Bonesman Buckley and Jesuit Martin

Incisive Analysis from Matthew J. Bell

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My colleague Matthew Bell has written an astute analysis of two heavily compromised Cryptocrats with undeserved reputations as faithful Catholics. The out-sized influence of both men, now deceased, remains largely undimmed. Fr. Martin was the Jesuit Kim Philby inside the Church, while Buckley was a Skull and Bones member, key Zionist agent and all-around CIA Trojan Horse within the Conservative movement.

Their treason was so outrageous it represented a form of mockery. As I wrote in The File on Jesuit Martin, the test of Rev. Dr. Martin’s sincerity turned on the question of whether he would ever reveal the inside story of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Cardinal Bea and their successful conspiracy to promulgate Vatican Council II’s document Nostra Aetate. Malachi was a co-conspirator: he had served as Bea (and Heschel’s) left hand man. Yet, he never did, despite his second career as a teller of tales of Vatican skullduggery to goggle-eyed Conservatives.

Martin, like Buckley, has been enshrined in the conservative pantheon, thereby continuing to sow serious misdirection. Mr. Bell’s debunking helps to dispel the enchantment their sanctified reputations evoke.

William F. Buckley Jr. and Malachi Martin

“Catholics” Profiled by Matthew J. Bell

(excerpted from his study, “Crypto-Protestants in Rome”)

Crypto-Protestants in Rome

Part One:

Buckley, William Frank, Jr. [1] (1925-2008)

…in 1949, William F. Buckley Jr. joined the occult-connected (and, frankly, sinister) fraternity of Skull and Bones while he was attending Yale University after the Second World War.^[23] For reasons such as this, some critics suggest that, while Buckley may have had traditional beliefs and tastes, he was more of a “cultural Catholic” than anything else. This is to allege that Buckley likely identified with Catholicism for sentimental reasons (through ancestry, his mom’s tradition, or his overall upbringing) rather than because he strictly adhered to church authority or doctrine.

After graduating from Yale, Buckley joined the Central Intelligence Agency, where he reportedly worked out of Mexico City, Mexico under then-station-chief Everette “E.” Howard Hunt.

“Hunt,” of course, “later became notorious as one of the Watergate burglars. …After Hunt was arrested for Watergate, …Buckley, who placed a high premium on friendship and loyalty, helped pay for Hunt’s lawyers.”^[24] Hunt is also a perennial candidate for having been one of the three “tramps” — either Tramp A or B, depending on the image orientation — photographed in Dallas, Texas the day of JFK’s assassination.

Incidentally, Hunt once sued the Liberty Lobby’s weekly paper, The Spotlight, for libel following its publication of an article titled “CIA to Nail Hunt in Kennedy Killing” that had been written by a former CIA agent named Victor Marchetti.^[25] The article alleged that a CIA memo from 1966 identified Hunt “as one of three ‘bums’ who were arrested in Dallas the day Kennedy died”.^[26]

Marchetti evidently took the line that Hunt was either being framed or was part of the conspiracy. The real “kicker” is that Hunt, who won the initial lawsuit — only to have the verdict overturned on appeal — ultimately lost the second time around.^[27] Filmmaker John Hankey made a lot of hay out of the episode and concluded that, in finding Spotlight innocent of libel, the jury had essentially (and simultaneously) found Hunt guilty of being part of the JFK-assassination plot.^[28]

But, back to Buckley, Jr.. Around about 1951 — when his God and Man at Yale,^[29] a scathing critique of “liberalism” and “secularism” that (coincidentally and also nearly instantly) catapulted the then-25-year-old to national celebrity and public prominence — his CIA position had him situated in Mexico City. This was the same place where, around 1908, his father, William Frank Buckley, Sr., had (also coincidentally, no doubt) set up a law practice from which he (the elder Buckley) promptly got into the business of oil‑land speculation.

Within a few years, Buckley, Sr. became a major player in the so-called “Tampico oil boom,” and made a fortune acquiring leasing rights and advising U.S. and European petroleum interests.

Buckley, Sr. then founded his own oil company, called Pantepec, and gained political influence supporting the dictatorship of Victoriano Huerta — which latter, the Mexican revolutionary known as Francisco “Pancho” Villa was partially rebelling against when he was on the scene.

We got into Villa — whose real name was José Doroteo Arango Arámbula — in “10 Occultists Who Were Accused of Being Spies.” (And we have touched on Villa’s American adversary, and later World-War-I General of the Armies, John Joseph “Black Jack” Pershing, in such places as our “Haunted Washington, D.C.”)

Villa was assassinated (July 20, 1923) in Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico — killed in an ambush while driving his Dodge touring car, when gunmen hidden in a house opened fire, hitting him nine times. The attack was likely orchestrated by political rivals. Three years later, on or around February 6, 1926, Pancho Villa’s head was stolen from his grave — also in Parral. Among the prime suspects was an American soldier of fortune and spy named Emil Ludwig Holmdahl.

One story has it that Holmdahl stole the head for a $25,000 bounty. Supposedly, some time later, “…Holmdahl confessed …that he had indeed stolen the skull and later sold it to a Skull and Bones member.”^[30]

The skull “became an issue in the presidential election year of 1988 when Vice-President [sic] George [H. W.] Bush, running for president of the United States, was accused of knowing its whereabouts. Bush, a Yale alumnus, was a member of that university’s Skull and Bones club which, it was said, had a collection of skulls of both the famous and infamous on display in their clubhouse.

“Also, Bush was not the first member of his family to be involved with purloined skulls. His father, Prescott Bush, a former senator from Connecticut, reputedly was involved in digging up the body of the murderous Apache raider, Geronimo, cutting off his head, and ensconcing it in the Skull and Bones club. In between pronouncements on the economy and American foreign policy, Bush denied any knowledge of …the whereabouts of Villa’s skull.”^[31]

A main source for these stories was one Benjamin Franklin “Ben F.” Williams, who reported in his own autobiographical, Let the Tail Go With the Hide (privately publ., 1984), a supposed admission of the bare facts from one “Frank Brophy” — described as another Bonesman Yalie. According to Williams, Brophy confessed to him that five members of Skull and Bones raised $25,000, to be paid to Holmdahl, for the head of Pancho Villa.

A banker named Frank Cullen Brophy did, in fact, attend Yale College; the trouble with the story is that Brophy was evidently not in Skull and Bones.^[32] Brophy did go on to become “one of the founders of the John Birch Society…”, and he ended up supporting the political ambitions of “…Wendell Wilkie and …Barry Goldwater…”.^[33]

So, Brophy does seem to have been cut out of the same ideological cloth as the Buckleys and Bushes. Indeed, when one considers the intelligence angle, we could say something similar for Emil Holmdahl. Though, in Holmdahl’s case, we would of course have to adjust for his “lesser” socioeconomic status; he was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, as opposed to New England (Buckley was born in New York City and Bush in a suburb of Boston).

But, for a time, Holmdahl worked under Felix A. Sommerfeld, the German head of the Mexican Secret Service. For more on Sommerfeld — and his own ties to Pancho Villa — see, again, “10 Occultist Spies.” So, given Buckley’s stint in the CIA, and the fact that “Poppy” Bush had been the DCI, post-Watergate, after the previous director William Egan Colby had seemingly allowed many (and many even “too many”) unflattering disclosures during 1975’s “Year of Intelligence.”^[34]

Colby, by the way, died mysteriously in 1996. An experienced boatman, he supposedly drowned “accidentally” during a solo “canoe trip.”^[35]

For our summary of George H. W. Bush’s CIA entanglements, including the possibility that none other than long-time Federal Bureau of Investigation Director — and “Commie-fighter” — John “J.” Edgar Hoover had named Bush as a CIA contact in a memo dated just a day or so after the assassination of America’s first Catholic president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, (see our “Occultist Spies” and “CIA-JFK Connexions” videos).

Moreover: “In later years Holmdahl worked for American Petroleum companies exploring for oil in Sonora, Mexico”,^[36] which again places him into the same broad network as Buckley, Sr., who owned Pantepec Oil Company, and with Bush (“Sr.”), who co-founded (in 1951), with John Overbey, the Bush-Overbey Oil Development Company, which became (in 1953) Zapata Petroleum Corporation (when Hugh Liedtke came into the picture). And, of course, Bush was supposedly operating Zapata Off-Shore Company when “Operation Zapata” — the CIA’s codename for the Bay of Pigs invasion (April 1961) — failed to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba.

Viva Zapata! is a 1952 film by 20th Century-Fox, featuring actors Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, and Anthony Quinn. It is about the life of eventual Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, and it focuses on his fight against then-President Porfirio Díaz over stolen peasant lands. Declared an “outlaw,” Zapata, based in the country’s south, joins up with Francisco Madero’s resistance movement to overthrow Díaz — with Pancho Villa working for similar aims in the north. Zapata remains dissatisfied even after Madero’s victory, since the latter declines or fails to deliver any of the hoped-for reform. So, Zapata continued the struggle until his assassination in 1919. For Madura’s part, he was assassination earlier, in 1913, when a U.S.-backed coup d’état (although not a major plot point) essentially put rival Victoriano Huerta into power.

And that brings us, back to Buckley, Sr. who, after the rise of Huerta’s adversary, the “socialist”-leaning strongman Álvaro Obregón, was expelled from Mexico due to his prior alignment with Huerta.^[37]

So, possibly, Buckley, Jr. was an “easy sell” on the idea of taking revenge against the country that had been “disloyal” to his pops.

Going further, Buckleyite meddling may even have been more widespread. According to an article in the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), once put out by Lyndon H. Larouche, Jr.: “The Cristero Rebellion^[38] [had been] launched in Mexico to back the feudal privileges of the Jesuit-controlled, ultramontane Mexican Catholic Church in alliance with foreign oil interests. The rebellion was backed by [the senior William F.] Buckley… [and J.P.] Morgan banking interests.”^[39] (On the Jesuits, see Ignatius of Loyola.)