Hoagland was quoting the astronauts from their own writings.
Layered on top of that were Hoagland’s speculations that the powers that be had done a number on at least Mitchell to prevent him from remembering certain things about the moon experiences. He cited as evidence Mitchell’s own writings attesting to Mitchell’s going into therapy to try and dredge such up with hypnotic regression to no avail.
When the therapist got to those memories in hypnosis, Mitchell reportedly told the therapist that they didn’t need to delve into that and dismissed it and as a consequence, all such remained sealed away from his consciousness.
Yes, I believe officials CAN do such with minds.
The technologies and CONTROL stuff really has become frightful for anyone not safe in the Blood of Jesus.
Do a google on a drug called ‘versed’ ... it’s used to erase short-term memory in surgery, child delivery, but it has some interesting effects.