6 Facts About Operation Northwoods Conspiracy Theory

1. Terror campaign

Although the idea of this terror campaign is not exactly well developed, we can only assume what they wanted to do. “We could develop a Communist Cuba terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington,” reads the declassified documents. In order to give some flesh to the idea, they went on to say that these could be blamed on the Cuban refugees seeking haven in the United States.

Then, it casually states that they could sink “a boatload of Cubans” trying to get to Florida — whether real or simulated seemed to have no sway with the authors. They go as far as saying that they could explode plastic bombs in various spots, arrest Cuban agents and falsify the documentation.

This is just one of the 6 facts about Operation Northwoods Conspiracy Theory.