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Operation Northwoods

A Guide to Future US Covert Ops?

Comment by Larry Ross, June 10, 2005

It is 1962, at the height of the induced US paranoia over Cuba. Pentagon Hawks and their right-wing political allies
created a diabolically evil plan to covertly murder American citizens and blame Cuban agents in the US. The purpose was to provide a believable excuse that would anger Americans and the world, causing them to support a US war against Cuba. All top Pentagon generals approved this plan. The Kennedy Administration did not approve it.

Exercise for the Doubting Thomas:
Do a search on "Operation Northwoods" on Google, Yahoo and other search engines. Satisfy yourselves that this
incredibly evil plan did originate from the US top military brass. Those they picked to replace them, are in power today.

Today we know that all 14 US intelligence agencies, including their Covert Operations, are consolidated under the control of one man - John Negroponte, appointed by George Bush. Negroponte has a long record of working with covert US operations and local Death Squads while he was US ambassador to Honduras - and lately - US Ambassador to Iraq. (See US War On Iraq). Bush has appointed a number of similar right-wing people to high positions in his Administrations. Would these people approve an "Operation Northwoods" plan today?

Many of them already have. The Bush Administration has invented a long and detailed litany of lies to justify invading Iraq and killing 100,000 innocent people. Every objective person who follows US policy knows this is true. Our web site: http://www.nuclearfree.org.nz has much evidence that supports this conclusion.

Over 1,500 American military, so far, have been killed, and thousands wounded, while killing Iraqis to implement Bush's plan. This operation places Bush and his associates among the worst war criminals in history. But Bush enjoys the support or acceptance of the US Congress, Senate, a majority of mass media and enough of the US public. These are not necessarily evil people. Some believe the official propaganda, some are bought and some are scarred out of their wits into silence. He has the huge human and material resources of the US at his beck and call. This born-again Christian Fundamentalist who claims to believe in the Biblical prophesy of a fiery armageddon for mankind is the most powerful man in the world and the world's worst living war criminal. Until Bush and his associates are removed from office, the crimes, and perhaps far worse crimes, will continue.

In Iraq, there is evidence that US covert operations are killing innocent civilians and blaming 'terrorists' and evidence that the US is trying to start a war between different religious factions.

"Operation Northwoods' thinking is written all over the plan to make war on Iraq; create conditions for a permanent US occupation of Iraq, and expand US control over neighbouring states such as Syria and Iran.

How do these war criminals justify this behaviour?

  1. Religion. Millions of Americans are Christian Fundamentalists who believe Bush has God's blessing to lead. All Bush's actions are acceptable to implement God's plan. Bush, who claims to believe this nonsense, gives himself a magical heavenly blessing to do whatever he wants to America and the world. Historically great crimes have already been committed by the Bush Administration. Although these have been known for several years, Bush has managed to escape impeachment and arrange by fraud, not only the 1st term, but a second term as the US President. So much for 'freedom, liberty and democracy' American style.. (See US Elections)
  2. Manifest US destiny. The Neo-Conservatives have developed plans for the US to have a global empire that will control the world. Any crimes may be committed and are acceptable to pursue and further this goal.
  3. $$+Fear. Perhaps the majority of people connected to this Empire plan and it's implementation, are intimidated, or bought into silence, acceptance and a role in building the new Empire.

The biggest crime of all - the 9/11 attacks with over 2,000 dead Americans. Most people would draw the line on behalf of George Bush and say he couldn't have had anything to do with that crime or covering up important details of how it was done, and who must have co-operated to allow it to happen. Like most people, I believed it would be ridiculous to believe George Bush and his Neo-cons were involved in committing or covering up this horrendous crime which killed over 2,000 Americans. It seems too unbelievably monstrous and impossible to be true.

That is what I thought until I read that thousands of Americans and numerous US web sites devoted to 9/11, believe that Bush either participated in the plan for 9/11, or knew it would happen. They believe the Bush Neo-con Administration covered it up because they knew it would anger Americans, thus making possible the war on Iraq, which they had planned before the 9/11 attack. Check out the story yourself on our website under "9/11 Questions". Check it on other web sites specialising in this crime or search "9/11 Attacks" on Google, yahoo and other search engines.

Be warned. If you talk about this - even dare to mention the possibility - you will be dismissed as a "conspiracy theorist" and a nut case. This label is promoted by the Neo-con Administration, and their co-operative media because they don't want anyone to connect-the-dots. This is quite effective in preventing questions, silencing critics, or dulling their criticism, as no-one wants to be accused of being a "conspiracy theorist nut case". I am willing to believe such accusations are not true if the Bush Administration is willing to give honest and convincing answers to key questions. So far they have refused to do so. This 'covering-up' type of response only increases public suspicions. Also, they can't cover up the lies they told to get America to support, make sacrifices and send their sons to make war on Iraq - and all the terrible results of that very large, and very well-known conspiracy.

The facts are no longer disputable about this great crime. So people should feel free to examine other possible great crimes, such as 9/11, without feeling that makes them a "conspiracy theorist nut case". Also if they come to believe that Bush and his Neo-cons may be guilty, they can ask themselves what the future consequences may be and how long before the freedoms they take for granted, are taken away, and more wars started, all justified by more 9/11 events.
It's like the children's story: "The Emperor's New Cloths" where no one dared question that the naked Emperor was actually wearing special new clothes that only specially favoured people could see. Needless to say everyone claimed to see the clothes, rather than be thought deficient. Only a child came along and said: "The Emperor has no clothes on." Everyone then agreed and the scam was exposed. The Neo-con stories are similar.

The Neo-cons said as much in one of their war plans, when they wrote: "We need another Pearl Harbour", knowing it would ensure American public and Congressional support for Bush's already planned war plans.

They've actually done this kind of thing before. President Lyndon Johnson, they faked a North Vietnam attack on US warships in the Gulf of Tonkin, in order to justify escalating the Vietnam war to begin bombing North Vietnam. Also, in Havana, they sunk the US ship The Maine, in order to start a war with Spain.

Hitler used a similar technique when his Nazis burned down the Reichstag and blamed foreign terrorists, in order to seize power and begin their reign of terror, conquest and World War II with 50 million killed.

So the idea of a Bush/Neo-con plot for terrorists to kill Americans in order to facilitate war plans is not as crazy as it sounds. I have touched on a few examples to show that this kind of strategy has been used in the past and has accomplished it's evil goals.

Further examples of this kind of strategy that worked, or failed, would be welcome to: larry.ross@nuclearfreenz.org.nz

(See "Operation Northwoods", US Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba and ABC Removes Article Reporting US Military Chiefs Approved Terror on US Soil in Last Three Days on this site)

 

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Review by Robert Finn
June, 2005

Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency From the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century
Back in 1982 James Bamford published THE PUZZLE PALACE, the first book-length study of the National Security Agency, the U. S. Government's mammoth but super-secretive agency devoted to electronic eavesdropping on the rest of the world. That book caused some sharp tremors in military and government circles.
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Pentagon Proposed Pretexts for Cuba Invasion in 1962
The National Security Archives
April 30, 2001

In his new exposé of the National Security Agency entitled Body of Secrets, author James Bamford highlights a set of proposals on Cuba by the Joint Chiefs of Staff codenamed OPERATION NORTHWOODS. This document, titled “Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba” was provided by the JCS to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962, as the key component of Northwoods.

The Pentagon Plan to Provoke Terrorist Attacks
by CHRIS FLOYD
November 1, 2002

This column stands foursquare with the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, when he warns that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large. We know, as does the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, that this statement is an incontrovertible fact, a matter of scientific certainty. And how can we and the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, be so sure that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large?
Because these attacks will be instigated at the order of the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense.

     
   

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