Operation Northwoods, or Northwoods, was a false-flag plan that originated within the United States government in 1962. The plan called for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other operatives to commit genuine acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and elsewhere. These acts of terrorism were to be blamed on Cuba in order to create public support for a war against that nation, which had recently become communist under Fidel Castro. One part of the Operation Northwoods plan was to "develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington."
Operation Northwoods is especially notable in that it included proposals for hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of phony evidence that would implicate a foreign government.
The plan stated:
"The desired resultant frhrgom the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere."
Several other proposals were included within the Operation Northwoods plan, including real or simulated actions against various U.S military and civilian targets.
Operation Northwoods was drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Northwoods was signed by Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer and sent to the Secretary of Defense.
Operation Northwoods was part of the U.S. government's Cuban Project anti-communist initiative. Operation Northwoods was never officially accepted and the proposals included in the plan were never executed.
Origins and public release
The main proposal was presented in a document entitled "Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba (TS)," a collection of draft memoranda written by the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) representative to the Caribbean Survey Group.[1] (The parenthetical "TS" in the title of the document is an initialism for "Top Secret.") The document was presented by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13 as a preliminary submission for planning purposes. The Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended that both the covert and overt aspects of any such operation be assigned to them.
The previously secret document was originally made public on November 18, 1997, by the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board,[2] a U.S. federal agency overseeing the release of government records related to John F. Kennedy's assassination.[Citation][Citation][Citation][Citation][Citation] A total 1521 pages of once-secret military records covering 1962 to 1964 were concomitantly declassified by said Review Board.
"Appendix to Enclosure A" and "Annex to Appendix to Enclosure A" of the Northwoods document were first published online by the National Security Archive on November 6, 1998 in a joint venture with CNN as part of CNN's 1998 Cold War television documentary series[Citation][Citation]—specifically, as a documentation supplement to "Episode 10: Cuba," which aired on November 29, 1998.[Citation][Citation] "Annex to Appendix to Enclosure A" is the section of the document which contains the proposals to stage terrorist attacks.
The Northwoods document was published online in a more complete form (i.e., including cover memoranda) by the National Security Archive on April 30, 2001.[Citation]
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Will the real Glen Beck please stand.
This guy's blaming Beck? I'd say Beck did the people of Texas a favor for exposing this loon.
Ambush LOL
He asked a freakin question and she couldn’t answer. In fact she couldn’t even answer when he asked “Tell me about yourself”.
I suspect that he is actually a RINO who will campaign vigorously for the Romney/Whitman ticket in 2012.
No, I am not joking.
He wants to sabotage Palin, and he wants to create a large audience of RINO moderates -- he is intentionally offending all the birfers and Birthers, he wants the conservatives marginalized and the RINO mods to rise ascendant.
He's NUTS.
Stark raving NUTS.
Northwoods sounds like a problem for the Area 51 followers to handle.
Sorry to burst the balloon, but Beck did Texas a big favor exposing Medina.
Its not Becks fault that Madina sounded like Rosie O’Donell when he asked her the simple question that she could have answered with a simple “NO”..
GLENN: Right. Here’s then let me be more frank and ask you the question: Do you believe the government was any way involved with the bringing down of the World Trade Centers on 9/11?
MEDINA: I don’t, I don’t have all of the evidence there, Glenn. So I don’t I’m not in a place, I have not been out publicly questioning that. I think some very good questions have been raised in that regard. There are some very good arguments, and I think the American people have not seen all of the evidence there. So I’ve not taken a position on that.
GLENN: I think the people of America might think that might be a yes.
MEDINA: Well
The Medina crybabies just keep the caterwauling a-comin’.
Operation Northwoods - good info, had not seen that before. It certainly has interesting parallels to how we got involved with Cuba to begin with, i.e. Remember the Maine, Hearst’s yellow journalism, etc.
I think that Beck falls into category 1 (which I do also). I think he believes that 9/11 truthers are loons because the evidence is so overwhelming that the attack was carried out by Al Quada fanatics bent on destroying us and had no government involvement whatsoever that to deny this basic truth is like denying that clouds are white.
It’s pretty sad when a talk show hosting asking a candidate a question which required a simple “Yes or No” response is considered an “ambush.”
If Medina can’t even handle questions like that, then regardless of whether she’s a whackjob Troofer or not, she still has no business being anywhere near the Governour’s mansion.
“Obvious ambush” my foot! Beck asked Medina the question in a way that was clearly designed for her to make a strong denial and put the matter to rest. It seemed clear to me that he considered the rumors to be false and wanted to give her a chance to clear the air. It was a batting practice, soft toss, for her to knock out of the park.
Instead, she chose to take the bat, and beat her campaign on the head repeatedly, and has continued to do so, with her idiotic comments suggesting the “truthers” have some good points.
The author states the following further down in the article ...
1. “I have reviewed the evidence and have not been convinced that the government was behind the attacks.”
2. “I have reviewed the evidence and am convinced that the government was behind the attacks.”
3. “I have not reviewed the evidence and, therefore, do not have an opinion on the subject.”
4. “I don’t care what the evidence is because it is inconceivable that the U.S. government would ever commit such a dastardly act, and anyone who doesn’t immediately denounce such a possibility is an unpatriotic whacko who hates America.”
From the interview with Medina it’s obvious which category Beck falls into: Number 4, the same category that Krauthammer falls into.”
He is missing an important fifth category ...
“Though I did not take the claims of “truthers” seriously from the outset, I have surveyed the ‘evidence’ enough to recognize its absurdity, and determined that it is inconcievable that the U.S. government committed THIS dastardly act. Thus, anyone that does not immediately denounce such a possilbility is entertaining anti-American propaganda, and giving aid and comfort to the real perpetrators of this act of war.”
I’d guess that Beck and Krauthammer, like me and most reasonable American patriots, actually fall into the 5th category ... not the 4th.
SnakeDoc
Medina is a nutcase. No opinion on Beck. He ain’t running for anything so I don’t care.
Hahahahahaha! Nice try. Medina enjoys the support of the Truthers and she got outted. Medina is just another politcal hack, and she showed it that day on the air.
I was supporting Perry anyway, but kinda liked what she had to say about things up to that point. I don’t doubt that gubermint would pull off a terror attack to promote an agenda, especially with the POSPOTUS we have now, BUT that wasn’t the case then, and as was said, why promote a war with Afghanistan, and I’d find it exceptionally hard to believe that an attack of that magnitude would be planned by anyone in our government. I certainly wouldn’t put it past Zero to want to do something like that, since he is a muzzie himself, but he’d had a big problem with it because the number of people involved in an operation like that. Someone wouldn’t be able to keep their piehole shut, and that is another reason to discount any govt. involvement.
Ambush, oh please... it was a legitimate question and she repeated the same line (actually making it worse) in a couple more interviews that week. There are reports from people who attended church with her that not only does she say this crap all the time, but she sends out truther emails often (some of these may be coming out in the next week or so before the primary).
Northwoods is just another of many thousands of similar plans, called Military Operations Plans. The military takes just about any hypothetical situation and develops a MOP for it. We have MOPs for the invasions of England, Mexico, Canada, our own states, etc..you name it. If a situation can be conceived, there’s likely a MOP to address it. It would be criminal to not plan, and think, and ask “what if” and work out contingencies. Just because we have these MOPs doesn’t mean that they would ever be used.
The media likes to “discover” these plans and use them as proof that our military is out of control. Or in this case, that our government can’t be trusted. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Regarding Medina, I was dismayed that she couldn’t give a straight answer to the Truther question - a legitimate question. Beck gave her plenty of opportunity to disavow the truthers but she wouldn’t do it. Only later after she realised the mistake did she issue a statement. I went onto her Facebook page and posted that I liked some of her positions, but that she really messed up with the truther issue. This brought the real Medina-supporting truthers out of the closet, one even sent me a link to a truther website and suggested that I become “educated”, and others ask “whats wrong with being a truther?”. So, even if she’s not a truther, she’s surrounded by them.
Beck was right: “fastest way back to 4%”.