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14. he experienced “an intuitive feeling”: Fox Television broadcast, “Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?” February 15, 2001.
15. the Today show: A transcript of Kaysing’s interview with Katie Couric, cohost of the Today show, which aired on NBC, August 8, 2001, can be read online at Global Security.
16. canceled the book: Dr. David Whitehouse, “NASA Pulls Moon Hoax Book,” BBC News, November 8, 2002.
17. CIA admitted it had been running mind-control programs: Marks, The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate,” 211. During the 1977 Senate hearings, CIA director Stansfield Turner summed up some of MKULTRA’s eleven-year legacy: “The program contracted out work to 80 institutions, which included 44 colleges of universities, 15 research facilities or private companies, 12 hospitals or clinics, and 3 penal institutions.”
18. 58,193 Americans were killed trying: The National Archives, Statistical information about casualties of the Vietnam War, ARC ID: 306742.
19. Great Moon Hoax: Goodman, The Sun and the Moon, 12.
20. Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon: This section is based on my interview with Buzz Aldrin, and also from chapter 20 in his book Magnificent Desolation, which addresses the event and is called “A Blow Heard Around the World,” 332–46 (galley copy).
21. 25 percent of the people interviewed: Brandon Griggs, “Could Moon Landings Have Been Faked? Some Still Think So,” CNN, July 17, 2009. Griggs noted that a “Google search this week for ‘Apollo moon landing hoax’ yielded more than 1.5 billion results.”
22. involve captured aliens and UFOs: AboveTopSecret.com.
23. “The tunnels were dug by a nuclear-powered drill”: Interview with Michael Schratt.
24. N-tunnels, P-tunnels, and T-tunnels: U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions.
25. “deactivated,” according to the Department of Energy: Michael R. Williams, “Ground Test Facility for Propulsion and Power Modes of Nuclear Engine Operation,” 4.
26. the revelation of the Greenbrier bunker: Ted Gup, “The Ultimate Congressional Hideaway,” Washington Post, May 31, 1992.
27. “Secrecy, denying knowledge of the existence”: KCET American Experience, “Race for the Superbomb,” interview with Paul Fritz Bugas, former on-site superintendent, the Greenbrier bunker.
28. on average, twelve months: U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions, 18.
29. at least sixty-seven nuclear bombs: U.S. Department of Energy, United States Nuclear Tests, July 1945 through September 1992, 15.
30. Piledriver experiments studied survivability: Cherry and Rabb, “Piledriver Drilling,” UCRL-ID-126150, August 9, 1967.
31. “to destroy enemy targets [such as] missile silos”: Operation Hardtack II, Defense Nuclear Agency, 3 December 1982; interview with DOE officials during my tour of the Nevada Test Site, October 7, 2009.
32. guarding many of the nuclear bombs: Interview with Richard Mingus.
33. After the test ban, the Pentagon reversed its policy: U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions, 21.
34. has changed its name four times: See NNSA Timeline, http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/aboutus/ourhistory/timeline. Notably, there is another agency that has changed its name four times, the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP), which, like the Atomic Energy Commission, also began as the Manhattan Project. On May 6, 1959, it changed its name to the Defense Atomic Support Agency (DASA); on July 1, 1971, it changed its name to the Defense Nuclear Agency; on June 26, 1996,