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How 'Operation Avalanche' Tricked the Real NASA Into Being In Their Fake Moon Landing Documentary


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One of the riskiest movies of 2016 is one that basically started as a dare. It's called Operation Avalanche and it's a fake documentary about CIA agents who infiltrated NASA in the '60s to find a Russian spy and ended up right in the middle of a conspiracy to fake the moon landing. Operation Avalanche was such a risk because the Canadian filmmakers behind it tricked the real NASA into being a party to all of it. They told the organization they were making a documentary about the Apollo space program and asked if NASA would not only let them film in their real facilities, but if their employees would act as if it was still the 1960s. Amazingly NASA went along with it and only after the filming was complete did they learn of what the movie was really about. And...
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