Operation Northwoods
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| Date | 1962 |
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| Perpetrators | Lyman Lemnitzer, other Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| Exposed by | James Bamford |
| Description | A plan devised within the US government in the early 1960's to carry out terrorist attacks on US citizens and have them blamed on Cuba. Never implemented. |
Contents
Official Narrative
This plan to carry out a false flag was classified and remained secret[1] [2]for 40 years, so until published by James Bamford there was no official narrative on the topic.
Origins
The plan was approved by the top ranking US military officer, Lyman Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (later appointed NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe). It was signed off on by the the other Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Details
It involved [How?] many CIA operatives boarding planes under fake names, and envisaged many more posing as fake relatives of the deceased, pretending to mourn deaths of their (imaginary) loved ones etc. This would stoke anger against Cuba.[3]
Rejection
US President John F. Kennedy and his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, did not agree to implement the plan and so it was never carried out.
Exposure
James Bamford exposed Operation Northwoods in his book Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency in April 2001.[4]
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Northwoodsdocs.pdf | historical document | 2012 | Tom Secker | Nearly 100 pages of Top Secret documents that tells the history surrounding Operation Northwoods, the US military's plan to carry out a series of false flag attacks - including terrorist attacks in US cities - as a pretext for an invasion of Cuba. |
