Operation or project Northwoods. Reading that full document on the actual us government national archives website forever changed what evil I thought our leaders were capable of. It came up a lot after 9/11 and convinced many that yes our government could easily have planned and pulled off 9/11 to get us into iraq since they had planned a similar thing for Cuba. The plan options including painting a us fighter jet in Cuban colors and having it shoot down a us airliner full of Americans in full view of another airliner full of Americans that would be flying by to provide independent uninvolved witnesses.