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Gen. Lyman L.
Lemnitzer, shown
Jan. 9, 1957, was
head of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff at
the time the plans
were drawn up and
presented to the
secretary of
defense. (AP
Photo)
Friendly Fire
Book: U.S. Military Drafted Plans
to
Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke
War With Cuba
By David Ruppe
N E W Y O R K, May 1 - In the
early 1960s, America's top
military
leaders reportedly drafted plans
to
kill innocent people and commit
acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to
create public support for a war
against Cuba.
Code named Operation Northwoods, the
plans
reportedly included the possible
assassination of Cuban
�migr�s, sinking boats of Cuban
refugees on the high
seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a
U.S. ship, and even
orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S.
cities.
The plans were developed as ways to
trick the American
public and the international community
into supporting a
war to oust Cuba's then new leader,
communist Fidel
Castro.
America's top military brass even
contemplated causing
U.S. military casualties, writing: "We
could blow up a
U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame
Cuba," and,
"casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would
cause a helpful
wave of national indignation."
Details of the plans are described in
Body of Secrets
(Doubleday), a new book by investigative
reporter
James Bamford about the history of
America's largest
spy agency, the National Security Agency.
However, the
plans were not connected to the agency,
he notes.
The plans had the written approval of all
of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and were presented to
President
Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert
McNamara, in
March 1962. But they apparently were
rejected by the
civilian leadership and have gone
undisclosed for nearly
40 years.
"These were Joint Chiefs of Staff
documents. The
reason these were held secret for so
long is the Joint
Chiefs never wanted to give these up
because they were
so embarrassing," Bamford told
ABCNEWS.com.
"The whole point of a democracy is to
have leaders
responding to the public will, and here
this is the
complete reverse, the military trying to
trick the American
people into a war that they want but that
nobody else
wants."
Gunning for War
The documents show "the Joint Chiefs of
Staff drew up
and approved plans for what may be the
most corrupt
plan ever created by the U.S.
government," writes
Bamford.
The Joint Chiefs even proposed using
the potential
death of astronaut John Glenn during the
first attempt to
put an American into orbit as a false
pretext for war with
Cuba, the documents show.
Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn,
they wrote,
"the objective is to provide irrevocable
proof ... that the
fault lies with the Communists et all
Cuba [sic]."
The plans were motivated by an intense
desire among
senior military leaders to depose Castro,
who seized
power in 1959 to become the first
communist leader in
the Western Hemisphere - only 90 miles
from U.S.
shores.
The earlier CIA-backed Bay of Pigs
invasion of Cuba by
Cuban exiles had been a disastrous
failure, in which the
military was not allowed to provide
firepower.The military
leaders now wanted a shot at it.
"The whole thing was so bizarre," says
Bamford, noting
public and international support would
be needed for an
invasion, but apparently neither the
American public, nor
the Cuban public, wanted to see U.S.
troops deployed
to drive out Castro.
Reflecting this, the U.S. plan called for
establishing
prolonged military - not democratic -
control over the
island nation after the invasion.
"That's what we're supposed to be
freeing them from,"
Bamford says. "The only way we would
have succeeded
is by doing exactly what the Russians
were doing all
over the world, by imposing a
government by tyranny,
basically what we were accusing Castro
himself of
doing."
'Over the Edge'
The Joint Chiefs at the time were headed
by Eisenhower
appointee Army Gen. Lyman L.
Lemnitzer, who, with the
signed plans in hand made a pitch to
McNamara on
March 13, 1962, recommending
Operation Northwoods
be run by the military.
Whether the Joint Chiefs' plans were
rejected by
McNamara in the meeting is not clear.
But three days
later, President Kennedy told Lemnitzer
directly there
was virtually no possibility of ever using
overt force to
take Cuba, Bamford reports. Within
months, Lemnitzer
would be denied another term as
chairman and
transferred to another job.
The secret plans came at a time when
there was distrust
in the military leadership about their
civilian leadership,
with leaders in the Kennedy
administration viewed as too
liberal, insufficiently experienced and soft
on
communism. At the same time, however,
there real were
concerns in American society about their
military
overstepping its bounds.
There were reports U.S. military leaders
had encouraged
their subordinates to vote conservative
during the
election.
And at least two popular books were
published focusing
on a right-wing military leadership
pushing the limits
against government policy of the day. The
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee published
its own report on
right-wing extremism in the military,
warning a
"considerable danger" in the "education
and propaganda
activities of military personnel" had been
uncovered. The
committee even called for an
examination of any ties
between Lemnitzer and right-wing
groups. But
Congress didn't get wind of Northwoods,
says Bamford.
"Although no one in Congress could
have known at the
time," he writes, "Lemnitzer and the Joint
Chiefs had
quietly slipped over the edge."
Even after Lemnitzer was gone, he
writes, the Joint
Chiefs continued to plan "pretext"
operations at least
through 1963.
One idea was to create a war between
Cuba and another
Latin American country so that the United
States could
intervene. Another was to pay someone
in the Castro
government to attack U.S. forces at the
Guantanamo
naval base - an act, which Bamford
notes, would have
amounted to treason. And another was to
fly low level
U-2 flights over Cuba, with the intention
of having one
shot down as a pretext for a war.
"There really was a worry at the time
about the military
going off crazy and they did, but they
never succeeded,
but it wasn't for lack of trying," he says.
After 40 Years
Ironically, the documents came to light,
says Bamford, in
part because of the 1992 Oliver Stone
film JFK, which
examined the possibility of a conspiracy
behind the
assassination of President Kennedy.
As public interest in the assassination
swelled after JFK's
release, Congress passed a law
designed to increase the
public's access to government records
related to the
assassination.
The author says a friend on the board
tipped him off to
the documents.
Afraid of a congressional investigation,
Lemnitzer had
ordered all Joint Chiefs documents
related to the Bay of
Pigs destroyed, says Bamford. But
somehow, these
remained.
"The scary thing is none of this stuff
comes out until 40
years after," says Bamford.
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