pitenius

1) That chart includes the "Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" as a player. These charts tend to have a longer shelf life than the power structure they represent.

2) The arrows. What do they indicate? They seem to invoke "hierarchical control" but how? Overlapping memberships? Ideological partnership or parentage? Shared assets? The mechanism of control is as important as the parties involved.

3)Pardon my ignorance, but some of these parties are well beyond my ken. The Kahila? I have no idea what that is. I'm not saying it's not important or powerful, but this chart isn't helping me.

4) There are two unattached, unincorporated lists of organizations on the right and left. That grouping seems to explain the ideologies of about 80% of the elements in the lists -- most but not all -- am I missing something? Are these entities removed from the structure of control? Vaguely representative of left and right ideologies? Minor players multiply connected?

5) What do triangles, squares, circles, and double circles denote? Double circles seem to be bloodlines. (Why, then, the B.E.A.S.T. Computer? Again, I am ignorant of this topic and the chart doesn't help.) There are only two triangles, but I see no connection between them...

6) There's nearly a symmetry in the chart as a whole. Is this important?