Category File
Elite Networks
4 documented theories filed under this subject.
- The BouléSigma Pi Phi, founded in Philadelphia in 1904, took only men already established in a profession and spent most of a century declining to be written about. That combination produced a theory: a Black Skull and Bones, deputised by white power to manage Black America. Its membership roll is published, its papers are open at Emory, and the argument underneath the theory is a real one about class that Du Bois was having in print in 1903.
- George Soros and the Funding of the LeftA philanthropy that publishes its own grant records became the central figure in a theory about hidden money, and the publication did not settle it. The specific allegations — the 2018 migrant caravans, the "Soros D.A." — are checkable and thin; the general claim treats every disclosed grant as the same proof, which is why disclosure feeds it. Two men who had repeated the theory acted on it in a single week of October 2018.
- FreemasonryThe oldest continuous subject in conspiracy literature: a fraternal order said to direct governments from behind them, to have planted its symbols in national iconography, and to teach initiates a doctrine at odds with the one it professes. The order is real, old and unusually well documented — its rituals have been in print since 1730, its constitutions and officers are published, and the charge that it conceals a hidden doctrine has twice been tested in public, once by a French writer who announced in 1897 that he had invented his own evidence. What the record carries instead is the opposite relationship to power: the craft was suppressed by the Nazi regime, criminalised by Franco and banned across the Soviet bloc.
- Opus DeiA Catholic institution founded in 1928 and treated in conspiracy literature as a secret order inside the Church: a disciplined cadre placed in governments, banks and the Vatican itself, recognisable to most readers through a 2003 novel that gave it a murderous albino monk. Opus Dei has no monks. It is a personal prelature of about 93,000 people, some 2 per cent of them priests and around seven in ten married laypeople with ordinary jobs, and its statutes, institutions and prelate are public. What it does not publish is who belongs — and the most serious allegations against it, now before an Argentine federal court, come from former members rather than from outside.
- The Trilateral CommissionA private body founded in 1973 to bring together senior figures from North America, Europe and Japan, and treated in conspiracy literature since the late 1970s as the committee that actually runs Western policy. The overlap it is accused of is real and was never hidden — a founding member became president in 1977 and filled his administration from the membership — and so is the document most often quoted against it, a 1975 report to the Commission arguing that American governance suffered from "an excess of democracy". What has never been produced is a mechanism: the Commission publishes its members, its reports and its accounts, and nothing in them instructs anyone to do anything.
- The New World Order of 2020: That The 2020 Reset Was The Final ContractThe World Economic Forum's own launch release for the Great Reset, announced by the Prince of Wales and Klaus Schwab on 3 June 2020, said the plan "requires a new social contract." Believers took the phrase literally, as the terms of a New World Order agreed during the pandemic: safety in exchange for property, privacy and sovereignty. The theory was built from a public record, including Henry Kissinger's April 2020 call for a "post-coronavirus order," Gordon Brown's proposal for a global executive, the Forum's 2019 Event 201 pandemic exercise, a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation scenario called "Lock Step," and a 2016 Forum essay that opened "I don't own anything." No binding agreement of any kind has been produced.
- The WWI ConspiracyColonel House's own diary records him and King George V discussing the sinking of the Lusitania on the morning it happened. James Corbett's 2018 documentary The WWI Conspiracy builds on documents like that one: the Rhodes wills, Edward Grey's secret staff talks with France, and the October 1915 letter in which Woodrow Wilson added the word "probably" to a promise that America would join the war. From them it argues that a British imperial network founded by Cecil Rhodes engineered the First World War.
- Ordo Templi OrientisOrdo Templi Orientis, or O.T.O., is portrayed in conspiracy literature as far more than a modern occult fraternity. While the order publicly presents itself as a Thelemic initiatory and religious body organized around the Law of Thelema and a graded initiatory system, conspiracy theories recast it as a hidden transmission line for elite esoteric power, sexual-magical ritual, Templar and Masonic survivals, and covert influence stretching from Aleister Crowley into politics, intelligence, science, and culture. In that framework, O.T.O. is seen not simply as an occult order but as a node where ritual secrecy, symbolic inversion, and long-range social influence intersect.
- The Bilderberg CEO PurgeA crisis-era elite-coordination theory claiming that the 2008 financial collapse was used not only to restructure banks and markets, but to remove corporate leaders who were not aligned with emerging global priorities, especially around climate policy, carbon transition, and centralized economic governance. In this reading, the crisis became a management tool for elite succession.
- The Grand Central Secret ElevatorA New York elite-infrastructure theory claiming that the hidden rail and elevator systems beneath Grand Central and the Waldorf-Astoria were not just for discreet arrivals, but connected to a deeper hardened refuge for the city’s power families—especially the Rockefellers. In the most elaborate versions, Track 61 and its elevator became the public edge of a nuclear-proof underground city for finance, politics, and dynastic survival.
- The "Hidden Hand" (The Milner Group)This theory argues that Lord Alfred Milner’s circle, often identified with the Round Table movement or the so-called Milner Group, acted as a secret imperial network that pushed Britain into the First World War in order to consolidate the British Empire and redesign global politics. The theory draws on a real and documented set of relationships among imperial thinkers, administrators, editors, and policy advocates associated with Milner and Round Table circles. In conspiratorial form, those networks are treated not merely as influential but as covert architects of the war itself.