Icke: This is no “old-boy” network, this is no, you know, “I’ll pat your back, you pat mine”. This is not “Oh, you’ve got the same tie as me so you’re ok”. This is a vicious group of interbreeding bloodlines seeking to impose their will and their structure of life upon the global population.

Rosenbaum: My feeling is that Skull and Bones is less a conscious conspiracy less a, you know, a cabal, than a kind of unconscious community of interests that people that have power in American society tend to gravitate together. A lot conspiracy theorists take, you know, what I thought was a kind of complex and nuanced view of how power works in America and paint a more lurid picture of a kind of, you know, a one-world conspiracy.

Narrator: When we continue, conspiracy’s Unholy Three, the 3 secret societies where the elite go for post-graduate studies in global domination.

Marrs: The actions that these secret societies have promulgated through the last century or so have only led to wars, rebellion, dissension, depressions…

Host: Each new member of Yale’s Skull and Bones society is given a secret nickname- supposedly only known to his fellow Bonesmen. George W. Bush reportedly goes by the nickname “Temporary”.

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Narrator: Conspiracy advocates contend that the world is a web controlled by one spider, the Illuminati, that disseminates a globalist agenda through a network of secret societies. The inner circle of the web is made up of three organizations.

Icke: The Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission have an interlocking leadership. The head of the World Bank, James Wolfenson, is a member of this network. So is the head of the World Trade Organization. And so is the Chancellor of Germany, so is the Prime Minister of Britain, Tony Blair, and a stream of Presidents of the United States, Secretaries of State. The last 6 Secretary-Generals of NATO.

Pipes: There’s something extremely dangerous and alluring about the combination of secrecy and world ambition. What could be more threatening than a group that is in the shadows and trying to dominate your life?

Marrs: The actions that these secret societies have promulgated through the last century or so have only led to wars, rebellion, dissension, depressions…

Narrator: The oldest of the three organizations, the Council on Foreign Relations, is founded in 1921.

Pipes: It is simply people interested and involved in foreign policy getting together to meet each other, hob-nob, make contacts, hear new ideas, argue with their opponents, the sort of things that people who are involved in political and intellectual life do all the time.

Narrator; Conspiracy theorists disagree and point to one particular event as proof of the council’s hidden globalist agenda.

Icke: There’s no greater example of the way the Council on Foreign Relations has manipulated history than looking at the profound effect that the United Nations has had on the world and its agencies. And the United Nations is with us because of the Council on Foreign Relations. A committee of the Council of Foreign Relations wrote the proposal, they handed it to Roosevelt, and he then announced it as if it were his own policy. At the first meeting in San Francisco to launch the United Nations, 74 of the American delegation were members of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Narrator: It is this group conspiracists contend that from its founding has also pulled the strings of an American war machine.