ProfWag,
Here is a very good example of how secrets are kept through compartmentalization. Fast forward to 45 minutes and listen to Thomas Drake talk about how only a few knew of "Stellar Wind" and the rest of the NSA was out of the loop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04s1UU_gsd0That is how secrets are kept. And whistle-blowers are a very, very rare breed. Thomas Drake was one out of thirty thousand employees at NSA.
Now for Apollo our national identity was at stake. The level of embarrassment would have been much higher than this NSA infraction. Now, how many in the know will go there?
Now as Cliff Robertson had said in "Three Days of The Condor" - "How do you know they'll print it?"
So in essence, I am saying this:
"Papa Dragon, here. I want this mission high and tight. I want to be back home for dinner."