Oh, SpitfireIX, as you know, you've touched on one of my favorite "conspiracy" topics. I'll just have to bite my figurative tongue.

This gives me a chance to slightly modify/clarify my earlier post: I'm generally skeptical of large-scale government conspiracies, particularly those involving the US Govt. Clearly ("clearly" to me, anyway) conspiracies happen. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by one; the WTC was brought down by one. But these were carried out by small groups of private individuals who can keep (for awhile) a secret, and whose commonality of purpose and sheer zeal can carry the day. But in my view the US Govt is so vast, so compartmentalized, so compromised by turf-protecting empires, so weighted down by the sheer inertia that afflicts all large bureaucracies, that it's literally impossible for the US Govt to conspire to do the things they've been accused of. NASA couldn't conspire to do an Apollo Hoax and keep it a secret if they wanted to!