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Lyman Lemnitzer

Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1960 to 1962, who signed the Operation Northwoods memorandum; not reappointed to a second term as Chairman in September 1962.

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Robert McNamara
Lyman Lemnitzer is frequently compared to Robert McNamara — Both were senior Cold War-era defense officials whose documented actions, Lemnitzer's Northwoods proposal and McNamara's Tonkin presentation to Congress, are cited as evidence for broader institutional-distrust narratives about Pentagon deception.

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Lyman Lemnitzer is located in United States.

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Operation Northwoods
Lyman Lemnitzer led Operation Northwoods.

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What Was Operation Northwoods, and Why Did Kennedy Reject It?

What Operation Northwoods was: the real 1962 Joint Chiefs false-flag plan against Cuba, declassified in 1997, and why Kennedy rejected it before it began.