brought to the initiation room, where a solemn ceremony followed, ending with 
the longed-for words 'Let him have light,' at which point his blindfold was 
removed, some oaths were administered, and the boy was finally a member...." 
Notes for Chapter 4 - Part 2 
16. Richardson to Prescott Bush, June 10, 1954, H. Smith Richardson Papers, 
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 
17. Wayne S. Cole, "America First: The Battle Against Intervention, 1940-1941" 
(Madison: the University of Wisconsin Press, 1953); Interviews with Richardson 
family employees; H. Smith Richardson Foundation annual reports; Richardson to 
Prescott Bush, March 26, 1954, Richardson Papers. "Washington Post", April 29, 
1990. 
18. Richardson to Chase Bank executive Cole Younger, Sept. 17, 1952, H. Smith 
Richardson Papers, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 
19. Parmet, Herbert S., "Eisenhower and the American Crusades" (New York: 
MacMillan Company, 1972), p. 481. 
20. John Prados, "Keepers of the Keys: A History of the National Security 
Council from Truman to Bush" (New York: William Morrow, 1991) pp. 92-95. 
21. Robert Callaghan in "Covert Action", No. 33, Winter 1990. Prescott, Jr. was 
a board member of the National Strategy Information Center as of 1991. Both 
Prescott Sr. and Jr. were deeply involved along with Casey in the circles of Pan 
American Airlines, Pan Am's owners the Grace family, and the CIA's Latin 
American a ffairs. The Center, based in Washington D.C., declines public 
inquiries about its founding. 
See also "EIR Special Report", "American Leviathan: Administrative Fascism under 
the Bush Regime" (Wiesbaden, Germany: Executive Intelligence Review 
Nachrichtenagentur, April, 1990), p. 192. 
22. For example, see Trumbull Higgins, "The Perfect Failure: Kennedy, 
Eisenhower, and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs" (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 
1987), pp.55-56, 89-90. 
Unverified information on the squads is provided in the affidavit of Daniel P. 
Sheehan, attorney for the Christic Institute, reproduced in "EIR Special Report" 
"Project Democracy: The 'Parallel Government' behind the Iran Contra Affair" 
(Washington, D.C.: Executive Intelligence Review, 1987), pp. 249-50. 
Some of the hired assassins have published their memoirs. See, for example Felix 
Rodriguez and John Weisman, "Secret Warrior" (New York: Simon and Schuster, 
1989); and E. Howard Hunt, "Undercover: Memoirs of an American Secret Agent" 
(New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974). cyberexpose.net