--- Operation Northwoods ---
Excerpts from Documents
Compiled by Paul Thompson
October 11, 2004
Excerpts from Operation Northwoods Documents
http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11
NOTE: These excerpts are from authentic U.S.
government documents
related to OPERATION NORTHWOODS. The operation proposed conducting
mass casualty attacks on American targets and blaming it on Cuba to rally
public support for war against Fidel Castro. President Kennedy rejected the
plan, but it is important to know the kinds of actions our government and
military leaders are willing to seriously consider. These documents
clearly
reveal that we cannot just assume any future attack on our soil is the work
of al-Qaida.
Page 1 of File (Memorandum) 13 March 1962
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
Subject: Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba
The Joint Chiefs of Staff have considered the attached Memorandum for the Chief
of Operations, Cuba Project, which responds to a request of that office for
brief but precise description of pretexts which could provide justification for
US military intervention in Cuba. It is assumed that a single agency will be
given the primary responsibility for developing military and para-military
aspects of the basic plan. It is recommended that this responsibility for both
overt and covert military operations be assigned the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Page 5 of File (page
2 of Joint Chiefs report)
World opinion, and the United Nations forum should be favorably affected by
developing the international image of the Cuban government as rash and
irresponsible, and as an alarming and unpredictable threat to the peace of the
Western Hemisphere.
Page 10-11 of File
(page 7-8 of Joint Chiefs report)
A series of well coordinated incidents will be planned to take place in and
around Guantanamo to give genuine appearance of being done by hostile Cuban
forces.
(1) Start rumors (many). Use clandestine radio.
(2) Land friendly Cubans in uniform “over-the-fence” to stage attack on base.
(3) Capture Cuban (friendly) saboteurs inside the base.
(4) Start riots near the base main gate (friendly Cubans).
(5) Blow up ammunition inside the base: start fires.
(6) Burn aircraft on air base (sabotage).
(7) Lob mortar shells from outside of base into base.
(8) Capture assault teams approaching from the sea or vicinity of Guantanamo
City.
(9) Capture militia group which storms base.
(10) Sabotage ship in harbor; large fires – naphthalene.
(11) Sink ship near harbor entrance. Conduct funerals for mock-victims.
We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba. Casualty lists in
US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation. We could
develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida
cities and even in Washington.
Page 12 of File
(page 9 of Joint Chiefs report)
Use of [Soviet] MIG type aircraft by US pilots could provide additional
provocation. Attacks on surface shipping and destruction of US military drone
aircraft by MIG type planes would be useful as complementary actions. Reasonable
copies of the MIG could be produced from US resources in about three months.
Page 13 of File
(page 10 of Joint Chiefs report)
Hijacking attempts against civil air and surface craft should appear to continue
as harassing measures condoned by the government of Cuba.
It is possible to create an incident which will demonstrate convincingly that a
Cuban aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered civil airliner enroute
from the United States. The destination would be chosen only to cause the flight
plan to cross Cuba. The passengers could be a group of college students off on a
holiday.
An aircraft at Eglin AFB would be painted and numbered as an exact duplicate for
a civil registered aircraft belonging to a CIA proprietary organization in the
Miami area. At the designated time the duplicate would be substituted for the
actual civil aircraft and would be loaded with selected passengers, all boarded
under carefully prepared aliases. The actual aircraft would be converted to a
drone.
The drone aircraft and the actual aircraft will be scheduled to allow a
rendezvous south of Florida. From the rendezvous point the passenger-carrying
aircraft will descend to minimum altitude and go directly into an auxiliary
field at Eglin AFB where arrangements will have been made to evacuate the
passengers and return the aircraft to its original status. The drone aircraft
meanwhile will continue to fly the filed flight plan. When over Cuba the drone
will be transmitting on the international distress frequency a “MAY DAY” message
stating he is under attack by Cuban MIG aircraft. The transmission will be
interrupted by destruction of the aircraft which will be triggered by radio
signal.
Note from WantToKnow.info:
Remember that these and other government
leaders think of this like a chess game. Sometimes you have to sacrifice your
own in order to win the game. As a further example of this, Zbigniew Brzezinski,
former US National Security Advisor and co-founder with David Rockefeller of the
Trilateral Commission, gave his 1997 book the title The Grand Chessboard:
American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. In this seminal book on
American foreign policy in the coming century, Brzezinksi states that because of
popular resistance to US military expansionism, his ambitious strategy for
"American global primacy" can’t be implemented "except in the circumstance of a
truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat." (The Grand
Chessboard page 211).
Consider also that in September 2000, a neo-conservative think-tank named
Project for the New American Century (PNAC) published a "blueprint for
maintaining global US preeminence and shaping the international security order
in line with American principles and interests." Written before the 2000
Presidential election, this revealing report was commissioned by future Vice
President Cheney, future Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, future Deputy Defense
Secretary Wolfowitz, and Florida Governor Jeb Bush. The report shows that the
Bush administration intended to take military control of Persian Gulf oil
whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power. It advocates "regime change" in
China, North Korea, Libya, Syria, and Iran. [See article in Sunday Herald,
9/7/02 or click here to download the report--Rebuilding America's Defenses]
Considering the above information, is it beyond comprehension that tactics
similar to Operation Northwoods might have been used in relation to the 9/11
attacks in order to create "a truly massive and widely perceived direct external
threat?" Could 9/11 have been the pretext upon which to build a War on Terror in
order to "maintain global US preeminence?"
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