
Operation Northwoods (Cold War Mystery!)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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11: Sabotas Ship in Guantanimo Bay
"We could blow up a us. Ship in guantanimo bay and blame cuba," the document says. "Or we could arrange to cause such an incident in the vicinity of havana or santiago as a spectacular result ofCuban attack from the air or sea, or both." The plan goes on to say that other nations can also be targeted for their support of castro's regime by using Cuban-style aircraft against sugar cane fields at night.
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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.
