The concept that people 'believe' the USSR would not have considered that a satellite might give off a false positive seems the most important piece thing to le

The concept that people 'believe' the USSR would not have considered that a satellite might give off a false positive seems the most important piece thing to learn here. It sounds like a well trained person, who was good at their job, did their job well. Had they not of, which we all know happens, it would have been caught up the chain. It seems like people are more surprised that a Soviet officer was an intelligent, controlled human being and I think this says more about us than anything else.