Supposing you wanted to create a successful conspiracy - a secret society whose organizational integrity was never compromised, and whose core secret was never given away by infiltrators, spies, or traitors - how would you accomplish this?

As a member of a highly successful conspiracy stretching back to Diogenes of Sinope, I feel qualified to let this particular Cheshire cat out of the Bag of Devouring.

The Free-Masons, also, have had great success in keeping their core secret away from profane eyes by this simple expedient:  The core secret is that there is no secret. The organizational issue has been handled less successfully, and they have suffered losses in effectiveness accordingly.

The organization can be unconditionally protected from damage by a parallel technique - that there should be no organization.

Do these techniques impair our effectiveness? Consider that, since the American effort began in earnest in the late 1950s, in a bowling alley in Whittier, Kalifornia - a subtle allusion, by way of the pin layout, to the tetraktys of the Pythagoreans, who preceded and influenced Socrates, whose true legacy was carried forward by the Cynics, and, well, us - since then, there have been at least three successful television shows and one major motion picture featuring Eris as a character, and, more to the point, Pluto is no longer a planet, but Eris is.

To say nothing of the hit on JFK...

Think on these things.