During the 1960’s the United States and its allies believed they were engaged in a struggle for the very existence of the free world. The Soviet Union seemed to be spreading its influence all across the Asian continent and into parts of Western Europe, and seemed poised to take the leap across the Atlantic. For the Kennedy Administration, it’s problem was an island nation just a 103 miles from US soil. In Cuba, despite multiple efforts to stem the red tide, communism had taken root. The government of the United States feared that if the fledgling communist government was left to its own devices then the rest of South and Central America could fall to the Soviets just like well stacked dominoes. In order to stop the Latin American countries from getting ideas, the U.S. was dead set on trying to dislodge Fidel Castro’s communist regime by any means possible, even if that meant fabricating an event to justify the invasion of Cuba. How could the US start a war with Cuba? What possible justifications were on the table? What kinds of snakes sound like AK-47s? This case file, the Theorists bring the conspiracy heat to Havana on...Operation Northwoods

 

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Sources To Consider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saPl6pd8mdE

 

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/305036/24/public?contributionType=transcription

 

https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/jfk/cia-northwoods-fbis.pdf

 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1

 

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/northwoods.html

 

https://www.mondialisation.ca/cuba-operation-northwoods-the-forgotten-insanity/5515668

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