Yes, and even the idea of a parody of conspiracy literature wasn't all that new at that point. Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" had been published in 196

Yes, and even the idea of a parody of conspiracy literature wasn't all that new at that point. Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" had been published in 1965 and the group it describes, the Trystero, is the Illuminati in all but name.