The 'launch' of Apollo 17 took place on December 7th, 1972, the 32nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the day before
the crash of United Airlines Flight 553 in Chicago on December 8th, also referred to as the 'Watergate' plane crash. This was some
"Aw Gee, That's Swell"/ "Hooray for the USA" news propaganda, that was spewed out all over the TV and Radio air waves the day before
the apparently pre-planned United 737 crash in Chicago next day.

Below are a couple of books on moon landing mythology and the media hyped manipulations of moon landings that never happened.
I posted some material that I pulled off the web at Part 3 Sub Part 3 of "1979" / 1979Posters.Com. There is plenty more on the web as well.

Fans of the re runs of the old 'I Love Lucy' show would call in by the thousands, if not tens of thousands or more, to complain to their local television stations about how broadcasts the Apollo 'Moon Landings' had pre-empted their regularly scheduled broadcast of the 1950's sit com. There were others such as myself who didn't care much for the 'Lucy' re-runs that knew since the first 'moon landing; back in July 1969
that these 'moon landings' were actually done on movie sets at some 'Top Secret', secured location like a military base in some remote location.

This was because I used to draw and paint a bit in those days and I could tell that the lighting on the moon sets was all wrong with conflicting shadows. Most obvious of all was the fact that there were no stars or planets in the background. It wasn't hard figure that it would have been a much more impossible task to create all the backdrops of the stars and planets in the background of the phony moon landing sets.

Click on the image link above to read about the about how I was covertly drugged and interrogated by Presidential Advisor Charles Colson's nephew and his anesthesiologists crew in late November and early December 1972, only days before the United 737 Flight 553 'Watergate' plane crash near Midway Airport on December 8th 1972, precisely 8 months to the day after the bombing of the TWA 707 jetliner at McCarron Airport Las Vegas on March 8th 1972. Colson was at odds with fellow Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt at the time and one the bodies pulled from the wreckage of Flight 553, was that of his wife Dorothy Hunt, a former CIA Station Chief who was apparently in Charles Colson's crosshairs at the time of her death.

By June of 1973 E. Howard Hunt told to the Senate Watergate Committee that Colson ordered him to break into the apartment of would be assassin Arthur Bremer in the hours after his failed attempt on Presidential Candidate George Wallace the year before on May 15th 1972.

Washington Post June 21st 1973 Page 1 --- Colson ordered Hunt to Burgle Bremer

The point I'm making here is that Presidential Advisor / Watergate Conspirator/ DIA agent Charles Colson was apparently 'hands on' when it came to covering up his connection to would be assassins like Bremer, or in my case, a then assassination 'Patsy' in waiting in November and December 1972. The difference being is that unlike Arthur Bremer I managed to turn the tables on 'the powers that be' who were setting me up in Portland in March 1979, and the collateral damage from all this in 1979 was horrendous to say the least.

Click on the link below to read about these events on the What Is "1979" page to this site.

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Pentagon Papers

The Pentagon Papers, officially titled United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The papers were released by Daniel Ellsberg who had worked on the study, and first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of The New York Times in 1971.[1][2] A 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress."[3]

More specifically, the papers revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scale of the Vietnam War with the bombings of nearbyCambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks, none of which were reported in the mainstream media.[4]

For his disclosure of the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg was initially charged with conspiracy, espionage, and theft of government property, but the charges were later dropped after prosecutors investigating the Watergate Scandal soon discovered that the staff members in the Nixon White House had ordered the so-called White House Plumbers to engage in unlawful efforts to discredit Ellsberg.[5]

A CIA map of dissident activities in Indochina published as part of thePentagon Papers In June 2011, the entirety of the Pentagon Papers was declassified and publicly released.[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers