Oct 14, 2026 · 53 min · 12 segments
CIA Agent's Son Kris Millegan discusses the JFK assassination, CIA history, Skull and Bones, secret societies, and the powerful figures he believes shaped American history. Kris Millegan, author…
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If you control the mining where the metal comes from that the money's based on, you're in a real good position, right? I mean, I had an author that could affect that.
I got his book out, and within seven days, he was dead, okay? He was a mining engineer.
And I mean, I look at skull and bones through like the eyes of a social historian and you find all these mining engineers.
You see, it was actually a gentleman from Skull and Bones, Dr. Benjamin Silliman Jr., okay, that took rock oil that he got from Cornell, okay, and wrote a report for the Bissell family of New York.
And he said, gentlemen, gee, you have, with very inexpensive processes, you have some very valuable products, okay? And it was actually people from Skull and Bones, okay, that sent Drake to Pennsylvania to drill the first oil well, okay? And most of the oil money, Harkness and all this, went to build Yale into this big Gothic cathedral-type place, okay? And, you know, and the only reason we go to the oil store is because they own it, okay? And then drugs, like I say, you know, Skull and Bones was started by a drug smuggler.
And it just wasn't the Vietnam War, okay? The Spanish-American War was about drugs, okay? Because, see, these guys were making— Boatloads of money.
If you control the mining where the metal comes from that the money's based on, you're in a real good position, right? I mean, I had an author that could affect that.
I got his book out, and within seven days, he was dead, okay? He was a mining engineer.
And I mean, I look at skull and bones through like the eyes of a social historian and you find all these mining engineers.
You see, it was actually a gentleman from Skull and Bones, Dr. Benjamin Silliman Jr., okay, that took rock oil that he got from Cornell, okay, and wrote a report for the Bissell family of New York.
And he said, gentlemen, gee, you have, with very inexpensive processes, you have some very valuable products, okay? And it was actually people from Skull and Bones, okay, that sent Drake to Pennsylvania to drill the first oil well, okay? And most of the oil money, Harkness and all this, went to build Yale into this big Gothic cathedral-type place, okay? And, you know, and the only reason we go to the oil store is because they own it, okay? And then drugs, like I say, you know, Skull and Bones was started by a drug smuggler.
And it just wasn't the Vietnam War, okay? The Spanish-American War was about drugs, okay? Because, see, these guys were making— Boatloads of money.
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