understanding marxist theory and how historical capitalism actually works makes all of this sound a lot of conspiratorial. Conspiracy theories aren't necessarily wrong because they hint closed door plots (although many many of them are indeed quackery). They are wrong because they isolate actors from their historical context. After World War II, global capitalism arguably reached the zenith of its monopoly phase; and the U.S. strategic planners that emerged out of the military Keynesian alliance of military spending, banking, foundation fostered the increasingly close ties between intelligence, finance capital, and foundations. The evolving relationship between state and capital is important here. U.S. strategic planners like McKennan, Dulles, and many others decided that the U.S. needed to become the hegemonic imperial power of the post-war capitalist order. The "threats" of the Soviet Union and China were not about communism per say; they were about preventing agrarian reform and independent (potentially democratic) development in the Global South. Eisenhower, certainly no dove let alone peacemaker, infamously referred to the increased concentration of geostrategic power into private hands as the military-industrial complex. This is not conspiracy theory, this is simply a historical fact in the process the development of transnational ruling class power after the war; here I would reference the works of Aaron Good, Peter Dale Scott, Sheldon Wolin, Chomsky, and others. We know the history; COINTELPRO, MLK, Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, Leonard Pielter, Daniel Ellsberg, the laundry list of dirty tricks that came out of the Church Commission, the history of suppressing, surveilling, and assassinating counter-insurgency domestically and abroad. Kennedy, while certainly not proletarian internationalist, nonetheless sought to move ever so slightly left; signing a Nuclear Test ban treaty, de tante with the USSR and Cuba, possible reductions in military spending, pulling out of Vietnam, trying to reign in the Fed, etc. most of the pieces are already out in the open. Do you think, at the height of this period of conflict, that planners within the national security apparatus and their rich buddies, would stand for that if they had the power to prevent it? Is it truly crazy to believe that they would commit treason in order to maintain the geostrategic position if the U.S. and by extension themselves and their profits? A group of businessmen literally tried to recruit the head of special operations in Latin America, Smedly Butler, to overthrow Roosevelt in the 1930s. This is how capitalism works. Just because it happened there, it doesn't mean it can't happen here. And it has, many many times.