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==People and organisations said to be involved in hoaxing== *Prof. Dr '''Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun''' (1912–1977), claimed by Bart Sibrel,<ref>[http://moonmovie.com/moonmovie/default.asp Moon landing hoax top 10 reasons], B. Sibrel</ref> Ralph René,<ref name="Rene"/><sup>(pp. 16, 54)</sup>, Aron Ranen<ref name="didwego"/><sup>([http://youtube.com?v=bxEZXyQk4rs#t=6m14s part 5], 6:14–7:21)</sup> and Stanislav Pokrovsky,<ref>[http://vif2ne.ru/nvz/forum/0/co/293618 Lunar soil], S. Pokrovsky, 24/5/10 (Rus.)</ref> and Prof. Dr '''John Owen Annexstad''', claimed by Stanislav Pokrovsky to be complicit in the hoax by collecting lunar meteorites to be used as the basis for "Moon rocks" during their expeditions to Antarctica in 1967. *Dr '''Robert Rowe Gilruth''' (1913–2000), then director of the NASA Manned Spacecraft Centre,<ref>[http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/gilruth Robert Gilruth tribute], NASA, 23/6/03</ref> Lunar Module chief designer in Houston (see Wernher von Braun's "right hand" Ernst Stuhlinger in <ref name="akte"/> at 38:09), and Apollo programme lead.<ref>K. Gatland, "The illustrated encyclopædia of space technology", Salamander Books, 1989, ISBN 9780861014491</ref> Willy Brunner and Gerhard Wisnewski claim<ref name="step"/><sup>[http://books.google.com?id=EwEEIzdTfW0C&pg=PA127 (p. 127)]</sup> that Gilruth "was the real filmmaker of the Moon landing" ("war die engentliche Regisseur der Mondlandung").<ref name="akte"/><sup>(38:44)</sup> *Colonel '''Frank Frederick Borman, II''' (b. 1928), Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 flight commander. He visited the USSR just before the Apollo 11 flight<ref>[http://astronautix.com/astros/borman.htm Borman], M. Wade, 31/7/08</ref> (as Alexander Popov says, to reconnoitre whether the Russians believed in the Apollo 8 orbiting the Moon and help decide if they can "swallow" a much larger Apollo 11 Moon landing hoax).<ref name="Popov1">A. Popov, [http://manonmoon.ru/book/20.htm How could they keep this secret?], 16/3/09 (Rus.)</ref> He was also one of the Skylab programme managers.<ref name="skylab"/><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761583119/Frank_Borman.html Frank Borman], MSN Encarta Encyclopædia, 30/3/08</ref> *'''Donald Kent Slayton''' (1924–1993), NASA Chief Astronaut in 1968, claimed by Sam Colby to be one of the main hoax perpetrators.<ref name="Colby"/><ref name="doggle"/> *'''Michael J. Tuttle''', Simithsonian Institution webmaster, claimed by Sam Colby to have made fake photos in the mid-1990s and to have admitted that.<ref name="afb"/> Colby says that 95% of the NASA Moon photos were never seen before the spread of the Internet.<ref>[http://apollofake.bravehost.com Apollo Fake], S. Colby, 3/3/09</ref> *'''Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr''' (1916–2009), CBS journalist who Bill Kaysing says "was the father figure that NASA chose to essentially hype the whole project".<ref name="Nardwuar"/> *'''William M. Thompson''' (1920–2002) who had written the following: ''"I was actually part of the team that created the faked Moon landings and I am ready to talk about them. I have physical evidence to prove that they were faked"'', to Sam Colby and Kenneth Vardon.<ref name="afb"/><ref>[http://apfn.net/MESSAGEBOARD/11-29-02/discussion.cgi.17.shtml I participated in the project to fake the Moon landings], APFN, 27/11/02</ref> *The '''Lookout Mountain Laboratory''', claimed by David McGowan to have done the post-production on the Apollo footage after the official "deactivation" of the studio in 1969.<ref name="cia"/><ref>[http://vce.com/LookoutMt.html Lookout Mountain Laboratory], P. Kuran, 15/8/07</ref>
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