Editing False flag (section)

===Cuban Revolution===

====Operation Northwoods====
{{Main|Operation Northwoods}}
[[File:NorthwoodsMemorandum.jpg|thumb|upright|Operation Northwoods memorandum (13 March 1962).<ref name=":1"/>]]
[[Operation Northwoods]], a 1962 plot proposed but never executed by the [[U.S. Department of Defense]] for a war with [[Cuba]], involved scenarios such as fabricating the hijacking or shooting down of passenger and military planes, sinking a U.S. ship in the vicinity of Cuba, burning crops, sinking a boat filled with Cuban refugees, attacks by alleged Cuban infiltrators inside the United States, and harassment of U.S. aircraft and shipping, and the destruction of aerial drones by aircraft disguised as Cuban MiGs.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=Pentagon Proposes Pretexts for Cuba Invasion in 1962 |date=30 April 2001 |website=[[National Security Archive]] |url=https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/news/20010430/ |access-date=14 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240501181454/https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/news/20010430/ |archive-date=1 May 2024}}</ref> These actions would be blamed on Cuba, and would be a pretext for an invasion of Cuba and the overthrow of [[Fidel Castro]]'s communist government. It was authorised by the [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]], but then rejected by President [[John F. Kennedy]]. The surprise discovery of the documents relating to Operation Northwoods was a result of the comprehensive search for records related to the [[assassination of President John F. Kennedy]] by the [[Assassination Records Review Board]] in the mid-1990s.<ref>{{cite book |last=P. Horne |first=Douglas |title=Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government's Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK |publisher=self-published |year=2009 |isbn=978-0984314447 |url=https://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Inside_the_ARRB |access-date=30 October 2018}}</ref> Information about Operation Northwoods was later publicized by [[James Bamford]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Bamford |first=James |title=Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency |title-link=Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency |publisher=Anchor Books |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-385-49907-1 |pages=82–91 |chapter-url=}}</ref>