I remember stumbling across a video on screwtube about letters George Washington received from someone in England. This person essentially wrote multiple letters to Washington warning him that members of the Bavarian Illuminati had infiltrated Masonic lodges in the America’s. The person attempted to warn Washington that their goal was to sabotage the work going on in the colonies and attempt to return them to the Crown. Washington’s response was essentially he had seen no such thing and refused to believe the lodges were compromised.