Home

Operation Northwoods - More Comprehensive Details

Comment by Larry Ross, June 27, 2005

James Bamford's book "Body of Secrets" gives particularly valuable insight into who was involved in Northwoods; how pervasive such thinking was in the Pentagon, and how incredible extremist and evil it was. Secretary of Defence McNamara's rejection of the plan in 1962, for the US to create terrorist acts and blame Cuba as a pretext for launching a war on Cuba, did not stop such thinking and planning.

Similar types of undercover plans were used in;

1. The 1898 sinking of The US Maine in Cuba and blaming Spain in order to start a war over Cuba.
2. Gulf of Tonkin incident during the Vietnam war, in which the US blamed North Vietnam for attacking American destroyers, in order for Lyndon Johnson to greatly escalate the war. He got solid support from Congress and the public for that lie.

This type of thinking permeated the Pentagon top brass. They thought up many similar schemes to deceive the American people into thinking they had been attacked, and therefor, to then support a war against the alleged attacker.

The American media has failed massively, in not making feature stories about such plans in order to warn the American public about what kind of diabolical deceit, and colossal costs and risks, the Pentagon, and co-operating politicians, were capable of.

The Pentagon budget for covert activities is huge and appears to include similar extreme evil operations in Iraq.

The 9/11 attack in 2001 in New York should be examined in the light of this article on Operation Northwoods.

For further evidence see: OperationNorthwoods Just Another Fake CIA Document by Jon Carlson

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

OPERATION NORTHWOODS:
US PLANNED FAKE TERROR ATTACKS ON CITIZENS
TO CREATE SUPPORT FOR CUBAN WAR

From BODY OF SECRETS, James Bamford, Doubleday, 2001, p.82 and following.
Scanned and edited by NY Transfer News.

...In [Joint Chief's chair] Lemnitzer's view, the country would be far better off if the generals could take over. [JFK assassination legend has it some general presided over the fudgy JFK autopsy. --Mk]
For those military officers who were sitting on the fence, the Kennedy administration's botched Bay of Pigs invasion was the last straw. "The Bay of Pigs fiasco broke the dike," said one report at the time. "President Kennedy was pilloried by the super patriots as a 'no-win' chief . . . The Far Right became a fount of proposals born of frustration and put forward in the name of anti-Communism. . . Active-duty commanders played host to anti-Communist seminars on their bases and attended or addressed Right-wing meetings elsewhere."

Although no one in Congress could have known it at the time, Lemnitzer and the Joint Chiefs had quietly slipped over the edge.

According to secret and long-hidden documents obtained for Body of Secrets, the Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government. In the name of antiCommunism, they proposed launching a secret and bloody war of terrorism against their own country in order to trick the American public into supporting an ill-conceived war they intended to launch against Cuba.

Code named Operation Northwoods, the plan, which had the written approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., Miami, and elsewhere. People would be framed for bombings they did not commit; planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they needed to launch their war. Continue

! Go to Google and type in "Operation Northwoods" - You will be amazed at the amount of information on this topic.

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.
Now Bamford is back with an updated and much more exhaustive study of the same subject. BODY OF SECRETS is detailed history, description, critical assessment, editorial comment, and character study all rolled into one massively researched volume. It should cause an earthquake or two.     Read an Excerpt