I will not comment on the latter 2, but operation Northwoods is a reasonably scary precedent. The important fact is not that Kennedy rejected the proposal but

I will not comment on the latter 2, but operation Northwoods is a reasonably scary precedent. The important fact is not that Kennedy rejected the proposal but rather that it made it through the higher levels of command at all. What happens when the US has a president that is not so adverse to carrying out false flag attacks on it's own and other neutral actor's citizens.