Category File
Continuity of Government
1 documented theory filed under this subject.
- Deep State OriginsA theory that the creation of the CIA in 1947 was not simply an administrative reform of U.S. intelligence after World War II but a quiet seizure of foreign-policy machinery by Wall Street-connected lawyers, bankers, and corporate strategists. In this interpretation, the new intelligence system institutionalized a private governing layer—later called the “deep state”—that could influence or direct foreign policy beyond normal democratic accountability.
- The Mount Weather Bunker (1930s Origin)This theory claimed that the federal underground complexes later associated with continuity-of-government planning did not truly begin as Cold War projects, but were already being prepared in the 1930s for elite survival and state preservation. In this telling, the Mount Weather site in Virginia was never merely a weather or mining installation; instead, its early tunneling work was interpreted as the first stage of a doomsday refuge for political and financial insiders. The theory drew strength from a real historical sequence: Mount Weather had earlier scientific uses, the site passed to the Bureau of Mines in 1936, an experimental tunnel was dug before World War II, and the mountain was indeed expanded into a major underground federal facility in the 1950s. The conspiratorial claim is that the elite-survival purpose existed from the 1930s onward rather than emerging mainly from post-1949 nuclear fears.