There are certain organizational principles that successful conspiracies tend to follow, and an understanding of these can help us to uncover that which would ordinarily be un-uncoverable. On the contrary, because one can find evidence of virtually anything, whether it actually exists or not, finding some evidence in and of itself proves nothing. Since we know that the conspirators have removed all evidence of their conspiracy, we must deduce the conspiracy's existence by looking for conspicuous absence of any evidence of its existence. Having searched for, but not found, evidence of a conspiracy, we must then logically conclude that there is, in fact, a conspiracy, and further, that the conspirators are extremelyclever and therefore very dangerous.
Conspiracies tend to have five members.
This makes it difficult if not impossible for an outsider to keep track of the conspiracyshould it somehow be discovered. Persons within a conspiracy can form a subconspiracy with necessarily fewer members. The number of possible combinations of subconspiracies within a conspiracy increases with the size of the major conspiracy. For a conspiracy of 5, the number of possible combinations is so great that it is not feasable for an outsider to keep track of them all, thus affording a measure of security via complexity. In a conspiracy of more than 5, the conspirators themselves have trouble keeping track of all the possible combinations of conspiracies, thus they tend to limit their numbers to 5.