In message , Jay Windley
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"Anon Imous" wrote in message
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| I guess that the only, and well known, argument to this kind of
| discourse is that Russia has closely followed and never questioned
| authenticity of Apollo missions.

That is certainly the opinion of the astronauts and cosmonauts of that time.
While they were in a sense colleagues, they were also in another sense
rivals.
If the Russians were part of the global conspiracy why did they launch
an unmanned probe at the same time as Apollo 11? They reassured the
Americans that it would not cause any problems for the rival mission.

I have received correspondence from people who were involved with Apollo
security and they claim that the Soviets actually penetrated the Apollo
project and knew of its authenticity first hand. We know they tracked the
spacecraft and listened to the voice transmissions; NASA made no attempt to
hide them, although the equipment required to pick up the signals was by no
means common.

It was common enough for well-equipped amateurs to have some at the
time, though. There are several articles about listening to voice
transmissions. I know there was talk of receiving the ALSEP telemetry,
but I can't recall if that actually happened.
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