PS. Yes, I think it's fairly easy to suppose something seemingly 'incredible' to be the truth.
As I posted up-thread, Government's do some incredibly dumb things and blatently lie in even more worrying ways - such as for example copying someone else's homework, failing to credit it, tippexing it to sound more war-sexy, pretending that it's 'military intelligence', and then using that bunch of crock to support the invasion of another country. You'd never credit it, but there you go..