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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 ...
In November 1961, he authorized Operation Mongoose (also known as the Cuban Project). [80] 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 ...
A prime example is one of the newly disclosed documents — a seven-page Aug. 31, 1962, Defense Department memo about Operation Mongoose, the secret operation to overthrow Fidel Castro’s ...
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 ...
The foundation seeks those Operation Northwoods records in its lawsuit, as well as records concerning CIA plans to assassinate Castro and a June 30, 1961, memo from Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to JFK ...
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 ...
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