Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:
It was a perceived problem. Freemasonry was blamed for everything in the 80s. There were books about it. It was in all the red-top newspapers. They were demonised as being some evil secret club where to be a member meant you subsumed yourself as if to some Eyes Wide Shut/Wicker Man type devil-worshipping cult, where they probably drank the blood of goats & burned small children in large wicker statues. Once you were high enough up the hierarchy, the world opened up for you like some all-pervading secret underground society who held all the purse strings & had the key to every door. Think what Dan Brown made of his Illuminati etc in the DaVinci Code, except these people lived just next door...
Full answer by Tetsujin: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/119716 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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