Yeah, there's bull shit here. Lots of it.
I just don't buy into all this conspiratorial stuff at fucking all. There's a certain amount of randomness to the world that everybody either misses or refuses to accept.
I'm old enough to remember a country where people trusted the government and the media, and when Walter Cronkite was the most trusted guy in America. And I remember exactly when that trust of government started to go south in the '60's as well.
Now, it's a conspiracy to some if I eat a bowl of cereal.
Everybody isn't out to get you or steal your money or whatthefuckever.
This biggest change in this country is perception. It's still the same place with some improved social acceptance of certain protected minorties as compared to my youth. We still have lethal enemies. We still have problems. We still have recessions. We still need jobs.
Of course you see a much darker picture.
Operation Northwoods
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Operation Northwoods was a proposed
false flag operation against the Cuban government, that originated within the
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the
Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the
United States government in 1962. The proposals called for the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other
U.S. government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets, blaming it on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba. The plans detailed in the document 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 orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.
[2] The proposals were rejected by the
Kennedy administration.
[3]
At the time of the proposal, communists led by
Fidel Castro had recently taken power in Cuba
. The operation proposed creating public support for a war against Cuba by blaming it for terrorist acts that would actually be perpetrated by the U.S. Government.[4] To this end, Operation Northwoods proposals recommended hijackings and
bombings followed by the introduction of phony evidence that would implicate the Cuban government. It stated:
The desired resultant from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere.
Several other proposals were included within Operation Northwoods, including real or simulated actions against various
U.S. military and civilian targets. The operation recommended developing a "Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington".
The plan was drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, signed by Chairman
Lyman Lemnitzer and sent to the
Secretary of Defense. Although part of the U.S. government's anti-communist
Cuban Project, Operation Northwoods was never officially accepted; it was authorized by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but then rejected by President
John F. Kennedy. According to currently released documentation, none of the operations became active under the auspices of the Operation Northwoods proposals
