Firstly, I'd like to say welcome aboard Jay \
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Secondly I'd like to expand on your point with a slight digression from the Astronomical into the historical (BA Permitting). In the 1930's a man named Oscar Hartzell conned a lot of people with the claim that he had located the True Heir to Sir Francis Drake and that said heir was being kept from his rightful fortune.
Hartzell mixed conspiratorial lingo (The Secret Courts of England) into his pitch, even telling his victims that fluctuations in the exchange rate were proof that the payoff was due 'any minute now'.
Is it any surprise then that after his arrest the victims preferred to believe that they had been victims of a Government Conspiracy to claim the Trillion dollar inheritance. In one case investigators were allegedly told that a ship offshore had the first part of the payoff aboard. When the victims were shown the ships true cargo the investigators were told that they (the investigators) had arranged to offload the gold bars making up the payment and replace them with the new cargo overnight.:-?
But to get back to the Moon Hoax, and its part in the 'Grand Conspiracy
', I'd like to move on to
Area 51 :-$ , this is a location that has no doubt been annexed by the HBs as the location for the 'secret film studios' :roll: at which the hoax was filmed, the location is perfect, a top secret aircraft testing station, supposedly the resting place for the contents of Wright-Pattersons eighteenth hanger, and right next door (sort of) to the Nevada Test Site, a location with plenty of craters to use in simulating the lunar surface.
In the Moon Hoax Area 51 serves two purposes, firstly and most obviously it is the secret location at which the mission footage was shot.
But in Hoagland style ('We reached the moon & found aliens') Moon Hoax claims, it would serve another purpose, where better to brief the astronauts on what they would 'encounter' than the US govts premier respository of alien remains/equipment.