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To: michael97123 who wrote (68459)	1/24/2003 3:11:57 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

google "Project Northwoods" for various refs, this is from the National Security Archive at GWU gwu.edu "... describes U.S. plans to covertly engineer various pretexts that would justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba. These proposals ... included staging the assassinations of Cubans living in the United States, developing a fake “Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington... faking a Cuban airforce attack on a civilian jetliner, and concocting a “Remember the Maine” incident by blowing up a U.S. ship in Cuban waters and then blaming the incident on Cuban sabotage." It would be different if these fine fellows had been taken to the gallows for planning assassinations on American soil, but instead it's seen as an exciting cowboy thing to do, to create secret plans to change American politics and get away with military adventures, and has been going on ever since, as we see in FOIA and things like Ollie North's little escapade in Latin America. Nothing is more important in FP and domestic security than creating full disclosure and transparency in the US gov't.