Vince Houghton - Nuking the Moon - And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board

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A massive trove of government documents can be found at the Mary Ferrell Foundation: www.maryferrell.org/pages/Operation_Northwoods.html.

Another set can be found at the National Security Archive of George Washington University: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf.

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Documents pertaining to JM/WAVE from the Mary Ferrell Foundation: www.maryferrell.org/php/cryptdb.php?id=JMWAVE.

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Tim Elfrink. “CIA Considered Bombing Miami and Killing Refugees to Blame Castro.” Miami New Times, October 27, 2017. www.miaminewtimes.com/news/jfk-docs-cia-plotted-to-bomb-miami-kill-refugees-and-blame-castro-9782696.

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Dave Mosher. “A New Russian Video May Show a ‘Doomsday Machine’ Able to Trigger 300-Foot Tsunamis—but Nuclear Weapons Experts Question Why You’d Ever Build One.” Business Insider, July 24, 2018. www.businessinsider.com/russia-doomsday-weapon-submarine-nuke-2018-4.

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Matt Soniak. “How a Gift from Schoolchildren Let the Soviets Spy on the U.S. for 7 Years.” Atlas Obscura , June 21, 2016. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-gift-from-schoolchildren-let-the-soviets-spy-on-the-us-for-7-years.

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