6 Facts About Operation Northwoods Conspiracy Theory

4. Plane hijacking

One of the “great” ideas they had was to fake some hijacking attempts against civilian airplanes. This would, of course, be blamed on the Cuban regime. They even thought about creating an incident that would convincingly demonstrate that a Cuban aircraft had attacked and shot down a civilian airliner traveling from the United States towards Jamaica, Guatemala, Panama or Venezuela. Since ethics weren’t exactly very high among those making up these plans, the victims were to be college students leaving on a holiday.

An aircraft was to be painted as the airliner, which would be loaded up with carefully selected passengers boarding under various aliases, to make it all look real.

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