Blueprints for Betrayal: Operation Northwoods

In 1962, top U.S. military leaders drafted a plan to stage terror attacks on American soil—then blame them on Cuba to justify war.

This episode of Unsettled: The Hidden Record reveals the shocking truth of Operation Northwoods, a declassified proposal from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The plan included faking hijackings, sinking refugee boats, and bombing U.S. cities—all as a pretext to invade Fidel Castro’s Cuba.

The operation was never executed. President Kennedy rejected it. But the fact that it was ever written, approved, and formally presented raises haunting questions about how far a government might go to manufacture consent for war.

This wasn’t a theory. This was a plan—signed, stamped, and filed under “Top Secret.”