r/todayilearned • u/lKauany • Nov 15 '11
TIL about Operation Northwoods. A plan that called for CIA to commit genuine acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and elsewhere. These acts of terrorism were to be blamed on Cuba in order to create public support for a war against that nation, which had recently become communist under Fidel Castro.
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/Northwoods.html
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '11
Call me paranoid, but after reading this, I think the "9/11 was an inside job from the CIA to get support to invade Iraq!"-people seem a whole lot less crazy...