Operation Northwoods: The History of the Controversial Government Plan to Stage False Flag Attacks on Americans and Blame Cuba

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First coming to light in the year 2000 through a Freedom of Information Act request, key excerpts from the Operation Northwoods documents are provided below these links. Consider also that in September 2000, a think-tank named Project for the New American Century (PNAC) published a blueprint for maintaining global U. A declassified document could help clear up some urban legends at one of Mexico's most bizarre tourist traps. When over Cuba the drone will be transmitting on the international distress frequency a "MAY DAY" message stating he is under attack by Cuban MIG aircraft.

M. The explosion created a mushroom cloud that stretched 40,000 feet (12,200 m), and the bomb's explosive power was equivalent to more than 15,000 tons of TNT. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have considered the attached Memorandum for the Chief of Operations, Cuba Project, which responds to a request of that office for brief but precise description of pretexts which could provide justification for US military intervention in Cuba.It is possible to create an incident which will demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered civil airliner enroute from the United States. In 1998, the National Security Archive (NSA) — a non-governmental organization that publishes information made available through the Freedom of Information Act — posted declassified documents related to Operation Northwoods. Mason tells these proliferating stories through a patchwork of different texts – a book of “Apple Lore”, calendars, ballads, footnotes, letters, case notes, an Address to an Historical Society.

This suggests the infeasibility of the use of military units for any aspect of the contrived situation. First published online by the National Security Archive on 6 November 1998, as part of CNN's Cold War documentary series. C., sinking a boat of Cuban refugees (“real or simulated”), plotting public attacks on Cuban refugees, exploding bombs, and planting evidence that suggested that Cuba was plotting an attack in South America. The article clearly leads readers to the conclusion that Cuba would be blamed only in the event of an unforeseen accident, whereas the actual plan was that the US would destroy the shuttle (killing the astronauts inside), then blame Cuba.

The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U. A Canadian transplant, Denise has a bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto, and a master's degree in journalism from New York University.

In July 2016, the National Security Archive posted declassified documents, films and photographs that show U. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. are based on the premise that US military intervention will result from a period of heightened US-Cuban tensions which place the United States in the position of suffering justifiable grievances. The Joint Chiefs recommended that both the covert and overt aspects of any such operation be assigned to them. military leaders began to perceive Kennedy as going soft on Cuba, and the President became increasingly unpopular with the military.

The idea actually originated with US President Eisenhower, who said that if Cuba failed to provide an excuse for attack, perhaps the US “could think of manufacturing something that would be generally acceptable”, his suggestions involving bombings, attacks of sabotage and other acts. The Records of the Assassination Records Review Board," National Archives and Records Administration. Several other proposals were included within Operation Northwoods, including real or simulated actions against various U. American novelist and doctor Daniel Mason is already well known for his wonderfully atmospheric historical novels The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.

In some countries, "preparing" for Soviet invasion included espionage and the hoarding of ammunitions. These texts are also interspersed with images of paintings, photographs and fragments of musical scores. In July 2013, declassified documents from the CIA acknowledged the existence of Area 51 for the first time, and confirmed that the top-secret site was used to test a variety of spy planes, including the well-known U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.During the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, developed a classified plan for keeping Europe "safe" in the event of a Soviet invasion. Nicknamed Acoustic Kitty, the program involved implanting electronic spying equipment into live cats and then training them to "eavesdrop" on unsuspecting Cold War rivals. A rift had already developed during Kennedy's disagreements with the service chiefs over the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 and flared up again with his June 10, 1963 announcement of a unilateral U. In this seminal book on American foreign policy, Brzezinski states that because of popular resistance to U.