www.abcnews.com 1 May 2001
Operation Northwoods: acts of terrorism that never happened
By David Ruppe
New York - 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
David Ruppe (ABCNEWS.com) wrote:
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
