The problem is, you'll most likely not find the identity of those high up in the hierarchy, and if by some extremely unlikely chance you did manage this, you won't live to tell about it as you're greeted by an imminent and coincidental stroke or a heart attack. There are all sorts of "groups", semi-secret and totally secret running all sorts of things, a lot of them not knowing about one another and compartmentalized, some higher up knowing about the others, etc, and it just goes on and on. I think what is important is not the identity of those in the higher echelons, but understanding the true nature of the hierarchy itself and those in it - how and why it functions, which is what Political Ponerology explains very well. You don't have to have direct proof of the existance of some higher-level members to know that they exist, and not because you believe or blindly assume, but because it is the only way it can be due to the very nature of the system itself and how it works at all levels, as sleepyvinny said. I see little point in identifying them, and in fact, it may be a very bad idea. I remember even the C's refused to tell Laura any names when asked, warning that it only guarantees a quick trip to 5th density, and does not benefit her at all to know - and so it is with all of us. We must be wise as serpents, gentle as doves.
We have the president, bankers, the official secret "shadow government" that Bush setup after 911, the coporations, groups like skull and bones, the masons, etc. And this is all public knowledge, even though some groups we only know exist without knowing the members, what goes on, and how far up they go. Let's not forget the groups that have to deal with things like UFOs' etc (Roswell for example), all sorts of "CIA-type" groups that function in complete secrecy to conduct espionage and all sorts of dirty political games with other nations and with the people in their own nation. And we know that all of the above function as a strict hierarchy, whether at the lower levels of individual agents or higher levels of generals/presidents/etc. We also know that psychopaths don't care about official rules or laws, and that they are all about lying and manipulating others - they'll do anything and everything to get power, if they can get away with it. So, knowing just that alone, we can logically deduce that the secret hierarchy of control extends very very far, perhaps without any end as it reaches into hyperdimensional levels and beyond. And based on all that we know that *is* public knowledge and how secretive and terrifyingly totalitarian it is, and based on our understanding of psychopaths/those in power and how they do things, the idea that the power structure secretly extends very far up is not just a theory, it is a fact. And I think understanding this is the important part, but identifying exactly who they are is not important, and can be dangerous.
And our approach to "battling" this is spreading the information that is vital to know, that is, recognizing the nature of psychopaths, nature of ourselves, nature of the world. And this is partly what separates this group from the likes of Alex Jones, who may preach about this or that secret group or the NWO, always pointing fingers at some groups and individual people as the "bad guys" responsible for all the world's ills, when in reality, it is all psychopaths and our blindness to their very nature and their influence on us that is responsible. Groups can be replaced like spare tires when needed, they don't matter. We need to address our blindness to the idea of psychopaths itself, and how and why they do what they do, and also our assumptions about ourselves and the world at large, osit.