The Dismissal of Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker - A special report by Cong. Morris K. Udall

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19. Gen. Lemnitzer's support for upside down flag-flying Gen. Walker is shocking.

Lemnitzer was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who suggested to his civilian bosses, JFK and Sec Def Robert S. McNamara, that the Pentagon create pretexts for war by attacking the civilians in the USA and the USN base at Guantanamo and blaming Castro and the Commies. That sounds a heck of a lot like what Gen. Walker and his miraculous escape from an assassin's bullet, one that would later be blamed on Oswald, the pro-Castro, pro-Soviet "little Communist."

U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba

By David Ruppe
ABC News, N E W Y O R K, May 1, 2001

In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.

Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.

The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.

America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."

Details of the plans are described in Body of Secrets (Doubleday), a new book by investigative reporter James Bamford about the history of America's largest spy agency, the National Security Agency. However, the plans were not connected to the agency, he notes.

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One idea was to create a war between Cuba and another Latin American country so that the United States could intervene. Another was to pay someone in the Castro government to attack U.S. forces at the Guantanamo naval base — an act, which Bamford notes, would have amounted to treason. And another was to fly low level U-2 flights over Cuba, with the intention of having one shot down as a pretext for a war.

"There really was a worry at the time about the military going off crazy and they did, but they never succeeded, but it wasn't for lack of trying," he says.

After 40 Years

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Afraid of a congressional investigation, Lemnitzer had ordered all Joint Chiefs documents related to the Bay of Pigs destroyed, says Bamford. But somehow, these remained.

"The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years after," says Bamford.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662

Gen. Walker's connnections to Billy James Hargis is eye-opening, as well. Incredible roots from Hargis to The Family -- Just The Messenger provides an excellent overview and bibliography.

Thank you very much for the heads-up, starroute! Even thought they've taken a lot of hits from some surprising quarters

, the truth and Democracy are about all that stands in the way of the warmongering bastards.