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The last group we will discuss this afternoon is known as the Crimson Club. This secretive group is supposedly made up of the thirteen most powerful industrialists and businessfolk in the world -- though research indicates it seems unlikely that list matches any given year's leaders of the Forbes 500. The Club was founded in 1830 in the US, and numbered among its members most of the famous Robber Barons of that era. It was supposedly disbanded in 1910 after some sort of internal dispute, but there have been repeated rumors and clues that the organization, its membership revised and limited, still exists to this day.
The Club apparently exists to maintain its existence, or, rather, the power of its members. Conspiracy theories aside, the Club has been implicated any number of political assassinations, scandals, and coups around the world over the last century -- including ones that have affected every US President since Eisenhower -- or, perhaps, earlier than that. There is more information in your folders.
The pervasive power of the Club is such that its very existence remains uncertain, and it is, without a doubt, the most dangerous of the groups I have described this afternoon -- more for what it can do, than for what it does do. For what it is worth, some of the goals of the Club -- general social stability, economic growth, law and order -- are commendable. Where it has been both willing and able to foster opposite effects in the short-term for the long-term gain of its members is where the power of the Crimson Club is most alarming and most dangerous -- and most deserving of our opposition. For example, if certain analysis is correct, and any of the major wars in the middle or late 20th Century were, in fact, the result of Crimson Club manipulation, the blood on their hands easily exceeds that of any other group discussed today.
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