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Title: False Flag Operations: Declassified Military Documents Show How US Government Planned Terrorist Attacks Against its Own Citizens
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Published: Sep 8, 2006
Author: David Ruppe
Post Date: 2006-09-08 22:48:24 by who knows what evil
Keywords: 9/11
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New York, NY (PRWEB) September 7th, 2006 – As reported by ABC News, stunning military documents codenamed "Operation Northwoods" were declassified in recent years and show how in 1962, the top US military leaders planned an operation to create terror attacks against its own cities and kill US citizens. See: http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1 The documents state that through the fabrication of false evidence, the US would blame Cuba and gain public support for an unpopular war against Castro. They included developing a fake Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, the use of airplanes, and much more. For further details, the now declassified military documents are available at the National Security Archive of the George Washington University: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/ In his newly published book "Towers of Deception – The Media Cover-Up of 9/11," Barrie Zwicker, writes about Operation Northwoods and many other such operations that the military and intelligence community refer to as "false flag operations." http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3932 Zwicker is a lifelong journalist who was a media critic for 35 years and who often appeared on Canadian national TV and radio. His book explains that these covert operations are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other entities, such as other countries or terrorist groups, to help demonize them and justify wars for geopolitical reasons and for financial gains. The term "false flag" is derived from the naval warfare concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own. The ABC News article dated May 1, 2001 explains that Operation Northwoods was approved and signed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Eisenhower appointee Army General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, and was presented to Kennedy’s Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962. A year earlier, President Eisenhower, apparently aware of such dangers, had warned the nation during his January 17, 1961 farewell address: "In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together." http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/farewell.htm General Lemnitzer, the Eisenhower appointee and highest ranking officer of the US military in 1962, recommended that Operation Northwoods be run by the military. It was signed and approved by all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the panel comprising the highest-ranking members of each major branch of the Armed Forces. As per the ABC News article, the only reason why Operation Northwoods did not materialize in 1962 was because it was apparently turned down by President John F. Kennedy. By law, the President of the United States is the commander in chief. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Army, the Marine Corps, the Navy, the Air Force and the Coast Guard, are all under his command. The Joint Chiefs of Staff website explains that based on the Goldwater-Nichols DOD Reorganization Act of 1986, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is today the principal military adviser to the President but doesn’t exercise military command over any combatant forces. http://www.jcs.mil/# The ABC News article quotes author of "Body of Secrets – Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency," James Bamford, a former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News Tonight. He says that if such war plans against American cities were put into operation, it would have amounted to treason. Article III, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution states: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them..." http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articleiii.html Bamford goes on to say that around that time, "the Senate Foreign Relations Committee published its own report on right-wing extremism in the military, warning a ‘considerable danger’ in the ‘education and propaganda activities of military personnel’ had been uncovered. The committee even called for an examination of any ties between Lemnitzer and right-wing groups. But Congress didn't get wind of Northwoods..." Media critic Zwicker says that today, Congress and journalists have access to the declassified documents of Operation Northwoods and that the media must indeed reflect on Eisenhower’s warning of vigilance and be willing to learn and investigate more, publish more and broadcast more information about false flag operations to help prevent such acts of treason from being committed in the future. In his controversial book critical of both the 9/11 "official story" and the media coverage of the events, Zwicker goes through the history of false flag operations dating back to the 1600s, and among many examples, cites the February 27th,1933 fire of the German Parliament (Reichstag fire) three days prior to Germany’s federal election. Historians later documented that the fire had been authorized by right-wing Nazis where Hitler used the event to declare a state of emergency and pressured the German President, Hindenburg, to sign a decree abolishing most of the human rights provisions of the Constitution. Recently, on August 29th 2006, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recounted what he called "the lessons of history," including the failed efforts to appease the right-wing Adolf Hitler regime of the 1930s. "I recount this history because once again we face the same kind of challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism," said Rumsfeld. http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/29/rumsfeld.ap/index.html As a senior media critic, Zwicker strongly recommends that all media people indeed follow Rumsfeld’s suggestions in learning the lessons of Nazi history. He points to researching Hitler’s rise to power and how he created a fascist state where there was suppression of the opposition through secrecy, terror, torture and censorship, all justified under nationalism and patriotism. He also believes that journalists should research and publish more about how Hitler's Nazis manipulated the German population into wars, using psychological manipulation and behavior modification by inducing trauma and fear in others, a process of trauma-based mind control referred to in the now declassified CIA files of "MK ULTRA." To order declassified MK ULTRA documents from the CIA, go to: http://www.wanttoknow.info/mindcontrol10pg#ciadocs Zwicker believes that the media must investigate and report on whether these fear-based psychological manipulation techniques have been or are being put into application by US leaders in our post 9/11 world, as they appear to be. 9/11 caused much trauma and fear. Concerned with the direction that the US has headed since 9/11, Dr. Robert M. Bowman, referring to the Bush / Cheney administration during a radio interview, said: "I think there's been nothing closer to fascism than what we've seen lately from this government.” http://www.govinfo.bnet-newmedia.co.uk/opinions_Articles.php?IDVal=50 Bowman is a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, a recipient of the Eisenhower Medal, a former head of the US "Star Wars" space weapons program during the Reagan administration and one of America’s foremost experts on National Security. He commented about the Patriot Act as having, "Done more to destroy the rights of Americans than all of our enemies combined." Bowman is part of a group of notable experts called the "Scholars For 9/11 Truth" made up of professors, engineers, former intelligence and military personnel, journalists, attorneys and many other professionals who say that the 9/11 attacks raise a red flag because they have many elements of false flag operations, such as a "stand-down" of the military defense on that day, one that must be questioned. The group, made up of several dozen scholars, believes that the media must no longer ignore the fact that a growing number of them are calling for truly independent investigations into 9/11, including investigations to look into the evidence that points towards a possible false flag operation. For more information about the evidence that the group claims raise serious new questions, readers can visit their website: http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/ The group’s call for a truly independent 9/11 investigation appears to resonate with a growing number of mainstream Americans. A May 2006 Zogby poll of 1,200 adults nationwide found that 45% of those surveyed said that Congress or an International Tribunal should re-investigate the attacks, including whether any US government officials consciously allowed or helped facilitate their success. Part of the popularity of this growing awareness may be due in part to the millions of people who have viewed one of the most watched online videos of all time, called "Loose Change," which addresses false flag operations and raises serious new questions about the official government 9/11 story. See: http://www.loosechange911.com/ The Zogby poll also showed that more than 42 percent believe that the government and the 9/11 Commission concealed or refused to investigate critical evidence that contradicts their official explanation of the September 11th attacks. To view a detailed copy of the Zogby poll report, visit: http://www.911truth.org/images/911TruthZogbyPollFinalReport.htm The mainstream American public has not been alone in their frustration from lack of answers about the official 9/11 story. Addressing the White House commissioned 9/11 investigation, a September 1st, 2006 Associated Press article states that: "The Sept. 11 commission's chairmen, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, said in their recently published book that the commission found it mind-boggling that authorities claimed that their air defenses had reacted quickly. In the book, ‘Without Precedent,’ Kean and Hamilton said the panel was so frustrated with repeated misstatements by the Pentagon and FAA about their response to the 2001 terror attacks that it considered an investigation into possible deception." http://301url.com/4LJ On August 9th, 2006, referring to their book and to this issue, CNN’s Lou Dobbs as saying: "But the fact that they were (would) continue and perpetuate the lie, suggests that we need a full investigation of what is going on and what is demonstrably an incompetent and at worst deceitful federal government." http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0608/09/ldt.01.html The historic reality of the deception of false flag operations is confirmed by former Justice Department prosecutor, John Loftus, who once held some of the highest security clearances in the world with special access to NATO Cosmic, CIA codeword, and Top Secret Nuclear files. Loftus has been sought after for his terrorism expertise by Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, and many other media across the USA. In a radio interview, when asked about "Operation Northwoods," he said "Sure, yeah, yeah. But you know it, there were thousands of those plans." http://www.debatingforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=19356&sid=06afa63958692e6723c5d72393292cb7 In his book, Zwicker elaborates that false flag operations are the least-recognized, highest impact category of human deceit. He says: "False flag op is the indispensable, most dependable device rulers use to mobilize their populations, especially behind wars the rulers want." According to a radio interview on Vancouver’s Coop radio, Zwicker believes that it is not impossible that such future events have already been planned in order to move the US towards Martial Law. http://exopolitics.blogs.com/exopolitics_radio/ The media critic has concluded that not unlike Germany in the 1930s, a relatively small right-wing extremist group of rulers want more and more power, and will gradually further eliminate civil liberties by manipulating people’s minds using more Orwellian language. He says that if the media doesn’t start paying more attention, there will be increased oppression of opposition that will likely move America, and perhaps other Western countries, towards a gradual further elimination of civil liberties. He calls this the path towards a new fascism, one controlled by a small group of ruling elites who perpetuate war after war, such as a never-ending "war on terror," to maintain their power and control. Dr. Steven Greer has met and spoken to many intelligence, military, government and corporate whistleblowers who explain that to sustain and expand their existence in their current form, the military, industrial, intelligence, laboratory complex need a constant influx of new enemies. Greer was told that conflicts would evolve "from Cold War, to Rogue Nations, to Global Terrorism, to the ultimate trump card: A hoaxed threat from space." http://www.disclosureproject.org/cosmicdeception.htm On a brighter note, Zwicker believes that our current path of enmification, the art and consequence of enemy-making, can be reversed if, for example, the media investigates terrorist attacks to find out if they are false flag operations, expose deception, and keep the ruling elites and their circles accountable, not unlike how the Washington Post covered Watergate in the early 1970s. The Washington Post did a story about Fred Burks in December 2004. He is a whistleblower and former senior State Department language interpreter to top-level politicians such as President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49449-2004Dec8.html Based on his website that exposes cover-ups, Burks believes that we first need to speak candidly about what's happening in the world at present and move beyond secrecy and fear. He concludes that the more informed we are, the more difficult it will be to perpetuate the deception of any future false flag operations. Burks supports choices that lead to a more spiritual and purpose-centered life of "Compassion In Action," as referred to by President Bush on December 12, 2002. http://www.lightstreamers.com/Dannion_PresidentBush.htm He also believes that when we walk our talk, we can inspire others to lead in a way that creates a brighter future for all. To read Burks’ view on what is happening and what we can do about it, see: http://www.wanttoknow.info/brighterfuture Burks’ philosophy resonates with Zwicker’s message about how, by working together in exposing the deception of false flag operations, the media and people from all levels of society can help prevent them, reduce the manufacturing of fear and hate, and improve the human condition. For more information about Zwicker’s book, visit: http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3932 Zwicker will be speaking at the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York City on September 10th, 2006, a conference where he will be joined with Dr. Robert Bowman and other researchers who are encouraging the media to further learn about false flag operations. For more info: http://www.ny911truth.org/events/5th_anniversary.htm Barrie Zwicker is available for media interviews.
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#1. To: who knows what evil, Zipporah, *9-11* (#0)
"Operation Northwoods" ping!
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers Did anyone else see this from ABC news? I thought this was "tin foil" stuff.
Yes, I've been posting about it for years. If anyone has ever doubted the evil intentions of our government, they should just read these documents.
Press 1 for English, Press 2 for English, Press 3 for deportation
JFK never signed off on the Operation Northwoods plans, but, if Waldron and Hartmann are right in their new Ultimate Sacrifice book, he did sign off on a plan in 1963 to assassinate Castro that was subverted and used to assassinate himself.
Katrina was America's Chernobyl.
I've seen this referenced now and then over the years; but it is usually dismissed as a 'hoax'. I happened to be checking 'Florence' at FR (I know, but I have meteorology in my blood), and saw a thread referencing this topic...couldn't believe it hadn't been pulled yet. Followed the links and saw it sourced at Yahoo/ABC...hardly 'conspiracy' sites. Just thought I would post it to see what everyone thought of this news hitting the 'mainstream'.
I've never seen Northwoods called a hoax since James Bamford reported it in Body of Secrets. I was many years in military signals intelligence, and I am unaware of anything in Bamford's now three books on NSA and signals intelligence that is inaccurate.
Katrina was America's Chernobyl.
Right wing??? Hardly...The Nazis and Communists were all SOCIALISTS.
Now and then someone will call talk radio (Hannity and the like) and will mention Northwoods...the caller is usually dismissed with 'X-Files' or 'Twilight Zone' theme music...as a listener; one was led to believe this document was non-existant or 'made up'.
I know that...the Sec/Def apparently disagrees with us. :-)
Any rightwinger I have ever known is for little or no government and would shoot on sight if they could. Leftwingers are statists that want the all powerful government, i.e, Hitler and Stalin.
It is my understanding that Army General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1960 to 1962, presented the Operation Northwoods plan to President Kennedy early in 1962, but, Kennedy rejected it in March. I think Lemnitzer thought he had destroyed all the evidence of Operation Northwoods, especially the documentation, but he was wrong. Thank God. People need to see it. Press 1 for English, Press 2 for English, Press 3 for deportation
Press 1 for English, Press 2 for English, Press 3 for deportation
Historians later documented that the fire had been authorized by right-wing Nazis where Hitler used the event to declare a state of emergency and pressured the German President, Hindenburg, to sign a decree abolishing most of the human rights provisions of the Constitution. Hitler had a trial for the Reichstag fire defendents. It backfired and they not only amply defended themsevles for an aquital but they implicated the Nazis themselves in the fire. All on live radio too. I wonder if Hitler is smacking himself in Hell for not just simply holding the defendents in secret prisons for half a decade with no trial and periodic torture like our "free" government has done with the 9/11 "ring leaders"?
My bad...although the 'Yahoo!' article is new; the ABC News item it references is five years old. My apologies.
Hey, I hope that story goes all over the internet. 8-) God bless, UB.
Press 1 for English, Press 2 for English, Press 3 for deportation
There is a passage in the Gulag Archipeligo about the first and last show trial for "wreckers" in the early 1930's. The guy not only beat the rap, but made the Soviet judges look likes asses...they sentanced him to death by firing squad anyway. There was a near riot in the courthouse and the NKVD troops has to form a 360 degree circle around him and walk him like that 1/4th of a mile to the train station for transfer to a prison. In another case, the Russians shelled their own troops in 1939, blamed Finland for the deed, and used it for a pre-text to invade and start the winter war; despite the fact that the Finnish troops had pulled all their artillary out of firing range of the border during the summer of that year. Man, some of the quotes coming out of the Kremlin at that time remind me of Rumdumb and company. "We'll take Finland in 10 days. Best give us supplies for 12 just to be safe." 3 months and 150,000 dead later...
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death" - Me.
Freedom, especially when it is legitimised by a nod of government is far from the concept of "freedom."
Like the old Russian jokes says: "We have plenty of Freedom in USSR! For example: In America you can stand in front of white house and yell 'down with Reagan!" In Russia you can also stand in from of Kremlin and also yell 'down with Reagan!'" The USSR did have a heafty "Bill Of Rights" of sorts. Yet each and every "freedom" had a pesky footnote that said it was null and void if the acts were in contrast to the well being of the state. That's why you never saw any Vietnam style protests over the Afghan invasion and all the anti-nuke rallies before 1989 called for only the US to disarm.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death" - Me.
lol! Coming to a town near you soon!
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers Actually- they had several. Footnotes qualifying them were not present. "Law" as such didn't exist in the Soviet Union and neither did their "Bill of Rights" ever mean anything either. "Rule of Law" cannot occur unless it based on hard firm cultural underpinnings- like hundreds of years of collective and slow experience with it- and it also cannot exist without private property and a non state controlled economy- even in a country grounded in "rule of law" history. The Soviet Union had neither the history or private property or free economy. Their "Rights" never meant a damn thing. That is why I marveled at how "conservatives" were cheering and acting like giddy school girls when Iraq's Quisling governmnet "ratified" their "constitution" tucked safely behind blast walls in the green zone. Wow? That simple huh? Just write down some "rights" on a piece of paper and Voila! Freedom! So incredibly ignorant. I now realize that most of these GOPER BOT's have zero concept of what intellecual conservatism is all about and are just nationalists and fascists of the crudest most ignorant sort.
Anybody know enough about Lemnitzer to know whether approving plans as outrageous as Northwood would have been in character for him? I'm wondering whether the Northwood plans as they emerged from the Joint Chiefs of Staff were deliberately made so outrageous that disapproval by McNamara and/or JFK was assured.
Katrina was America's Chernobyl.
UB...have you read anything that would give us insights as to Lemnitzer's character?
Get the word out, folks.
This is a perfect example of how the habits of empire come home to roost. When you corrupt your military and intelligence services by tasking them to carry out all manner of subterfuge, black ops, murder, and mayhem in foreign countries- to the point where such amoral acts and deeds become second nature and the sort of people needed to carry them out- sociopaths and sadists- rise to the top- it is only a matter of time before they begin to apply these lovely habits in domestic politics. The border of the US isn't a magical border. A tightly knit team of CIA black bag murderers and tricksters isn't going to simply start behaving once they fly back home. When they use murder and dirty tricks abroad to advance "interests" and do it all for 75 grand a year- they begin to choke on the mountains of hypocrisy that seperate public feel good rhetoric from their down in the trenches ugly reality. They begin to despise the people they "serve" (the American people) and see them the same way they see the dirt people they abuse and murder in third world hell holes. Thus it becomes possible to consider murdering Americans to justify this or that policy or to start a war. They just write it off as they write off their routine acts of evil in foreign countries - as "regretable- but necessary and for the 'greater good'".
well said...as usual. this is what governments do. history proves it.
#2. To: christine, Zipporah, robin, Jethro Tull, lodwick, Arator, Kamala, Neil McIver (#0)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#3. To: who knows what evil (#2)
#4. To: Uncle Bill (#3)
#5. To: Uncle Bill (#3)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#6. To: who knows what evil (#5)
#7. To: who knows what evil (#0)
right-wing Adolf Hitler regime of the 1930s.
#8. To: aristeides (#6)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#9. To: Cynicom (#7)
Hardly...The Nazis and Communists were all SOCIALISTS.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#10. To: who knows what evil (#9)
I know that...the Sec/Def apparently disagrees with us. :-)
#11. To: aristeides (#6)
General Lyman Louis Lemnitzer, US Army (Ret.)
#12. To: aristeides (#6)
#13. To: robin (#1)
Zwicker goes through the history of false flag operations dating back to the 1600s, and among many examples, cites the February 27th,1933 fire of the German Parliament (Reichstag fire) three days prior to Germany’s federal election.
#14. To: Uncle Bill (#11)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#15. To: who knows what evil (#14)
#16. To: Burkeman1 (#13)
Hitler had a trial for the Reichstag fire defendents. It backfired and they not only amply defended themsevles for an aquital but they implicated the Nazis themselves in the fire. All on live radio too.
#17. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#16)
#18. To: buckeroo (#17)
Freedom, especially when it is legitimised by a nod of government is far from the concept of "freedom."
#19. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#18)
Like the old Russian jokes says: "We have plenty of Freedom in USSR! For example: In America you can stand in front of white house and yell 'down with Reagan!" In Russia you can also stand in from of Kremlin and also yell 'down with Reagan!'"
#20. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#18)
The USSR did have a heafty "Bill Of Rights" of sorts.
#21. To: who knows what evil (#0)
The ABC News article dated May 1, 2001 explains that Operation Northwoods was approved and signed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Eisenhower appointee Army General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, and was presented to Kennedy’s Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962.
#22. To: aristeides, Uncle Bill (#21)
Anybody know enough about Lemnitzer to know whether approving plans as outrageous as Northwood would have been in character for him? I'm wondering whether the Northwood plans as they emerged from the Joint Chiefs of Staff were deliberately made so outrageous that disapproval by McNamara and/or JFK was assured.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#23. To: It Is A Republic, DeepPockets, willyone (#0)
#24. To: christine (#23)
Nice.
#25. To: christine (#23)
#26. To: Burkeman1 (#25)
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