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Operation Northwoods
US PLANNED FAKE TERROR ATTACKS ON CITIZENS TO CREATE SUPPORT FOR CUBAN WAR
From BODY OF SECRETS, James Bamford, Doubleday, 2001, p.82 and following. Scanned and edited by NY Transfer News.
According to secret and long-hidden documents obtained for Body of Secrets, the Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government. In the name of anti-Communism, they proposed launching a secret and bloody war of terrorism against their own country in order to trick the American public into supporting an ill-conceived war they intended to launch against Cuba.
Operation Northwoods
Code named Operation Northwoods, the plan, which had the written approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., Miami, and elsewhere. People would be framed for bombings they did not commit; planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they needed to launch their war.
An aircraft at Elgin AFB would be painted and numbered as an exact duplicate for a civil registered aircraft belonging to a CJA proprietary organization in the Miami area. At a designated time the duplicate would be substituted for the actual civil aircraft and would be loaded with the selected passengers, all boarded under carefully prepared aliases. The actual registered aircraft would be converted to a drone [a remotely controlled unmanned aircraft]. Take off times of 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 Elgin 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. This will allow ICAO [International Civil Aviation Organization radio stations in the Western Hemisphere to tell the U.S. what has happened to the aircraft instead of the U.S. trying to "sell" the incident.
Originally posted by Oscitate
Calling people who either reserve judgment or do not agree with you paid government shills is about as accurate as the notion in of itself is.
Operation Northwoods goes to show that there is a will, and that the government is not the caring benefactor many would have it be.
Originally posted by CaptainAmerica2012
THE United States Air Force was partly responsible aswell.
The USAF was conducting a live-fly exercise involving real commercial airliners. Norad was also involved in this training exercise(s), hence why 911 occured unimpeded.
NORAD had over 15 hijacked airliners on their screens.
"Is this real world or exercise?" - Norad worker
Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they needed to launch their war.
Originally posted by king9072
Originally posted by CaptainAmerica2012
THE United States Air Force was partly responsible aswell.
The USAF was conducting a live-fly exercise involving real commercial airliners. Norad was also involved in this training exercise(s), hence why 911 occured unimpeded.
NORAD had over 15 hijacked airliners on their screens.
"Is this real world or exercise?" - Norad worker
What a fantastic coincidence! On the one day in history when planes are hijacked, we're conducting a "drill" that deals with hijacked planes being flown into buildings. Gotta love a great coincidence!
The first time in history we experience a real hijacking and attack, and our trillion dollar defense industry FAILS? Are you kidding me? It sounds like they were set up for failure. Don't you think?
Hundreds of millions go into providing security for the most heavily defended building on earth, and even after 2 planes have been hijacked and flown into buildings, our trillion dollar defense industry fails to stop a 3rd attack?
Wow! Coincidences for everyone! YAY FUN TIMES!
Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they needed to launch their war.
The only funny part here, is that Bush and Co. didn't even produce the evidence and yet the American Public gobbled it all up. Hahah.
Originally posted by GoldenFleece
If the U.S. government was planning to murder their own citizens and start phony wars through the use of false flag terrorist attacks 47 years ago, why is it so hard to believe they'd do the same today?
And what lame excuse do the paid government disinfo shills who stalk the ATS 9/11 Forum 24/7 have for this?
Originally posted by chiron613
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When all is said and done, however, I see no compelling evidence that 9/11 was an inside job. All I see are accusations and some "expert" opinions by people who have no experience with how a building responds to having a jetliner filled with fuel crash into it at 500 mph. I see at least a dozen different, incompatible scenarios that try to prove why the 9/11 attack was a fake or an inside job. The planes didn't exist, they were holograms. The buildings were blown up using a controlled demolition, just like is done with old buildings that are imploded deliberately. Thermite was used. A missile, not a plane, hit the Pentagon. And so on.
Originally posted by chiron613
I don't doubt that some elements of our Government - of any government - would hesitate to kill a few thousand civilians, for some "greater cause" (such as fighting Communism or grabbing some country's oil). I seriously doubt, however, that anyone would agree to losing the Twin Towers. That cost *money*. A few thousand lives, fine. Billions of dollars? Not so fine. And I'm not just talking about the buildings themselves, but of the businesses in them and around them. I just can't see anyone letting it happen.
Originally posted by Taxi-Driver
Originally posted by GoldenFleece
If the U.S. government was planning to murder their own citizens and start phony wars through the use of false flag terrorist attacks 47 years ago, why is it so hard to believe they'd do the same today?
Erm, because Project Northwoods was never considered.
Originally posted by Taxi-Driver
Originally posted by GoldenFleece
And what lame excuse do the paid government disinfo shills who stalk the ATS 9/11 Forum 24/7 have for this?
Your paranoia has anyone that disagrees with you stuffed into a tidy box as a "Paid govt. disinfo agent" -- Which is narcissitic on your part, because, quite frankly my dear... no one gives a damn.
Originally posted by chiron613
To be honest, I don't see that Project Northwoods was real. Anyone can concoct a devilish conspiracy theory, especially of something that took place nearly 50 years ago.
Originally posted by chiron613
I don't doubt that some elements of our Government - of any government - would hesitate to kill a few thousand civilians, for some "greater cause" (such as fighting Communism or grabbing some country's oil). I seriously doubt, however, that anyone would agree to losing the Twin Towers. That cost *money*. A few thousand lives, fine. Billions of dollars? Not so fine.
Originally posted by chiron613
When all is said and done, however, I see no compelling evidence that 9/11 was an inside job.
Originally posted by chiron613
All I see are accusations and some "expert" opinions by people who have no experience with how a building responds to having a jetliner filled with fuel crash into it at 500 mph.
Originally posted by chiron613
I see at least a dozen different, incompatible scenarios that try to prove why the 9/11 attack was a fake or an inside job. The planes didn't exist, they were holograms. The buildings were blown up using a controlled demolition, just like is done with old buildings that are imploded deliberately. Thermite was used. A missile, not a plane, hit the Pentagon. And so on.
If I were the government, I'd fuel all sorts of conspiracy theories. The true story, assuming it's not what the government told us, would be lost among all the nonsense, and no one would ever learn what really happened.
Originally posted by GoldenFleece
If the U.S. government was planning to murder their own citizens and start phony wars through the use of false flag terrorist attacks 47 years ago, why is it so hard to believe they'd do the same today?
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
On the contrary, Northwoods is enough to tell us 9/11 *wasn't* an inside job.
First off, read the plan again- nowhere in the plan did it say they were going to murder US citizens.
The suggested operations grew progressively more outrageous. Another called for an action similar to the infamous incident in February 1898 when an explosion aboard the battleship Maine in Havana harbor killed 266 U.S. sailors. Although the exact cause of the explosion remained undetermined, it sparked the Spanish-American War with Cuba. Incited by the deadly blast, more than one million men volunteered for duty. Lemnitzer and his generals came up with a similar plan. "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," they proposed; "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."
There seemed no limit to their fanaticism: "We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington," they wrote.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Second, the plan was scrapped and the guy who came up with it was sacked, meaning the gov't DIDN'T want to do operation Northwoods.
Even after Lemnitzer lost his job, the Joint Chiefs kept planning "pretext" operations at least into 1963. Among their proposals was a deliberately create a war between Cuba and any of a number of N. American neighbors. This would give the United States military an excuse to come in on the side of Cuba's adversary and get rid of "A contrived 'Cuban' attack on an OAS [Organization of Americas] member could be set up," said one proposal, "and the attacked state could be urged to 'take measures of self-defense and request ice from the U.S. and OAS; the U.S. could almost certainly obtain necessary two-thirds support among OAS members for collective action against Cuba."
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Third, becuase they didn't do it, there's no way to tell whether the plan would have even worked, which is unlikely.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Fourth, the gov't ADMITTED they concocted the plan to begin with. If they're going to be pulling secret plots liek this they're sure as hell not goign to ever admit any other plots.
Because of the secrecy and illegality of Operation Northwoods, all details remained hidden for forty years. Lemnitzer may have thought that all copies of the relevant documents had been destroyed; he was not one to leave compromising material lying around. Following the Bay of Pigs debacle, for example, he ordered Brigadier General David W Gray, Craig's predecessor as chief of the Cuba project within the JCS, to destroy all his notes concerning Joint Chiefs actions and discussions during that period. Gray's meticulous notes were the only detailed official records of what happened within the JCS during that time. According to Gray, Lemnitzer feared a congressional investigation and therefore wanted any incriminating evidence destroyed.
With the evidence destroyed, Lemnitzer felt free to lie to Congress. When asked, during secret hearings before a Senate committee, if he knew of any Pentagon plans for a direct invasion of Cuba he said he did not. Yet detailed JCS invasion plans had been drawn up even before Kennedy was inaugurated. And additional plans had been developed since.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Trying to use a plan that DIDN'T get anyone killed, which the gov't DIDN'T want to do, which they ADMITTED they came up with, to support the idea there's a gov't conspiracy behind 9/11, is stretching things grotesquely.