Essentially everybody thinks the thing is real
While I should be asking whether you are bloody kidding me, I am going to ask you if you even have a shred of evidence for that ludicrous claim.
Also, how did NASA keep all those thousands involved in the project silent?
Essentially everybody thinks the thing is real Greedo, because for the most part, it is real. Apollo is about landing military equipment on the moon. Sure the equipment is unmanned, but apart from that, Apollo is indeed Apollo. Essentially all of those people working on the project buy in, as they should. They are really doing the job they believe themselves to be doing, from FIDO H. David Reed, to LM design wizzard, the late great aerospace engineer, Thomas Kelly, the man who designed the LM.
You can spot a few of the bad space apples at places I refer to as "phony decision points". Places where the Apollo narrative seems to reach a true point of "this way or that". Because it is script, it can only go "that way". It is not/was not, a true decision point as it turns out. So the person responsible for making the decision there is a bad space apple, in on the fraud.
The classic example of a bad space apple is Steve Bales, the guy that says "GO!" for the 1202 program alarm on the Apollo 11/Eagle lunar descent. As they are gonna' land no matter what, the whole thing being scripted, Bales and/or his superior/Jack Garman, they are in on the fix.
Emil Schiesser, the trajectory specialist and mathematician, he is in on it. I say that because he is privy to so much trajectiory fraud. Matter of fact, he probably created it. For that reason, I call him Shyster.
Apollo Program Director Samuel Phillips is in on this, the fraud. One can see such to be the case as he was the one who made the "phony decision" to continue with the apollo 8 mission when Frank Borman had the fake bout of diarrhea in space. As Phillips decision is not a real decision, we see he is a bad space apple and a fraud insider.
When Apollo 12 gets hit by phony lightening and Alan Bean has a spaz attack telling everyone this is out and that is out and so forth and so on, John Aaron, the environmental/electrical systems specialist, saves the day, knows exactly what to do. No abort necessary. So John Aaron is a bad space apple. He makes a decision that is not a real decision. He does the same thing by the way with phony Apollo 13.
So you are talking here about a handful of people Greedo, relatively speaking. Most everyone is duped, very sad I must say.
By the way Greedo, this is the essence of this type of fraud. This is how one makes it "work". High level people like Thomas Kelly, fully believing it is all real. "OF COURSE THE THING IS REAL", says Kelly, "I DESIGNED THE LM MYSELF!!!!!"