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Mary Fields First African American Woman Mail Carrier

 

Stagecoach Mary is unknown to most, but her story is all American…Mary Fields was her name and she was born in Hickman County Tennessee in 1832. Mary was African American and a slave… She was freed in 1865 when slavery was outlawed…

She worked for Judge Edmund Dunne after his wife died and took care of his 5 children. Later in she took the children to their aunt Dolly who had become Mother Amadeus, Mother Superior at the Ursuline convent in Toledo, Ohio….

In 1884 Mother Amadeus went to Montana Territory to develop a school for Native American girls, at St. Peter’s Mission west of Cascade. She became ill and Mary went to Montana to nurse her back to health. Mother Amadeus recovered, and Mary stayed on doing domestic jobs like growing a garden and tending the chickens. Because she was strong and about 6 feet tall, so she also did manual labor and construction. She even became foreman of building repairs.

The Native American girls called her “White Crow” because they said she acted like a white woman with black skin.  One school girl wrote an essay about her saying, “She drinks whiskey, and she swears and is a republican, which makes her a low foul creature.” They said she could whip any two men in the territory and wore a 38 Smith and Wesson on her apron. (1)

She was asked to leave the convent in 1894 after Mary got into a fight with one man who did not want to take orders from a black woman. He argued and then hit her. As she fell to the ground he reached for his gun, and then so did Mary. She was the better shot. (2) It was then she was asked leave.  She started a restaurant in Cascade, but more kind than a business person should be, she fed everyone whether they had money or not. The business went under in the first year.

At 60 years old she became a mail carrier. She was the second woman in the U.S. and the first African American to work for the U.S. Postal Service. She was hired because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of 6 horses. (3)  Mary delivered mail from Cascade to the surrounding areas, which included St. Peters Mission and many remote homesteads. In the winter when the snow was bad, Mary left the horses behind and walked the mail to its destination with the sacks on her back. The job was dangerous, from thieves to wild animals there was possible violence at every turn, and Mary loved it….She earned the nickname “Stagecoach” and never missed a day of work.

She retired from the US Postal Service in 1903 at 71. She was a well-known community figure, and when women could not go into Saloons, Mary got special dispensation to be allowed in for her whiskey. After her retirement she continued to babysit for children and took in laundry. Pioneer Mary Fields died in 1914 in a hospital in Great Falls, Montana but is buried outside Cascade, Montana. There was a great picture of Mary in the Ebony Magazine which you can view online.

 

1. Cooper, Gary & Crawford, Marc (October 1959). "Stagecoach Mary". EBONY(Reprinted Oct. 1977 ed.). https://books.google.com/books?id=18sDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA96#v=onepage&q&f=false
2. Drewery, Jennifer M., Mary Fields a Pioneer in Cascade’s Past, https://archive.is/20120729174246/https://www.cascademontana.com/mary.htm#selection-485.103-485.548
3. Drewry, Jennifer M. (March–April 1999). "Mary Fields a pioneer in Cascade's past". Cascade Montana Community Website. Archived from the originalon July 29, 2012. Retrieved January 25, 2013..
4. Metcalf McConnell, Miantae (2016). Deliverance Mary Fields, First African American Woman Star Route Mail Carrier in the United States: A Montana History

 

 

Operation Mainbrace and the UFOs

        Operation Mainbrace took place September 14-25, 1952. The Allied Command Atlantic (a part of NATO) was conducting a series of naval exercises initiated by Dwight D. Eisenhower in alliance with several other countries (USA, UK, Canada, France, Denmark, Norway, Portugal the Netherlands and Belgium). This was a Cold War exercise and Reporter Hanson W. Baldwin described the NATO naval force as the being the largest and most powerful fleet that has cruised the North Sea since WWI. (1) 

     The operation was made up of 200 ships, 1000 planes and 80,000 men from the different nations. It took place between Britain and Norway and maneuvers were to cover the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea, the North Atlantic, the GUIK Gap, the Barents Sea, the Jutland Peninsula and the Baltic Sea. It would also be the basis of Great Britain and the USA taking UFO sightings more seriously as a result of what they deemed credible, multiple sightings.

      As the exercises barely began, on September 13 Commander George Smidt-Jensen and several crew members of the Danish destroyer Willemoes spotted a triangular shaped luminous blue UFO. It moved at high speeds over the top of the water in a westward direction, then turned and moved S.E. headed for the USS FDR. Over the next few days there would be several more sightings from the participants of the exercises.

       Here is a list of some of the sightings that occurred during the operation:

September 19--A British Meteor jet aircraft was returning to the airfield at Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England, just before 11 A. M. As it approached for landing, a silvery object was observed following it, swaying back and forth like a pendulum. Lieutenant John W. Kilburn and other observers on the ground said that when the Meteor began circling, the UFO stopped. “Sir, I have the honor to report the following incident which I witnesses on Friday, 19^th September 1952.

Kilburn reported, “I was standing with four personnel of No. 269 Squadron watching a Meteor fighter gradually descending. The Meteor was at approx. 5000 feet and approaching from the east. Flight Officer Paris suddenly noticed a white object in the sky at a height between ten and twenty thousand feet some five miles astern of the Meteor.  The object was silver in color and circular in shape. It appeared to be travelling at a much slower speed than the Meteor, but on a similar course. It maintained the slow forward speed for a few seconds before commencing to descend, swinging in a pendular motion during descent. Like a falling sycamore leaf. After a few seconds, the object stopped its pendulous motion and its descent and began to rotate about its own axis.

Suddenly it accelerated at an incredible speed towards the west turning onto a south-easterly heading before disappearing. All this occurred in a matter of fifteen to twenty seconds. The movements were not identifiable with anything I have seen in the air and the rate of acceleration was unbelievable.” (2)

About September 20--Personnel of the U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier participating in the Mainbrace maneuvers, observed a silvery, spherical object which was also photographed. (The pictures have never been made public). The UFO was seen moving across the sky behind the fleet. Reporter Wallace Litwin took a series of color photographs, which were examined by Navy Intelligence officers.  The Air Force project chief, Captain Ruppelt stated:  “[The pictures] turned out to be excellent . . . . judging by the size of the object in each successive photo, one could see that is was moving rapidly." The possibility that a balloon had been launched from one of the ships was immediately checked out.  No unit had launched a balloon.  A poor print of one of the photographs appears in the Project Blue Book files, but with no analysis report.

A document written by Flight Lieutenant Dolphin of RAF Topcliffe and sent to headquarters states: “In accordance with your instructions herewith a report on the unidentified object which was seen over the station earlier today.” The report was prepared by Lt. John Kilburn who revealed the following:

September 20--At Karup Field, Denmark, three Danish Air Force officers sighted a UFO about 7:30 P.M. The object, a shiny disk with metallic appearance, passed overhead from the direction of the fleet and disappeared in clouds to the east.

September 21--Six British pilots flying a formation of RAF jets above the North Sea observed a shiny sphere approaching from the direction of the fleet. The UFO eluded their pursuit and disappeared. When returning to base, one of the pilots looked back and saw the UFO following him.  He turned to chase it, but the UFO also turned and sped away.

September 27/28--Throughout Western Germany, Denmark, and southern Sweden, there were widespread UFO reports.  A brightly luminous object with a cometlike tail was visible for a long period of time moving irregularly near Hamburg and Kiel. On one occasion, three satellite objects were reported moving around a larger object. A cigar-shaped object moving silently eastward also was reported.(3)

       These sightings were dubbed the most incredible UFO’s ever witnessed. There was one thing common among the men, they all believed the UFO’s were observing the operation. It was not just officers and crew that witnessed the UFOs, but it said that Dwight D. Eisenhower himself witnessed them aboard the USS FDR.

One crew member wrote the following:

“We were North and East of England with the NATO fleet in the North Atlantic. It was about 1:30 a.m. Through the stormy rain and lightning, this big blue-white light appeared right off starboard bow. It came down to 100 feet off the water and just hung there as we cruised by it.

The UFO was easy to see when the lightning flashed. It then rose straight and left. Four of us saw it. Here’s the kicker! General Ike, who’d flown over by chopper with the Admiral had just come out on the signal bridge wearing P.J.s and a robe looking for coffee.

We were sitting and making small talk when the bright light came on. We all watched it ten  minutes, then just stood there staring at each other. After a while,  General Eisenhower said, he better go ‘check this out’ and left. He also told us to ‘forget about it for now’. Next day and ever after, nothing was ever said about it. I don’t know what it was or why it was hushed, but I saw it.” (4)

1952 was an active year for sightings, “The rash extended to two very  public waves of U.F.O.s being tracked from three different locations as they flew right over the White House, the Capitol and the Pentagon on July 19^th and July 26^th.” (5) By December of 1952 The Intelligence advisory committee recommended that CIA enlist the services of selected scientists to review and appraise the available evidence considering pertinent scientific theories….(6)

1. Baldwin, Hanson (September 28, 1952). "Navies Meet the Test in Operation Mainbrace". New York Times:
2. Redfern, Paul, UFOs and NATO, The Mainbrace Affair, https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/04/ufos-nato-the-mainbrace-affair/
3. Operation Mainbrace Sightings, http://www.nuforc.org/Mainbrace.html
4. The Truth About Aliens and UFOs, https://m.facebook.com/238240472899332/photos/eisenhower-and-his-alien-contacts-part-1ufo-historians-often-consider-eisenhower/483631071693603/
5. President Harry S. Truman, http://www.presidentialufo.com/old_site/harrys.htm
6. Ibid

Phobos II: The Soviet Incident that Revealed Alien Photos of Mars

The 1980’s were an enterprising time in politics and space exploration. U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev found peace, torn down the Berlin wall and ended the Cold War.  In 1985 the U.S.S.R. (now Russia) launched a set of 2 technologically advanced unmanned space probes to explore Mars and her Moon- Phobos. The vessels were called Phobos I and Phobos II.

During the cold war this was an event of cooperation between the U.S.S.R. and 14 other nations including Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, the U.S.A, West Germany and France.  July 7, 1988 Phobos I was launched. I failed before it reached Mars. On July 12, 1988 Phobos II was launched and achieved orbit around Mars.

It was in January 1989, the probe set itself into orbit around Phobos and began communicating with the Earth. All went well until March 28^th when the space probe failed to communicate with the Soviet mission control center. An announcement went out from Tass, the Soviet news agency, that Phobos II had failed to communicate with Earth as scheduled after completing an operation the previous day around the Martian moon. No further contact was made…..

 A reporter for Radio Moscow revealed that just before contact was lost with the unmanned space probe several unusual pictures were radioed back to the Soviet Union.  The reporter Boris Bolitsky described them as having “quite remarkable features”. They were pictures either of the surface of Phobos or the lower atmosphere, they were 20-25 kilometers wide and did not resemble any known geological formation. (1)

Colonel Dr. Marina Popovich was a Russian astronaut and pilot famous for her work with U.F.O.s. She wrote a book called UFO: Glasnost published in 2003 in Germany. In 1991 she gave a talk at a conference and revealed that she smuggled out of U.S.S.R. an account of a U.F.O. hovering over Phobos II. The first ever leaked report of an alien mother ship in the solar system. (2) Popovich went on to disclose that Mars has 2 moons, Phobos is one of them and it is artificial. In meeting with Steven Greer international director of CSETI, Popovich also revealed that Phobos is at least 1/3 hollow. Cameras captured a mesh like covering (3)

 This the last transmission from Phobos II was a photograph of a gigantic cylindrical spaceship - approximately 20km long, 1.5km diameter cigar-shaped 'mother ship', that was photographed on 25 March 1989 hanging or parked next to the Martian moon Phobos by the Soviet unmanned probe Phobos II. Then the probe mysteriously disappeared. The long cigar shaped ship is pictured here.

Canadian T.V. released another Phobos II infrared scan radiometer image of the Martian surface. The interesting thing about this image is that it showed a network of geometric lines and angles. Some called them ‘lattice like’ they also resemble ‘metro looking/street views’. They appear like underground channels that create the lines and are too geometric to be formed naturally according to Dr. John Becklake of the London Science Museum. “The city-like pattern is 60 kilometers wide and could be easily mistaken for an aerial view of Los Angeles.” (4)

Soviet T.V. magazine show “Vremya” revealed that the Phobos II was orbiting above mars, but that it had photographed an unidentified object on the Martian surface before contact was lost. The object looked like a thin ellipse 20 kilometers long.  They went on to say it was captured by 2 cameras and infrared cameras, so it could not be an optical illusion.  It had appeared Phobos was spinning out of control, and that something had hit or shot the probe. (5)

Though there were reputable and heavily credentialed scientists involved in retrieving and analyzing the data, the U.S. did not report it. They virtually ignored the story, but Europe and Russia took the reports as facts. The only time it was reported in U.S.A was in the fringe media or U.F.O forums.

March 2003 NASA held a briefing based on the Mars Odyssey THEMIS (thermal imaging system) would reveal the photos taken by Phobos II were of the Hydraotes Chaos Region. They showed what appeared to be a Martian city with mesas organized in geometric patterns like cities. They also revealed a distribution of water on Mars. We learn more constantly about Mars, and with the plans of NASA there maybe humans on the planet by the 2030’s.

This topic is still very controversial, with many theories about the information gleaned from Phobos II. The U.S. still treats the Phobos II voyage to Mars and the subsequent photos as fringe news.

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1. The Phobos Incident: Malfunction or Early ‘Star Wars’, https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/marte/marte_phobos05.htm
2. Legendary female Soviet pilot and UFO hunter, Marina 'Madam MIG' Popovich, dies at 86, https://www.rt.com/news/411498-record-holder-ufologist-dies/
3. Ibid
4. Ibid
5. Bara, Michael, Ancient Aliens on Mars II, Adventures Unlimited Press, 2014
6. Phobos 2: The Strange Russian Space Incident, https://coolinterestingstuff.com/phobos-2-the-strange-russian-space-incident
7. The Phobos 2 Incident: January 1989, https://www.ufocasebook.com/phobos2.html

The C.I.A and the Animal Projects

     During this age of smart phones and televisions doubling as intrusive spying gadgets on a mostly uninterested public, the techniques of spying during the Cold War seem uncomplicated by comparison. Though gadgets used in James Bond movies seemed very cool at the time. Many years ago, the C.I.A. was involved in a different type of spying, they used animals. In the 1960’s they trained domestic cats in an operation known as Acoustic Kitty to spy on the USSR.

      The process took an hour for a veterinarian to implant a microphone in the feline’s ear, a radio transmitter at the base of its skull and a wire in its fur. This would let the kitty mingle with the Soviets and record the surroundings and transmit it back to a van or building where agents would be placed to record conversations. (1) The cost was $20m.

       The first mission was to spy on two men in a park outside the Soviet Compound in Washington, D.C. The cat was let out of the van and while crossing a street was killed by a taxi cab. In true confusing form, Robert Wallace, a former Director of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service related the project was abandoned due to the difficulty of training the cat to behave as needed. He also said the cat was not killed but operated on, equipment was taken out and the cat lived a long happy life. This at a time when animals intrinsic value was only in proportion to aiding humans. Hollywood for example accidently killed horses and other animals often during the process of making films. (2)

       The project ended in 1967, and according to a memorandum in that same year, the project concluded it was indeed possible to train cats, that they were capable of moving short distances for the purposes intended. They also concluded it was not practical for environmental and security purposes to use this technique in real foreign situations. That leads me to believe that perhaps the cat did not survive and live a long happy life. The project was disclosed in 2001 when CIA documents were declassified. (3)

      Acoustic Kitty is only one of many animals taught to do the bidding of the government in the Cold War. Hot Springs, Arkansas was location of a park called the I.Q. Zoo in the 1960’s. “Children would squeal as they watched chickens play baseball, macaws ride bicycles, ducks drumming and pigs pawing at pianos.” (4) It was the place that trained animals to do human things. It was founded by Keller and Marian Breland in 1955. The Brelands worked with B.F. Skinner in a project where they trained pigeons to guide missiles during WWII.

     The Pigeon Project was run by animal behaviorist and psychologist B.F. Skinner and would use pigeons to pilot a guided bomb. The National Bureau of Standards developed an unpowered airframe that was used by U.S. Navy’s radar guided “bat” glide bomb. Skinner trained the pigeons with a technique he developed called operant conditioning to recognize a target. It was a process in which behavior is taught over a period of time using reward or punishment to gain the desired results.

      The NBS’s airframe then had a bomb in the center and a cone in the front of the missile housed 3 pigeons in separate cubby holes. The pigeons were shown the target on screens in front of them. Any angular movement by them was registered by sensors and would direct the bomb to the target. (5) It was discontinued in 1944 as the military thought focusing in this direction would prevent other projects from being sought out. It was a precursor to early electronic guidance systems that used similar methods with electronic signals and processors instead of the pigeons.

      For those of who grew up with Flipper the dolphin on T.V. , the U.S. Navy (I know they are not CIA, but animals used in military fashion)created a program in which they studied dolphins and sea lions for the Cold War. In 1960 the U.S. Navy created the NMMP or Naval Marine Mammal Program. It started with one Pacific White-sided Dolphin that was acquired to study hydrodynamics to improve torpedo performance. 1962 they discovered the intelligence and diving ability of the dolphins. The fact they were so trainable led to a research program at Point Mugu, California. They studied their natural sonar and deep diving physiology to see if they would be useful in military applications. The dolphins and sea lions were able to work untethered in the open sea. Tuffy was the name of a dolphin that carried messages and tools between the surface and a habitat 200 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. He also located lost divers and led them to safety.(6) In 1967 the dolphin program became classified and now operates as part of the black budget of the Federal government.

      Ravens were discovered to go unnoticed often and operated well alone. They were taught to pick up objects and even file folders. The amount they could carry in their beaks was phenomenal.  Even bugs were considered to detect humans. Robert Wallace, who headed the CIA’s Office of Technical Services in the 1990s, says the use of animals in intelligence has a long history. “Animals can go places people can’t. Animals are unalerting. The other side of the coin is that although animals can be trained, they have to be constantly trained. The upkeep, care and maintenance is significant.”(7)

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• 1. Donald, Graeme (2011). Loose Cannons: 101 Myths, Mishaps and Misadventurers of Military History. Osprey Publishing
• 2. TV series "The World's Weirdest Weapons", season 1, episode 6: "Weapons Of The Superspies", Yesterday TV
• 3. LaFrance, Adrien, The Time the CIA Bugged a Cat to Spy on the Soviets, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/06/acoustic-kitty-technological-history-of-american-espionage/396728
• 4. Vanderbilt, Tom, “Animal Intelligence”, Smithsonian (October 2013), Online at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-cias-most-highly-trained-spies-werent-even-human-20149/
• 5. Nose Cone, Pigeon-Guided Missile". National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Archivedfrom the original on May 16, 2008. Retrieved June 10, 2008
• 6. Ridgeway, Sam H., Dolphin Doctor: A Pioneering Veterinarian and Scientist Remembers the Extraordinary Dolphin that Inspired His Career Paperback, Dolphin Science Press – 1995
• 7. Ibid

Operation Northwoods

During the Kennedy administration the Joint Chiefs of Staff officer in charge was Lyman L. Lemnitzer. After the Bay of Pigs, Lemnitzer lost faith in President John F. Kennedy.  “The Far Right became a fount of proposals born of frustration and put forward in the name of anti-Communism. . . Active-duty commanders played host to anti-Communist seminars on their bases and attended or addressed Right-wing meetings elsewhere." Although no one in Congress could have known it at the time, Lemnitzer and the Joint Chiefs had quietly slipped over the edge. (1)

In 1959 Cuba had been taken over by the Fidel Castro and the Communists, by 1961 Kennedy was the President of the United States and the Bay of Pigs was considered a military failure.   This is when the idea of false flags came into being. The dictionary defines false flag as:

“Covert operations conducted by government, corporations or other organizations which are designed to appear as though they were carried out by other entities.”

The actions really began the last year of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency, in March of 1960... It seemed that Eisenhower (an old army general) wanted to go out of office with a military win.  He wanted to invade Cuba before Kennedy was inaugurated but had no good reason to do so. Eisenhower discussed with military generals even if Castro did not give them a reason to invade Cuba, perhaps they could manufacture one. One that would be generally accepted. What he suggested was a bombing, an attack, an act of sabotage carried out secretly against the US by the US military. A CIA report was signed off by President Eisenhower on March 17, 1960 for U.S. Intervention, “A Program of Covert Action Against the Castro Regime.” (2)

On March 24, 1960 the C.I.A. allocated $900,000 to a covert operation, and by June another $1,000,000 was allocated. The operation’s goal was to unseat Castro. They were enlisting Anti-Castro assets and began training for operations in Florida and even within Cuba. This was a separate C.I.A. operation and the Joint Chiefs had 50,000 men at the ready. This according to a document called, The Inspector General’s Survey of the Cuban Operation and Associate Documents. This was a precursor to the operation presented to President Kennedy in 1962.

Allen Dulles then head of C.I.A. (later appointed himself to Warren Commission after assassination of John F. Kennedy) was cautious about U.S. Involvement in Cuba, fearing an anti-American movement. So, he presented a General Covert Action Plan for Cuba, that would only focus on Cuban problems. The C.I.A recruited bodies for this action, they must be pro-Western, anti-Communist, politically neutral and able to gather Cuban support. The main goal was to oust Castro and restore Cuba to the 1940 constitution. The purpose was as follows:

1. Act as a beacon to attract other anti-Castro groups
2. Serve as a scapegoat in case covert operations were discovered
3. Act as a possible replacement if Castro was taken out (3)

After the Bay of Pigs failure in 1961, both Robert Kennedy (attorney General) and Richard Goodwin (asst. special counsel to president and member of the task force on Latin American affairs) suggested that the U.S. government begin a sustained action against Castro, calling it an action to remove the communists from power in Cuba. November 4, 1961,  Project Mongoose came into being. It was led by Air Force Brigadier General Edward Lansdale, but with the cooperation of many agencies; the C.I.A., Department of Defense, the Department of State, The F.B.I., Immigration and Naturalization Service among others. So three different factions had started operations to oust Castro.

Operation Mongoose wrapped up after a meeting on October 4, 1962 where they outlined 4 objects to proceed in Cuba:

1. They needed more intelligence in Cuba, more C.I.A. probes
2. They needed more sabotage their agents were involved in.
3. They needed restrictions eased so the C.I.A. could train their agents
4. The C.I.A. do anything to get rid of Castro in Cuba (4)

The Kennedy brothers seemed to go soft on Castro and the operation after the October meeting. This was the beginning of Operation Northwoods.  It was at that time the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the C.I.A. would use their influence to propagandize the American public to get them on board with military action against Castro. Now the operations funneled down to one....

They would convince the public and the world into believing that Cuba was a threat to democracy and the American way of life, that they were part of the Communist threat. The patriotic Americans would then not only support the military, but demand they launch an offense against Castro. "World opinion, and the United Nations forum," said a secret JCS document, "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." (5)

Operation Northwoods called for a war in which many patriotic Americans and innocent Cubans would die senseless deaths, all to satisfy the egos of twisted generals back in Washington, safe in their taxpayer financed homes and limousines.

One idea seriously considered involved the launch of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth. On February 20,1962, Glenn was to lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on his historic journey. The flight was to carry the banner of America's virtues of truth, freedom, and democracy into orbit high over the planet. But Lemnitzer and his Chiefs had a different idea. They proposed to Lansdale that, should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, "the objective is to provide irrevocable proof that . . . the fault lies with the Communists et al Cuba [sic.]"  (6)

They were going to stage attacks on base at Guantanamo Bay and Florida:

• Stage riots outside base
• Get C.I.A. Cuban assets to climb over the fence
• Then capture such Cubans inside the base
• Blow up ammunitions inside base and start fires
• Capture fake assault teams entering area from the sea
• Sink ships in Harbor, stage funerals in lieu of real ones
• Blow up ship and blame it on Cuba
• Stage fake/real Communist Cuban terror attacks and bombings in Miami and other Florida cities, and in Washington D.C.
• Create incidents that looked like a Communist Cuban missile destroyed an American Aircraft
• Cuban hijacking attempts on civilian planes and land vehicles

These are just some of the ideas they came up with that could include loss of life for both Cubans and Americans within an acceptable range enabling these diabolical generals to declare a war on Cuba and oust Castro.

Lemnitzer and the Joint Chiefs worked out a complex deception:

An aircraft at Elgin AFB would be painted and numbered as an exact duplicate for a civil registered aircraft belonging to a CJA proprietary organization in the Miami area. At a designated time the duplicate would be substituted for the actual civil aircraft and would be loaded with the selected passengers, all boarded under carefully prepared aliases. The actual registered aircraft would be converted to a drone [a remotely controlled unmanned aircraft]. Take off times of the drone aircraft and the actual aircraft will be scheduled to allow a rendezvous south of Florida.

From the rendezvous point the passenger-carrying aircraft will descend to minimum altitude and go directly into an auxiliary field at Elgin AFB where arrangements will have been made to evacuate the passengers and return the aircraft to its original status. Are you confused yet?  The drone aircraft meanwhile will continue to fly the filed flight plan. When over Cuba the drone will be transmitting on the international distress frequency a "May Day" message stating he is under attack by Cuban MiG aircraft. The transmission will be interrupted by destruction of the aircraft, which will be triggered by radio signal. This will allow ICAO [International Civil Aviation Organization radio stations in the Western Hemisphere to tell the U.S. what has happened to the aircraft instead of the U.S. trying to "sell" the incident.

Finally, there was a plan to "make it appear that Communist Cuban MiGs have destroyed a USAF aircraft over international waters in an unprovoked attack." It was a particularly believable operation given the decade of shoot downs that had just taken place.

In the final sentence of his letter to Secretary McNamara recommending the operations, Lemnitzer made a grab for even more power asking that the Joint Chiefs be placed in charge of carrying out Operation Northwoods and the invasion. "It is recommended," he wrote, "that this responsibility for both oven and covert military operations be assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff." (7) This would put the C.I.A. operation under the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The Joint Chiefs met with then President John F. Kennedy, and Secretary Robert McNamara in March 16, 1962. The plans were shut down, as Kennedy said there was never not going to be military force in Cuba. Lemnitzer attempted for a time to continue it behind Kennedy’s back with Secretary Robert McNamara. McNamara became increasingly untrusting of Lemnitzer and the plans never became reality. Kennedy removed Lemnitzer from office, though he turned up in Jan 1963 as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.

In November of 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the Operation Northwoods docs buried or destroyed.  The idea of  false flags were introduced into military vocabulary, and many believe the Gulf of Tonkin battle in 1964 that began the Vietnam conflict was started by a staged aggressive act by U.S.  Others believe the attack on 9/11/2001 World Trade Center and U.S. Pentagon was a staged act to lead us into war in the Middle East. After going through the documents, I could see how they came to that conclusion.

1. Operation Northwoods, BODY OF SECRETS, James Bamford, Doubleday, 2001, p.82 and following. Scanned and edited by NY Transfer, News.http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/northwoods.html
2. A Program of Covert Action Against the Castro Regime, http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB341/IGrpt1.pdf
3. Ibid
4. "Memorandum for Record: Minutes of the Special Group on Operation MONGOOSE" (PDF). National Security Archive. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
5. Ibid
6. The Inspector General’s Survey of the Cuban Operation and Associate Documents, https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB341/IGrpt1.pdf
7. Ibid
8. Ibid