You mean like talking about super-secret black programs that went amuck and shot down a civilian airliner? Those kind of national security secrets?
OK, so a multitude of witnesses including a couple of pilots testify they saw missiles rising from the ocean.
Airliner goes down.
BS story about exploding fuel tanks is met with derision by lots of aerospace engineers.
Do you really think the Russkies and Chicoms did not get this immediately?
My primary point was that the coverup fooled a lot of American voters but not our enemies.