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CASE #3H4QID · 3 entities · 3 connections
Operation Northwoods
The Pentagon once proposed staging terror attacks on Americans — then blaming Cuba.
In 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff proposed staging attacks on American targets that could be blamed on Cuba to justify military intervention. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara rejected the plan, and it was declassified decades later.
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Quick facts
- →The plan included faking hijackings and blaming Cuba for civilian casualties to manufacture public outrage.
- →It reached the desk of Robert McNamara — the same McNamara who later served under Kennedy.
- →McNamara rejected it outright. It never left the planning stage.
- →Declassified in 1997, it's one of the only "false flag" theories confirmed by the government itself.
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Joint Chiefs of Staff (organization)
Proposed the Northwoods plan in March 1962.
→ proposed → Operation Northwoods plan✓documented
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Operation Northwoods plan (document)
Declassified 1962 proposal for staged attacks to justify action against Cuba.
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Robert McNamara (person)
Secretary of Defense who rejected the Northwoods plan; also served under Kennedy.
Also appears in: JFK assassination
→ served as Secretary of Defense under → John F. Kennedy✓documented
→ rejected → Operation Northwoods plan✓documented
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