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Many conspiracists believe the Apollo samples were (and still are) kept under lock and key, never to be delivered to anyone outside the U.S. and then only to geologists and other scientists who had been specially approved by the U.S. government not to spill the beans.
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Ah yes, I remember that huge CIA/FBI/MI5 security vetting form I had to fill in before I was allowed to touch the lunar samples we had at the University of Kent last summer to show to a bunch of teenage students....
That said, there
is a lot of security involved in getting hold of those samples (they are to be kept under lock and key, rooms where they are to be displayed must be closed and guarded during the display, and we were not allowed to inform the media we had them until after the event), but that has more to do with the fact that they are priceless and irreplacable than anything else.