Operation Northwoods: When the Joint Chiefs Proposed False-Flag Attacks on America
In 1962 the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously approved a plan to bomb American cities and blame Cuba.
Read that headline again.
On March 13, 1962, General Lyman Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a 13-page document titled Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba. The proposals included:
- Sinking a U.S. Navy ship in Guantánamo Bay and blaming Cuba.
- Hijacking commercial airliners and blaming Cuba.
- Conducting "terror campaigns" against Cuban refugees in Florida - including bombings.
- Blowing up John Glenn's rocket if his Mercury mission failed and blaming Cuban sabotage.
Every member of the Joint Chiefs signed it. Kennedy refused. Lemnitzer was reassigned. The document was buried for 35 years.
It was declassified in 1997. It has never been on the front page of any major newspaper.
Now ask yourself: if the highest military body in the United States unanimously proposed killing Americans to start a war in 1962 - what makes you think the impulse died with them?