You wouldn't want all participants having the same level of knowledge, so you compartmentalize and change the information. The juicy stuff that indicts you is k

You wouldn't want all participants having the same level of knowledge, so you compartmentalize and change the information. The juicy stuff that indicts you is kept at a higher level, while the lower ranks are given different versions to make it seem legal. Companies do this routinely by controlling information within the company that might have illegal underpinnings for their actions. However much of the annoying noise from conspiracy theorists involve people who all know they are doing illegal stuff and choose to do it anyway and keep quiet about it and they make it out to be some massive, evil, covert conspiracy party.