It's 61 years since John F. Kennedy, the sitting President of the US, delivered his famous conspiracy speech. You can read it in full here:
https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/...ation-19610427
Perhaps his most startling remarks are below. He was talking about the type of people who are so emboldened today that they openly boast of penetrating government cabinets with their puppets and delight in telling the world's population that they are now "hackable animals."
"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations."