I was reminded when Tulsi was talking about a couple of incidents that happened during the Kennedy administration. At one point, very early on in his administration, the Joint Chiefs came and gave him a presentation called Operation Northwoods was designed to create a provocation for an unprovoked nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. and nuclear attack. And they said, we gotta do it now because we have them beat in the number of missiles that we have, and they may close that missile gap soon. (50:19–50:40)
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Asserts that Operation Northwoods was a plan for a provocation to justify a nuclear attack.
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