| Most Americans can't conceive that officials at the | | | | Cuban planes would be used to bomb the Dominican |
| highest levels of the U.S. Government would murder | | | | Republic. The U.S. plan called for using actual Soviet |
| thousands of its own citizens to advance an empirical | | | | bombs, and intercepting fake Cuban weapons |
| agenda. We should all, very carefully, think again... | | | | shipments, such that the frame-up of Cuba would be |
| In 1962, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously | | | | complete. |
| proposed state-sponsored acts of terrorism on | | | | - Blowing up buildings in Washington and Miami. Cuban |
| American soil, AGAINST American citizens. | | | | agents (undercover CIA agents) would be arrested, |
| The head of every branch of the U.S. armed forces | | | | and they would confess to the bombings. In addition, |
| gave written approval to sink U.S. ships, shoot down | | | | false documents proving Castro's involvement in the |
| hijacked American planes, and gun down and bomb | | | | attacks would be "found" and given to the press. |
| civilians on the streets of Washington, D.C., and Miami. | | | | - Blowing up a U.S. battleship in Cuban waters when |
| The idea was to blame the self-inflicted terrorism on | | | | Cuban planes and ships are in the area, so they can |
| Cuba's leader, Fidel Castro, so the American | | | | be blamed. A fake air/sea rescue operation was |
| public--and the international community--would beg and | | | | planned, as well as fake funerals and fake passenger |
| scream for the marines to storm Havana. Another | | | | lists published in the Main Stream Media to "cause a |
| benefit would be the wave of patriotism that would | | | | healthy wave of national indignation." The document |
| spur American teens to join the Army, do the fighting | | | | actually mentions how a similar incident--the sinking of |
| and dying, and return home with bloody stumps in | | | | the USS Maine--successfully started the Spanish |
| place of their limbs. But, put simply, starting a war with | | | | American War in 1898. |
| communist Cuba was the motivation for the | | | | - Attacking an American military base in Guantanamo |
| Pentagon's Northwoods plan. | | | | with CIA recruits posing as Cuban mercenaries. This |
| Operation Northwoods | | | | involved blowing up the ammunition depot, and would |
| The public learned about Operation Northwoods 35 | | | | obviously result in material damages and many dead |
| years later when the John F. Kennedy Assassination | | | | American troops. As a last resort, the plan even |
| Records Review Board declassified the Top Secret | | | | mentioned bribing one of Castro's commanders to |
| document. | | | | initiate the Guantanamo attack. |
| Among other things, Operation Northwoods proposed: | | | | That last item deserves repeating: the Pentagon |
| - Faking the crash of an American passenger plane. | | | | considered using our tax dollars to bribe another |
| The disaster was to be accomplished by faking a | | | | country's military to attack our own troops in order to |
| commercial flight from the U.S. to Jamaica, and having | | | | instigate a full-scale war. |
| the plane boarded at a public airport by CIA agents | | | | Operation Northwoods Rejected |
| disguised as college students going on vacation. An | | | | Operation Northwoods was only one of several plans |
| empty remote-controlled plane would follow the | | | | under the umbrella of Operation Mongoose. |
| commercial flight as it left Florida. The commercial | | | | Shortly after the Joint Chiefs signed and presented the |
| flight's pilots would radio for help, mention that they had | | | | plan in March 1962, President Kennedy, still smarting |
| been attacked by a Cuban fighter, then land in secret | | | | from the Bay of Pigs fiasco, declared that he would |
| at Eglin AFB. The empty remote-controlled plane | | | | never authorize a military invasion of Cuba. |
| would then be blown out of the sky and the public | | | | In September, Kennedy denied the Chairman of the |
| would be told all the poor college students aboard | | | | Joint Chiefs, General Lyman Lemnitzer, a second term |
| were killed. (Note: This was the favorite choice of the | | | | as the nation's highest-ranking military officer. And by |
| Joint Chiefs of Staff.) | | | | the winter of 1963, Kennedy was dead...killed, ironically, |
| - Using a possible NASA disaster--astronaut John | | | | by a Cuban sympathizer in the streets of an American |
| Glenn's death--as a pretext to launch the war. The | | | | city. |
| plan called for "manufacturing various pieces of | | | | Even more ironically, in 1975 President Ford appointed |
| evidence which would prove electronic interference on | | | | retired General Lyman Lemnitzer to the Commission |
| the part of the Cubans" if something went wrong with | | | | on CIA Activities to investigate whether the CIA had |
| NASA's third manned space launch. | | | | committed acts that violated American laws. |
| - To turn neighboring countries against Cuba, false | | | | |