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Take Operation AJAX for example. The CIA, on behalf of the British who got kicked out of Iran, conspired to overthrow Mosaddeq and install the Shah as supreme ruler, all to protect British oil infrastructure. This was an international conspiracy that violated international law and the UN charter, and led to the entire cascade of events leading to the 1979 revolution and everything today. The CIA, quite blatantly, runs on an modus operandi that institutionalizes conspiratorial modes of social networking to carry out its operations.

Ultimately, with the level of covert institutions and behavior that clearly underpins organizations like the CIA, much less off the public record, informal social networks of private, corporate elites, there is a mountain of evidence and solid logic to retake conspiracy into understanding power politics. That isn't to give free reign to smoking crack and dreaming up nonsense, but a realist approach to first accepting the true nature of hardball political behavior, and from there to be able to assemble the right frameworks to understand specific situations when the facts clearly point towards conspiratorial politicking.

https://philpapers.org/rec/KEEOCT