Operation Northwoods was a sinister plot to kill American civilians on American soil and blame it on terrorists to justify an invasion of Cuba in 1962. The plan was submitted by Allen Dulles, the director of the CIA and approved by Lyman Lemnitzer, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Kennedy vetoed the plan, fired Allen Dulles and reassigned Lyman Lemnitzer to Europe.
No conspiracy nutcase made up Operation Northwoods. The declassified document is real. If Kennedy hadn't vetoed the plan they would have implemented it. We need to address this because when Lyman Lemnitzer was reassigned to Europe, he actually implemented the same plan in Europe as Operation Gladio. BBC ran a documentary on that horrific operation.
The recent tragic events in Brussels forces us to reexamine Operation Northwoods and Operation Gladio. The "intelligence community" need more public accountability not less. Especially after the Air India bombing. CSIS were the ones that provided the explosives for that attack.
We also need to ask why was CSIS aiding ISIS? That was recorded in the Globe and Mail as well as the Ottawa Citizen and has yet to be addressed. Lest we forget.
Likewise, the Paris attacks also force us to reexamine the the Karachi affair. Nicolas Sarkozy was accused of getting political kickbacks from an arms deal with Pakistan. When the deal was cancelled and his kickbacks were cut off he was accused of helping organize a terrorist bombing in Pakistan that killed French engineers. French intelligence is as corrupt as British, American and Canadian intelligence. Buyer Beware.