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Operation Northwoods
- mikece 7y agoThe most amazing thing about this is that almost nobody knows about it!
- sneak 7y agoOr, rather, they didn’t until 2001.
- jamestimmins 7y agoIt's worth noting that when this was presented to Kennedy, he removed the general in charge of the plan from his job.
- make3 7y agoThe aluminum foil hat argument here would be that this is the only reason why this is now public, and has no incidence on whether or not further (or past) US governments have actually done that.
- pietroglyph 7y agoMore specifically, the person who presented this was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and he was only removed from his position as chairman. About a year later he was appointed as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
- steffenfrost 7y agoIt's worth noting that when this was presented to Kennedy, he didn't have the general criminally charged.
- isostatic 7y agoAnd 18 months later Kennedy was dead and Lemnitzer was supreme allied commander of Europe
- dev_dull 7y agoAnd that was the last time our intelligence agencies ever planned a false flag operation in order to sway public opinion and get their way... phew!
- l33tbro 7y ago... and was later appointed by Ford to investigate the possibility of the CIA assassinating Kennedy.
- hanniabu 7y agoOne of the many reasons "they" assassinated Kennedy. Stuff like this is public, yet many still adamantly refuse to believe false flags occur (in general, not even any particular suspected false flag event).
- 1337biz 7y agoIt is about time to find a new term describing Conspiracy theories that are true. Once a conspiracy, always a conspiracy. It's so convenient.
- 14 7y agoAll these comments make me think of the deepfakes and wonder how long until they are so good even forensics can not tell the difference and the implications that will have.
- wheelerwj 7y agowe're so fucked.
- godelski 7y agoWhy does it have to beat forensics? Does it matter if we find out something is a false flag after the fact? I mean how many people still think the US Government created AIDS? Even after the Russians admitted it was a disinformation campaign started by them? [0] [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/us/politics/russian-disinformation-aids-fake-news.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/us/politics/russian-disin...
- diminoten 7y agoNo, sorry. No secret organization assassinated Kennedy. These operations are documents, that are easy to write up in fantasy land. The fact that they're proposed doesn't mean false flags occur, it just means the concept is understood by people who work in the government. Stop pretending like there's this secret organization or set of organizations that's pulling the strings or setting global agenda on any relevant level. There isn't. Everything is chaos, no one knows what the fuck is going on at any given time, and nobody is in control. Period.
- Knufen 7y agoA bit off topic but also related to CIA and other gov shenanigans: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Top_Hat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Top_Hat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_ARTICHOKE https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_ARTICHOKE Much more here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentat...
- faissaloo 7y agoDon't forget operation mockingbird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
- Liquix 7y agoIt's great how you can read about this type of stuff on Wikipedia. It's said that there's a wealth of classified / shouldn't-be-public information (particularly on US military projects/technology) on Wikipedia. The government can't just take these pages down because there's a public record - they'd essentially be confirming the info is important.
- faissaloo 7y agoBut don't worry 9/11 was definitely a terror attack like just trust us guys :)
- DoctorOetker 7y agoapproved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, rejected by president Kennedy in 1962, the same year the film "To Kill a Mockingbird" appeared... contrast
- thunderbong 7y agoWhy is this flagged?
- tomhoward 7y agoProbably for breaching this guideline: ...please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- jbverschoor 7y agoHmm ok. I thought it was remarkably similar to 9/11. And was declassified only 5 months before
- tomhoward 7y agoMy comment isn't agreeing or disagreeing with anything about that. It's just the HN guidelines are clear that you're meant to use the original title unless it's clickbait or misleading. It's been part of the guidelines for at least as long as the guidelines have existed in their current form (over 5 years): https://web.archive.org/web/20140702092610/https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://web.archive.org/web/20140702092610/https://news.ycom... There's a very good reason for this: when people construct their own title to highlight some aspect or angle they think is important, they often get it wrong and imply something about the article that isn't actually reflected in the content - much like clickbait headlines themselves often do. I'm not commenting on whether or not you did that, but there's a simple way to ensure you don't make that mistake: just use the original title!