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The previously secret document was originally made public on November 18, 1997, by the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board,[2] a U.S. federal agency overseeing the release of government records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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I took a course in National Security law in law school, and read a case of a man charged with hijacking an airliner to Cuba. Honestly, it was pretty much the coolest case I read in law school (unfortunately, I’d have to look up the name of the case, so I can’t give you a citation at the moment ... but it might as well have been the U.S. vs. Jack Bauer — it was that cool).
Guy hijacked a commercial airliner and forced it to land in Cuba to drop him off. Nobody was killed or hurt. 20-years-later, the same guy was nailed in Virginia on a traffic stop (I think), and picked up on the hijacking warrant. The government brought charges against the hijacker.
The hijacker claimed he was an operative for the CIA, and that he hijacked the plane under direct government orders as a method of disavowing involvment with the American government while covertly inserting himself into Cuba as an undercover. The CIA was subpoenaed by the Defense and the government. The CIA responded that they refused to testify due to national security constraints, and recommended that charges be dropped. All charges were dropped.
Seriously badass case.
I have no doubt that similar scenarios have occurred on multiple occasions. That the government is involved in covert operations is unquestionable. That the law must be stretched on occasion for those operations is also likely unquestionable.
This does not detract from the absolute and unequivocal absurdity of the 9/11 “truth” movement. It is, to its very core, an anti-American propaganda movement, and anyone that gives it any credence is ineligible for office, in my opinion.
SnakeDoc
That simple question is only an ambush to someone wanting to hide their views.
It was supposed to be an easy softball for her to stop the silly rumors.
Instead it revealed a view and political squirming that helped Texas see who Medina really is.
Debra Medina isn't a conservative; she's a Libertarian. Although she hasn't come out and said she's a truther, she didn't deny it, either. And many of her worshipful RonPaulCult followers are truthers, so she didn't want to alientate them.
We don't need RonPaul Moonbattiness in Texas's top position.
Beck’s effort to sabotage Medina was
extremely transparent. This should remind us all that entertainers are just that...entertainers.