OPERATION NORTHWOODS
Is it conceivable that that elements within the United States government would conduct a terrorist attack on itself
to justify the invasion of a country and the overthrow of a regime? Would they create a series of well-coordinated incidents
in a single, integrated, time-phased plan that involved hijacking, painting planes to look like civil airliners, planes being
substituted with drones,
the destruction of an aircraft triggered by a radio signal, passenger swapping, planting of aircraft parts and exploding a few plastic
bombs in carefully chosen spots to give the genuine appearance of being done by hostile forces - even in Washington D.C.? Could they be
so calculating as to conduct funerals for mock-victims so that casualty lists published in U.S. papers would cause a helpful wave of
national indignation?
Did you guess yes or no? The answer is yes. If you go to the documents at the bottom right of this page you can
see for yourself. Those are photocopies of the original documents from Operation Northwoods, a 1962 plan to invade Cuba and overthrow
Saddam......oops I mean Fidel Castro. Read the whole thing but if you're in a hurry just read the parts I've underlined in red. You
will find that the above paragraph consists almost entirely of quotes from Operation Northwoods. Reading these is a MUST for anybody
truly wanting to understand 9/11 and the invasion of the Middle East 27 days later. At the bottom of this page you can link to the originals
in the National Security Archives at George Washington University. But do it before they're gone because the CIA is currently
reclassifying documents as we speak (Source).
The frightening thing is the exact parallels we're seeing today. If we changed the names to Bush, Rumsfeld, Saddam Hussein,
and Iraq it is identical. Except for the fact that Kennedy had the character to deny the plan and reassign Head of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer who authored it. It is not known if Defense Secretary Robert McNamara actually approved the plan or not. In an interesting quote
in light of the first paragraph Donald Rumsfeld referred to 9/11 as a, ".....well-coordinated, massive attack against the United
States of America". There's that phrase "well-coordinated" again.
The missile base photo above is reminiscent of the satellite shots we saw of Saddam's WMD. Flight 77 disappearing
over the Ohio/Kentucky border and then suddenly reappearing over D.C. is curious in light of a plane being "substituted" with a drone. The use of "plastic bombs in
carefully chosen spots" makes me think of the exit hole in the A-E drive of the Pentagon. Funerals being conducted for "mock-victims"
is extremely interesting since there were no Arab names at all on
Flight 77's passenger manifest
or on the official autopsy performed in Dover, Delaware by the
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
"The destruction of the aircraft which will be triggered by radio signal" matches the DoD video frame
2 that shows the plane breaking up before it hits the wall and fits several eyewitness reports. That they would "disburse
F-101 (read plane) parts" makes sense of the perfect pieces of lettering found all over the lawn of the Pentagon. The whole time they
would be conducting an "air defense exercise" like they did on 9/11 as a cover (Source).
And finally that they would do this at the Pentagon "even in Washington".
If everything we heard about 9/11 was just made up by "conspiracy theorists" that would be one thing. But
every single element of the questions being asked by 9/11 researchers sat classified for forty years in the National Security Archives.
The rest of this page is an article from ABC news on the Operation Northwoods document. They use the term "reportedly" for
some reason but you can read the document for yourself now.
U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
Book: U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba
By David Ruppe
NEW YORK, May 1, 2001 - In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people
and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.
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.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent
terrorism in U.S. cities.
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.
America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in
Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."
Details of the plans are described in Body of Secrets (Doubleday), a new book by investigative reporter James Bamford about
the history of America's largest spy agency, the National Security Agency. However, the plans were not connected to the agency,
he notes.
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. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone
undisclosed for nearly 40 years.
"These were Joint Chiefs of Staff documents. The reason these were held secret for so long is the Joint
Chiefs never wanted to give these up because they were so embarrassing," Bamford told ABCNEWS.com.
"The whole point of a democracy is to have leaders responding to the public will, and here this is the complete reverse,
the military trying to trick the American people into a war that they want but that nobody else wants."
Gunning for War
The documents show "the Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever
created by the U.S. government," writes Bamford.
The Joint Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut John Glenn during the first attempt to put an
American into orbit as a false pretext for war with Cuba, the documents show.
Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, they wrote, "the objective is to provide irrevocable proof … that the fault
lies with the Communists et all Cuba [sic]."
The plans were motivated by an intense desire among senior military leaders to depose Castro, who seized power in 1959
to become the first communist leader in the Western Hemisphere — only 90 miles from U.S. shores.
The earlier CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles had been a disastrous failure, in which the military
was not allowed to provide firepower.The military leaders now wanted a shot at it.
"The whole thing was so bizarre," says Bamford, noting public and international support would be needed for an invasion,
but apparently neither the American public, nor the Cuban public, wanted to see U.S. troops deployed to drive out Castro.
Reflecting this, the U.S. plan called for establishing prolonged military — not democratic — control over the
island nation after the invasion.
"That's what we're supposed to be freeing them from," Bamford says. "The only way we would have succeeded is by doing
exactly what the Russians were doing all over the world, by imposing a government by tyranny, basically what we were
accusing Castro himself of doing."
'Over the Edge'
The Joint Chiefs at the time were headed by Eisenhower appointee Army Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, who, with the signed plans
in hand made a pitch to McNamara on March 13, 1962, recommending Operation Northwoods be run by the military.
Whether the Joint Chiefs' plans were rejected by McNamara in the meeting is not clear. But three days later,
President Kennedy told Lemnitzer directly there was virtually no possibility of ever using overt force to take Cuba,
Bamford reports. Within months, Lemnitzer would be denied another term as chairman and transferred to another job.
The secret plans came at a time when there was distrust in the military leadership about their civilian leadership,
with leaders in the Kennedy administration viewed as too liberal, insufficiently experienced and soft on communism.
At the same time, however, there real were concerns in American society about their military overstepping its bounds.
There were reports U.S. military leaders had encouraged their subordinates to vote conservative during the election.
And at least two popular books were published focusing on a right-wing military leadership pushing the limits against
government policy of the day. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee published its own report on right-wing extremism
in the military, warning a "considerable danger" in the "education and propaganda activities of military personnel" had
been uncovered. The committee even called for an examination of any ties between Lemnitzer and right-wing groups. But Congress
didn't get wind of Northwoods, says Bamford.
"Although no one in Congress could have known at the time," he writes, "Lemnitzer and the Joint Chiefs had quietly slipped
over the edge."
Even after Lemnitzer was gone, he writes, the Joint Chiefs continued to plan "pretext" operations at least through 1963.
One idea was to create a war between Cuba and another Latin American country so that the United States could intervene.
Another was to pay someone in the Castro government to attack U.S. forces at the Guantanamo naval base — an act, which
Bamford notes, would have amounted to treason. And another was to fly low level U-2 flights over Cuba, with the intention
of having one shot down as a pretext for a war.
"There really was a worry at the time about the military going off crazy and they did, but they never succeeded,
but it wasn't for lack of trying," he says.
After 40 Years
Ironically, the documents came to light, says Bamford, in part because of the 1992 Oliver Stone film JFK, which examined
the possibility of a conspiracy behind the assassination of President Kennedy.
As public interest in the assassination swelled after JFK's release, Congress passed a law designed to increase the public's
access to government records related to the assassination.
The author says a friend on the board tipped him off to the documents.
Afraid of a congressional investigation, Lemnitzer had ordered all Joint Chiefs documents related to
the Bay of Pigs destroyed, says Bamford. But somehow, these remained.
"The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years after," says Bamford.
THE END
My hope is that the 9/11 truth movement will have success long before 40 years!!
