Did they do their darnedest to pick only people who are true believers? No doubt. Is that a property that’s perfectly ascertainable and immutable? Absolutely not.
The number of people increases the difficulty of hiding a conspiracy, but so does the time scale. I suspect we’ll know a lot more than we do now in 20 years about this, for whatever that’s worth.
1,000 people is a lot to involve in the coverup.
The more people involved the more likely it is that someone spills the details.
Well you only have to disappear the ones that find something
I’m betting they are all vetted cult members and will not turn on dear leader.
Did they do their darnedest to pick only people who are true believers? No doubt. Is that a property that’s perfectly ascertainable and immutable? Absolutely not.
The number of people increases the difficulty of hiding a conspiracy, but so does the time scale. I suspect we’ll know a lot more than we do now in 20 years about this, for whatever that’s worth.