In the early 1960s, America’s top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.
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. Written in response to a request from the Chief of the Cuba Project, Col. Edward Lansdale, the Top Secret memorandum describes U.S. plans to covertly engineer various pretexts that would justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba. These proposals - part of a secret anti-Castro program known as Operation Mongoose - included staging the assassinations of Cubans living in the United States, developing a fake “Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington,” including “sink[ing] a boatload of Cuban refugees (real or simulated),” faking a Cuban airforce attack on a civilian jetliner, and concocting a “Remember the Maine” incident by blowing up a U.S. ship in Cuban waters and then blaming the incident on Cuban sabotage. Bamford himself writes that Operation Northwoods “may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government.”
Your theory is that this plan against Cuba was somehow the inspiration for the American Right Wing to launch attacks killing thousands of citizens, trashing an already fragile economy, just as an excuse to wage war on Islam.
Never mind that fact that the author of this 40 year old plan against Cuba was summarily fired after this plan was developed, you believe that the Americans did this to themselves?
Let me tell you, It could have been done in response to the bombing of the Cole, or in response to Bin Ladens' declaration of War in 1998, or the bombing of our embassies, or the first attempt to down the World Trade Center. No need to manufature a crisis, we already had plenty of excuses.
Are you really that naive or just playing stupid.. bombings and other atrocities in OTHER countries would've Never motivated and inspired AMERICANS in the way it did after 911... utterly shocking it is to see foolish comments made by some people in the face of reality.. how can you trust this government with anything ?? that has lied and lied again.. simply look at the beneficiaries of 911.. generally humans like to get rewarded real quick after they do something .. so now US/Israel and other goons around the world have the 'god given right' to invade destroy and kill any people.. but ofcourse after calling them terrorists.. bravo !! my friend..
...staging the assassinations of Cubans living in the United States...
... developing a fake “Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington,”...
... faking a Cuban airforce attack on a civilian jetliner...
... concocting a “Remember the Maine” incident by blowing up a U.S. ship in Cuban waters and then blaming the incident on Cuban sabotage.
Dear God, this is what the United States government planned i.e. a terror campign in effect terrorise and kill people in the USA? If they could plan that then...then...?
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Og, maybe so. WHat do you say to Tuskegee experiment? You do know about that right... Yes, Americans can and have been doing "this" to themselves.
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Watch the movie "missing" and the dirty tricks of the American government in chile are exposed. It is about how they supplied the chilean govt of Allende the lists of American leftists in Chile and turned a blind eye when these guys were killed by the Chileans. The movie is about one of those guys.
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**Watch the movie "missing" and the dirty tricks of the American government in chile are exposed. It is about how they supplied the chilean govt of Allende the lists of American leftists in Chile and turned a blind eye when these guys were killed by the Chileans. The movie is about one of those guys. *
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What was the Tuskegee experiment?
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Tuskegee experiment...
For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood,”1 their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all. The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis—which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. “As I see it,” one of the doctors involved explained, “we have no further interest in these patients until they die.”
Tuskegee experiment...
For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood,”1 their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all. The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis—which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. “As I see it,” one of the doctors involved explained, “we have no further interest in these patients until they die.”
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Interesting. So this Tuskegee expirement and Operation Northwoods are proof that the US government did terrorise it's own people, and was prepared to do it again in bigger and more explosive terms.
you guys have to acknowledge that there is a process of unclassification at least.. back in Pakistan we're still wondering who killed Liaqat Ali.. can u get ISI to declassify anything?