historical record
"We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area ... casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."
Source
Operation Northwoods (Declassified)
Joint Chiefs of Staff memorandum, 'Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba' (1962)
Author
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Date
1962 (declassified 1997)
Credibility & evidentiary value

A genuine declassified document: a proposed (and REJECTED) plan for staged 'false-flag' provocations. Proves such plans were proposed; it was never carried out.

Citation · Chicago

U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, 'Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba,' 1962; declassified via the National Security Archive, 1997.

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