"Operation Northwoods" has been mentioned, in this thread. I thought, for my and the OP's enlightenment, to look into it a little:
(From Wikipedia):
Related Operation Mongoose proposals
In addition to Operation Northwoods, under the Operation Mongoose program the U.S. Department of Defense had a number of similar proposals to be taken
against the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro.
Twelve of these proposals come from a February 2, 1962 memorandum entitled "Possible Actions to Provoke, Harass or Disrupt Cuba," written by
Brig. Gen. William H. Craig and submitted to Brig. Gen. Edward Lansdale, the commander of the Operation Mongoose project.[5][6][7][14]
The memorandum outlines Operation Bingo, a plan to, in its words, "create an incident which has the appearance of an attack on U.S. facilities (GMO)
in Cuba, thus providing an excuse for use of U.S. military might to overthrow the current government of Cuba."
Breaking out, here to say that the term (GMO) refers to 'Gitmo', or as we now have heard so much about already, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (BTW, I
bolded the date up above, just for perspective!)
It also includes Operation Dirty Trick, a plot to blame Castro if the 1962 Mercury manned space flight carrying John Glenn crashed, saying: "The
objective is to provide irrevocable proof that, should the MERCURY manned orbit flight fail, the fault lies with the Communists et al. Cuba [sic]."
It continues, "This to be accomplished by manufacturing various pieces of evidence which would prove electronic interference on the part of the
Cubans."
This entire "idea" shows just how stupid the intelligence community was, back then (??) or now. In the case of Glenn's "flight", he was pretty
much just 'spam in a can'. The entire launch and re-entry trajectory was predetermined from lift-off.
*snip*...the Joint Chiefs of Staff still planned false-flag pretext operations at least into 1963. A different U.S. Department of Defense policy
paper created in 1963 discussed a plan to make it appear that Cuba had attacked a member of the Organization of American States (OAS) so that the
United States could retaliate.*snip*
Again, please note that with the exception of the 'Gitmo' scenario, all of these planned "False Flags" would use other countries' citizens as the
puppets.
*snip*...Included in the nations the Joint Chiefs suggested as targets for covert attacks were Jamaica and Trinidad-Tobago. Since both were
members of the British Commonwealth, the Joint Chiefs hoped that by secretly attacking them and then falsely blaming Cuba, the United States could
incite the people of the United Kingdom into supporting a war against Castro.*snip*
Continuing:
The U.S. Department of Defense report even suggested covertly paying a person in the Castro government to attack the United States: "The only
area remaining for consideration then would be to bribe one of Castro's subordinate commanders to initiate an attack on [the U.S. Navy base at]
Guantanamo."
Again, note the use of a
Military American base as the target -- NOT civilian Americans!!!
Reaction
President John F. Kennedy personally rejected the Northwoods proposal. A JCS/Pentagon document (Ed Lansdale memo) dated March 16, 1962 titled
MEETING WITH THE PRESIDENT, 16 MARCH 1962 reads: "General Lemnitzer commented that the military had contingency plans for US intervention. Also it
had plans for creating plausible pretexts to use force, with the pretext either attacks on US aircraft or a Cuban action in Latin America for which we
could retaliate.*snip*
Again, not clearly stated, but 'attacks on US Aircraft likely means on military aircraft.
*snip*The President said bluntly that we were not discussing the use of military force, that General Lemnitzer might find the U.S so engaged in
Berlin or elsewhere that he couldn't use the contemplated 4 divisions in Cuba.*snip*
(The beginnings of the JFK assassination plot? Ah, another thread...)
*snip* Kennedy also took steps to bring discipline to the CIA's Cold War and paramilitary operations by drafting a National Security Action
Memorandum (NSAM) which called for the shift of Cold War operations to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the U.S. Department of Defense as well as a major
change in the role of the CIA to exclusively deal in intelligence gathering. Kennedy was notably unpopular with the military, a rift that came to a
head during Kennedy's disagreements with the military over the Cuban Missile Crisis, shortly before the presentation of Northwoods. Personally,
Kennedy expressed concern and anger to many of his associates about the CIA's growing influence on civilians and government inside America.
All of the preceeding lends itself rather nicely to the current-day claims, eh??