Operation Northwoods: Which option makes for the best TL?

Which Northwoods option or options makes for the best TL?

  • Option 1

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Option 2

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Option 3

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Option 4

    Votes: 2 66.7%
  • Option 5

    Votes: 1 33.3%
  • Option 6

    Votes: 1 33.3%
  • Option 7

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Option 8

    Votes: 1 33.3%
  • Option 9

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    3

The Vulture

Banned
On the off chance you're not familiar with Operation Northwoods, the briefing to the Joint Chiefs of Staff can be found here:
http://www.smeggys.co.uk/operation_northwoods.php

Naturally, you can see why I found this to be ripe for exploration. Basically my POD is that Northwoods is implemented as outlined (rather unlikely after Bay of Pigs, but hey). So which one or more of the nine plans proposed (pages 10-14) would make for the most interesting timeline?
 
Option 8 or option 4.I simple Cuban invasion TL would be boring--the truth has to come out. And when it does, the fact that the US government sponsored a terror campaign in the USA, that killed American citizens, could would have far reaching consequences.
 
Well, it hasn't made much of a difference to the American people that the defense establishment was willing to provoke a war and possibly arrange for the death of Americans to cause said war. Northwoods has been public for a few years now, and most people don't know about it...
 

The Vulture

Banned
Well, talking about it and actually doing it, then having it exposed, are very different things.

Suppose Northwoods is carried out, the war with Cuba doesn't go very well, and then the media gets the truth. Kennedy, the CIA, and the Joint Chiefs are ruined, Vietnam may well be butterflied away or substantially changed. The Cold War might end up radically different.
 
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