Fact check
Is it true: Operation Northwoods?
Confirmed100% confidence
Yes — this is confirmed.
Proven by the primary source document — the actual Northwoods proposal, declassified in 1997 by the JFK Assassination Records Review Board.
The claim
1962 proposal by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to commit false-flag terrorist attacks against American civilians and military targets to justify war with Cuba. Rejected by President Kennedy. Declassified
Key evidence
Original Northwoods memo text
Operation was never executed
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