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Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation that originated within the US Department of Defense of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for CIA operatives to both stage and commit acts of terrorism against American military and civilian targets, blame them on the Cuban government , and use them to justify a ...
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency is a book by James Bamford about the NSA and its operations. It also covers the history of espionage in the United States from uses of the Fulton surface-to-air recovery system to retrieve personnel on Arctic Ocean drift stations to Operation Northwoods, a declassified US military plan that Bamford describes as a "secret and ...
Due to its deceptive nature a false flag operation can fail in such a manner as to implicate the perpetrator rather than the intended victim. A notable example is an April 2022 FSB operation where would-be Ukrainian assassins of Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov were filmed while being arrested. The footage published by the FSB was however ...
False flag attacks and incidents throughout history. NOTE: Any unproven or unverified rumors of alleged false flag operations do not belong in this category, and must be placed in Category:False flag conspiracy theories instead.
In November 1961, he authorized Operation Mongoose (also known as the Cuban Project). [81] In March 1962, Kennedy rejected Operation Northwoods, proposals for false flag attacks against American military and civilian targets, [82] and blaming them on the Cuban government in order to gain approval for a war against Cuba. However, the ...
North Woods or Northwoods may refer to: . Laurentian Mixed Forest Province, a forested ecoregion in the United States and Canada also known as the North Woods.; Operation Northwoods, a proposed operation against the Cuban government that originated within the Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States government in 1962.
Within a few months, after the refusal to endorse Operation Northwoods, Lemnitzer was denied another term as chairman. [4] In November 1962, Lemnitzer was appointed as commander of U.S. European Command and as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, which was a positional demotion from being chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His time in ...
Caffery was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, to Charles Duval Caffery and Mary Catherine (née Parkerson) Caffery. [2] He was privately educated in primary and secondary school.