About this episode
This episode discusses the real plans signed by America's military leaders in 1962 to stage terrorist attacks to justify war against Cuba.
Interesting Things with JC #1641: "Operation Northwoods" – In 1962, America’s top military leaders signed off on plans to fake terrorist attacks, stage civilian deaths, and make it look like Cuba shot down a passenger plane to push the United States into war, and when the documents were finally released decades later, one of America’s “crazy conspiracy theories” turned out to be completely real.
People in this episode
Host: JC
Topics covered
- military history
- conspiracy theories
- Cuba
- U.S. foreign policy
- war
- terrorism
Keywords
- Operation Northwoods
- Cuba
- terrorist attacks
- U.S. military
- conspiracy theory
- war
- civilian deaths
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: America, Cuba
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