MH370: Stop Looking
in the Wrong Place
by Peter Myers,
February 2, 2019
This material is at http://mailstar.net/MH370.html
Copyright Peter Gerard Myers
MH370 is back in the news, with reports that it probably
crashed near Madagascar, based on data
from underwater microphones: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-31/mh370-underwater-microphones-suggest-alternate-crash-site/10767550
Such a scenario has occurred to other investigators too, but
it does not fit the Inmarsat data, so has usually been discarded.
For the same reason, eyewitness reports, by multiple
witnesses, of a plane matching MH370 in the Maldives on the day it disappeared,
were dismissed by the official bodies, and the witnesses ridiculed.
Investigators chose to spend close to $200 million on undersea searches in the
wrong area, rather than spend $20,000 interviewing those witnesses in the
Maldives.
IBM employee Philip Wood allegedly sent an i-Phone message
from Diego Garcia to his fiance Sarah
Bajc, a business executive in Beijing, saying that MH370 had been hijacked.
Amateur investigator Blaine Gibson found many pieces of MH370
wreckage around Madagascar, Mauritius, Rodrigues Island, and the east coast of
Africa. But he could not accept that it might have been an Inside Job, so kept
trying to fit his data with the official theory.
Researchers with a 'conspiracy' mindset are not surprised.
Those who believe that JFK was killed by the Deep State, and that 911 was an
inside job, probably by Mossad with CIA complicity, assess the disappearance of
MH370 as an inside job by an intelligence agency.
Most likely it was electronically hijacked by the CIA, and
flown by computer as a drone. Those familiar with Operation Northwoods guess
that were two identical planes, one being a decoy to keep the search focused on
the wrong area, while the real MH370 headed for the CIA base at Diego Garcia,
either directly or via the Maldives.
As for the reason for the hijacking, that seems to be to
prevent technology-transfer to China - either cargo on its way to China, or the
20 Freescale engineers en route from Malaysia to China. Details of the cargo in
the hold have not been released.
Blocking the transfer of military technology to China would
be a concern of the CIA, rather than Mossad, and in keeping with the Pentagon's
Air-Sea Battle plan.
Mossad's only credible motive would be the diversion of
military technology to Israel instead of China. But Ken St Aubin suggests that
Mossad helped out by supplying the decoy plane, a Boeing 777 which Israel had
bought from Malaysia Airlines; it had been sighted at a hangar in Israel prior
to the hijacking:
Suppose that the CIA could not prevent the equipment being
loaded onto MH370. An open attack on he plane would have been seen as an act of
war. Stealth methods would have achieved the desired result without risking a
diplomatic disaster.
Emirates head Tim Clark told Der Spiegel that MH370 had been
hijacked - but he wasn't buying the idea that this had been done by one of the
pilots. He said that the plane may not have flown south, that Government
agencies were covering up, and warned that "others would like to bury" the
truth:
"My own view is that
PROBABLY CONTROL WAS TAKEN OF THAT AEROPLANE, the events that happened
during the course of its tracked flight will be anybody's guess of who did what
and when. I think we need to know who was on this aeroplane in the detail that
obviously SOME PEOPLE DO KNOW, WE
NEED TO KNOW WHAT WAS IN THE HOLD OF THE AEROPLANE, in the detail we need to
know, in a transparent manner. And we need to continue to press all those stake
holders, that were and are involved in the analysis, in the assessment of what
happened, for more information. Because heading an airline that operates the
largest number of 777s in the world, I have a responsibility of knowing
exactly what went on. ... But I will continue to ask the questions and will make a nuisance of myself, when OTHERS
WOULD LIKE TO BURY IT, and we have an obligation to the passengers and crew
of MH 370 and their families, whose deep distress you see every day. We have an
obligation not to brush this under the
carpet, but to sort it out and do better than we have done"
Former Proteus Airlines boss Marc Dugain claims MH370 may
have been shot down by the US military near Diego Garcia:
Researchers on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 rely heavily on
Wikipedia for its assumed neutrality.
Wikipedia has two webpages on MH370, one presenting the
official theory, and one presenting unofficial or conspiracy theories; the two
link to each other. The official one is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370.
The unofficial one is at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370_unofficial_disappearance_theories
In the past, the unofficial one, being edited by many people,
at times presented incriminating information. However, it no longer does so;
it's now written by the same people as the official one. The difference is that,
whereas the official one ignores conspiracy theories, the unofficial one seeks
to debunk them.
The current Wikipedia
webpages, official and unofficial, make no mention of the comments of Emirates
CEO Tim Clark, or of Proteus Airlines boss Marc Dugain, or of Philip
Wood.
When I checked it on January 28, 2017, and again on February
2, 2019, I found that the unofficial webpage not only omitted the most
incriminating evidence, but favorably quoted Cass Sunstein, a leading,
government-appointed, debunker of 9/11 and other conspiracy theories. This is
what it said:
'Harvard professor Cass Sunstein noted that the conflicting
information initially released by the Malaysian government explains the interest
in alternative theories. Sunstein, who has written on the topic, argued in an
interview with the Wall Street Journal on 20 March 2014 that conspiracy theories
in general often are borne out of horrific and disastrous situations, because
such events make people angry, fearful and looking for a "target".'
Cass Sunstein, when at Harvard University, authored a paper
recommending "Cognitive infiltration" of Dissident groups by Government
agents:
Conspiracy Theories, by Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule,
both of Harvard Law School, January 15, 2008: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1084585
Sunstein was later appointed by Obama to take on this
role.
In reply, David Ray Griffin wrote a book Cognitive
Infiltration: An Obama Appointee's Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory:
http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Infiltration-Appointees-Undermine-Conspiracy/dp/1566568218.
MH370 kept flying for 5 or more hours after its last known
location, proving that mechanical failure and fire were not the problem.
If the pilot had planned to suicide, he would not have
bothered to fly so far; so that can be ruled out. As for his practice landings
at Indian Ocean airports, on his simulator, that is not unusual; flights are
sometimes diverted by bad weather. It does not indicate malice on his part. The
media beatup such stories, but failed to ask hard questions of government
spokesmen, eg, Why wasn't MH370 picked up on the US military radars at Singapore
and Diego Garcia? Why not interview the witnesses in the Maldives? Why not
release the full cargo manifest for MH370?
The Transponder and ACARS were turned off, proving conspiracy
of some kind. Either by one of the pilots, or by an intelligence agency taking
control of the plane and flying it remotely like a drone.
After being turned off, the ACARS unit was unable to send
data, but was still able to do handshakes with the Inmarsat satellite.
After its diversion, and without radar protection, the plane
first flew high, to avoid collision with other planes, then flew low to avoid
radar, as it doubled back and flew west over Malaysia. It hugged the borders
between countries, to keep changing the jurisdiction it was in, and successfully
dodged mountains, suggesting computer control.
The co-pilot attempted to make a distress call from his
mobile phone, as the plane neared the Penang mobile system towers at low
altitude.
The Daily Mail reported, "The co-pilot of missing flight
MH370 made a call from his mobile phone while the aircraft flew low over the
west coast of Malaysia, it was revealed today as the U.S. denied reports the
plane landed at a military base on the remote island of Diego Garcia.
Investigators have learned that the call was made from Fariq Abdul Hamid's
mobile phone as the Boeing 777 flew low
near the island of Penang, on the north of Malaysia's west coast. The New
Straits Times reported the aircraft, with 239 people on board, was flying low enough for the nearest
telecommunications tower to pick up Fariq's signal. The call ended abrupty,
however it has been learned that contact was definitely established with a
telecommunications sub-station in Penang state. The paper said it had been
unable to ascertain who Fariq was trying to call 'as sources chose not to
divulge details of the investigation.' It added: 'The telco's
(telecommunications company's) tower established the call that he was trying to
make. 'On why the call was cut off,
it was likely because the aircraft was
fast moving away from the tower and had not come under the coverage of the
next one,' the paper said, quoting 'sources'. [...]"
In the early days of the search, station WNYC published a map
showing 634 runways MH370 could have landed on without refueling, based on its
last location detected by primary radar, which is half-way between Banda Aceh at
the tip of Sumatra, and Phuket on the Thailand coast, at 2.22am Malaysia
time.
The WNYC original is at https://project.wnyc.org/runways/
The 3 isolated dots (runways) at the south-west of the map
are (from north to south), Male, Gan (both in the Maldives), and Diego
Garcia.
People looking for debris would have been looking within that
circle. If it had crashed at sea, there would have been a huge debris field.
Given the worldwide interest, the debris would have been spotted. It wasn't -
not within that circle - so the plane landed somewhere. It would have either
been stored in a hangar, or refuelled and then dumped further afield, for
example between Diego Garcia and Mauritius.
Some say Diego Garcia is the most likely location. There were
no secheduled flights from Diego Garcia airport on March 8-10, 2014; flights
resumed on March 11:
Landing at Diego Garcia could not be done without approval of
the US Military. Hijacking by the Captain or co-pilot is unlikely, because they
would still have needed permission to land at Diego Garcia. No demands or
ultimatums were presented to Malaysian authorities, of the type "do this or
else", and there are more pleasant ways to commit suicide.
Which leaves the CIA as the most likely culprit; Mossad being
the other possibility. Israeli submarines use Diego Garcia as a base.
One might surmise that the intelligence agency behind the
hijack (CIA or Mossad) could have stored MH370 in a hangar on Diego Garcia, and
disposed of it later, after it faded from public attention.
After I did a radio interview on Tony Gosling's radio program
in 2017, I received an email from Ann Diener <raven_knight@sbcglobal.net>,
as follows:
"I have a friend who
was stationed on Diego Garcia. This is her response to the Diego Garcia
portion.
"Diego Garcia theory - there is no hanger to hide a jet that
large on the island. There aren't regular schedule flights because there are
only 3/4 flights a month that come
and go. 2 of those flights are every 2
weeks, 1 flight is once a week and the other flight is once a month."
Following up, I then investigated the hangars on Diego
Garcia. The Boeing 777 is much larger than military jets; in particular, its
tail is too high for the hangars on Diego Garcia.
The B-2 Shelter System [B2SS], also called Extra Large
Deployable Aircraft Hangar Systems, provides hangars 250' wide by 60' high on
Diego Garcia: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/systems/xldahs.htm
But the tail of the 777 is 60 ft 9 in high: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777
It follows that MH370 could not have remained on Diego Garcia
during daylight hours. Although there were no flights scheduled from March 8 to
10, and workers may have been deployed offshore on a naval exercise, the risk of
someone seeing MH370 there and later blabbing would be too great, whatever the
penalties.
Next, I investigated the times of reported sightings of MH370
in the Maldives, and sunrise there and on Diego Garcia.
Sightings at Kuda Huvadhoo in the Maldives match the
description of MH370, but there is a time discrepancy.
Malaysia is 8 hours ahead of Greenwich time (UTC + 8). The
Maldives is UTC + 5. That is, Malaysia time is 3 hours ahead of Maldives
time.
Witnesses at Kuda Huvadhoo gave the time as 6.15am Maldives
time, which is 9.15am Malaysia time, but it only takes 4 hours to reach the
Maldives. The plane should have arrived about 6.15am Malaysia time, unless it
landed somewhere else on the way.
In addition, the witnesses said it came from the north-west,
and headed south towards Diego Garcia. But Malaysia is to the east. Why was the
plane coming from the wrong direction?
Kuda Huvadhoo is in the southern Maldives - south of Male,
but north of Gan.
I think that MH370 landed at Male or Maamigili in the
Maldives, about 3.20am Maldives time, and took off by 5.45am.
Both of these are international airports, with runways long
enough for a Boeing 777.
Male International Airport is also called Velana
International Airport; it has a 3000m runway, and routinely takes Boeing
777s.
Maamigili is about 108km to the west of Male. Its airport is
called Villa International Airport. The runway is 1800m, just sufficient for a
777; Leeds airport (LBA) is 1800m, and takes 777s. Maamigili is a quieter
airport than Male, but the runway is
less secluded from domestic buildings.
Thimarafushi, on the other hand, is too short. Blaine Gibson
mistook a small plane seen there, for MH370.
China has a long-term lease on Hambantota port in Sri Lanka,
and has been courting the Maldives government, to the consternation of the US;
Male International Airport was recently upgraded by a Chinese company. In 2013, the US proposed a "lily pad"
military base in the Maldives:
US seeks military presence in Maldives
April 26, 2013 M K Bhadrakumar
The intriguing ‘leak’
of a draft Status of Forces Agreement [SOFA] between the United States and the
Maldivian government has led to reluctant confirmation by both countries
that they are indeed involved in discussion with each other to conclude such an
agreement. ...
{endquote} The draft
SOFA is at http://www.dhivehisitee.com/images/US-Maldives-SOFA-draft.pdf.
But in 2014 the Maldives government rejected the "lily pad"
Military Pact with US, because it would upset neighbors India and Sri Lanka:
Maldives Rejects Military Pact With US
Jan. 22, 2014 - 02:53PM | By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA — The Maldives has decided not to take
part in a proposed military cooperation pact with the United States over fears
that it could upset the regional power India, senior officials said
Wednesday.
Speaking on a visit to Sri Lanka, the atoll nation’s new
President Abdulla Yameen said he did not
want to proceed with the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) that would have
given the US a foothold in his archipelago located across the main east-west sea
route.
{endquote}
Nevertheless, the discussions mean that there was close
contact between Diego Garcia and the Maldives military.
That liason came in handy in the wake of sightings of MH370.
The Maldives National Defence Force dismissed those sightings:
Missing Malaysia Airlines plane: Maldives discounted as
possible location for MH370
Sydney Morning Herald, March 19, 2014
Eyewitness reports of a possible sighting of missing
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 flying near the Maldives have been officially discounted in a statement
issued by the Maldives National Defence
Force.
{endquote}
If MH370 landed at Male as suggested here, the commander at Diego Garcia would have phoned
the Maldives military & got the ok for a job in the night, without
having to give any details.
The runway at Male runs north-south. MH370 would have landed
from the south, and stayed at the northern end of the runway, instead of taxiing
to the terminal near the southern end. It would have been refueled, and cargo
& passengers of interest been
transferred to another plane, or a boat, or both. Those other craft would then
have gone to Diego Garcia, where they would not have aroused suspicion. Then
MH370, flying as a drone, would have headed towards Diego Garcia, but, I
believe, not have landed there, because it would have been daylight, and thus
too risky. Instead, it would have been dumped between Diego Garcia and
Mauritius.
To familiarise yourself with Male airport (Velana
InternationalAirport), study the Google Map:
Here is a youtube of a High Power Take off of an Emirates
777-300er from Male International Airport:
hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Vu58MTl60
The Emirates Boeing 777 first taxis from the Terminal to the
South end of the island; then reverses around, at which point you can see the
city of Male on the Left; it's on another island.
Then it takes off towards the North. As the plane lifts off
the ground, you see the Terminal on the left (ie West).
Blaine Gibson has
published the Arrivals & Departures Boards for Male International Airport on
March 8, 2014: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B35tmLZHg1FES0l4ZlFnYWd1bE0/view
Ken St Aubin, using that material, presents the Boards at
higher resolution in his article Was the
disappearance of MH370 a CIA false flag operation?:
That whole time was dark. The moon was at First Quarter.
Sunrise was at 6.14am (see https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/maldives/male);
first light about 5.35am. At Male, residential areas are a long way from the
northern end of the runway.
There were no scheduled Departures between 2.50am and 6am.
There were no scheduled Arrivals between 11.05pm and 6.50am. MH370 could have
landed about 3.20am Maldives time, and taken off by 5.45am.
If the witness sightings at Kuda Huvadhoo are correct, I
believe that MH370 would not have landed at Diego Garcia, because it would have
been seen (being daylight). Despite "Shut Up or Die" orders, I think that,
given the worldwide interest, someone
would have blurbed.
Instead of landing there, MH370 would have been flown past
Diego Garcia as a drone, and been dumped in the Indian Ocean between Diego
Garcia and Mauritius. The closest debris find, on Rodrigues Island, fits that.
This area is outside the circle of 634
runways that MH370 could reach without refueling, so no-one would have been
looking there. Also, it's very remote.
But there is a credible alternative scenario to the above.
Both scenarios need to be seriously considered, until the case is finally
solved.
(Feb 11, 2017)
Yesterday, I did a Skype video call with Field McConnell, a former US airforce
pilot (flew F4s & F16s) and former airline captain (747-400) with
Delta Airlines & Northwest airlines. He flew for 31 years, then resigned because he refused an order to
shut up over plane hijackings by governments.
He says that the
planes were electronically hijacked by intelligence agencies, using technology
called "Uninterruptible AutoPilot".
There's a Boeing brand Uninterruptible AutoPilot, and a
Thales one.
All modern planes have one; they can be flown remotely as a
drone.
The pilot of American 77, which supposedly hit the Pentagon,
was a friend of his.
In fact, a missile hit the Pentagon; AA77 was switched and,
he says, detonated over the Atlantic Ocean.
This sort of "decoy plane" was first advocated in Operation
Northwoods, in 1961. At that time, the Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on it.
They wanted to stage a False Flag attack, to be blamed on Cuba, as an excuse to
invade it.
But President Kennedy, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy,
vetoed it, and sacked the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
(Feb 12, 2017) Field
McConnell believes MH370 was hijacked by the CIA and flown to Diego Garcia;
he told me that someone in Australia,
connected to Boeing, rang him and told him that MH370 landed in Diego Garcia
and that the engines were turned off at 6.51am Malaysia time
(which is 3.51am Maldives time, 4.51am Diego Garcia time). The travel time is
feasible if it flew direct, not via the
Maldives; it's not compatible with sightings in the Maldives. The plane would have landed in the dark. I believe that in
this scenario, it would have taken off
before sunrise, after cargo and passengers of interest were unloaded. That
way, workers on Diego Garcia would not
have seen it.
Diego Garcia is about the same longitude as Male. But whereas
the Maldives is UTC+5, Diego Garcia is UTC+6.
On March 8, Sunrise was at 6.14am at Male (see https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/maldives/male),
and 7.15am at Diego Garcia (see https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/biot/diego-garcia).
First Light is about 40 minutes earlier. The moon was at First Quarter on March
8, 2014.
If Field McConnell's source is correct, CIA & military operatives would have
had from 4.51am to 6.35am Diego Garcia time, to refuel the plane and remove
passengers and cargo of interest, before it took off by First Light at 6.35am. I believe that it
would then have been flown towards Mauritius and been dumped, outside the circle
of 634 runways, and far from where anyone was looking. It would have been
refueled, because they wanted to dump it
at a place of their choice, not just where it ran out of fuel.
Field McConnell said it's quite possible that the plane tracked off
Western Australia was a second plane, a decoy plane. The same happened with
9/11.
He resigned from his airline rather than shut up.
Here is a youtube of Field McConnell (who I Skyped with)
addressing a meeting about MH370 and 9/11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0K-i3Zxb3Q
APPENDIX - Operation
Northwoods
Papers on Operation Northwoods were released about 1995, as
part of an investigation into the assassination of JFK.
More info on Operation Northwoods is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
However, Wikipedia omits the best bits. Here they are, from
the book that broke the story:
Body of Secrets
by James Bamford
DOUBLEDAY New York 2001
{p. 82} According to secret and long-hidden documents
obtained for Body of Secrets, the Joint Ghiefs of Staff drew up and approved
plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government.
In the name of anticommunism, they
proposed launching a secret and bloody war of terrorism against their own
country in order to trick the American public into supporting an ill-conceived
war they intended to launch against Cuba.
Codenamed Operation Northwoods, the plan, which had the
written approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats carrying
refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the
high seas; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C.,
Miami, and elsewhere. People would be framed for bombings they did not commit;
planes would be hijacked. Using phony
evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and
his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they
needed to launch their war. ... {p. 83} They would have to trick the American
public and world opinion into hating
Cuba ...
Among the actions recommended was "a series of well
coordinated incidents to take place in and around" the U.S. Navy base at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This included dressing "friendly" Cubans in Cuban military
uniforms and then have them "start riots
near the main gate of the base. Others would pretend to be saboteurs inside the
base. Ammunition would be blown up, fires started, aircraft sabotaged, mortars
fired at the base with damage to installations."
The suggested operations grew progressively more outrageous.
Another called for an action similar to the infamous incident in February 1898
when an explosion aboard the battleship Maine in Havana harbor killed 266 U.S.
sailors. Although the exact cause of the
explosion remained undetermined, it sparked the Spanish-American War with Cuba.
Incited by the deadly blast, more than one million men volunteered for duty.
Lemnitzer and his generals came up with
a similar plan. "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba,"
they proposed; "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of
national indignation." ... {p. 85} Bombings were proposed, false arrests, hijackings: ...
-"Hijacking attempts against civil air and surface craft
could appear to continue as harassing measures condoned by the Government of
Cuba." ... AN AIRCRAFT AT ELGIN AFB WOULD BE PAINTED AND NUMBERED AS AN EXACT
DUPLICATE FOR A CIVIL REGISTERED
AIRCRAFT belonging to a CIA proprietary organization in the Miami
{p. 86} area. At a designated time the DUPLICATE WOULD BE
SUBSTITUTED FOR THE ACTUAL CIVIL AIRCRAFT AND WOULD BE LOADED WITH THE SELECTED
PASSENGERS, ALL BOARDED UNDER carefully prepared ALIASES. The actual REGISTERED AIRCRAFT WOULD BE CONVERTED TO A
DRONE [a remotely controlled unmanned aircraft]. Take off times of the drone
aircraft and the actual aircraft will be scheduled to allow a RENDEZVOUS south
of Florida.
FROM THE RENDEZVOUS POINT THE PASSENGER-CARRYING AIRCRAFT
will descend to minimum altitude and go directly into an auxiliary field at
Elgin AFB where arrangements will have been made to EVACUATE THE PASSENGERs
and return the aircraft to its original
status. The drone aircraft meanwhile will continue to fly the filed flight plan.
When over Cuba the drone will be transmitting on the international distress
frequency a "May Day" message stating he
is under attack by Cuban MiG aircraft. The transmission will be
interrupted by DESTRUCTION OF THE AIRCRAFT, which will be TRIGGERED BY RADIO
SIGNAL. This will allow ICAO [International Civil Aviation Organization]
radio stations in the Western Hemisphere
to tell the U.S. what has happened to the aircraft instead of the U.S. trying to
"sell" the incident.
Finally, there was a plan to "make it appear that Communist
Cuban MiGs have destroyed a USAF aircraft over international waters in an
unprovoked attack." It was a particularly believable operation given the decade
of shootdowns that had just taken
place.
In the final sentence of his letter to Secretary McNamara
recommending the operations, Lemnitzer made a grab for even more power, asking
that the Joint Chiefs be placed in charge of carrying out Operation Northwoods
and the invasion. "It is recommended,"
he wrote, "that this responsibility for both overt and covert military
operations be assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staf£"
At 2:30 on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 13, 1962,
Lemnitzer went over last-minute details of Operation Northwoods with his covert
action chief, Brigadier General William H. Craig, and signed the document. He
then went to a "special meeting" in
McNamara's office. An hour later
{p. 87} he met with Kennedy's military representative,
General Maxwell Taylor. What happened during those meetings is unknown. But
three days later, President Kennedy told Lemnitzer that there was virtually no
possibility that the U.S. would ever use
overt military force in Cuba.
Undeterred, Lemnitzer and the Chiefs persisted, virtually to
the point of demanding that they be given authority to invade and take over
Cuba. About a month after submitting Operation Northwoods, they met in the
"tank," as the JCS conference room was
called, and agreed on the wording of a tough memorandum to McNamara. "The Joint
Chiefs of Staff believe that the Cuban problem must be solved in the near
future," they wrote. "Further, they see no prospect of early success in overthrowing the p'resent
communist regime either as a result of internal uprising or external political,
economic or psychological pressures. Accordingly they believe that military
intervention by the United States will
be required to overthrow the present communist regime." ... {p. 89} As has been
described, the document was signed and fully approved by Lemnitzer and the rest
of the Joint Chiefs and addressed to the Secretary of Defense for his signature. Whether it went beyond
McNamara to the president and the attorney general is not known.
{endquote}
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