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

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Officials at the Office of Strategic Services (the predecessor to the CIA) recruited German scientists to America to aid the country's postwar efforts, which would also ensure that valuable scientific knowledge would not end up in the hands of the Soviet Union or the divided East and West Germany. Featured is Grippando’s recurring hero Jack Swyteck, who finds himself in the heat of controversy after an explosion at Guantanamo Bay – an explosion that rocks the world. First published online by the National Security Archive on 6 November 1998, as part of CNN's Cold War documentary series.

Explore the wealth of reliable, verifiable information on 9/11, including several excellent documentaries, in our 9/11 Information Center available here. military leaders began to perceive Kennedy as going soft on Cuba, and the President became increasingly unpopular with the military. The intense secrecy surrounding the base sparked peoples' imaginations, and Area 51 was commonly linked to paranormal activities, including pervasive theories that suggested Area 51 hid aliens and UFOs. In response to a request for pretexts for military intervention by the Chief of Operations of the Cuba Project, Brig. Public Domain Operation Northwoods suggested a number of false flag attacks that could incite a war with Cuba.Together, we can build the critical mass necessary to strengthen democracy, and to change this world for the better.

It is assumed that a single agency will be given the primary responsibility for developing military and para-military aspects of the basic plan. Throughout these many narratives Mason shows how random objects – books, rings, stones, paintings – are preserved despite disruption. A series of well coordinated incidents will be planned to take place in and around Guantanamo to give genuine appearance of being done by hostile Cuban forces.This plan proposed creating an “incident which will demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered civil airliner.

In light of news reports, an official inquiry was made into the events at My Lai and was concluded in March 1970. The desired result from 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. The US military would then shoot down the aircraft, blame the Cubans, and use this to justify a war of invasion.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. The classified plan, organized under the umbrella of the anti-Castro Cuba Project, or Operation Mongoose, proposed a number of ways that the U. She also remembers how Robert believed that by walking through the forest and “stitching” with his footsteps, he could “repair” the world.

Crew members monitor radar screens in the combat information center aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes in 1988. S. military expansionism, his ambitious strategy for "American global primacy" can't be implemented "except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat. Under this guise, engineers built a network of underground buildings and tunnels, including living quarters, a kitchen, a recreation hall, infirmary, laboratories, supply rooms, a communications center and a nuclear power plant. While such an invasion never occurred, a total of 89 "agents" were trained for this purpose, according to news reports. The mission followed an earlier program, known as Project Sign, which published a report in early 1949 stating that while some UFOs seemed to be actual aircraft, there was not enough data to determine their origins.

A total of 1,521 pages of once-secret military records covering 1962 to 1964 were concomitantly declassified by said Review Board. Operation Northwoods, or Northwoods, was a false-flag plan that originated within the United States government in 1962. S. Army embarked on a secret mission to build a series of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. It tells the story of a “remote station of the north woods” in Massachusetts, and a lemon-yellow house with a tall black door that is built in this “hilly, snow-dusted country” which lies towards “sun’s fall”. S.-backed Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista and established Cuba as the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere.