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  OPERATION NORTHWOODS: US PLANNED FAKE TERROR ATTACKS ON CITIZENS TO CREATE SUPPORT FOR CUBAN WAR
Operation Northwoods called for a war in which many patriotic Americans and innocent Cubans would die senseless deaths, all to satisfy the egos of twisted generals back in Washington, safe in their taxpayer financed homes and limousines.
About a month after submitting Operation Northwoods, they met the "tank," as the JCS conference room was called, and agreed on the wording of a tough memorandum to McNamara.
Now, however, in light of the Operation Northwoods documents, it at deceiving the public and trumping up wars for Americans to fight and die in was standard, approved policy at the highest levels of the Pentagon.
www.whatreallyhappened.com /northwoods.html   (3005 words)

  
 Operation Northwoods
Approved by the top Pentagon chiefs, Operation Northwoods proposed fabricating terrorism in US cities and killing innocent citizens to trick the public into supporting a war against Cuba in the early 1960s.
Operation Northwoods even proposed blowing up a US ship and hijacking planes as a false pretext for war.
The Operation Northwoods documents were approved in writing by the Joint Chiefs of Staff—the top generals of each branch of the US armed forces—and submitted to the Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
www.wanttoknow.info /010501operationnorthwoods   (1334 words)

  
 September 11, 2001 - Another Operation Northwoods?
He knew, as he had known from the beginning, that the operation would turn out to be a disaster, that many men would die palnfully and needlessly, but still he preferred silence.
Operation Northwoods called for a war in which many patriotic Americans and innocent Cubans would die senseless deaths -- all to satisfy the egos of twisted generals back in Washington, safe in their taxpayer-financed homes and limousines.
Now, however, in light of the Operation Northwoods documents, it is clear that deceiving the public and trumping up wars for Americans to fight and die in was standard, approved policy at the highest levels of the Pentagon.
propagandamatrix.com /sept_11_2001_another_operation_northwoods.html   (6019 words)

  
 9-11 Review: Operation Northwoods
Operation Northwoods was the code name for a set of proposals by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1962 intended to create a pretext for a war on Cuba.
Operation Northwoods was developed in secret and remained secret for thirty-five years, being declassified in late 1997.
Although the Operation Northwoods documents are cleary evidence that US military officials are capable of considering plans involving the murder of US citizens in a false-flag operation blaming innocent parties, it is not evidence of how the 9/11 attack was carried out.
www.911review.com /precedent/century/northwoods.html   (654 words)

  
 9-11 Review: Operation Northwoods
Operation Northwoods was the code name for a set of proposals by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1962 intended to create a pretext for a war on Cuba.
Operation Northwoods was developed in secret and remained secret for thirty-five years, being declassified in late 1997.
Although the Operation Northwoods documents are cleary evidence that US military officials are capable of considering plans involving the murder of US citizens in a false-flag operation blaming innocent parties, it is not evidence of how the 9/11 attack was carried out.
911review.com /precedent/century/northwoods.html   (654 words)

  
 Operation Northwoods
The operation, code named Operation Northwoods, was part of the larger Operation Mongoose program.
Operation Northwoods was submitted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962.
The objective of Operation Northwoods was to concoct a "Remember the Maine" incident and win mass support for an invasion of Cuba.
www.americanhiroshima.info /operationnorthwoods.htm   (295 words)

  
 Proposed Pretexts for War: Operation Northwoods
Operation Northwoods is commonly dismissed on the grounds that it was, fortunately, never implemented.
While the radical methods of Operation Northwoods were never implemented, it would be a mistake to say that the U.S. has never created a false “pretext” in order to start a war, the manufacturing of the case for war in Iraq being a prime example.
If the revelation of the existence of Operation Northwoods has anything to teach us, it’s that we have reason to be skeptical of any proposed “pretext” that may be given once the drums of war have begun beating.
www.yirmeyahureview.com /articles/operation_northwoods.htm   (611 words)

  
 Operation Northwoods - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Operation Northwoods is declassified operation to justify the invasion of Cuba.
Because of the similarities between Operation Northwoods and the 9/11 attacks, it is often referred to by MIHOP supporters.
Allen Dulles, the directory of the CIA was fired by John F. Kennedy in 1961 over Operation Northwoods and Operation Zapata.
demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/Operation_Northwoods   (758 words)

  
 Genesis Operation Northwood
The US military still operates on this principle, maintaining a special unit whose unique function is to be infiltrated into countries where the US needs an excuse to undertake military action, and, dressed in the uniforms of "that country's" soldiers, attack US personnel.
Operation Northwoods also included proposals for a campaign of violent terrorism against civilians in US cities.
Operation Northwoods never went ahead, but was not disclosed for 40 years.
www.darrendixon.supanet.com /operationnorthwood.htm   (935 words)

  
 Operation Northwoods: Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba
NORTHWOODS (S) A report* on the above subject is submitted for consideration by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Chief of Operations, Cuba Project, has requested that he be furnished the views of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on this matter by 13 March 1962.
As requested* by Chief of Operations, Cuba Project, the Joint Chiefs of Staff are to indicate brief but precise description of pretexts which they consider would provide justification for US military intervention in Cuba.
www.geocities.com /tetrahedronomega   (3433 words)

  
 Operation Northwoods « Unbent
Operation Northwoods was a plan in 1962 by the U.S. Department of Defense to, “stage acts of simulated real terrorism,”; in the United States.
You claim that the purpose of operation “mongoose” was an attempt to stage terrorism.
The description of the operation above says that the main objective is to stage many little, smale scale, “disturbances,” with the resulting effect of making the cuban government seem unstable.
doingmypart.wordpress.com /2008/03/09/operation-northwoods   (660 words)

  
 Operation Northwoods And The Reichstag Fire
The plan was called Operation Northwoods and it called for engaging in such unsavory activities as assassination, hijacking airplanes, blowing up ships, orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities, and even blowing up John Glenn's space capsule, while pinning the blame on Fidel Castro.
This was not a "rogue" operation, or loners acting outside the government.
It should be noted that it was the objections of Robert McNamara, and his revelation of the plot to Kennedy which prevented this operation from occurring.
www.rense.com /general24/operationnorthwoods.htm   (2011 words)

  
 Hard-boiled Dreams of the World » Blog Archive » U.S.-Sponsored Terrorism: Operation Northwoods   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A fake air/sea rescue operation was planned, as well as fake funerals and fake passenger lists published in the Main Stream Media to “cause a healthy wave of national indignation.” The document actually mentions how a similar incident — the US Maine false flag operation — successfully started the Spanish American War in 1898.
Operation Northwoods was only one of several plans under the umbrella of Operation Mongoose.
The assassination of JFK should be on the list of false flag operations since it was CIA that did it and blamed it on a patsy who had been set-up to infiltrate Cuban groups and then disposed of.
joecrubaugh.com /blog/2007/02/14/us-sponsored-terrorism-operation-northwoods   (2129 words)

  
 Operation Northwoods
In the spring of 1962, a few months after the launch of Operation Mongoose with General Edward Lansdale at its head, an incredible proposal was put forth by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Operations Northwoods called for faked and actual terrorist actions against the U.S. to be conducted by the U.S., but done in such a way that they could be blamed on Cuba.
It should be noted that only one copy of the Northwoods documents has been located, though there were certainly several in existence at one point in time.
www.maryferrell.org /wiki/index.php/Operation_Northwoods   (789 words)

  
 Operation Northwoods: The Counterfeit
Operation Northwoods was unknown to the American public until May, 2001, when details were released in James Bamford's new book, "Body of Secrets" (Doubleday).
However, the Northwoods British-isms show that another hand, not an American hand, was guiding those planes into the WTC towers, and that the Operation Northwoods documents are a misdirector.
The discovery of the Northwoods documents reminds one of the incident in "Wag The Dog" when a newly composed song was inserted into the Library of Congress records to give the impression it had been written decades earlier; then the song, "Old Shoe," was conveniently "discovered" and popularized at the right time.
www.public-action.com /911/northwds.html   (2063 words)

  
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Operation Northwoods was a plan by the highest US military authorities to create a series of incidents involving loss of American and Cuban exile lives through the actions of phony Cubans in order to persuade the US public to go to war against Cuba.
It is also said that preliminary studies on Northwoods were undertaken by Brigadier General William H. Craig, described as Lemnitzer's covert actions officer.
Craig was CIA and was at the time Project Officer for the Cuba Project (Operation Mongoose) under Operations Chief Brigadier General Edward Lansdale, famed for his psyops.
www.afrocubaweb.com /news/northwoods/northwoods.htm   (3549 words)

  
 Course Info   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lyman L. Lemnitzer was head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time the plans for Operation Northwoods were drawn up and presented to the secretary of defense.
Operation Northwoods is an official government document from 1962 which proves that the U.S. government had a plan to commit acts of terror against its' own citizens.
Click here to read an article by David Cogswell entitled "Northwoods to 9-11: Was 9/11 the resurfacing of Operation Northwoods?".
www.colorado911visibility.org /Northwoods.html   (201 words)

  
 Operation Northwoods - SourceWatch
Operation Northwoods was a set of proposals produced by the United States military Joint Chiefs of Staff to create a pretext for invading Cuba in the 1960s.
This document, titled Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba was provided by the JCS to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962, as the key component of Northwoods.
The Full Operation Northwoods document in both JPEG and fully searchable HTML format.
www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Operation_Northwoods   (282 words)

  
 Operation Northwoods: acts of terrorism that never happened
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.
From the archives: 05/01/2001: (ABC News) 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.
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.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article3140.htm   (1100 words)

  
 The Terrorist Attacks Planned by the American Joint Chief of Staff against its Population [Voltaire]
In order to implement it, the operational coordination between the Department of State, the Department of Defense and the CIA was entrusted to General Edward Lansdale (Assistant Secretary of Defense in charge of Special Operations and therefore director of the National Security Agency).
Operation Northwood was aimed at convincing the international public opinion that Fidel Castro was an irresponsible man who was a threat to the world and the western peace.
A rescue operation would then be organized to make it even more real; the passengers list would be published and false funerals would be organized to outrage the American and world public opinion.
www.voltairenet.org /article30117.html   (2023 words)

  
 American Politics Journal -- When Spin Backfires
Bluntly, this operation called for acts of terrorism within the United States perpetrated by agents of the United States loyal to Lemnitzer.
A plan, crafted in exquisite detail, was drafted describing the scope of Operation Northwoods, and was later signed in approval by all of the Joint Chiefs.
Yet the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff "signed off" on Operation Northwoods, leading to the inevitable conclusion that this cavalier and bloodthirsty attitude towards the lives and safety of American citizens and military personnel was not the exception, but the rule.
www.americanpolitics.com /20011023pitt.html   (1608 words)

  
 911truth.dk - Sources, Operation Northwoods
Operation Northwoods (extract) - Pretexts to Justify Military Intervention in Cuba
Operation Northwoods - Annex to Appendix to Enclosure A
United States would respond by executing offensive operations to secure water and power supplies, destroying artillery and mortar emplacements which threaten the base.
www.911truth.dk /first/sources/NorthwoodsAnnex.htm   (1984 words)

  
 injusticebusters 2003 > > Bruce Schneier: Review of Bamford book which includes "Operation Northwoods"
Operations like Shamrock were exposed for the first time, but Bamford also spent a lot of pages simply explaining how the NSA was organized.
Operation Ivy Bells was the agency's most secret operation at the time, but Bamford found the man in charge of it to be very open and cooperative.
Inside the NSA's B2 Operations Building, there is a monument of fl granite with the words "They Served in Silence" and the names of the 152 military and civilian eavesdroppers who have died, most of them on ships and planes, peeking up the electronic skirts of our adversaries.
www.injusticebusters.com /2003/Operation_Northwoods.htm   (3656 words)

  
 False Flag Operations: Declassified Military Documents Show How US Government Planned Terrorist Attacks Against its Own ...
New York, NY (PRWEB) September 7, 2006 – As reported by ABC News, stunning military documents codenamed "Operation Northwoods" were declassified in recent years and show how in 1962, the top US military leaders planned an operation to create terror attacks against its own cities and kill US citizens.
His book explains that these covert operations are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other entities, such as other countries or terrorist groups, to help demonize them and justify wars for geopolitical reasons and for financial gains.
The ABC News article dated May 1, 2001 explains that Operation Northwoods was approved and signed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Eisenhower appointee Army General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, and was presented to Kennedy’s Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962.
www.prweb.com /releases/2006/9/prweb434292.htm   (2552 words)

  
 Operation Northwoods
According to ABC News and government documents on Operation Northwoods, America’s top military leaders drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in US cities to trick the public into supporting a war against Cuba in the early 1960s.
Approved in writing by the Pentagon Joint Chiefs, Operation Northwoods even proposed blowing up a US ship and hijacking planes as a false pretext for war.
The Operation Northwoods documents were approved in writing by the Joint Chiefs of Staff—the top generals of each branch of the US armed forces—and submitted to the Secretary of Defense McNamara, though never acted upon.
www.wanttoknow.info /operationnorthwoods   (1276 words)

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