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A teacher at Cambridge University, Blunt had a decisive influence on the recruitment of the other three students. Burgess became a journalist after leaving university, but joined MI6 at the outbreak of the war. Maclean was at the Foreign Office at the same time.
In 1951, warned by Kim Philby that they were suspected, Burgess and Maclean defected to the Soviet Union, where they spent the rest of their lives. Kim Philby defected in 1963 - the same year, Blunt was unmasked by British intelligence. He was offered immunity in exchange for information, a clemency that probably betrays the influence of some of the members of this secret society in high places.
The fifth man of this networks John Cairncross also a Cambridge alumnus, will be only identified in the 1990 by Oleg Gordievsky a former KGB agent who defected to the West. After decades of suspicions, he was always able to elude UK justice most likely because of its secret connections.
In spite of this quixotic past, the Apostles continue to recruit their future members in the three prestigious colleges of the University of Cambridge: St John, King and Trinity. Students who are quick and open-minded to be recruited are called Embryos. Each of them is invited to an evening, where they exchange some words with the Apostles, without any idea of their true identity nor the reason of their invitation. The members of the club meet to decide the future of the Embryo, who will swear to keep absolute secrecy in case of membership, and must know at their fingertips the curses incurred in case of breach of the rules.
In France, the great popularity of sectarian networks such as Freemasonry seem to cast a cloud, on student secret societies, which are not the least active because of the mafia like networks they create beyond university campuses. Thus, the “Corps des Mines” claims no less the spirit of exclusivity, power and privilege embodied by American and British fraternities. Founded in 1794, the mission of the Mining Agency was to control and facilitate the development of French mines. While the grumbling of miners at the end of the 19th century was palpable, in the multiplicity of
strikes that marked this era, so well emphasized by the writer Emile Zola in Germinal, the French industrialists formed a cartel, and anticipated on technological progress. With the steam engines now replacing coal, the members of the Corps des Mines took advantage of their hold on steam engines and automobile to extend their authority in the field of security, then in the economy, and medias.
The Corps des mines, perpetuate itself by recruiting student’s elite. Its backbone is made up of student engineers, from the École Polytechnique, École normale supérieure, École Nationale Supérieur des Mines de Paris and École Télécom ParisTech. For more than 200 years the members or former members of this secret society who are grouped in the friendship of the engineers of mines, are in almost all the links of the chain of command of the industry, like the authority of regulation, decentralized government departments or the boards of large corporations. A hand down on the state industrial apparatus, of those that some ironically call X mines, which necessarily creates connivance, and nepotism.
In short, the science of power would be nothing without its cloud of secrecy, and the elitism of student secret societies, which are in fact the antechamber of the formation of the elites, takes advantage of it to perpetuate the privilege. Knowledge is power and when kept secret, it helps to strengthen the power of a group of individuals who are in the secret of the knowledge. The secret kept on certain esoteric, magico-sexual, sexist, and even criminal practices, beyond the common privileges they protect, is in general the cement which binds the members of secret societies. In what the Anglo-Saxons call the "bond of secrecy" .
Hubert Marlin
Journalist
sources: bullesdesavoir.com/2016/05/10/les-societes-secretes-de-harvard-une-socialisation-parallele-12/