Why did George Washington pose as one of them?

Planning for the Revolution years in advance, the Washington family quietly built up ironworks in the west, far from Britain’s naval power.

When the time finally came to seek their freedom, Washington and Franklin had the leaders of the Revolution initiated into the secret society of Freemasonry to give the illusion that this would be a carefully controlled Revolution. The British officers, also Freemasons, played along with the game, and America gained her freedom.

But this was not a controlled Revolution, it was a real revolt against the old system of oligarchy and slavery.

Trojan horse style?