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{{trope}}
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{{quote|"This meeting is not taking place."
|'''[[Complete Monster|Adolf Eichmann]]''', ''[[Conspiracy (film)|Conspiracy]]''}}
Drama genre or plot in which the [[Powers That Be]] and/or [[The Government]] is evil and hiding something/trying to assassinate someone/establishing a puppet foreign government. Considering how incompetent the government are considered to be in just about every other area, it's remarkable how good they are at covering stuff up. A subtrope of [[The Conspiracy]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', though the manga and the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|2003 anime adaptation]] differ in how many people are aware of/involved in the conspiracy. The conspiracy itself is different in the manga and first anime; in the manga, {{spoiler|Father and the upper echelons of the military are planning to create a utopia through [[Human Sacrifice]]}}. In the 2003 anime, the conspiracy is {{spoiler|[[Vain Sorceress|Dante]] using the country (though Pride) to create situations that lead to the creation of Philosopher's Stones (again through mass human sacrifice) that Dante needs to fuel her [[Immortality Immorality|immortality]]}}.
* The ''[[.hack|.hack//]]'' series' system administrators work much the same way up until the end of ''//tasogare no udewa densetsu''.
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== Comic
* In the 1998 comic two-parter ''Marvel: Conspiracy'', a reporter gradually discovers that practically all superheroes and supervillains ever since shortly after the very dawn of the Golden Age were the product of a black op called
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** Similarly, Operation Northwoods, a series of proposals to drum up support for a war against Castro's Cuba through a [[False-Flag Operation]] against U.S. military and civilian targets, among which was included a "Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington". While the plan was rejected by President Kennedy and none of the proposals ever became operational, it has been used by conspiracy theorists ever since its declassification and release as evidence that there are elements within the U.S. government who have no qualms about deceiving their citizens.
*** ... there are people who are actually ''surprised'' when politicians lie about things?
* During Prohibition, many
* The Great Purge orchestrated by Stalin was officially a "swift retribution for the assassination of Sergei Kirov, beloved comrade and close friend of Stalin, an act indicating a reactive conspiracy in the highest echelons of Soviet government". According to some theories (mostly claimed by Khrushchev without any evidence), it was Stalin who ordered the assassination thus getting a pretense to eliminate all real, potential and imagined enemies. Hell, USSR during Stalin's rule IS this trope. The last sentence is very questionable as everything made by Soviet totalitarian state was very carefully controlled and documented, there isn't much classified data on repressions.
** It must be remembered that Khrushchev's job under Stalin was as his chief enforcer and loyalty officer, so he'd be in a position to speak from knowledge.
* A comparatively innocent (but rather stupid) example was Louis XV of France's "King's Secret". In this France had two foreign policies, the official one known to his ministers and the "secret" one known only to the King's confidants. Essentially it was taking counterintelligence to an extreme level of paranoia. There was good reason for any King in those days to [[Properly Paranoid|wary]] as there was an [[Deadly Decadent Court|abundance of scoundrels]] who would stoop to anything including treason. But letting ministers serve who were not in on the scam from the beginning created an incoherent foreign policy that was self-destructive. Still this qualifies as a [[Government Conspiracy]]. Of sorts.
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