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The collusion of the governments of the USSR and the USA In the USSR, radio surveillance of signals from Apollo ships after the Apollo 12 mission was discontinued. "Tracking was conducted on the Apollo-8, Apollo-10, Apollo-11 and Apollo-12 spaceships from December 1968 to November 1969. With all these ships, telephone calls were received with good quality astronauts with the Earth and telemetric information on the state of the onboard systems."
Presumably, by the end of 1969, just after the A-12 mission, the USSR government already knew about the falsification of the United States, but there was no disclosure - there was a political collusion between the governments of the two countries. This is indirectly indicated by the beginning of active interaction of countries in the space field. On NASA's persistent initiative, work began on conducting joint manned flights.
In the report of the leading researcher V.A. Chaly-Prilutsky we read:
“Since January 1970, active correspondence began between the director of NASA, Dr. Thomas O. Pein, and the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician M. Keldysh Meetings were conducted under the patronage of the Academy of Sciences, although they were mainly attended by specialists from "space" enterprises and organizations. Dr. Payne, in letters to Academician Keldysh, offered to conduct a joint space flight with the docking of American and Soviet spacecraft aratov. This correspondence was a success. (Note. It is clear that the decision by the USSR was taken at the highest level — in the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, in the Council of Ministers, in the military-industrial complex) .... 26-27.10.70 Moscow hosted the first meeting of the Soviet and American specialists in the space field ... "
Then the joint work began, which ended with the historic docking of the Soyuz and Apollo ships. The USSR and the USA accompanied the following events to the "rapprochement and docking": the cancellation of the last two lunar expeditions (previously scheduled Apollo 18, -19) and the departure of the director of NASA doctor Payne from his post (09/15/19).
The USSR government agreed to the following reasons:
1. The USSR did not immediately recognize the scam and received irrefutable evidence of falsification only after the Apollo 12 mission (late 1969)
2. The leadership of the USSR saw in its refusal to expose the American fraud obtaining a strong trump (compromising material) for permanent political pressure on the United States.
3. Under the terms of the USSR agreement, in exchange for its silence, it received important concessions and privileges for the country's economic survival, such as entering the Western European oil and gas market.
4. The US had a political compromise on the leadership of the USSR, accumulated over a period starting from the Caribbean crisis.
Until 1970, the United States pursued a strict policy of blocking oil supplies from the USSR to the West: severe pressure was put on European countries if they tried to cooperate with the Soviets. But from the 70th year of the USSR began its deliveries, long before the energy crisis of 73 years:
"The Soviet Union began to export oil in the 60s, first to the CMEA countries, that is, the countries of socialism - Eastern Europe, Vietnam, Mongolia, Cuba. This export was economically unprofitable to the Soviet Union, because in exchange for supplies of cheap oil, the USSR bought industrial products at inflated prices.
From the 1970s, the USSR began to export oil to Western countries, to Western Europe, primarily Germany and Italy, which were the first to start purchasing. "