I have two words for you and anyone who thinks our government wouldn’t murder its own citizens. Operation Northwoods! It is an OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT procured via a freedom of information act request, that details a 1963 state-department requested/approved plan to murder inncoent Americans and make it appear as though Communist Cubans were responsible. The plan even goes as far as suggesting that a southern florida terrorist campaign comitted by Americans, against Americans would be appropriate. Aww heck since you seem like you hate the truth, I’ll be happy to paste the core section of Operation Northwoods and you can then begin insulting me too.

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 15-page GWU file on Operation Northwoods (page 2 of Pentagon report)
Page 5 of 15-page GWU file on Operation Northwoods (page 2 of Pentagon report)

The suggested courses of action … are based on the premise that US military intervention will result from a period of heightened US-Cuban tensions which place the United States in the position of suffering justifiable grievances. 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 8 of 15-page GWU file on Operation Northwoods (page 5 of Pentagon report)

This plan … should be developed to focus all efforts on a specific ultimate objective which would provide adequate justification for US military intervention. Such a plan would enable a logical build-up of incidents to be combined with other seemingly unrelated events to camouflage the ultimate objective.

Pages 10-11 of 15-page GWU file on Northwoods (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.
So, what kind of “pretexts” did the CIA come up with? The answer may shock you.
A. Incidents to establish a credible attack:

(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.
It does not end there.
Page 12 of 15-page GWU file on Operation Northwoods (page 9 of Pentagon report)
Use of MIG type aircraft by US pilots could provide additional provocation. Harassment of civil air, 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 15-page GWU file on Operation Northwoods (page 10 of Pentagon 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.

The government has a website where this document can be accessed. However, because our government wants to make it so as few people find out about Operation Northwoods as possible, the web address changes ever 30 minutes. SO go to wanttoknow.info, and look for item number one on any of the three timelines. There is a 2 page, 10 page and sixty page version and provides explicit instructions about how to get ahold of the original. But if you’re too lazy and judging by the fact you seem driven by everything BUT the facts, that may be you; there is an abbreviated version of the original document at wanttoknow.info. Did you know our government had military training excersizes that involved hijacked airliners being flown into buildings including the WTC and Pentagon, MONTHS before 9/11? How about the memorandum bush was given that was titled, Bin Ladin deterimed to strike U.S.? It specifically mentioned the WTC, yet Bush lied and said it had nothing to do with terrorism! Why did attorney general ashcroft cancel is flight on 9/11 due to a threat assesment? Why are 9/11 survivers, some of whom have been honored as hero’s being silenced when they say that they heard an explosion several seconds before the planes hit? Why was 9/11 the first time in history that the black box flight recorders were never recovered? Why did clean-up workers at the WTC say they saw two of the black boxes being removed from the rubble? Why did these people get threatened when the gov. found out what they knew? After you are finished eating your words, make sure you find the documentary, “Zero,” afterwords so you can see what a French Nobel prize winner, scores of ignored witnesses, professors across the country and other American Physicists have to say based on a REAL SCIENTIFIC AND FORENSIC INVESTIGATION! Regardless of your misinformed opinions, vicious insults and complete inability to present anything that resembles evidence which cannot be readily refuted, that still gives you no right to insult other people. Face it, you’re driven by your beliefs, not by the facts. People like you don’t even want to consider the ramifications of our government perpetrating the worst humanitarian crime in U.S. history, but now you know about Operation Northwoods. So you can no longer bask in the fallacious claim that our government would never murder its own people. They would, they have and they will do it again. President Kennedy was all that stopped Operation Northwoods and the inevitable nuclear hollacoust that would have followed, He was murdered less than six months later. If you want to keep impersonating an ostrich, be my guest. Not everyone is that naieve. I never had a position on 9/11 until I did my own thorough investigation. I’m working on my PHD or I will be starting to this fall, and being a history major its good form to learn about what truly goes on and how similar current events are to past ones. Have fun getting your belief system shattered…Next time though, if you don’t want to come off as an uneducated reject, try sticking to the facts insterad of focusing on useless insults that only make it appear as though you have no clue what your babbling about.

Sunstein’s call to discredit groups includes those who challenge the official views of the 9/11 attacks, the so-called 9/11 ‘truthers.’ Sunstein acknowledges that the US government has been involved in conspiracies in the past, but he confidently believes that this is no longer a problem. (See the Truth Emergency section of this volume for more on this issue, especially chapter 6.) He claims that groups that question the events of 9/11 are dangerous and could lead some people to violence (while presenting no concrete evidence to prove this).

I sure as hell do.