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From 9/11 Encyclopedia:
Operation Northwoods is described as the "blueprint" of the September 11th hijacks.
The original story of Northwoods started in 1962, when the Pentagon and the CIA were "desperate for a war with Cuba". In a TV-documentation by media critic Barry Zwicker (->), Vision TV, he analysed this plan: "Desperate enough to plan attacks against American bases, equipment and personnel. Desperate enough to dress up American trained Cubans as Communists to make the attacks on American bases. Desperate enough to manufacture an airplane that looked like a Russian MiG to shoot down an American airliner.
Why? "The desired resultant from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere."
As ABC reported on May 1st, 2001 on Operation Northwoods in
this article "Friendly Fire":
abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html
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". ( archived copy here )
.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."
The original document, in 2001-2002 mirrored on various
websites, including Copvcia.Com
as one of the first, included "a series of well cordinated incidents":
(1) start rumours (many) Use clandestine radio.
(2) Land friendly cubans in uniform "over the fence" to stage attack on
the base
(3) Capture Cubans (friendly) saboteurs inside the base
(4) Start riots near the base main gate (friendly cubans)
(5) Blow up ammuniation inside the base, start fires
(6) Burn aircraft on air base (sabotage) ..
(10) Sabotage ship in harbor; large fires --naphtalene
(11) Sink Ship near harbor entrance. Conduct funerals for mock
victims
a) We could blow up a US ship in Guantamo Bay and blame Cuba
b) We could blow up a drone (unmanned) vessel anywhere the Cuban
Waters. ..
4. We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami
area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington ..
7. Hijacking attempts against civil air craft should appear to continue
as harrassing measures condoned by the government of Cuba.
8. It is possible to create an incide..shot down a chartered civil
airliner enroute from the United States to Jamaica, Guatemala, Panama
or Venezuela...
The passengers could be a group of college students off on a
holiday..
b) On such flight, a pre-briefed pilot ..under an alias, would resume
his proper identity and return to his normal place of business.
The pilot and aircraft would then have disappeared.
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