Loose Change 2nd Edition

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March 13th, 1962.

Lyman Lemnitzer,

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

presents a proposal to Secretary of Defense

Robert McNamara, named Operation Northwoods.

The document proposed staging terrorist

attacks in and around Guantanamo Bay,

to provide a pretext for military

intervention in Cuba.

The plans included:

Starting rumors about Cuba using

clandestine radio.

Landing friendly Cubans inside the base

to stage attacks.

Starting riots at the main gate.

Blowing up ammunition inside the base,

starting fires.

Sabotaging aircrafts and ships on the base.

Bombing the base with mortar shells.

Sinking a ship outside the entrance, staging

funerals for mock victims.

Staging a terror campaign in Miami, Florida

and Washington, DC.

And finally, destroying a drone aircraft,

over Cuban waters.

The passengers, federal agents in reality,

would allegedly be college students on vacation.

A plane at Eglin Air Force Base would be painted

and numbered as a duplicate of a registered civil aircraft

belonging to a CIA front in Miami.

The duplicate would be substituted for the real

plane and loaded with the passengers.

The real plane would be converted into a drone.

The two planes would randezvous south of Florida.

The passenger laden plane would land at Eglin Air Force Base

to evacuate its passengers and return to its original status.

The drone would pick up the scheduled flight plan and over

Cuban waters transmit a "mayday signal" before being blown up by remote control.

The plan was rejected by McNamara, and President John F. Kennedy

personally removes Lemnitzer as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

December 1st, 1984.

A remote-controlled Boeing 720 takes off from Edwards

Air Force Base, and is crash-landed by NASA for fuel research.

Before its destruction, the plane flew a total of

including 10 takeoffs, 69 approaches, and 13 landings.

August, 1997.

The cover of FEMA's "Emergency Response to Terrorism"

depicts the World Trade Center in crosshairs.

February 28th, 1998.

The Global Hawk, Raytheon's Unmanned-aircraft-vehicle,

completes its first flight over Edwards Air Force Base

in California,

at an altitude of 32000 feet, cruising altitude

for a commercial jetliner.

NORAD begins conducting exercises in which hijacked

airliners are flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

June, 2000.

The Department of Justice releases a terrorism manual,

with the World Trade Center in crosshairs.

September, 2000.

The Project for a New American Century, a neo-conservative

think-tank whose members include

Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush, and Paul Wolfowitz

releases their report entitled

"Rebuilding America's Defences."

In it, they declare that " the process of transformation,

even if it brings revolutionary change, "

" is likely to be a long one, absent some

catastrophic and catalyzing event - "

" like a new Pearl Harbor. "

October 24th, 2000.

The Pentagon conducts the first of two training exercises

called MASCAL,

which simulate a Boeing 757 crashing into the building.

Charles Burlingame, an ex-Navy F4 pilot

who worked in the Pentagon,

participates in this exercise before retiring

to take a job at American Airlines,

where, less than a year later, his Boeing 757

allegedly crashes into the building.

April, 2001.

NORAD plans an exercise in which a plane is flown

into the Pentagon,

but is rejected as "too unrealistic".

June, 2001.

The Department of Defense initiates new instructions for

military intervention in the case of a hijacking.

It states that for all non-immediate responses, the Department of Defense

must get permission directly from the Secretary of Defense.

Attorney General John Ashcroft begins flying on chartered jets, for the

remainder of his term, due to a "threat assessment" by the FBI.

July 4th, 2001.

Osama Bin Laden, wanted by the United States since 1998

receives medical attention at the American Hospital in Dubai,

where he is visited by a local chief of the CIA.

July 24th, 2001.

Larry A. Silverstein, who already owned

World Trade Center 7,

signs a 3.2 billion dollar, 99-year lease on the entire

World Trade Center complex, six weeks before 9-11.

Included in the lease is a 3.5 billion dollar insurance policy

specifically covering acts of terrorism.

September 6th, 2001.

A put option is a bet that a stock will fall.

That day, put options

were more than 4 times its daily average.

Bomb sniffing dogs are pulled from the World Trade Center,

and security guards end two-weeks of 12 hour shifts.

September 7th, 2001.

more than 5 times the daily average.

September 10th, 2001.

almost 11 times its daily average.

Newsweek reports that a number of top Pentagon brass

cancel their flight plans for the next morning.

San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown receives a phone call

warning him not to fly the next morning.

Pacifica Radio later reveals that this phone call came directly

from National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice.

And in Pakistan, at a military hospital, all of the urologists

are replaced by a special team,

in order to host their guest of honor, Osama Bin Laden,

who is carefully escorted inside to

"be watched carefully and looked after".

September 11th, 2001.

The National Recognisance Office in Chantilly, Virginia is preparing

for an exercise in which a small corporate jet crashes into their building.

NORAD is in the middle of a number of military exercises.

The first, "Vigilant Guardian", is described as

"an exercise that would pose an imaginary crisis to North

American Air Defense outposts nationwide".

The second, "Northern Vigilance", moved fighter jets to Canada

and Alaska to fight off an imaginary Russian fleet.

Three F-16s from Washington DC's National Guard at

Andrews Air Force Base,

away for a training mission in North Carolina.

This left 14 fighter jets to protect the entire

United States.

" Hi, Boston Center TMU, we have a problem here "

" we have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New York "

" and we need you guys to, we need someone to scramble

some F-16s or something up there, help us out. "

" Is this real or exercise? "

" No, this is not exercise, not a test. "

" Do we wanna think about scrambling an aircraft? "

" Oooh, God I don't know. "

" That's a decision somebody's gonna

have to make probably in the next 10 minutes. "

" Uh, yeah, you know, everybody just

left the room. "

" The first question I have is basically to

get from you a sense of "

" how you would rate the american media

in their coverage of the events of the attack last September? "

[Hunter S Thomson] " Well let's see eehmmm,

shamefully is a word that comes to mind "

" This just in you are looking at obviously

very disturbing liveshot there "

" that is the World Trade Center and we have

unconfirmed reports this morning "

" that a plane had crashed into

one of the towers of the World Trade Center. "

"But overall, the American journalism

was cowed, "

" and intimidated by the

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