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Is the Misplaced Presumption fallacy the best fit for acceptance of the "Operation Northwoods" documents as genuine?According to Wikipedia, Operation Northwoods was: a proposed false flag operation that originated within the US Department of Defense of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for CIA operatives to both stage and commit acts of terrorism against American military and civilian targets, blaming them on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba. The possibilities detailed in the document included the remote control of civilian aircraft which would be secretly repainted as US Air Force plane,[2] a fabricated 'shoot down' of a US Air Force fighter aircraft off the coast of Cuba, the possible assassination of Cuban immigrants, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas,[3] blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating terrorism in U.S. cities.[2] [4] The proposals were rejected by President John F. Kennedy.[5][6][7] However, when we examine the collection of documents that make up Operation Northwoods we find a very obvious lack of coherence and other anomalies that completely undermine their authenticity (original random order / sensible order):
Surely, of course, it seems to make no sense at all that a government would fake self-incriminating documents, however, power works in ways that are counterintuitive. The evidence clearly shows they were not authentic documents and if you're curious, you can read my hypothesis for the reasons for their fakery here. I haven't seen any other analysis putting forward fakery but the only reason for that isn't the documents' seeming authenticity - because it requires only the slightest blowing away of the magic propaganda dust to see the fakery - but what I would call "misplaced presumption" of their authenticity because the notion of their not being authentic is so counterintuitive. What prompted me to look at the documents wasn't the clear evidence but rather suspicion of such a self-incriminating document pushed under our noses. |
asked on Thursday, Nov 16, 2023 12:37:05 AM by Petra Liverani | |
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