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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 ...
The surprise discovery of the documents relating to Operation Northwoods was a result of the comprehensive search for records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by the Assassination Records Review Board in the mid-1990s. [23] Information about Operation Northwoods was later publicized by James Bamford. [24]
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 ...
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 ...
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. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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.
Operation Northwoods was a plan proposed in 1962, which was signed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and presented to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara for approval, that intended to use false flag operations to justify intervention in Cuba. Among courses of action considered were real and simulated attacks on US or foreign soil ...