ABC News finally discovers Operation Northwoods

[runestone]

The Internet community has known about Operation Northwoods for years. Good to see the mainstream media is finally catching up to the wicked things the U.S. intel community gets up to. Just remember, these are the guys who are supposed to be looking after you, not trying to kill you.

Now try to imagine what they're up to that we DON'T hear about, and probably never will.

Sick, corrupt bastards.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662

"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.

Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities."

[Kale]

Yeah, I first heard about it a while back in an amateur documentary about some of the inconsistencies of 9/11, wish I could remember the name of it, it was actually pretty well made and contained a lot of detailed facts. Crazy shit, sometimes I kind of wish I didn't see this stuff.

[Shins]

Lucky for us all that the US government, malicious as some of its prime movers might be, is a largely incompetent and inefficient system, thus making this kind of plan too unwieldy for execution on their part.

Or, idealistically, there are people in place that will deny the possibility outright:


Whether the Joint Chiefs' plans were rejected by McNamara in the meeting is not clear. But three days later, President Kennedy told Lemnitzer directly there was virtually no possibility of ever using overt force to take Cuba, Bamford reports. Within months, Lemnitzer would be denied another term as chairman and transferred to another job.

[Evonus]

I'm not really surprised. Most military leaders are batshit fucking loco to start with, that's why we have civilian politicians getting the final say on everything.

[Destagow]

Example of why patriotism is ignorant.

[Slevin57]

It was a plan.. It was never put into action obviously because somewhere along the line someone realized "Hey, maybe we shouldn't do this.."

There are alot of plans, less than 1% are good enough to be put into action. I'm there are many more Northwood type plans, probbaly even worse plans that have been formulated. But, they never get to see the light of day.

[Shins]

This is the negative side of outside-of-the-box thinking. When you set up an environment in which any solution is treated as a viable one, you can and will see crazy shit thrown out, and this is one example. Not an excuse by any means, but it does give some context to how ideas like this make it to the planning phase to begin with.

On the positive side of things, the same groups of people do come up with good radical ideas from time to time as well.

[System_Zero]

If the government couldn't keep as something as simple a raid on a hotel room under wraps, what makes you think they could keep something this big from being known?

[iLazz 2.0]

If the government couldn't keep as something as simple a raid on a hotel room under wraps, what makes you think they could keep something this big from being known?Because this is an internal plan within the Pentagon. What I find most disturbing about this is some people will always say we must trust the government. Even when confronted with proof they are murdering gangster scum, some people will give them the benefit of the doubt like SystemZero has done here.

[runestone]

The fact that a government is a public institution staffed by members of the public and under constant scrutiny by media and opposition parties, this makes it difficult for them to keep secrets.

But we're not talking about governments. Believe me when I say intel agencies CAN keep secrets very, very well - it's their job.

[Destagow]

Believe me when I say intel agencies CAN keep secrets very, very well - it's their job.

We all know you work for the Aussie elite. No need to cover it up.