>>11914006Not to mention that at the time the Soviet Union was sending tons of weapons to Vietnamese commies who were in an active shooting war with US forces, while also providing lots of covert funding for anti-war protestor in the US.
Plus there was plenty of other countries that could have called shenanigans. The PRC was on pretty poor terms with both the US & Soviets by 1969; while at the time they were pretty backwards they would still have had the ability to see if the US or Soviets were actually launching men to space.
