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this was a struggle of Cuban Patriots
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against a Cuban dictator on March 13
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1962 The Joint Chiefs of Staff put this
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document in front of the secretary of
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defense for approval from the president
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this is a memo prepared by the most
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senior leaders in the U.S military some
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of the most powerful men in the country
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and they're asking for permission to
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execute a plan a plan to lob mortar
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shells into their own military bases
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with some damage to installations and
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then to make hijacking attempts against
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civilian air and surface craft they're
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proposing to blow up a U.S ship in the
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U.S naval base Guantanamo Bay and even
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to conduct a terror campaign on American
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soil exploding a few plastic explosives
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and carefully chosen spots
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we're looking at a plan to blow things
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up on American soil and then to blame it
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all on Cuba Cuban people have not yet
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[Music]
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operation never happened but it almost
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did and that gets to a big question why
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would some of America's most powerful
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leaders charged with safeguarding our
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nation think that their Duty would
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require them to lie to and terrorize the
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American people
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in other words why were they planning
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operation northwards we did not the
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first time the Communist tanks have
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rolled over
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again rain is not inexhaustible
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into operation Northwoods
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[Music]
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operation Northwoods was a response to a
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problem the U.S government had they
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called it the Cuba problem
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Cuba became a problem for the CIA when
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they watched this young activist with an
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affinity for cigars lead a Communist
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Revolution on the island throwing out
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the American friendly dictator and
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nationalizing all the valuable land and
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industries that American businesses had
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been getting rich off for decades this
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was the Cold War and communism was now
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90 miles away threatening to spread to
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other countries in Latin America
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countries that American businesses also
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wanted to continue controlling and
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exploiting and any day this new leader
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could align with the Soviet Union giving
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the US's biggest geopolitical rival a
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military base within breathing distance
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of Florida
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so this was what the Joint Chiefs called
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their Cuba problem
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[Music]
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us had a few solutions to their problem
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first they put an embargo on Cuba
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blocking all U.S exports to the country
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except for food and Medicine second they
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stopped buying Cuba's largest export
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sugar this actually ended up backfiring
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when the Soviet Union stepped in to buy
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Cuban sugar kicking off an economic
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alliance between these two communist
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countries exactly what the U.S didn't
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want and third the U.S started making
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plans
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lots of plans plans to somehow get rid
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of Castro to turn Cuba back into the
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American Business friendly client State
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through whatever means necessary in one
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of the secret plans called operation
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Zapata the CIA recruited 1500 Cuban
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Exiles who fled to Miami during the
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Cuban Revolution it was this little
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cia-funded army called Brigade 2506 and
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the goal was to have them invade Cuba
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and remove Castro from power so the CIA
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trains them at this camp in the
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mountains of Guatemala where they had
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just recently executed a coup and
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installed a US friendly dictator and
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right in the middle of the planning
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stages of this operation JFK wins the
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presidency
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can do for you ask what you can do for
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your country and he inherits this scheme
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to invade Cuba using exiled Cubans the
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CIA briefs him on it this plan to fix
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the Cuba Problem by forcibly unseeding
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Castro using Cuban Exiles and after some
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debate JFK approves the plan
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so on the 17th of April 1961 they
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launched their Invasion Brigade 2506
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landed on Playa giron with the plan to
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invade the island and Spark a popular
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revolution against Castro
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leadership of Fidel Castro Landings were
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affected by rebels at several but it was
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a complete failure Castro had found out
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about the invasion ahead of time a radio
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station on the beach had spotted the
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invading ships arriving and called for
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help several of the invading ships sank
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on the coral reef and the invading
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forces were met with immediate
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resistance from Cuban Armed Forces who
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defeated them within three days most of
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them were captured nine U.S servicemen
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actually flew combat missions in support
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of this Invasion four of which were shot
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down and killed in the process something
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the U.S government and the CIA would go
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on to deny for almost 30 years but the
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point is that this Invasion failed
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miserably and JFK and his administration
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were to blame
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on traditional military needs on armies
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prepared to cross borders on missiles
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boys for flight
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now it should be clear that this is no
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longer enough JFK would later fire the
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CIA director holding him responsible for
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the disastrous Invasion plan that we
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know as the Bay of Pigs but this didn't
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change anything the US government was
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still obsessed with removing Castro from
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power they just needed a new plan so JFK
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initiates his own plan called the Cuba
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project AKA operation Mongoose over the
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next year the CIA employs hundreds of
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spies to collect Intelligence on Cuba
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they send submarines on recon missions
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to Cuban Waters they fund anti-castro
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protest movements spreading propaganda
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throughout the country they sabotaged
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Cuban infrastructure to create chaos and
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they make dozens more plans to
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assassinate Castro directly including
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preparing poisonous pills to be planted
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in a beverage to be drunk by Castro they
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even hired the American Mafia to deliver
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the pills knowing that the mafia had
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their casinos kicked out of Havana
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During the Revolution and would want
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revenge but none of this worked the
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assassination attempts all fell apart
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Fidel Castro still remained in power his
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support wasn't wavering and the U.S
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military was getting desperate they
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needed to solve the Cuba problem before
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the Soviets could get more involved on
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the island so after all these botched
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assassination attempts and failed
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invasions The Joint Chiefs of Staff
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concluded that the only way to get rid
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of Castro was for the U.S military
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itself to invade Cuba and take him out
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but they knew that the U.S public would
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not support an outright invasion they
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needed to create a reason a
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justification and this gets us back to
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our document
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the one that went to the Secretary of
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Defense for the president's approval
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this cover and deception plan to make
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attacks on American targets fake attacks
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that will be blamed on Cuba to raise
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tensions between the U.S and Cuba to
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justify an invasion a legitimate
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provocation as the basis for a U.S
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military intervention in Cuba
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in other words a lie to the American
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public in the International Community a
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series of false Flags to get what they
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wanted and all detailed in this
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classified document that was only meant
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for a few people with hopes that the
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president would approve in the spring of
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1962.
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if the nations of this hemisphere
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should fail to meet their commitments
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against outside communist penetration
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then I wanted clearly understood
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that this government will not hesitate
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in meeting its primary obligations
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which are to the security of our nation
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so let's see what this plan actually
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says it starts with the U.S military
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base at Guantanamo Bay where they would
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start rumors using fake radio stations
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and get american-friendly locals to
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Stage fake attacks on the base starting
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riots in the surrounding area another
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proposed part of the plan was to blow up
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a U.S ship and blame it on Cuba this was
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specifically called out as a quote
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remember the main incident referencing
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the sinking of an American warship in
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Cuba in the late 1800s that the U.S used
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to justify intervening in Cuba back then
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to fight the Spanish this is often
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thought of as a planned sabotage to
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justify the intervention and here was
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the U.S military in the 60s at it again
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the document predicts that the
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newspapers would start reporting on the
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casualties causing a helpful wave of
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national indignation they also wanted to
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create a fake terrorist campaign on
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American soil in Miami or Washington
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they wanted to sink boats of Cuban
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refugees and Stage the shooting of ref
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Refugee targets and even suggested
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exploding a few plastic bombs in
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American cities these weren't all going
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to be pretend they even say in the
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document that they would go to the
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extent of wounding people and then
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making fake arrests with prepared
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documents so it could all be widely
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publicized making Cuba look like an
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irresponsible government worthy of
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American intervention they thought
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through having American Air Force pilots
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fly over places like Nicaragua and drop
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bombs on Cane fields to burn them down
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using weapons from the Soviet Union but
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for this to work they would have to be
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flying Cuban military-style aircraft
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they would need to ensure that their
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planes were properly painted they would
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also use these planes to harass American
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civilian aircraft making it look like it
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was the Cubans doing this they planned a
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fake hijacking of commercial planes to
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blame the Cuban government or to fake
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shooting down a civilian airliner and if
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that wasn't enough The Joint Chiefs
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planned to create an incident which will
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make it appear that communist Cuban Jets
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have destroyed a U.S Air Force aircraft
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while it was flying over international
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waters in an unprovoked attack
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operation Northwoods was a reckless plan
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to lie and hurt people proposed by top
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government leaders who were more and
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more desperate to invade Cuba and they
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wanted to move fast they say in just a
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few months they needed to do this so
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that this attack wouldn't involve the
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Soviet Union who still hadn't
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established any defense pact or military
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bases in Cuba so what we're looking at
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here is the increasing desperation of
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the U.S military to achieve its goal to
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solve the Cuba problem if JFK would just
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approve this plan then the military
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would get to work blowing things up
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attacking their bases and terrorizing
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the American people
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but he rejected it operation Northwoods
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never happened
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JFK's rejection of this plan is one
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reason that there was a rift between him
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and the military with the military
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wanting to take a hard line on Cuba and
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JFK feeling the sting of the Bay of Pigs
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invasion thinking that something like
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this was too much of a risk a month
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later another document came to him the
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Joint Chiefs following up with another
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memo saying that the only way to remove
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the Communist Regime was military
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intervention by the United States and
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that Cuba was a vital base of operations
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for Espionage sabotage and subversion
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against other countries in the region
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the fear was that communism would spread
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across Latin America because of this and
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time is running out
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the rift between JFK and the military
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continued during the Cuban Missile
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Crisis when the Joint Chiefs hoped to
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deploy nuclear missiles against the
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Soviets and invade Cuba but JFK stood up
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to the military once again and said no
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JFK eventually went on to deny General
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Leeman lemnitzer another term as
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chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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likely because of his leading role in
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planning operation Northwoods and
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looking at this bizarre episode in
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American history you might feel like
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this is a moment where our system worked
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military leaders tried to abuse their
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power to launch an unprovoked and
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illegal invasion of another country and
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the president stopped them checks and
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balances right but the reality is all
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these men have the same goal
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Castro out of power and Cuba under their
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control again their disagreement was one
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of just a few degrees the means not the
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ends the reality is that the US was one
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man just one person away from this
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operation happening from a full-scale
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Invasion if JFK had lost the presidency
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to Nixon would operation Northwoods have
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happened we can't say conclusively but
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it certainly raises the probability but
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what's more startling is that outside of
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a few norms and some ideas about
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government nothing fundamentally has
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changed in our government the political
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military machine still runs on the same
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software it did in the 60s if the US
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government felt like it and had a big
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enough enemy a big enough threat to
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American interests
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it could happen again
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the Iraqi regime
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has plotted to develop anthrax
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and nerve gas
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and nuclear weapons for over a decade
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States like these and their terrorist
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allies constitute an axis of Evil arming
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to threaten the Peace of the world
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