For sake of "logic skills" assessment - I'd like to get a definitive answer from all of you -- Can we be sure if Bean is talking about Apollo here? (and that Bean was truly unaware that A12 went through the Van Allen)
I thought you were OK with dropping this point? And yet here you are still labouring it.
If Sibrel is presenting anything, I'd be heavily disinclined to trust it. The man is a known liar and grifter. His ONLY interest is in making a name for himself and getting paid. He does not care about truth, as I have concluded from direct interaction with him.
And, once again, Bean (whom I have also had the pleasure of meeting) was the LMP for Apollo 12. None of his actual responsibilities required knowing a damn thing about the van Allen belt, since the time in it (bypassing the most intense regions anyway) was such a small part of the mission requiring no special measures, and it certainly wouldn't have counted as a memorable part of the mission when asked about it decades later. It is a straw man argument.