Gerhard Wisnewski - One Small Step?: The Great Moon Hoax and the Race to Dominate Earth from Space

GERHARD WISNEWSKI was born in 1959. He studied political science, and since 1986 has worked as an author and documentary filmmaker. His bestselling (German) books include Das RAF-Phantom (The RAF Phantom), Operation 9/11 (Operation 9/11), Mythos 9/11 (9/11 - a myth) and Verschluss-Sache Terror (The secret files of terror). The film Das Phantom , based on the book Das RAF-Phantom , was awarded the Grimm Prize in 2000.

ONE SMALL STEP?

THE GREAT MOON HOAX AND THE RACE
TO DOMINATE EARTH FROM SPACE

GERHARD WISNEWSKI

Translated by J. Collis

Clairview Books
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Published by Clairview 2012

Originally published in German under the title Lgen im Weltraum, Von der Mondlandung zur Weltherrschaft by Knaur Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich, in 2005

Translated by Johanna Collis

Knaur Taschenbuch 2005
This translation Clairview Books 2007

Gerhard Wisnewski asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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ISBN 978 1 905570 59 1

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My flight on 12 April 1961 was the first manned space flight in history.

Yuri Gagarin

Thats one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong

Have the courage to make use of your own intelligence.

Immanuel Kant

Contents

Preface

Washington, December 2004. There is uproar in the corridors of the Capitol, almost as though airliners from Osama bin Laden were once more hovering above the heads of the senators. There is no doubt that the security of the nation is under threat again. But the threat this time is not from Osama bin Laden or some other Islamists gone wild but from the Government itself and the circles that support it. What it wants to do is put a highly secret satellite system into space at a cost so high that even some of the senators are getting cold feet. The sum that has so far leaked out is: 9.5 billion dollars a huge amount for a single project. Experts suspect that the satellites in question are to be armed, commented Der Spiegel .

The uproar surrounding these most recent secret machinations of the United States in space highlights what has been going on above our heads throughout the course of 45 years of civilian space exploration. After over 40 years of manned and unmanned space aviation no one quite knows what the USA is really up to out there in space not even its own congress is allowed to speak publicly about it. This was not the plan when the world first began to hold its breath over the adventures of civilian astronauts or was it? Was everything even then geared to dominating the world from space?

This is only one of the questions I intend to explore in my present book. First one asks: Is the history of space travel as it is being told to us actually true? And if not, what exactly is hidden behind it? In this respect the events of 11 September 2001 provided me with a key experience. When researching my books Operation 9/11 (Operation 9/11) and Mythos 9/11 (9/11 a myth) I came across numerous inconsistencies, and I was not the only individual whose outlook concerning the American past began to change. More and more people were asking themselves what else they ought to know about the other stories the USA had been telling the world about itself. Many of them have since been exposed as humbug, for example the tale about the sinking of the battleship Maine in 1898, the supposedly surprise attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor in 1941, or the official version of the August 1964 Tonkin Incident. All these events served as excuses for entering into a war and all resulted in huge national efforts. But none of them had followed courses as described by the USA.

The more closely you scrutinize American history, the more impenetrable does the thicket of contradictions, half-truths, distortions and lies become. These false representations are also the reason why there is so much scepticism worldwide regarding many of the US Governments claims: One of the reasons for these conspiracy theories is that the US Government lies so much, said the American secret service expert and best-selling author James Bamford to my colleague Willy Brunner and me in 2003 while we were working on a film in the USA: I mean, the US Government is always lying, lies about so many different things. Lies about whether there are nuclear weapons in Iraq for example, sends phoney documents to the UN, just recently. It lied all about Vietnam, it lied about Watergate, lied about a lot of things. So obviously there is gonna be a lot of suspicion about whether the US Government is telling the truth. It is tempting to embrace the idea that the might of the United States of America derives not from its military machine, its atom bombs or its financial and commercial strength but from its lies.

The greatest success story told to the world by the USA since the end of World War II, however, is the epic tale about the landing on the moon. It tells of two dozen American heroes setting out once upon a time to conquer the moon on behalf of all mankind. The moon landing brought the USA an overwhelming political, publicity and propaganda victory over its then enemy, the Soviet Union. And not only over the Soviet Union. With this achievement the USA showed everyone, once and for all, who had the final say the world over. The landing on the moon brought the USA a prestige advantage which it enjoys to this day. So at least in this matter, was everything as it appeared to be?

For some time now numerous suspicions have been making the rounds, suspicions that hint at facts and reasons why all is not in order. This is for me the reason why now, after writing Mythos 9/11 , I want to follow up this huge American saga: What is the moon landing all about? What really lies hidden behind civilian space aviation? Is it really aimed at conquering space or actually perhaps at conquering the earth? I hope to have come closer to presenting answers to all these questions by the end of this book.

Gerhard Wisnewski

Munich, May 2007

Introduction

Lies travel long distances

It is 21 July 1969 at around 0340 hrs Central European Time. On a distant heavenly body a window opens in a strange spindly-legged vehicle. Like an odd-looking beetle a human being slides out on his stomach; in his clumsy spacesuit he somewhat resembles the famous Michelin Man. Hand over hand he slowly descends the ladder till he ends up standing on one of the large landing feet of the vehicle. Hopping down off this he says: Thats one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Here was sensationalism at its most accomplished the Americans the first to land on the moon having beaten the Soviets to it. That Neil Armstrong/Buzz Aldrin team was followed by five more. All six conducted scientific experiments there, brought back with them a total of 382 kg of moon rocks and then lived happily ever after, if not on the moon then on the earth. And if they are not dead, then ... But did this really happen? Did twelve American heroes really land on the moon before returning safely to earth, as President Kennedy had decreed in 1961? Or was it all nothing more than a strategic lie as an increasing number of sceptics maintain? A lie intended to establish ideological and political dominion over the globe once and for all?