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After the fall of Cuba to communism and the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Joint Chiefs of Staff wanted another crack at taking out the Castro regime, so they decided to entertain a extreme solution: false flag attacks on the American public. They believed that such attacks would encourage the American public and the international community to support a war against Cuba.

Labelled Operation Northwoods, the plan included

  • Blowing up rafts of Cuban refugees
  • Attacking Guantanamo Bay
  • Hijacking a civilian airliner
  • Killing random Cuban-Americans
  • Shooting down a airliner filled with college students
  • A "Remember the Maine" incident.
The plan was signed off by Chairman Lyman Lemmitzer, but rejected by President John F Kennedy.

So what if the Joint Chiefs ignored the President and staged the attacks anyway? (since there is no conceivable way for JFK to support this plan)
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