Operation Northwoods: The Pentagon's Plan to Attack America

5 Declassified CIA Operations That Sound Too Wild to Be True

From mind control experiments to fake movie productions used as cover stories, these five CIA operations were so bizarre that people thought they were paranoid fantasies—until the government files were released. We're counting down the wildest covert programs that prove sometimes the conspiracy theorists were actually right.

Operation Northwoods: The Pentagon's Plan to Attack America

In 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff drafted a shocking document proposing to sink American ships, hijack planes, and commit acts of terrorism against U.S. citizens—all to blame Cuba and trigger a war. Rejected by President Kennedy and buried for decades, Operation Northwoods was declassified in 1997, proving that sometimes the conspiracy theories are actually true. We examine the actual document, the military minds behind it, and why this confirmed plot still shakes our understanding of government power.

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