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It is quite remarkable that the Operation Mockingbird media was willing to depict the US military in such as bad light when it came to Operation Northwoods but was contemporaneous when it came to other military scandals such as Waco, which the media apparatus covered-up.

Carol Valentine continues, in her censored article:

The reviews were well in circulation, but still fresh when 9-11 hit. In retrospect, Northwoods seemed like an eery premonition. I thought the release of the Northwoods revelations were indeed a timely coincidence. Because the Northwoods scenario seemed to fit the facts of 9-11, many writers cited Bamford and Northwoods. I was one of them.

But there is just one problem with Northwoods. Operation Northwoods was not written by Americans. Put in other words, Operation Northwoods documents were not written by the Pentagon. They are counterfeits.

*First, turn to pg. 85 of "Body of Secrets." Bamford says: "Among the most elaborate schemes was to ..." *

And then he quotes a Northwoods document directly:

... create an incident which will demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered civil airliner en route from the United States to Jamaica, Guatemala, Panama or Venezuela. The destination would be chosen only to cause the flight plan route to cross Cuba. The passengers could be a group of college students off on a holiday or any grouping of persons with a common interest to support chartering a non-scheduled flight.

(You can download the Operation Northwoods documentation at the George Washington University's National Archive website. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/)

"The passengers could be a group of college students off on a holiday ....."

Valentine states that this is a British expression, which, indeed, it is. Americans say "on vacation."

Valentine continues:

Whoever wrote and edited Operation Northwoods used British English. Remember, Pentagon documents pass through a gauntlet of reviewers, each one examining and weighing the significance of the smallest comma, ironing out idiosyncrasies until the document resembles dull, gray, luke warm bath water. The process is called "coordination."

Bamford said on p. 82:

" . .. the plan, which had the written approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ... " Half a dozen pairs of eyes, including "the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff" would have reviewed the Northwoods documents had they been produced by the Pentagon. There is no way "off on a holiday" would have survived the first iteration had the writers and reviewers been American.

Valentine continues in her article:

Nor is the phrase "grouping of persons" idiomatic American English. No, the documents were not generated by the bureaucrats at the Pentagon. So who wrote Northwoods? [See Endnote.]

What's a James Bamford?

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It's hard to believe the author of a book on intelligence matters went past this obviously questionable documentation. His alarm bells should have gone off. Who is James Bamford? Where did he obtain these Top-Secret declassifed documents?

According to the dustjacket, author James Bamford "was until recently Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings."

The dustjacket describes the book as :

"A no-holds-barred examination of the National Security Agency--packed with startling secrets about its past, news-breaking revelations about its present-day activities, and chilling predictions about its future power and reach ... The NSA is the largest, most secretive, and most powerful intelligence agency in the world ... it dwarfs the CIA in budget, manpower, and influence ... "

Valentine continues to detail Bamford in her article in which, as I paraphrase, Bamford’s latest expose on the National Security apparatus was not his first. In 1982, Bamford published his bestseller ‘The Puzzle Palace,’ in which he exposed the inner workings of the NSA in some capacity.

In 'Body of Secrets' he offers shocking new details about the inner workings of the agency, gathered through unique access to thousands of internal documents and interviews with current and former officials. Unveiling extremely sensitive information for the first time ...." etc., etc.

Valentine continues:

If Bamford was truly revealing "shocking" secrets of America's most powerful intelligence agency, do you really believe current and former officials would be talking to him, and that he would be given "unique" access to internal NSA documents? Of course not.

There's even a photo of the NSA building on the back cover. The back dustjacket reads:

"JACKET PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY."

Bamford tells us what his job is. He quotes NSA Director Michael Hayden:

"The American people have to trust us [the NSA] and in order to trust us they have to know about us." (Unnumbered and untitled page at beginning of book.)

According to Valentine, that's Bamford's job:

Telling the public exactly what the NSA bosses think the American public should know so the American public trusts the NSA.

According to Valetine, ABCNews.com raised the question of how this fascinating Northwoods material came into Bamford's possession:

"Ironically, the documents came to light, says Bamford, in part because of the 1992 Oliver Stone… [Real name: Oliver (Stone) Silverstein: an Ashkanazi Jew]

...film, 'JFK,' which examined the possibility of a conspiracy behind the assassination of President Kennedy. This film was produced by Arnon Milchan, a Likudnik, Zionist Jew who helped to steal nuclear triggers in the US for Israel. The film whitewashed any involvement of Mossad/CIA coordination in the assassination of JFK.

"As public interest in the assassination swelled after 'JFK's' release, Congress passed a law designed to increase the publics access to government records related to the assassination.

"The author says a friend on the board [?] tipped him off to the documents.

"Afraid of a congressional investigation, Lemnitzer had ordered all Joint Chiefs documents related to the Bay of Pigs destroyed, says Bamford. But somehow, these remained."

Valentine concludes that these Top Secret documents were mistakingly storied and thusly surfaced into the public domain after Congress released more JFK assassination documents. Concurently, this alleged friend of Bamford tipped him off.

All very lucky for Bamford, but with all this luck playing into his hands, you'd think he'd read them more carefully and notice the writers used British English and not American English. And you'd think his spook buddies at NSA would have noticed. And his publishers at Doubleday.

Accused FBI spy Robert Hanssen. See "My friend, the Spy," published by the New York Times Magazine on March 18, 2001

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/18/magazine/18LIVES.html