January 1963, Meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), 4:30PM
(Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs.)

KYLE writes:

On March 13, 1962, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lyman L. Lemnitzer, signed off on a proposed false flag operation that would employ the Central Intelligence Agency to commit acts of terrorism against U.S. citizens in attempt to rally public support for a war against Communist Cuba. The memorandum, Operation Northwoods, was fully declassified nearly four decades later on April 30, 2001, roughly five months before the September 11 attacks. Although the proposed actions of Operation Northwoods were rejected by President John F. Kennedy, its existence set a dangerous precedent. The deep state planned to sacrifice the lives of American citizens to move an agenda forward. This forever casts doubt on highly-publicized tragic attacks and the official narratives rolled out by media and government.

As soon as Kennedy came into office, his administration was confronted by foreign policy challenges that no other American president had encountered. By forming an alliance with the U.S.S.R during the Second World War, the U.S. had sealed the prospect of confronting a Communist superpower at some point in the near future. By clearing the European chess board, it opened a path for the Soviet takeover of eastern Europe. The incremental “spread of red” had positioned a nuclear threat at the foot of America’s bed in the form of a Cuban-Russian alliance that eventually led to the thirteen day standoff known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.

John F. Kennedy aboard the PT-109 in the South Pacific, 1943.

Kennedy served as a patrol-boat skipper in the Pacific theater of WWII and earned a Purple Heart, but his military credentials were slim when compared to the Supreme Allied Commander of the European theater, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Pentagon took notice of this and promptly began to work on the 43-year old president. Lemnitzer would become a thorn in Kennedy’s side. Kennedy believed escalating a nuclear conflict with Russia would lead to mutually assured destruction (MAD), while Lemnitzer contended that the U.S. would make quick work of any nation that dared aim warheads in its direction. To Lemnitzer, it was inexperience and naivety that blurred Kennedy’s foreign policy vision.

In a memorandum from national security advisor, McGeorge Bundy, President Kennedy is warned of the military generals capability to launch preemptive nuclear strikes on foreign adversaries without presidential approval:

“These three forces in combination have created a situation today in which a subordinate commander faced with a substantial Russian military action could start the thermonuclear holocaust on his own initiative if he could not reach you (by failure of communication at either end of the line).”

McGeorge, B. (1961). Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy) to President Kennedy [Memorandum].

Kennedy looked to nip in the bud the Pentagon’s ability to launch nukes without his go-ahead. His reluctance to be steered by his military advisors would pit him at odds with them on all issues, ranging from the the Bay of Pigs incident to the Cuban Missile Crisis. To his credit, he attempted to stand in the way of the “military-industrial complex” when he could. The details of Operation Northwoods and his blunt rejection of its proposals only solidified his reputation as being an obstacle to whatever globalist cabal seemed to be steering the world towards World War III.

One can imagine Kennedy reading the Operation Northwoods memo for the first time and his Irish temper flaring as he slaps it down on his desk, sending the deliverer back out the door with four-letter directives. The document, which was okayed by the Joint Chiefs, called on military and CIA assets to organize a series of events that would paint the Cuban government in an even more negative light through subversion. Among those proposals were:

1. Using friendly Cubans to start a riot outside of a U.S. military base (to blame Cuba)
2. Burn ammunition; set fire to U.S. Air Force planes; shoot mortar shells into base from outside; sabotage ship in harbor.
3. Blow up a U.S. naval ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame the Cubans.
4. Blow up a drone vessel near Havana or Santiago.
5. Develop a “Communist Cuban Terror” campaign in Miami, Florida.
6. Hijacking attempts of civil air and surface craft to be blamed on Cuban government.
7. Conduct funerals for mock-victims of proposed false flags.

Most horrifying of all the proposals is the idea of loading a civilian aircraft with college students, having it fly under the radar as to not be detected, then fly a remote control drone over Cuba–posing as the actual civil airliner–and blow it up by remote control signal and promptly blame Cuba. This may sound preposterous to readers but in actuality, remote control planes were already in use by the time Kennedy was inaugurated in 1961. In 1944, Operation Aphrodite called for using Boeing B-17 bombers as precision-guided munitions against hardened enemy bunkers. The fact that technology for drone aircraft existed in 1944 makes one wonder how much the technology had advanced in the four decades since the Operation Northwoods memo was put in the hands of Robert McNamara and declassified to the general public in 2001.

The Kennedys made more enemies than allies in their run in American politics. They weren’t saints by any standard, as evidenced by the tabs J. Edgar Hoover kept on the nation’s first Catholic president and his family’s history with the Irish mob, but it would seem JFK’s lasting legacy is his refusal to buckle under the pressure of the military-industrial complex to deceive the American public into a war with the Cuban-Russian alliance. This point seems moot when noting his dethronement from power, or as Olive Stone’s 1991 film JFK suggests, a coup d’état. In its wake came the similarly deceptive Gulf of Tonkin incident that would bog down American soldiers in Vietnam for over a decade. That’s a study for another time.

Northwoods and Kennedy’s untimely demise serve as reminders that on the chess board of modern geo-politics, hands other than those of our elected officials move the pieces.

— Comments —

Lydia Sherman writes:

This has nothing to do with Northwoods, but my neighbor tells me Kennedy was the last president she voted for. She has not voted for anyone after that. She believes there has been something “off” about every president since that time. She is no deep scholar by any means, but a gardener who knows what a counterfeit is.

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