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@ BtcMindShifts
2025-05-17 21:08:59
Wow, Putin and the military under Kennedy had a lot in common:
Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation developed in 1962 by the U.S. Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Kennedy administration. The plan aimed to create a pretext for military intervention in Cuba by staging and committing acts of terrorism on American soil and against American interests, then blaming them on the Cuban government led by Fidel Castro.
Key elements of the proposal included:
- Staging attacks on U.S. military installations, such as Guantanamo Bay, to simulate Cuban aggression.
- Sinking boats carrying Cuban refugees or blowing up a U.S. ship to provoke public outrage.
- Orchestrating fake hijackings or shoot-downs of civilian or military aircraft, including remotely controlled planes repainted as U.S. Air Force planes.
- Conducting a terror campaign in U.S. cities, such as Miami and Washington, D.C., with bombings or other violent acts attributed to Cuba.
- Framing Cuba for sabotaging U.S. space missions, like the 1962 Mercury flight with John Glenn.
The plan was drafted under the leadership of General Lyman Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as part of the broader Operation Mongoose, a CIA-led program to destabilize Castro’s regime following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. It was presented to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962, but President John F. Kennedy rejected it during a meeting on March 16, 1962, expressing strong opposition to such deceptive tactics. Kennedy later removed Lemnitzer from his position as Chairman, though Lemnitzer became Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in 1963.
The operation was never implemented, and its details remained classified until 1997, when documents were declassified by the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board. The full scope became widely known in 2001 with the publication of James Bamford’s book *Body of Secrets*. The revelation of Operation Northwoods has fueled discussions about government ethics and transparency, with some modern conspiracy theorists citing it as evidence of U.S. willingness to stage false flag attacks, though no evidence supports claims of such plans being executed.
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