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Sure, but just because some conspiracies are true, does not mean all of them are.
The vast majority are false and will never get a declassified file.
Probably the greatest thing the CIA ever did; make "conspiracy" synonymous with "bullshit that didn't happen".
After WWII when amateur radios became popular sharing information also grew. Even if the government was now having a harder time getting away with bullshit, all they needed to do was invent 9 bullshit stories for every 1 correct one out there and then everyone would conclude (rightly) that "vast majority are false". And then when they do encounter a real one, again, they rightly think "most are bullshit" but that implies "so this one is probably as well", for all of them, always.
"Conspiracy" means nothing more than something illegal being purposefully orchestrated by two or more people.
That.... Wasn't the point at all?
The point was that no one cares to hold the horrific shit accountable.