Professor Jiang presents a lecture to his Beijing high school students examining three major American events, the 1969 moon landing, the 1963 JFK assassination, and the 911 attacks, arguing that the official stories are suspicious and that secret societies, particularly the Freemasons, may be behind coordinated conspiracies designed to control humanity’s perception of reality.
He frames the entire lecture around the idea that these events function as ritual spectacles, carefully choreographed to be remembered forever, and that the conspirators actually want people to discuss and debate them through a concept he calls “revelation of the method.”
The lecture blends genuine historical facts, widely circulated conspiracy theories, and speculative interpretations, while also presenting counterarguments for why the official stories might be true, ultimately leaving students to decide for themselves.
The Moon Landing (1969)
The official story is that NASA’s Apollo 11 mission successfully landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon on July 20, 1969, with 400,000 people involved in the effort, and that the event was broadcast live, including a phone call between President Nixon and the astronauts.
Professor Jiang highlights what he considers suspicious elements: the astronauts appeared nervous and evasive at their post-mission press conference, Armstrong claimed he couldn’t remember seeing any stars, the footage looks strange to him, and the return from the Moon appeared too easy with no visible resistance.
He notes that NASA claims to have lost all the original technology, footage, and data from the mission, which he finds implausible, and that today even major nations like the US and China are struggling to return to the Moon.
He raises the Van Allen radiation belt as a scientific objection, arguing that the intense radiation in and beyond these belts should have killed the astronauts, making the journey impossible with 1960s technology.
Several key NASA figures were Freemasons, including Buzz Aldrin, John Glenn (33rd degree), James Webb, and Administrator Kenneth K., and the program was led in part by Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi scientist brought to America after World War II.
He references a claim by von Braun’s colleague Carol Rosen that von Braun revealed on his deathbed that the US government planned to manufacture successive threats, Russians, terrorists, rogue nations, asteroids, and finally a fake alien invasion, to justify continued spending on space weapons.
The JFK Assassination (1963)
The official story is that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, as determined by the Warren Commission, a massive report commissioned by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Professor Jiang points out that the motorcade security arrangement was strange, with bodyguards positioned behind and beside the president rather than in front of him, and that the open car made JFK vulnerable to shooters from many angles.
He notes that many witnesses believed there were additional shooters and that nearly 30 of these witnesses died or were killed under mysterious circumstances shortly after the assassination.
The location, Dealey Plaza, was the site of the first large Freemason temple in Texas, and its shape resembles a menorah, a holy candle in the Judaic tradition, suggesting to him a ritual sacrifice.
The “magic bullet” theory holds that a single bullet struck both JFK and Governor Connely, which he finds implausible.
Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby at point-blank range while in police custody, and Jiang finds it suspicious that Ruby was able to get so close, that the police officers present froze rather than reacting to the threat, and that Oswald himself appeared scared and confused rather than evasive.
JFK’s brother Robert F. Kennedy was also assassinated in 1968 while running for president, and his killer Sirhan Sirhan, like Oswald, does not fit the profile of a typical assassin and maintains his innocence.
The 9/11 Attacks (2001)
The official story is that 19 hijackers, acting alone with no government help, carried out the attacks on September 11, 2001, by hijacking planes and crashing them into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.
Professor Jiang finds it suspicious that the buildings collapsed straight down in a manner resembling controlled demolition, and that a third building, World Trade Center Building 7, collapsed despite never being hit by a plane.
He notes that the debris from the Twin Towers was shipped to China within a month, before a proper investigation could be conducted, and that jet fuel fires had never before or since caused a steel-framed skyscraper to collapse, a phenomenon explained by the “pancake theory.”
Despite the intensity of the explosions, no bodies or luggage were recovered, but the passports and boarding passes of the hijackers were found intact in the wreckage, which he considers implausibly lucky.
President George W. Bush remained in a classroom being read to by children for an extended period after being informed of the attacks, and appeared unconcerned when told America was under attack, which Jiang finds strange for a sitting president during a crisis.
He references Operation Northwoods, a 1962 government document proposing that the US hijack civilian aircraft and blame Cuba to justify war, and a Fox television show called “The Lone Gunman” that aired six months before 9/11 depicting a government plot to remote-control a plane into the World Trade Center to justify Middle Eastern wars.
Larry Silverstein purchased the lease to the World Trade Center six weeks before 9/11, a seemingly foolish investment given the costly asbestos removal required, but he was the luckiest man in the world because he survived due to a dermatology appointment and later collected $4.55 billion in insurance by arguing that two separate attacks entitled him to double the payout.
Numerology and the Significance of 33
Professor Jiang argues that numerology plays a central role in these events, with the number 33 being especially significant to secret societies.
JFK was killed on November 22, 1963 (11 + 22 = 33), the moon landing was in 1969, and 9/11 needs no explanation, and he notes that 1, 3, 6, and 9 are triangular numbers.
The number 33 appears in many religious and historical contexts: Jesus died at 33, the word Elohim appears 33 times in Genesis, King David reigned for 33 years, Hinduism has 33 deities, and the human spine has 33 bones.
Two triangles form the Star of David, the flag of Israel, reinforcing the mystical significance of 33.
The 33rd parallel north passes through many historically significant locations: Mesopotamia (the cradle of civilization), Baghdad, Damascus, Jerusalem, the Trinity test site in New Mexico, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two cities where atomic bombs were dropped.
Famous athletes who wore number 33, including Scottie Pippen, Shaquille O’Neal, Larry Bird, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, are identified as Freemasons.
President Harry Truman, the 33rd president of the United States and a 33rd-degree Freemason, ordered the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan, which Jiang argues was unnecessary since Japan was already being firebombed into submission.
Why Believe the Government? Counterarguments
Professor Jiang presents several reasons why one might accept the official stories, treating them as the skeptical counterpoint before explaining why he thinks the conspiracy interpretation is still valid.
The government would never lie to us, and it is too incompetent to carry out and maintain such elaborate conspiracies.
If the government were truly capable of these conspiracies, it would also be capable of covering them up completely, yet there is abundant evidence and footage available online, which suggests the government has nothing to hide.
With 400,000 people involved in the Apollo program, it would be nearly impossible to keep everyone quiet, yet no one has come forward to confess.
If the government wanted to kill JFK, it could have done so privately with poison rather than creating a public spectacle.
The government allows open discussion of these conspiracy theories online, which it would not do if it were truly guilty.
Revelation of the Method
Professor Jiang introduces the concept of “revelation of the method,” the idea that those who commit evil must reveal that they are doing so, and he gives three reasons why conspirators would want their actions to be publicly discussed.
Learned helplessness: When people become angry about conspiracies and then realize they can do nothing about them, they become more obedient and passive, which serves the interests of those in power.
Karmic responsibility: The people in power are superstitious and believe they will be judged by God after death, so by ensuring everyone knows what they did and no one stopped them, they spread the guilt and karma to all of society, making everyone complicit.
Attention capture: These events are designed to be unforgettable, so that everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing, which gives the conspirators power by controlling how people perceive reality, similar to how companies use branding to stay top of mind with consumers.
Secret Societies and Their Structure
Professor Jiang explains how secret societies like the Freemasons maintain secrecy and wield power within bureaucratic systems.
Secret societies are compartmentalized, meaning members only learn what they need to know at their current level, similar to how each level of education teaches that everything learned before was wrong.
In Scottish Rite Freemasonry, there are 33 degrees, and at the lowest levels members are taught to be good people and do charity, while at higher levels they are taught they can do God’s work, then that they don’t need God, and finally that they can become God by killing God.
Secrecy is maintained through three mechanisms: incentives (the higher you climb, the more power and privilege you have and the more invested you become in the lie), blackmail (members must reveal their secrets and commit crimes together, making betrayal impossible), and confirmation bias (people want to believe the government tells the truth).
Secret societies wield power by embedding members throughout the bureaucracy, where siloed departments cannot coordinate but the society’s members can, allowing them to control the entire system from within regardless of who holds the top positions.
There are thousands of secret societies, including the Freemasons, Jesuits, Mormons, and Frankus, and at this stage of development they collaborate with each other to achieve their shared vision, though they will eventually fight each other once a world government is established.
The Grand Plan
Professor Jiang outlines what he describes as the ultimate goal of these secret societies: to replace God by demonstrating the three powers that belong to God.
Change matter: Achieved through the nuclear bomb, first tested at the Trinity site at 33 degrees north and then dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also at 33 degrees north.
Kill other gods: Achieved by assassinating JFK, who is described as a prince or king figure.
Create life: The final step, which he says means creating artificial intelligence.
Once all three powers are demonstrated, the societies can declare themselves God, bring heaven to earth, and establish a world government with Jerusalem as its capital.
The plan involves destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the third holiest site in Islam, and rebuilding the Temple of Solomon (the Third Temple), which would trigger World War III when Muslims invade Israel in response.
The Atomic Bomb Decision
Professor Jiang revisits the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, arguing it was unnecessary and driven by the secret societies’ desire to demonstrate the power to change matter.
By 1945, America was already firebombing Japan into submission, with Tokyo’s wooden houses burning easily, making a land invasion unnecessary.
The argument that the bomb was dropped to scare the Soviet Union backfired because it only motivated the Soviets to develop their own bomb.
He connects this to the 33-degree mythology, noting that President Truman was both the 33rd president and a 33rd-degree Freemason, and that the bomb was dropped on cities at the 33rd parallel north.
Five Possibilities for the Moon Landing
Professor Jiang presents five possible explanations for the moon landing, leaving it to students to decide which to believe.
It was real footage, and we should simply believe the government, even though they claim to have lost all the original data and technology.
America went to the moon but the astronauts discovered secrets, such as space aliens, so NASA created fake footage to conceal what they found.
America went to the moon but couldn’t capture real footage due to lighting and filming difficulties, so they created fake footage to please the American public.
America went to the moon but faked the footage to prevent the Soviets from reverse-engineering the technology.
America never went to the moon at all.
Game Theory Analysis
Professor Jiang applies game theory to argue that America could not afford for the moon landing to fail, making a faked success the rational choice.
The Apollo program cost $26 billion (roughly $20 billion today), about 4% of all US government spending at the time, and NASA needed to produce a result.
By 1969, America was falling apart due to the Vietnam War (with tens of thousands of American deaths and massive protests), losing the space race to the Soviets (who had achieved every major space first), and the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King.
If the mission had failed or the astronauts had died, America would have been psychologically broken, so the rational choice was to fake success rather than risk failure.
The counterargument he acknowledges is why the Soviets, America’s rivals, never publicly accused the US of faking the landing, a question he says he cannot answer.
He predicts that the truth will emerge within the next two years and that the purpose of the class is not to tell students what happened but to give them tools to figure it out themselves.
