Reply #4: Northwoods, anybody?

[Minstrel Boy]

And of course there's the precedent of Operation Northwoods, which proposed staging terrorist incidents against Americans to manufacture public outrage at the patsy - Cuba - in order to justify an invasion. No doubt many would dismiss it as an absurd, tinfoil fantasy if it wasn't available to read in the National Security Archives, though it took 40 years to be declassified.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/doc1.pdf