Operation Northwoods

3-13-2014

A now "UNCLASSIFIED" March 13, 1962 memorandum prepared by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff for the Secretary of Defense outlined Operation "Northwoods."

Operation Northwoods detailed "PRETEXTS TO JUSTIFY US MILITARY INTERVENTION IN CUBA." and included which of the following deceptions and acts of violence to be carried out by U.S. officials and the U.S. military?

a) "We could sink a boatlaod of Cubans enroute to Florida (real or simulated)."  (p 9)

b) "We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba."  (p 8)

c)  "We could foster attempts on lives of Cuban refugees in the United States . . . "  (p 9) ; "We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington."  (p 8)

e) "Highjacking attempts against civil air and surface craft should appear  . . . condoned by the government of Cuba."  (p 10)

f) all of the above

Answer: (f) all of the above

Sources:  GWU
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf

ABC
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662