Kristen Breitweiser (911 Widow) letter to Condi Rice: Here's Your 9/11 Smoking Gun

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14. And there's good reason to believe the idea had been percolating for quite some time.

Case in point: Operation Northwoods.

Proposed by the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1962, the plan called for the CIA or other US government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets, blaming it on Castro, and using it to justify a war against Cuba.

Northwoods envisaged a number of possible scenarios, including sinking US ships and even gunning down and bombing civilians on the streets of Washington, D.C., and Miami (!). But the proposal that gained the most traction was one that would fake the crash of an American passenger plane.

The disaster was to be accomplished by faking a commercial flight from the US to Jamaica, and having the plane boarded at a public airport by CIA agents disguised as college students going on vacation. An empty remote-controlled plane would follow the commercial flight as it left Florida. The commercial flight's pilots would radio that they had been attacked by a Cuban fighter, then land in secret at Eglin Air Force Base. The empty remote-controlled plane would then be blown out of the sky and the public would be told all the college students aboard were killed.

The proposals were rejected by the Kennedy administration, and Kennedy fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Lyman Lemnitzer, for signing off on something so treasonous.

Unfortunately, Bush and Cheney later found another use for Northwoods.

Never forget.