Don't Mess With Earth
you?”
    “Of course you have more resources
than us, but, if I were to mention that to my leaders, I would be
either sent to Siberia or given a bullet to the head. As for the
alien spacecraft we shot down, our space program has had more
failures as a result of trying to incorporate mostly damaged
technology from that craft. I fear the Soviet Unions’ efforts to
put men on the moon will end in absolute failure, and I will get my
reward in the end. How do you propose that I tell my leaders that a
moon mission is out of the question?”
    “It’s simple, really. Tell them the
cost of going to the moon will be more than it costs to keep your
military running, and if they want to be defenseless against the
United States, then go right on ahead and build spacecraft for moon
missions. Besides, we have the means to make anything your space
program tries to do, end in absolute failure, thanks to the alien
we still have alive and his technology.” boasted McNamara.
    “I suppose that will work. Does the
esteemed Secretary of Defense also think the Soviets ought to just
give up our space program too or can we continue going into orbit?”
asked Kerimov, rather sarcastically.
    “You can continue to go into space,
but, I warn you, if your government decides to go ahead and try to
send people to the moon, it will end in failure. Are we clear, Mr.
Kerimov?”
    “Oh, very clear, Mr. McNamara.”
    “Good. Then, I bid you good day.”
McNamara got up and walked out of the room, while Kerimov stayed
where he was for a few minutes trying to do decide what to do
next.
    Kerimov’s boss was making a
show out of being angry about the Americans and their spy planes
over Cuba, the missiles, and everything in general having to do
with the United States to the General Assembly of the United
Nations. Pounding one of his shoes on the desk he was sitting
behind and just being a bombastic annoyance. Once Khrushchev was
through with his ranting and raving, he appeared to be laughing
about it, so Kerimov waited until the session was through before he
went to talk to Khrushchev. “Sir, would you like to hear about what
it may cost to conduct moon missions, or would you rather hear it
later?”
    “Go ahead and tell me, Kerim,
because the look on your face tells me it’s not good news,”
    “Well, sir, I’m afraid that one
manned mission to the moon will cost as much as our yearly budget
for the military. I don’t think I need to remind you, sir, that
some on the Central Committee don’t think we spend enough on the
military as it is. You push this with them and they’ll certainly
replace you, sir.”
    “ You’re right about that,
Kerim. This little adventure we had in dealing with the Americans
and the Cubans is costing me with my backers in the Committee. I’m
supposed to shape up, and go back to the ideals of Lenin and
Stalin; you know, the two murderers who killed more Russians than
the Germans in two wars ever did. Remember, I didn’t say that, KGB
could be listening, you know. Let’s go home and see what more
trouble I can find myself in.”
    The world was later caught
off guard on November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was
assassinated in Dallas, Texas going through Dealey Plaza.
Officially, Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of killing the President,
which made it even more plausible when Jack Ruby shot Oswald in
front of the Dallas Police. Certain members of the CIA and FBI, who
worked for Area 51, knew better. With alien-human hybrid
technology, they investigated the grassy knoll, the Dallas Book
Depository where Oswald had shot at the President, Dealey Plaza,
and the entire route the President took through Dallas, which had
been diverted to Dealey Plaza, and found DNA markers on one weapon
they found near the grassy knoll matching Vice President Lyndon
Johnson.
    Johnson himself was waiting
on Air Force One so that he could be sworn in as the new President
of the United States, so someone else would have done the dirty
work

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