William P Bundy (S&B 1939)

William P. Bundy (S&B 1939)

CIA Analyst. Attorney. Groton School*. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Harvard law School,.

1998, Published A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency.

1975 to 1980 - Hononary American Secretary General of the Bilderberg Meetings.[1,7][1,8]

1972 to 1984 - Edited journal Foreign Affairs, of the Council on Foreign Relations. He declined an offer by the Council’s Chairman, David Rockefeller, to be the Council’s President.[2]

1969 - Served as historian of foreign affairs, teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at Princeton University from 1972 until his death.

Summer 1965, before the decision was made to send in American troops [to Vietnam] in large numbers, there was another opportunity to suggest a less aggressive course. George W. Ball, an under secretary of state, was making a stand for a milder course, and tried to enlist Mr. Bundy. Mr. Bundy declined.[3]

16 Mar 1964 to 4 May 1969 - 9th Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs to Secretary Dean Rusk (Rhodes 1931) by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Jan 1961 to Mar 1964 - Served in the Defense Department’s Office of Internation Security Affiars (ISA) to Robert McNamara by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

1960 - Took leave of absence from the CIA to serve as staff director for Eisenhower’s Commission on National Goals.(Conn. Connant-Delta Upsilon, Greenewalt - Dupoint, Hand - 1909 Taft conn., Killian - Sigma Chi. Meany - Union defended LBJ Vietnam policies and )[4]

Mid 1951 to Jan 1960 - Recruited by the CIA, serving as Analyst and as a chief of staff for the Office of National Intelligence Estimates.[4]

1947 to 1950, joined the Washington-based Law Firm of Covington and Burling[3]. While there he contributed $400 to Alger Hiss’s defense fund, explaining that Donald Hiss worked with him at Covington & Burling.[3]

1947 - Graduated Harvard Law School.

Aug 1943, he led the nine-man 6813th Signals Security Detachment to the UK secret code braking ‘Government Code and Cipher School’ at Bletchley Park. He and six other cryptanalysts worked in Hut6 and the two translators worked in Hut 3[1,3]. The fiited in well and he later described his time there as “the most satisfying of my carer”.[1,4]

1939 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.

Died 6 Oct 2000, from TBC. Age 63.

Note: Father, Harvey Hollister Bundy (S&B 1909), served as an Assistant Secretary to Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888).

Brother, McGeorge Bundy (S&B1940)

[1] - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[1] - Wiki - William P. Bundy

[1,4] - The Bletchley Park Codebreakers: (Dialogue Espionage Classics): How Ultra Shortened the War and Led to the Birth of the Computer, 20 Jan. 2011 by Ralph Erskine (Editor), Michael Smith (Editor)

[[1,7] - The International Who’s Who, 1984–85. International Publications Service

[1,8] - “Former Steering Committee Members”. BilderbergMeetings.org. Retrieved 24 Sep 2020.

[2] - Rockefellerocracy: Kennedy Assassinations, Watergate and Monopoly of the “Philanthropic” Foundations - Richard James DeSocio

[3] - NY Times, 7 Oct 2000 - Obiturary

[4] - A Tangled Web. The Making of Foreign Policy in The Nixon Presidency