Those that do not remember history...

From: Greg Perry <gr..._at_liveammo.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:59:06 -0500

"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.'”
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