I'd never heard of Operation Northwoods before today. It was a document, officially titled "Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba", drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff under JFK describing various illicit methods for gaining public support for an invasion of Cuba. Of particular interest are pages 10 - 15 of the document. (It was declassified in 2001 prior to 9/11. Thank you, Freedom of Information Act!). You can access it here in PDF form.

Thankfully, the document was rejected by Robert McNamara, but even so, it's extremely scary to think that there were, and most likely still are people in the government who come up with scenarios like this.

Operation Northwoods is one case where the conspiracy theorists werer proven correct. To what extent is our foreign policy still subject to influence by the military-industrial complex?