OPERATION NORTHWOODS Operation Northwoods was a 1962 plan by the U.S. Department of Defense to stage acts of simulated or real terrorism on US soil and against U.S. interests and then blame these acts on Cuba in order to generate U.S. public support for military action against the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. As part of the U.S. government’s Operation Mongoose anti-Castro initiative, the plan called for various false flag actions, including simulated or real state-sponsored acts of terrorism on U.S. and Cuban soil. The plan was proposed by senior U.S. Department of Defense leaders, including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lyman Louis Lemnitzer. Operation Northwoods proposals included hijackings and bomb-ings, followed by the introduction of phony evidence which would implicate the Cuban government. It stated: “The desired resultant from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere.” The original proposal was presented in a document entitled “Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba” a top secret collection of draft memoranda written by the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), in response to a request for pretexts for military intervention by the Chief of Operations of the Cuba Project, Brigadier General Edward Lansdale. The document listed methods and outlined plans that would generate domestic and international support for U.S. military intervention in Cuba. These were to be staged attacks purported to be of Cuban origin. The document was presented by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13 as a preliminary sub-mission for planning purposes. The Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended that both the covert and overt aspects of any such operation be assigned to them.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:47:48 +0000
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