00:00In 1962, the highest military commanders in America drew up a plan to murder their own citizens.
00:06It was called Operation Northwoods.
00:08The Joint Chiefs of Staff, every single one of them, signed it.
00:12The plan was detailed. Stage bombings on American soil, sink boats carrying refugees,
00:18fake hijackings, kill civilians, then blame Cuba and use the deaths as a reason to invade.
00:24These weren't rogue agents or fringe extremists.
00:27These were the men constitutionally sworn to protect the United States.
00:30They sat down together, wrote it out carefully and put their names on it.
00:35One signature away from becoming real.
00:37President Kennedy rejected it immediately and removed the general who proposed it.
00:42Most people never knew it existed.
00:44The documents stayed classified for nearly 40 years.
00:47When they finally surfaced in the late 1990s, historians couldn't believe what they were reading.
00:53Not a conspiracy theory. Not a rumor.
00:55An official government document with official signatures.
00:59The people trusted to defend the country had quietly voted to destroy it from the inside.
01:03in history, Neil Pease-D ΡΡΠ΄or capitalism.
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