*Declassification of Kennedy case could reveal of Northwood
*President Kennedy was a window for dialogue in the midst of high political tension
*Experts agree that Pentagon documents could reveal Kennedy assassination secrets
*President Kennedy was a window for dialogue in the midst of high political tension
*Experts agree that Pentagon documents could reveal Kennedy assassination secrets
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00:00And following Trump's announcement to declassify some U.S. security files and
00:06all U.S. plans that sought false flag attacks against U.S. citizens to justify intervention
00:10in Cuba, was recently revisited on social media and went viral.
00:14A correspondent in Havana has all the details.
00:20The digital conversation these days has a story that some people have already forgotten,
00:25Operation Northwoods. Donald Trump's recent order to declassify documents
00:29on the Kennedy assassination revised the top secret operation declassified in 1997
00:35that sought false flag attacks against U.S. citizens to justify intervention in Cuba.
00:40Historian Elia Ramirez says Operation Northwoods reflects what has been the essence of the
00:45aggressive U.S. policy against Cuba, which in the 1960s had as its context Operation Mongoose.
00:51It was the largest covert war operation ever designed by the United States against another
01:01country. That operation conceived a whole series of operations of psychological and economic warfare,
01:07sabotage, that there would be an internal uprising in Cuba that would justify the United
01:11States' military intervention, when that did not happen. The military high command
01:16proposed this instrument to Kennedy. Several of the pretexts proposed were to fly planes in
01:30mid-flight, which could even kill North American citizens, to blow up ships, to make self-provocations
01:36in the vicinity of the Guantanamo Naval Base. All this was to be presented as a provocation
01:41by Cuba against the United States to justify direct military intervention.
01:52This expert warns that when many of the documents relating to the assassination
01:56of President Kennedy come to light, the perversity that has marked U.S. policy against Cuba
02:01will surely be exposed even more. The investigations, the documents that have
02:09already been declassified previously related to the assassination of Kennedy show that there was a
02:14participation of the Cuban-American mafia of the extreme right-wing sectors of Cuban origin in
02:27the United States that were involved in the assassination. They did not forgive him that
02:31when the Bay of Pigs invasion took place he did not show a more decisive attitude and send the
02:36U.S. Army and the Yankee Marines directly, or when the October crisis took place he had negotiated
02:41with the Soviets and did not give the final touch to the Cuban revolution.
02:52The truth is that when the world was on the brink of an unpredictable nuclear war during the October
02:57crisis, at the end of the tensions the Kennedy administration showed, perhaps for the first time
03:02and in a serious way, the possibility for both countries to talk about common issues in a climate
03:07of respect. Carlos Lechuga, then Cuba's ambassador to the U.N., once told this reporter.
03:16The U.S. Ambassador Arwood told me that the Kennedy government wanted to have an approach,
03:21an exploration to see if it was possible to start relations with Cuba.
03:25We had several meetings, conversations, and we were already at the point of making an agenda
03:30to start discussing. Kennedy went to Dallas, he told Arwood that when he came back he wanted to
03:43talk to him to see that he had talked to me and that was when he was assassinated and that's when
03:49the meeting ended. Historian Elier Ramirez warns that the logic of certain sectors of power in the
03:59United States is that when they do not achieve an objective, they invent pretexts.
04:08In the case of Cuba, many pretexts have been built throughout history. The red threat in
04:12the Caribbean, the link with the Soviets, the support of Cuba to the liberation movements in
04:17Latin America at a certain moment, then the military presence of Cuba in Africa,
04:22then human rights, freedom of expression, the list is endless.
04:29The acoustic attacks we know that it was a great farce that was deflated and there are sectors
04:37that continue to exploit this and therefore we could be engaged in the construction of new
04:41pretexts with the same objective. The fact is that many agree that the chilling Pentagon documents
04:53could reveal why the deep state has always feared the release of the Kennedy assassination files.