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TIL Operation Northwood - called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse for war.

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