
Operation Northwoods (Cold War Mystery!)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Operation Northwoods - The Joint Chiefs of Staff
Operation northwoods was a series of possible justifications that we could use to set up an invasion of cuba. The chief of operations of the cuba project asked for a list of ideas, and they came up with it quickly. It is assumed that there will be similar submissions from other agencies,. These inputs will be used as a basis for developing a time phased plan. Individual projects can then be considered on a case by case basis.
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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.
