Group · Illuminati 1982 Original + Expansion Sets 1 & 2 (1983, combined list)
Phone Company
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Description
This Corporate group can, as a free move on your turn, secretly peek at two random hidden Plot cards from a rival's hand -- and can spend its own action to instead pull two random hidden Plot cards from a rival and reveal them to everyone at the table.
Conspiracy Narrative
Riffs on the real pre-breakup AT&T "Ma Bell" telephone monopoly and Cold War-era paranoia about phone surveillance and wiretapping -- the popular image of "the Phone Company" as an all-seeing, faceless utility that knows everyone's business, famously lampooned in Lily Tomlin's telephone-operator sketches and the 1967 novel and 1977 film "The President's Analyst."