[ABC News]
“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.””
“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.”
Read more: U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba (archived)
The declassified document: nsarchive2.gwu.edu
Editor’s note: This article is dated as “N E W Y O R K, May 1, 2001”, but the date on ABC’s website is 2006. However, the first record by archive.org dates to 2004. I dated this post according to ABC. It’s worth to read the original document too, it contains quite interesting things, such as blowing up a drone or a suggestion that the USS Maine’s sinking was done by the US Government.
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