Where were you in ’62? On the day I was born, JFK was president, the Vietnam War tripled the troops, the Cuban missile crisis was in full swing, we were on the brink of nuclear destruction, it was an exciting time for sure, this is when I joined the party, and it has been exciting.
I wondered what was happening in the world on the day I was born and I found this most interesting, now declassified document, called “Operation Northwoods”, it’s dated March 13th 1962, my birthday. It appears as if factions of the US Government, the Joint Chiefs of Staff no less, proposed to fake a terrorist act in the USA and blame it on Cuba so American’s would want to go kick some Castro ass.
The document lays out lots of possible scenarios in detail, including hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of phony evidence that would implicate the Cuban government (I have included a link to the actual document), but one particular proposal really stood out to me so I thought I would include it here. When I read this document from 1962 I can’t help but think of 911, I’m not accusing anybody of anything, I’m just saying:
“It is possible to create an incident which will demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered civil airliner en route from the United States to Jamaica, Guatemala, Panama, or Venezuela. The destination would be chosen only to cause the flight plan route to cross Cuba. The passengers could be a group of college students off on a holiday or any grouping of persons with a common interest to support chartering a non-scheduled flight.
a. An aircraft at Elgin AFB would be painted and numbered as an exact duplicate for a civil registered aircraft belonging to a CIA proprietary organization in the Miami area. At a designated time the duplicate would be substituted for the actual civil aircraft and would be loaded with the selected passengers, all boarded under carefully prepared aliases. The actual registered aircraft would be converted to a drone.
b. Take off times of the drone aircraft and the actual aircraft will be scheduled to allow a rendezvous south of Florida. From the rendezvous point the passenger-carrying aircraft will descend to minimum altitude and go directly into an auxiliary field at Eglin AFB where arrangements will have been made to evacuate the passengers and return the aircraft to its original status. The drone aircraft meanwhile will continue to fly the filed flight plan. When over Cuba the drone will begin transmitting on the international distress frequency a “MAY DAY” message stating he is under attack by Cuban MIG aircraft. The transmission will be interrupted by destruction of the aircraft which will be triggered by radio signal. This will allow ICAO radio stations in the Western Hemisphere to tell the United States what has happened to the aircraft instead of the United States trying to “sell” the incident.”
Wow! The Kennedy Administration said no to this proposal but I have a sneaky suspicion it wasn’t the last time the idea got kicked around.
Anyway that is what was happening on the day I was born, rock and roll…
What do you think about all that?
cool Mark . This should be fun .
Wow. I love the idea of using random entering points into history, such as your birthday, to unearth interesting (and, in this case, politically relevant) information.
I wonder often about the 911 attack. I’m not one for conspiracies, but that is one I have a hard time not buying into, especially after watching Zeitgeist. I may be naive in underestimating the dishonesty and greed of the US government. It’s important for people to see documents like this one, as a reminder that those in power need to be kept in check and regulated by the people, or else we have failed as a democracy.
Thanks, Mark!
I do believe in ghosts, I do, I do I do ( Lion in Wizard of OZ)