I assume you can think of at least a few somewhat justifiable reasons that he might respond in those ways.
Many folks of such experiences . . . flight hours, lofty positions etc. have gone literally to their graves without a single word outside of the scripted ones.
Yet, other cohorts of theirs have verified that they knew an enormous amount of data quite contradictory to said scripted party line.
Cheers.
not in his case. I am a very good judge of character.