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| My, my. Does this sound familiar? |
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| Kashif |
| 10/09/01 at 16:42:35 |
| 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. Sound familiar? James Bamford (former investigative reporter for ABC News), in his recently published book "Body of Secrets" (Doubleday: 2001), describes 721 pages of analysis and never-before-seen documentation that concludes, amongst other things, that: 1) In an anti-Cuba terror plan, code-named Operation Northwoods, the U.S. reportedly planned: -hijacking planes, -blowing up a U.S. ship, -the sinking of Cuban refugee boats on the high seas, -and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro. 2) One document reportedly prepared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff said: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba. Casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of indignation." 3) The Northwoods plan also proposed that if the 1962 launch of John Glenn into orbit were to fail (the first attempt to put an American into orbit), resulting in the astronaut's death, the U.S. government would publicise fabricated evidence that Cuba had used electronic interference to sabotage the flight, the book says. 4) The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy's defence secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years. -------------------------------------- References & further reading: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-te.md.nsa24apr24.story |
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