Group

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The object for groups of people. For individuals, use 'person'

 Group

Command Consulting Group	26 September 2023 03:09	(3.1 K)
Hakluyt & Company Ltd	26 September 2023 02:52	(26 K)
Harvard/International Seminar/1962	26 September 2023 02:51	(6.8 K)
Hungarian Mafia	26 September 2023 02:50	(2.4 K)
Netherlands/Deep state	24 September 2023 18:22	(33 K)
Police Investigations and Review Commissioner	24 September 2023 12:52	(1.6 K)
Russia	24 September 2023 08:47	(8.9 K)
US	24 September 2023 08:45	(9.2 K)

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Group Type	Description
Authority	In addition to the standard meaning, "Authority" and "Authoritative" are sometimes used on Wikispooks not as an accolade, but to suggest distrust, reflecting the fact that 'the establishment' often seeks to bolster its power through specious claims of "authority".
Commercial
Committee
Company
Criminal
Deep state group	Deep state groups are very similar to to the legal definition of conspiracy: An agreement between two or more persons to engage jointly in an unlawful or criminal act, or an act that is innocent in itself but becomes unlawful when done by the combination of actors.
Family
Front	Front groups are intended to deceive the casual observer by carrying out actions without disclosing who instigated them. They include astroturf (fake 'grassroots' organisations) operated by legitimate companies as well as fronts operated by groups with more questionable legitimacy to provide plausible deniability to as criminal groups, governments or intelligence agencies.
Front group	Spooky activities occur behind closed doors under the cover of a front group.
Hit squad	Teams of assassins
Intelligence agency	The distinction between secret societies, intelligence agencies or international groups may be slightly moot on occasions. Many are officially allowed to commit serious crimes such as murder, and are subject to minimal effective oversight anyway.
International	International groups.
Military	Military groups, generally hierarchical in nature, often controlled by nation states, are organisations that specialise in using violence to achieve political ends of their masters.
NGO	Non-governmental organization
Regulator	Government agencies tasked with trying to make markets work in the public interest by e.g. protecting the environment, preventing fraud etc. Often (especially in US) these are subjects of "regulatory capture" whereby they are effectively controlled by the exact same commercial groups they are nominally in charge of regulating.
Secret society	Nothing to see here. Move along!
Think tank