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From ABCNEWS.COM

Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the
possible assassination of Cuban imigrants, 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.

"Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just"
- Thomas Jefferson Notes from Virginia


US Foreign Interventions and Invasions since Vietnam

Cuba 1963 - today - US blockades island for 39 years. Numerous assassination
attempts
against leader. Continued actions condemned by Human Rights Groups and the
United Nations
General Assembly.

Australia 1973-75 - CIA interferes and manipulates free election process.

Chile 1973 - CIA backed coup ousts elected president, installs military Gen.
Pinochet.
Decades of human rights abuses follow.

Portugal 1974 - CIA funnels millions to destabilize and sabotage NATO ally.

Angola 1976-92 - CIA assists South Africa-backed rebels.

Afghanistan 1979-82 - US supports, arms, trains Mujahadeen rebels including
rebel leader
Osama Bin Laden.

El Salvador 1980-92 - US aids government condemned for gross human rights
violations.

Nicaragua 1981-92 - US directs and illegally supports contra war, mines harbor.
Allows
open flow of narcotics into US. US actions condemned by the United Nations
World Court.

Chad 1982 - US supports overthrow of government. CIA supported secret police
kill and
torture tens of thousands.

Libya 1982 - USA shoots down 2 Libyan jets.

Honduras 1982 -90 - US builds bases near borders, supports government that uses
Death
Squads against it's citizens.

Lebanon 1982-84 - US bombs and shells Muslim positions, expels PLO from
territory.

Grenada 1983-84 - US military invades tiny island. 400 Grenadians killed.
"Gross
violation" of international law condemned by United Nations.

Iraq 1987-88 - US supports and arms Saddam Hussein's Iraq in war against Iran.

Iran 1988 - US shoots down Iranian passenger airliner, killing 290 civilians.
Claims it
was an "accident".

Libya 1989 - US bombs capitol Tripoli killing 55 civilians. Calls it
"collateral damage".

Philippines 1989 - US supports corrupt govt of Ferdinand Marcos against citizen
uprising.

Panama 1989 - US invades with 27,000 soldiers. Kills 3000+ Panamanians, kidnaps
it's own
installed drug-dealing leader and CIA asset. Illegal US actions condemned by
nearly
unanimous United Nations and Organization of American States.

Kuwait 1991 - US invades Middle East, contradicting its position by intervening
in
inter-Arab affairs. Returns Kuwaiti Monarchy accused of human right abuses to
throne.

Iraq 1990 - today - US randomly bombs civilian areas. Blockades Iraqi ports,
allows no
humanitarian or medical aid. est. 10,000 Iraqi's starve/die monthly as result.

Bulgaria 1991 - CIA funnels millions to destabilize one of the first freely
elected
governments.

Somalia 1992-94 - US sends in humanitarian aid. Becomes involved in Civil war,
takes sides
attacking one Mogadishu faction. Kills 500+ Somalis.

Peru 1992 - 01 - US provides military support, millions of dollars to corrupt
Fujimori
government. Drug kingpin Vladimir Montesino on CIA payroll while serving as
Intelligence
Chief. Involved directly in shooting down missionary aircraft, killing American
woman and
her infant child.

Colombia 1992 - present - US supports Colombian military, heavily involved in
drug
trafficking. 1,640 pounds of cocaine lands in Ft. Lauderdale Florida hidden
inside
Colombian Air Force cargo plane. Nearly 20,000 people killed by US supported
military and
para-military so far.

Bosnia 1993 - US naval blockade of Serbia and Montenegro.

Haiti 1994 - US blockades island government, CIA supports military coup to
remove elected
President Aristide, then forcibly re-installs Aristide as President after he
agrees to US
conditions of rule.

Sudan 1998 - US bombs Aspirin Factory in Khartoum killing civilians.

Afghanistan 1998 - US missiles kill 28 civilians

Yugoslavia 1999 - US laser-guided bombs destroy Chinese Embassy in Belgrade
killing three
Chinese journalists.

Afghanistan 2001 - ?

US involvement in Foreign assassinations or attempts
-- prohibited by Presidential decree since 1976 --

1960 - General Abdul Karim Kassem, leader of Iraq
1961 - Francois Duvalier, leader of Haiti
1961 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo
1961 - General Rafael Trujillo, leader of Dominican Republic
1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
1960s - Fidel Castro, President of Cuba , numerous attempts
1960s - Raul Castro, brother of Fidel.
1965 - Francisco Caamano, Opposition leader, Dominican Republic
1965-6 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France
1967 - Ernesto Che Guevara, Cuban leader
1970 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile
1970 - General Rene Schneider, Commander of Chilean Army
1970s, 81 - General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama
1972 - General Manuel Noriega, chief of Panama Intelligence
1975 - Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire
1976 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica
1980-86 - Moammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya, numerous attempts
1982 - Ayatollah Khomeine, leader of Iran
1983 - General Ahmed Dlimi, Army commander of Morocco
1983 - Miguel d'Escoto, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua
1984 - All nine leaders of the Nicaraguan National Directorate
1985 - Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanon Shiite leader
1991 - Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq
1998 - Osama bin Laden, former US trained "freedom fighter".
1999 - Slobodan Mlosevic, President of Yugoslavia