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This act declassified a total of four million documents, including Operation Northwoods, and was made available through the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. However, public knowledge of Operation Northwoods did not come until 2001 with the release of a book by the author James Bamford titled Body of Secrets. [20]
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 ...
In March 1962, Kennedy rejected Operation Northwoods, proposals for false flag attacks against American military and civilian targets, [81] and blaming them on the Cuban government in order to gain approval for a war against Cuba. However, the administration continued to plan for an invasion of Cuba in the summer of 1962.
Times were tense between the U.S. and Russia during the Cold War, but things never escalated into full-scale war. If they had, newly declassified papers say the U.S. was ready to systematically ...
Operation Gladio was the codename for clandestine "stay-behind" operations of armed resistance that were organized by the Western Union (WU) (founded in 1948), and subsequently by NATO (formed in 1949) and by the CIA (established in 1947), [1] [2] in collaboration with several European intelligence agencies during the Cold War. [3]
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.
May 23—The remains of a soldier from Northwood killed during World War II are headed back to New Hampshire, after being exhumed from the U.S. Military Cemetery in Algeria in 2022, U.S. Army ...