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Operation Northwoods (Cold War Mystery!)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Operation Northwoods - A Memorandum of Understanding

Operation northwoods had plans for creating plausible pretexts to use force, with the pretext being either a tax on us or a cuban action in latin america. The president said ontly that we were not discussing the use of military force but there were flash points elsewhere that we might need to deploy our forces - including berlin. If your view of lying is that it's always ong, then operation northwoods was immoral from the get go. On the other hand, if you think that lying is sometimes permitted, such as in war time, then the circumstances of the cold war could potentially justify the deception that the project involved. So this plan involves killing on a large scale in

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