The Essex Junta

Recently discovered letters written by Masonic figurehead Albert Pike shed new light on a centuries-long plot by leading New England shipping families to splinter the Union. With close ties to both Freemasonry and Yale’s Skull and Bones Society, these so-called Essex Junta families made their money selling opium to China and used their power to foment discord between the North and South, sparking the Civil War. Astoundingly, that was not enough: The Pike letters reveal that the families orchestrated World Wars I and II to solidify their power, and even have laid out plans for a third World War—to be sparked in the Middle East—in order to bring about a New World Order.