deep state (paid)

B&W photo of seven men in suits sitting around a conference table.
The Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 1963, and which generated many conspiracy theories about the “deep state.” From left to right: former CIA Director Allen Dulles, Representative Hale Boggs, Senator John Cooper, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senator Richard Russell, Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations John McCloy, and Representative Gerald Ford.