reply to post by JimOberg
Oh, I understand what the terms mean Jim, and how security compartmentalization protocol works and how secrets are maintained. The fact is that if
NASA were to openly admit to the execution of a Standup-EVA during Apollo 12, thus confiming that it was conducted covertly and that the public was
denied the truth about it, that would most definitely be an offense that undermines the National Security of the United States of America. How could
it not be? It would be knowingly divulging classified information confirming that a classified event did indeed occur during an Apollo mission - a
classified event that by default also MUST call into question the accuracy and level of disclosure NASA has provided for the entirety of the Apollo
program and beyond! What else happened during Apollo that they did not tell the world about? That BIG question suddenly becomes a 100% valid demand
from the public who paid for these missions and were promised transparency!
The fact is that another NASA admission that this SEVA did indeed take place would allow the public to reasonably demand to know why they were lied to
and denied this information, and denied the photographic evidence that obviously would have been taken during the undeclared EVA. It would force the
public to ask what the hell else have NASA lied to us about? That is what is on the line here for NASA and their Apollo cover-story. The fact is that
confirmation of this Apollo 12 SEVA event from anyone at NASA without permission from the Powers That Be would most definitely be an act that could
reasonably be considered capable of undermining the government and National Security interests of the United States of America. There is no hyperbole
attached to that at all - that is just the truth.
Related to your comment at the end about the "constraints of operating with classified information and the access controls that such operations
entail" and how that was absent related to the Apollo program - you forgot to add at the end the same caveat you included earlier in your comment
about "at least at the Mission Control Center".
I have no problem with your claim that there was no clearly classified information flaunted around in the public Mission Control Center at MCC Houston
in Texas. Of course, when Conrad and Bean were on the private radio loop during their covert S-EVA, they were not talking to the public Control Room
at Houston, were they? No, and that is why the official recordings of the public radio loop from the LM give us nothing but dead-air for nearly
nineteen minutes at precisely the time Conrad and Bean were supposed to be describing the scene out the windows to Houston. They were describing the
scene during that period, but they were doing it over the covert channel from atop the LM, talking to people who were not sitting in the public
Mission Control Center in Houston.
Cheers,
LunaCognita
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