Aug. 26, 2026
Kris Millegan EDIT
Kris Millegan's book, Fleshing Out Skull & Bones, is available here: https://amzn.to/3UBECGg
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Kris Millegan says his father, a CIA East Asia branch chief who had also served in the OSS and G-2, waited a decade after leaving the agency before telling him the Vietnam War was about drugs and that officials were “playing out a lose scenario.” Millegan explains how that conversation sent him into decades of research on Skull and Bones, intelligence networks, the opium trade, and the hidden history of American power.
In this full Facts Verse interview, Millegan discusses Russell & Company’s opium ties, the rise of Skull and Bones at Yale, his TrineDay publishing work, books mainstream publishers refused, MKUltra, JFK, and the standards he uses to separate evidence from speculation. These are Millegan’s claims and interpretations; the interview explores the experiences and research behind them.
CHAPTERS
00:00 CIA father’s Vietnam revelation
03:02 Secret societies and political control
09:07 Skull and Bones, drugs, and education
18:22 His father’s CIA, OSS, and G-2 career
24:24 JFK assassination sparks his research
27:23 How Skull and Bones rose at Yale
31:48 Russell & Company and the opium trade
35:31 USS Maine, the Philippines, and William Howard Taft
41:40 Blackmail, media, and political power
45:13 Bush, Clinton, and modern secret networks
54:04 Evidence, MKUltra, and testing conspiracy claims
1:03:39 JFK and psychological warfare
Visit trineday.com to explore more of Kris' work and other great books.
Kris Millegan says his father, a CIA East Asia branch chief who had also served in the OSS and G-2, waited a decade after leaving the agency before telling him the Vietnam War was about drugs and that officials were “playing out a lose scenario.” Millegan explains how that conversation sent him into decades of research on Skull and Bones, intelligence networks, the opium trade, and the hidden history of American power.
In this full Facts Verse interview, Millegan discusses Russell & Company’s opium ties, the rise of Skull and Bones at Yale, his TrineDay publishing work, books mainstream publishers refused, MKUltra, JFK, and the standards he uses to separate evidence from speculation. These are Millegan’s claims and interpretations; the interview explores the experiences and research behind them.
CHAPTERS
00:00 CIA father’s Vietnam revelation
03:02 Secret societies and political control
09:07 Skull and Bones, drugs, and education
18:22 His father’s CIA, OSS, and G-2 career
24:24 JFK assassination sparks his research
27:23 How Skull and Bones rose at Yale
31:48 Russell & Company and the opium trade
35:31 USS Maine, the Philippines, and William Howard Taft
41:40 Blackmail, media, and political power
45:13 Bush, Clinton, and modern secret networks
54:04 Evidence, MKUltra, and testing conspiracy claims
1:03:39 JFK and psychological warfare