You are to be congratulated on your talent for deception. - Charles E. Gannon

And over the many months that followed, as Caine crept through both terrestrial and alien undergrowth on missions to reclaim some of the autonomy humanity had lost, he learned and relearned the prime lesson in common to all the shocks:
That all assumptions, like all plans, or never more than a second away from a catastrophic collision with reality.

So what you are characterizing as conspiracy is merely an unfortunate coincidence.

“Did he just wink?” whispered Downing.
“If not, he developed a very timely facial tic,” Caine replied.