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The term shadow government (also cryptocracy) besides its party political meaning can also refer to what is sometimes called "the secret government" or "the invisible government," an idea based on the notion that real and actual political power does not reside with publicly elected representatives (for example the United States Congress or the UK Cabinet) but with private individuals who are exercising power behind the scenes beyond the scrutiny of democratic institutions. According to this belief the official elected government is in reality subservient to the shadow government who are the true executive power.
Conspiracy-oriented literature postulates the existence of a secret government who are the true power behind the apparent government. Examples of such literature include works by Dan Smoot, William Guy Carr, Jim Marrs, Carroll Quigley, Gary Allen, Des Griffin, David Icke, Michael A. Hoffman II and John Coleman. Some of these authors believe members of the secret government may represent or be agents for groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations, The Royal Institute for International Affairs, The Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg group, CIA and MI6 in co-operation with international banks and financial institutions such as the World Bank and the Bank for International Settlements.[1] [2] [3] [4] Also popularizing the idea was the hit US television show, The X-Files.
In his novel Coningsby, Benjamin Disraeli stated that "The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes". One definition of a shadow government is a "secret government within the government". This secret government is the "real" government that controls the legitimate and visible government's agenda. The network of people constituting this secret government are bound by some common agenda known only to each other and/or the people they represent. The agenda may be that of a secret society who have infiltrated the government (examples include Freemasons, Skull and Bones men or Illuminatists). In this case the agenda of the network is known only to those members who are bound by an oath of secrecy.
The shadow government is also considered by popular authors[who?] to be behind black budget projects and covert operations.
One of the most popular conspiracy theories about a shadow government among ideologues of the antisemitic far-right is the notion of a "Zionist Occupation Government".[citation needed]
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- ^ Chatham House (RIIA) and the CFR, it's US sister organization, are the focus of Quigley's The Anglo-American Establishment.
- ^ The CFR as a central institution of the secret government of the United States is the focus of James Perloff's book The Shadows of Power
- ^ Jim Marrs cites all the institutions listed in this paragraph in his study Rule By Secrecy, published by Harper Collins.
- ^ International banking institutions are considered by Quigley (see Tragedy and Hope), E.C. Knuth (The Empire of The City), Eustace Mullins (Secrets of The Federal Reserve), Henry Makow, Des Griffin, Antony Sutton, G. Edward Griffin and others to be critical to the exercise of secret, unaccountable power in domestic and foreign affairs.