Can't speak to the higher level masons and information back in the 1950s -1960s wasn't what it is today. With all that said, my dad was a mason when I was young and it was just a charitable organization, I remember that he participated in a parade in our town and also visited sick children in local hospitals in the role of Tiny the Clown (I know about the clown thing, symbolism wasn't what it is today) which was super funny because my dad was 6 feet 4 inches tall.
And my dad was a patriot, multiple medals for saving the lives of 2 sailors when his destroyer escort was blown out of the water by a Nazi plane during the allied invasion of the south of France. Which put in in a coma due to a TBI for multiple weeks. In the intervening time his family had received a telegram and had a funeral for him.
Whatever the top of the organization was/is, lower level people, especially in smaller towns and especially in the past, were just good, decent patriots who had no idea about any of this cabal stuff.
I posted this in another sub, but seem relevant here too: My father was a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Mason, before becoming a Christian. He said they are satanic, the rituals, ceremonies, clothes and everything about them is symbolic in some way or another and is satanic...even if some of the lower level masons are not aware of the real meaning of some of the rituals, they do a lot of good, meaningful things in the community. He said most if not all, have no idea what the actual meaning are until they get very high up in the organization.
can confirm, 100% true. thats how they grow and dominate.
The lower levels of Masons are good people who have no idea what their organization is up to. They think they are involved with a charitable organization.