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Originally Posted by Irishman
...governments make policies, and have rules and systems to enforce those policies on their members.
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One such system being compartmentalization, where only that part of the secret needed to perform a task is revealed to an individual or team. For instance, my brother worked on some comm gear for the USAF during the late 80s. Although his team knew the operational and environmental capabilites of their equipment, that's about all they knew. During my tour with the air force, I was cleared for the same type of information - TS and above - it is taken
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Originally Posted by Irishman
...for instance, the USSR and their policy of not sharing information about their own space program, or about their missions until after they happened.
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As pointed out in an earlier thread, the lion's share of Apollo hardware was not compartmentalized (or even classified, for that matter) - that is, folks knew exactly where their particular widget fit into the big picture. IMO, this fact alone would place the number of people privy to the hoax in the tens of thosands - not sustainable. So HBs are left with the idea of the government (or cabal de jour) having viable lunar hardware, but deciding beforehand (since mission planning was also freely disseminated) to instead launch a hoax.
To me, this is the strongest evidence against a hoax program.