I’ve been reading the James Bamford book Body of Secrets. When the book came out in 2001, it broke the news of a secret military plan called Operation Northwoods which aimed to incite anger towards Castro’s Cuba through the use of domestic terrorism against Americans.
A quote from the actual Operation Northwoods document, as drafted by the JCS:
a. An aircraft at Eglin AFB would be painted and
numbered as an exact duplicate for a civil registered
aircraft belonging to a CIA proprietary organization in the
Miami area. At a designated time the duplicate would be
subsituted 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.
b. 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 Eglin 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 being transmitting on the inter-
national distress frequency a “MAY DAY” message stating he
is under attack by Cuban MIG aircraft. The transmission
will be interrupted by the destruction of aircraft which will
be triggered by radio signal. This will allow IACO radio
stations in the Western Hemisphere to tell the US what
has happened to the aircraft instead of the US trying to
“sell” the incident.
Thankfully, this plan was rightfully rejected by Kennedy as ludicrous. It came to light in April 2001 when Bamford wrote his book, forty years after the plan was concocted.
After reading about Operation Northwoods and thinking of the World Trade Center attacks, something clicked. Crazy as it sounds, could the WTC attacks have been an Operation Northwoods-type of scam?
During the stories surrounding the second anniversary of the attacks, the New York Times released a video taken by an amateur videographer the day of the attacks. It plainly shows a huge pod-type appendage on the underside of the plane – as big as a jet engine. Comparing that video frame to other, more widely published pictures of the second jet, the pod is visible to varying degrees in nearly all photos.
It’s absolutely certain that Flight 175 did not take off with a huge mystery pod stuck under its wing. Something like that would not escape the attention of the airline’s maintenance chief, to say the least. That leads to only one conclusion: the plane that struck the tower was not the one that took off from Boston.
Now, go read the paragraphs in the Operation Northwoods document again. Notice any similarities?