'According to documents ordered declassified by the Assassination Records Review
Board, the Joints Chiefs of Staff in 1962 approved a plan-codenamed Operation Northwoods-to create a
pretext for an invation of Cuba. The Joint Chiefs recommended developing a "terror campaign in Miami,
Washington, DC, and elsewhere, which would be blamed on Cuba. Ships would be bombed, planes hijacked, and
innocent Americans killed, producing "casualty lists" which "would cause a helpful wave of national
indignation." On March 13, 1962, the plan was sent to Secretary of Defense Rober McNamara, who presented it
to President John F. Kennedy...'
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