
Operation Northwoods (Cold War Mystery!)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Operation Northwards
The church's magisterium has spoken out with in asing frequency in defence of the sacredness and inviolability of human life. The deliberate decision to deprive an innocent human being of his life is always morally evil, he says. "Even if the proposed war to get rid of fidel castro had been just, you couldn't kill innocent people in order to bring it about"
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In 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff sent Operation Northwoods to JFK as a daring, covert plan to stop a potential Soviet invasion. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss this now declassified plan, the shocking series of secret actions it proposed, and Kennedy's response.
