The only thing that has made logical sense to me is the advice to look at the First Story Driver.
That opening driver sets up an inequity, which in turn sets up the Story Goal within the storymind as an attempt to resolve that inequity. There will be forces of initiative/pursuit and reticence/prevent. The former side with “we need to attempt this thing to fix this problem” while the latter side with leaving things as-is and preventing that attempt.
So the question you need to ask yourself, what is the inequity that your opening driver creates? Is your story saying, “this conspiracy is trying to address this problem, they’re the forces working to resolve things” regardless of how dastardly the conspirators are? Or is the conspiracy itself (the conspirators’ goals) the true inequity, and your MC is the one working to resolve that inequity?
Read carefully the following @jhull article, it’s pure gold and is the thing that finally cleared up the James Bond Antagonist mess for me. The Captain America: Civil War example is especially clear, and I love that The Matrix is used in contrast (because the inequity setup by its first driver is a bit harder to see).