One of the oldest secret societies at Yale University, Book and Snake is known as a much more progressive and laid back society than most of its counterparts. Book and Snake was founded at Sheffield Scientific School in 1863. It became a Yale senior society in 1933, and was the second society at Yale to accept women and minorities. A senior society, each year Book and Snake taps in 15 new members to its class. Members are often leaders in different activities on campus and integral parts of Yale's academic, athletic, arts and social scene.
Notable members include Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, who comes from a military intelligence connected family; as well as Porter Goss, George W. Bush's latest pick for C.I.A. Director.
Al Martin, one of America's foremost government whistleblowers and a retired Navy Lt. Commander, claims that Porter Goss, the Bush-Cheney choice to be DCI (CIA Director), was active in covering up the CIA's Iran-Contra era narcotics trafficking in Florida, while he was a member of the Vice Presidential Task Force on Drugs in Miami in 1983 then headed by George Bush Sr.
More information on Book and Snake is provided courtesy of the author Kris Millegan: http://www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/book%26snake/index.html
