First of all, this was _not_ a conspiracy. To be a conspiracy, it has to be secret rather than given as part of an "Orientation Kit" openly distributed by the SS.
The document was squirreled away when people like me (and the Catholic Worker at least a year ahead of Ramparts) got ahold of it. It was an administrative oversight. I don't think it was intended to be seen (and wasn't) by the general public until the SDS discovered it. Is there a possibility that class itself exists as a result of conspiracy and that conspiracies of the upper class are floated to maintain a beneficial (to them) class structure? A problem with the lower classes is, it seems to me, that they rarely engage in effective conspiracies of their own, or when they do, the underlying class conspiracy bubbles up as police and military violence directed at them. This problem is further aggravated by the lower classes tending to acknowledge the reportage of the upper classes, putting them in the situation of responding to the news of the day, thus keeping "progressives" forever reactionary, and forcing them to dabble in the logical and emotional nits of nuances of "conspiracy theories", at best a phrase for boxing out the answer to the question "What happened?" Dan Scanlan
