Top-secret plan to invade Cuba declassified

[Judi Lynn]

Top-secret plan to invade Cuba declassified
By WILLIAM E. BURROWS -
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09/27/2014 3:00 PM
| Updated: 09/27/2014 7:00 PM



Captured Cuban exiles are lined up by Castro’s soldiers at the Bay of Pigs.GETTY IMAGES

The most popular analogy used to describe Fidel Castro’s turning Cuba into communism’s only bastion in the Western Hemisphere in 1959 was “cancer.” And the fear, to carry the analogy further, was that it would metastasize elsewhere in Latin America.

The CIA, therefore, decided that invasive surgery was needed and launched the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961. Lacking air cover, all 1,400 anti-Castro paramilitaries were killed or captured as they waded ashore. That was taken to mean that the Castro regime posed a potential military as well as a political threat to the area. It was decided that the best way to excise the malignancy was to cut it out.

A recently declassified top-secret memorandum from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, dated March 13, 1962 and titled “Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba,” suggested an invasion. The document made the reason for the invasion explicit: “U.S. military intervention will result from a period of heightened U.S.-Cuban tensions which place the United States in the position of suffering justifiable grievances.

“World opinion, and the United Nations forum, should be favorably affected by developing the international image of the Cuban government as rash and irresponsible, and as an alarming and unpredictable threat to the peace of the Western Hemisphere.”

The memorandum goes on to list possible staged provocations (as Cold War jargon had it) that would justify attacking and conquering Cuba: “A series of well-coordinated incidents will be planned to take place in and around Guantánamo to give genuine appearance of being done by hostile Cuban forces.”

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article2263338.html#storylink=cpy

[defacto7]

1. "staged provocations"

I wonder how may "staged provocations" have come into play since then? or Have there been "staged provocations" since then? You have 3 chances to answer correctly. The first 2 don't count.

[villager]

2. Gosh, don't risk becoming as *conspiracy theorist* now!

Everything is exactly as the 1% / MICers tell us it is! Who are we to question them!? What hubris for a "progressive" chat board!

[defacto7]

3. Ooops, I guess I forgot my hat...

[blkmusclmachine]

4. Operation Northwoods:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662

In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.

Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans included the assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.

The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust communist Fidel Castro.

America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662




(Bold underlining is mine.)

[marble falls]

5. Scary, scary stuff.

[underpants]

6. If John Glen's first space mission faile -- blame Cuba

Yes Northwoods is still scary.

Hey look Coca-Cola and AT&T execs liked Cuban prostitutes. Okay?

[Judi Lynn]

7. There is absolutely NOTHING morally defensible in any part of Operation Northwoods.

Clearly, no limit on how many people murdered would be considered too many, if it meant selling the lie to the U.S. public so it would back the U.S. in an invasion of Cuba.

Joint Chiefs. How much honor could they have had among them, after all? Murderous dirtbags.