George Bush . . . please return the skull of Pancho Villa
And curst be he that moves my bones."
- Inscription on William Shakespeare's Tomb -
by
Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan
Los Angeles, Alta California - January 15, 2004 - (ACN) One thing President Vicente Fox can do for the Mexican state of Chihuahua, while a guest at Crawford Ranch next March, is to make a polite request to his buddy, George Bush, to please return the skull of General Francisco Villa so that it can be properly returned to his tomb in Parral. The skull of the legendary Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa was stolen by the "Soldier of Fortune" Emil L. Holmdahl at the request of Prescott Bush, George's grandpa, and is now on display at the headquarters of the "Skull and Bones" society called "The Tomb" located at Yale University. Prescott Bush paid Emil Holmdahl $25,000 for the stolen skull in 1926. Prescott Bush, George Bush Sr. and George Bush Jr., are all members of the secret society.
The desecrator of General Francisco Villa's tomb located at the "Panteon de Dolores " cemetery in Parral, Chihuahua was Emil L. Holmdahl (photo), a USA professional mercenary and US agent of pre-CIA operations. Emil L. Holmdahl was born in Ft. Dodge, Iowa in 1883. He first enlisted in the 61st Iowa Infantry and served in the Philippine Insurrection. Later he joined the adventurer Lee Christmas in Honduras and fought in the Central American "banana wars". He then went to Mexico in 1909 and briefly served in the Rurales under Commander Emilio Kosterlitzky of the Diaz regime. Emil Holmdahl changed allegiance to Francisco I. Madero after the fall of Ciudad Juárez and joined General Francisco Villa's army as a captain. In 1916, he served as a guide with Pershing's Punitive Expedition that was chasing General Francisco Villa in Chihuahua. In 1926, while Emil Holmdahl was on a "prospecting and hunting trip" to Mexico, he was arrested for desecrating Villa's tomb. Influential friends in the US government, notably Prescott Bush and other precursors of the CIA, arranged for his release and he returned to the United States. Emil Holmdahl died on April 4, 1963 in Van Nuys, California.
There is ample evidence that Emil Holmdahl, along with an assistant by the name of Alberto Corral of Los Angeles, went to the Parral, Chihuahua cemetery on the night of Friday - February 5, 1926, opened the tomb of Villa and severed and stole his skull for sale to Prescott Bush, a member of the "Skull and Bones Society" based at Yale University. Most of the evidence is found on 1926 newspapers reports published on the "grave robbery". At least five newspaper clips are archived in the Pancho Villa Collection which is part of the West Texas Collection at Angelo State University.
On February 8, 1926, three days after the grave desecration, El Paso Herald Post published the headline "Villa's Grave Robbed" that details the circumstances of the decapitation of Villa's interred body and the arrest of Emil Holmdahl and Alberto Corral for the crime. The news clip outlines a sophisticated and well planned operation to steal the skull of Pancho Villa. The El Paso Herald Post news clip reports that the caretaker of the cemetery told Mexican investigators that an "Americano" was inquiring about the location of Villa's tomb a few days before the grave robbery. Chihuahua state authorities later arrested Emil Holmdahl through a description by the cemetery caretaker. The grave robbers left a note at the tomb in an attempt to throw off investigators. The note said that Villa's skull was on its way to Columbus, New Mexico, the site where Villa conducted a raid into US territory to recuperate a number of gold bars he had paid for arms and ammunition he never received.
The skull of Pancho Villa was in fact already on the way to El Paso, Texas and into the hands of a Holmdahl cohort by the name of Al Jennings for eventual turnover to a Frank Brophy who was an intimate friend of Prescott Bush at Yale University. A news article titled "US Investigates Holmdahl's Arrest" published in El Paso Herald Post on February 9, 1926 clearly indicates high level US government interference and pressure on the Chihuahua state authorities to release Emil Holmdahl. This was accomplished on February 11, 1926 and was reported in another news report by the El Paso Herald Post titled "Expect Holmdahl to Reach El Paso by Friday". It looks like the Bushes have a long history of manipulating USA intelligence covert activities and the secret "Skull and Bones Society" in New Haven is an intimate part of these operations.
Emil Holmdahl arrived in El Paso on February 12, 1926 according to Ben Williams of an organization in El Paso called "The Wednesday Group". Williams, in his memoirs, details the deal made between Emil Holmdahl, Al Jennings and Frank Brophy. Frank Brophy, working on behalf of Prescott Bush, paid $25,000 dollars for the skull of Pancho Villa. The skull is now displayed in a trophy cabinet inside the crypt-like headquarters of the "Skull and Bones Society" at Yale University.
It is extremely macabre to desecrate and steal the skulls of dead heroes of other countries, and worst, to display them as trophies. President George Bush needs to return the skull of Pancho Villa to its proper resting place. Hopefully this article can spark a campaign to have the skull returned to "El Panteon de Dolores " in Parral, Chihuahua.
Please, distribute this article among your network of friends and especially to Mexican-American students attending Yale University. If you live in Chihuahua, please send a copy of this article to Governor Patricio Martinez. There is time for the governor to send a request to President Vicente Fox before he meets with Bush at the Crawford Ranch in March of this year. "El alma de Villa te llora desde su tumba. "
General Francisco Villa
