The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the Deep State CIA – A Deeper Look at the Power Players
Burton Hersh’s The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA (1992, Charles Scribner’s Sons; updated 2001 edition) is a sweeping group biography that traces the creation of the Deep State management of the USA by the British Empire Rothschilds which ties in with what is happening now in Davos, with Presidential puppets through America’s modern intelligence apparatus through the lives and networks of its British Rothschild Fabian Socialist World Economic Forum founding figures creating a nexus between Corporations 95% controlled by the Rothschilds through their holding Companies - Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street and Politics - the Mussolini definition of Fascism!
Jay talks about how Christianity tried to rise over the tribal ethos which aims for your tribe to destroy every other tribe as is stated in the Talmud and the Muslim religious books. Where tribalism wants it’s members to marry their daughters and cousins (Spice is nice, but incest is best) as in the Sabbatian Frankist Ashkenazi, Pakistan Islam, Somali immigrants, European Royalty and the Rothschilds. This type of inbreeding creates physical deformity, idiots, but also easily taken over, satanically possessed, psychopathic geniuses.
The Old Boys: Burton Hersh’s Revelatory Chronicle of the CIA’s Elite Origins the American Elite and the Origins of the CIA, stands as a meticulously researched yet controversial exposé on the birth and early evolution of the United States’ premier Deep State intelligence agency designed to control Presidents behind the scenes.
. Subtitled “The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA,” the book delves into the shadowy interplay between America’s East Coast establishment—predominantly Ivy League-educated Wall Street lawyers and diplomats—and the formation of a secretive intelligence apparatus that would shape Cold War geopolitics.
The first chapter of the book states that Lord Rothschild and his minions, Colonel Mandell House, Walter Lippman, Jean Monet, Maynard Keynes and other Fabian Socialists controlled President Wilson to create the expansionist Free Trade and money printing policy of the Wilson administration and to create an intelligence superstructure prior to the OSS and the CIA Called the Inquiry consisting of a nexus of academics and bankers pushing a Rothschild British Empire Fabian socialist agenda of Federal Reserve based Globalist New World Order after WW1 culminating in the World Economic Forum in partnership with the Rothschild created United Nations as we have now..
Oswald Spengler said that you can never find a socialist movement without Corporate Capitalist money behind it!
A Socialist Government means Corporate Welfare, bribed Government Contracts like the billions spent on poisonous MRNA Deathshots, allowing them by gaming the system to get ahead of us, anyone else, to destroy the middle class.
The banking elite, the corporate elite structuring a Global New World order of Laws and regulations favouring them. With their Technocracy now managing Digital Identity and surveillance a complete track and trace enslavement system has us in their prison planet. The attack is in every domain - food, water, pesticides, GMO, MRNA, Social Credit Score, fake Climate Change - not a mistake, but a conscious program of World Enslavement!
The higher level of people above governments, deep state NSA, CIA, FBI, CFR, Blackrock - intelligent people who do not matter - are the Satanic Atlantis Phoenician Black Nobility Rothschild Banking Families and their minions.
Trump and Lutnick in Davos have said how this system has failed....
But their is a lot of work yet to do after 200 years of Satanic Rothschild policy....
Hersh, drawing on declassified documents, private papers (including those of John and Allen Dulles), interviews, and secondary sources, paints a vivid portrait of how Lord Rothschild and his British Empire Fabian Socialists created a socialist Franklin Delano Roosevelt New World Order, the OSS and CIA from British Empire MI6 using an amateurish yet patriotic clique of “old boys” transformed wartime espionage into a permanent, often morally compromised institution.
The narrative spans from the aftermath of World War I through the resignation of Allen Dulles following the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, revealing a story of ambition, ideological fervor, and ethical lapses that undermined the very intelligence efforts they championed.
The Genesis: From OSS to CIA – Roots in Elite Networks
The book’s contents are structured as a chronological and thematic group biography, weaving together the lives and careers of key figures who bridged the worlds of high finance, diplomacy, and espionage. Hersh begins by exploring the interwar period, uncovering what he terms “America’s unadvertised geopolitical intent.” He details how prominent lawyers like William “Wild Bill” Donovan, Allen Welsh Dulles, and John Foster Dulles—partners at elite firms such as Sullivan & Cromwell—represented clients with reactionary or even Nazi sympathies, earning substantial fees while secretly arming Germany in violation of post-World War I treaties. This period sets the stage for the moral compromises that would define the CIA, as these men incorporated practices and personalities from the Third Reich into America’s anticommunist crusade.
A central thread is the evolution of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the World War II precursor to the CIA, under Donovan’s leadership. Hersh portrays Donovan as a charismatic but reckless figure who recruited from his Wall Street and Ivy League circles, creating an agency that blended amateur enthusiasm with professional ruthlessness. The book recounts OSS operations, from covert actions in Europe to intelligence gathering in Asia, highlighting how these efforts laid the groundwork for postwar intelligence.
Diplomatic counterparts like William C. Bullitt (first U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union) and George F. Kennan (architect of containment) are depicted as ideological allies, often abetted by enigmatic figures like Carmel Offie, a shadowy operative involved in everything from espionage to personal scandals.
Hersh extends this to the CIA’s formal establishment in 1947 via the National Security Act, emphasizing how the “old boys” network—dominated by figures from British Empire Russel created Yale’s Skull and Bones society and similar elite enclaves—ensured the agency’s alignment with establishment interests. Chapters detail the Dulles brothers’ dominance: Allen as CIA director (1953–1961) and Foster as Secretary of State, orchestrating coups in Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954) while shielding former Nazis like Reinhard Gehlen, who became a key asset in West German intelligence.
Hersh portrays the CIA not as a neutral national security tool but as an extension of an insular East Coast elite—dominated by Ivy League-educated Wall Street lawyers, diplomats, and financiers—controlled by the Rothschilds - who brought their prewar ambitions, moral compromises, and anticommunist zeal into the agency.
The book spans from the interwar years through the OSS era and the CIA’s early operations, culminating in the Bay of Pigs disaster and Allen Dulles’ resignation in 1961. It reveals how these “old boys” incorporated practices and personalities from Nazi-aligned circles into U.S. intelligence, often for ideological or financial gain.
While Hersh focuses primarily on American figures like William “Wild Bill” Donovan, Allen Welsh Dulles, John Foster Dulles, Frank Wisner, and others, the narrative occasionally intersects with broader global networks, including European Rothschild banking families, Nazi collaborators, and cultural icons. Below are key elements and named individuals highlighted in the book or closely associated with its themes.
Central Figures in the CIA’s Founding
William “Wild Bill” Donovan: The charismatic OSS director and a principal architect of civilian intelligence started out as a Rockefeller Attache, and Rothschild Morgan representative ...
Hersh devotes extensive sections to Donovan’s wartime exploits, his recruitment from Wall Street and Ivy League circles, and his role in shaping the CIA’s covert-action ethos. Donovan is depicted as patriotic but reckless, embodying the amateurish enthusiasm that characterized early U.S. espionage.
Allen Welsh Dulles: Longtime CIA director (1953–1961) and the book’s most prominent figure. Hersh draws on Dulles’ private papers to show his wartime negotiations in Switzerland (including contacts with Nazi officials) and his postwar recruitment of ex-Nazis like Reinhard Gehlen for anti-Soviet intelligence. Dulles’ legal career at Sullivan & Cromwell involved clients with German ties, setting the stage for postwar compromises.
John Foster Dulles: Secretary of State under Eisenhower and Allen’s brother. Hersh accuses him of collaborating with Nazi industrial supporters for large legal fees during the interwar period, while promoting aggressive anticommunism that influenced CIA operations.
Frank Wisner: First deputy director of plans at the CIA, known for his manic energy in running covert operations. Hersh traces Wisner’s OSS background and his tragic downfall, highlighting the personal toll of the agency’s high-stakes world.
Reinhard Gehlen: Former Nazi intelligence chief whose organization was absorbed into CIA operations post-1945. Hersh details how Gehlen and other ex-Nazis were shielded and employed, undermining denazification efforts.
Carmel Offie: A shadowy, irrepressible diplomat and operative whose influence spanned OSS to CIA. Hersh portrays him as a crucial behind-the-scenes figure, despite (or because of) his controversial personal life.
William C. Bullitt and George F. Kennan: Diplomatic allies who helped shape anticommunist policy. Bullitt, the first U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, and Kennan, architect of containment, are shown as ideological partners in the intelligence buildup.
Dominated by Figures from Yale’s Skull and Bones Society - Yale was created by British Empire Russells fresh from their China Drug Profits
Hersh emphasizes the role of elite secret societies, particularly Yale’s Skull and Bones, in staffing and influencing the OSS and CIA controlled by the Rothschild British Empire MI6. Many “old boys” were Bonesmen, including:
Prescott Bush (father of George H.W. Bush): Though not a central CIA founder, his banking ties (via Union Banking Corporation) and Skull and Bones membership are part of the broader elite network Hersh critiques.
George H.W. Bush (later CIA director and president): Emerges in the book’s context as part of the generational continuity of Bonesmen in intelligence and power circles.
The society is portrayed as a recruiting ground for the CIA’s inner circle, fostering an insular, aristocratic mindset that prioritized loyalty to class and ideology over democratic oversight.
Additional Names and Connections
Hersh’s narrative occasionally references broader elite families and international figures tied to prewar finance and wartime alliances:
Rothschild and Dupont families appear in discussions of Wall Street’s interwar dealings with German industry. Hersh notes how elite law firms (including those employing the Dulles brothers) represented clients with reactionary or Nazi sympathies, including industrialists linked to these families’ networks.
Ian Fleming: The Assassinated MI6 creator of James Bond is mentioned as an assistant, personal aide, handler, to Wild Bill Donovan as a British naval intelligence officer during WWII creating the Deep State CIA controlling the Government as similar structures in the UK have controlled the British Empire behind the scenes for centuries.
Going back centuries, since the Rothschild take-over of the British Empire in 1815 there has been a British Deep state with the Heads of Special Operations Executive of MI6 being Rothschild Fabian Socialists in cooperation with the Corporate Elite faking elections whilst maintaining control.
It’s not the workers, the plebs as in Marxist Communist Party Russia in league with Government, no, it’s the Corporate Elite like Rothschild Larry Fink Blackrock and Vanguard in League with Government for hundreds of years!
Hersh contrasts the SPECTRE spy world of Fleming’s fiction as the reality of SPECTRE being the CIA - Drug Traffiking, World Depopulation Agenda, organisation behind the selection of Presidents and Prime Ministers Worldwide with the gritty, often amateurish reality of OSS operations, where real “old boys” blended espionage with high-society intrigue.
The Pope (Pius XII): Hersh touches on Vatican diplomacy and its wartime role, including the Vatican funding of Hitler and Management of the Ratlines from Europe of Nazis into the CIA - Operation Paperclip - complicity or silence regarding Nazi activities, as part of the broader moral landscape of intelligence alliances.
Nazis and Hitler: The book extensively covers the incorporation of Nazi personnel and methods into CIA U.S. intelligence. Hersh details Operation Paperclip and the Gehlen Organization, accusing the “old boys” of overlooking or recruiting war criminals in their anticommunist zeal. This includes references to Hitler’s regime and its industrial backers, whom American lawyers like the Dulles brothers had represented prewar.
Themes and Critical Lens
Hersh argues that the CIA’s origins were tainted by these Rothschild Fabian Socialist British Empire elite connections— creating Fabian Christian Socialism run by the OSS - moral compromises, amateurism, and ideological blind spots that fostered extralegal tendencies. The “cavalcade of colorful personalities” who became the CIA’s founding fathers are shown as products of Atlantis-Phoenician Black Nobility privilege, often prioritizing global anticommunism over ethical or constitutional constraints.
The book stirred controversy upon release, praised for its documentation but criticized for anecdotal density and interpretive leaps. It remains a key text for understanding how America’s Deep State intelligence community emerged from an exclusive, interconnected elite rather than pure merit or national necessity.
For those interested in the full scope, the 2001 edition includes updates addressing earlier criticisms and new declassifications. Hersh’s work continues to provoke debate on the intersection of power, privilege, and secrecy in U.S. history.
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