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There is more to it than that when I look at this. 1969 was a year more about national pomp than capabilities and when suspicion was no object to anyone. In hindsight, the cold war plays out like a really bad argument between two entities, and the circumstances take so many twists and turns, with money and politics being all over the place because that was the big hurdle, even more than anyone's abilities. For something so important, NASA didn't even bother to preserve the original tapes.

I internally rationalize the argument the same way I internalize how to go about any conflict I have been involved in, which leads me to, at best, take an agnostic approach on whether it happened. I also think to myself "wait, so French Polynesia was being blasted into smithereens, civil rights was still in its infancy, and there were several crises going on in the world at that moment, yet it's the moon landings funded by the citizens that got people going", so all in all, I just consider the incentive low.