Nice informative links, pmbuko. Thanks.
It appears that they made the right call in scrapping that "plan". Even though Cuba is our ideological enemy, time has shown that Castro poses no threat to the US (once the Soviet missile deployments were halted).


"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?"

I see no problem with exploring all options - brainstorming if you will - when it comes to securing our nation's interests.

The biggest conspiracy I see right now is that of our press in their efforts to see Kerry elected President.

To what extent do you think our foreign policy is subject to influence by the military-industrial complex?