THE WARNING A Novel of America in the Last Days (The End of America Series Book 2) (11 page)

UNITED
STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Nebraska
Avenue Complex, Washington DC

        
“Two words -
Reischstag
and Northwoods
. There’s historical international and American precedent for
what we’re proposing. That’s all I’m going to say.”

        
“Okay, I get your reference to the infamous Reichstag fire.
Everybody knows about the staged burning of the German parliament building. How
the Nazis used a faked crisis, which are usually referred to as false flag or
black flag events, to go after the Communists. They even threw them out of the
German Parliament after the fire riled up the German people. That would work
for us, of course, but what am I missing? What’s Northwood? You’ve been working
on these plans for over a year and I’m just now hearing about
Northwoods
? What is it?”

        
Carl Goren was a strategic planner employed in the
Department’s Homeland Security Investigations Division. In the President’s
first term he had been tasked by the Department’s highest level administrators
with developing plans for Operation Four Winds. Now that the President’s second
term had begun in earnest Carl was presenting the final details of Operation
Four Winds for approval by the Secretary of DHS. If the Secretary consented the
plan would ultimately go to the President for his final approval. The
Secretary, a short dumpling of a woman with a buzz haircut, was widely known in
the Department for having a short attention span as well as a short anger fuse.

        
“I only came across Northwoods this week when I was
researching past false flag incidents. Northwoods had been buried under a top
secret classification at the Pentagon until an enterprising outside
investigator came across the classified documents while looking into some
recently released Kennedy era files. He apparently tried to get some attention
for what he’d discovered but Northwoods was so bizarre that no mainstream media
would touch the story.”

        
“OK, OK,
enough
with the history already. What the heck is it? Why are we talking about it?
Operation Four Winds needs to get kicked over to the Oval Office, like now. Our
Christian crazy man is still in place and ready to go ballistic. But he’s so
full of psycho drugs that he could melt down any time. We have some back-ups,
but they’re not nearly as believable as Fred. His background as a Christian
leader makes him the right guy to authenticate the car bombings. So we need to
get Four Winds over to the Oval Office for approval, as I said, like
now
.”

        
“I hear you, Madam Secretary. I’ll just summarize my memo
attached to the final draft of Operation Four Winds. In 1962 the Pentagon
wanted to invade Cuba. They needed a false flag series of events in order to
justify the invasion. And here Madam Secretary, is where it gets really
interesting. Operation Northwoods was approved by each member of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, including the Chairman, General Lemnitzer. That’s of special
interest because Operation Northwood proposed faking attacks on Gitmo, Miami
and Washington, DC. The Pentagon wanted to paint up a US fighter jet to look
like a MIG, then use the MIG to shoot down a drone aircraft, claiming that the
plane shot down was a civilian aircraft full of vacationing students, which
they would actually divert to an airbase, and then cover it up. They also
planned to blow up a US Naval vessel in Cuban waters, and then blame Cuba for
the deaths….”

        
“Stop Carl!
Stop
.
You’re going
too fast
. I’ve never
heard of any of this. Have you
confirmed
….”

        
“Yes, mam, the letter signed by General Lemnitzer is
attached to my report. In the March 13, 1962 JCS letter the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs refers to
‘pretexts which
would provide justification for US military intervention in Cuba’.
In the
plan itself it refers to ‘a logical build-up of incidents to camouflage the
ultimate objective and create the necessary impression of Cuban rashness and
irresponsibility on a large scale’.”

        
“OK, move on, Carl, I get that they wanted to justify
invading Cuba. But a minute ago you referred to specific faked events. Cover
that again, please, but I want specifics. What actions did the Pentagon
actually
approve
? Details.”

        
“Northwoods consisted of six parts. The first was to fake
Cuban attacks on the US Naval Base at Guantanamo. The plan included using
friendly Cubans dressed in Cuban military uniforms who would invade the base,
start fires, burn aircraft and blow up ammunition. The invading fake troops
were to be captured, while other friendly Cubans outside the base were to lob
mortars into the base causing damage to buildings and equipment and also they
were to storm the main gate. Lastly, the plan included blowing up Navy ships in
the Gitmo harbor entrance and another near Havana, with, get this, the Navy
conducting funerals for ‘mock-victims’. The ship to be blown up near Havana
called for an air/sea ‘evacuation of the non-existent crew’ ” Lists of the fake
dead were then to be published in the US
‘to
cause a national wave of national indignation’.”

        
“Humph. That’s
really
interesting, Carl, in light of what Four Winds is going to do. Just shows
there’s
nothing new
under the sun.
Earlier you said something about terrorist attacks in the US. What was that
about?”

        
Carl Goren looked down at his notes while also thinking to
himself that for the first time since this Secretary took over DHS he felt he
had her full attention. In past conferences in her office she invariably
hovered over her laptop, while also thumbing texts into her cell phone, barely
acknowledging his presence. Today, with his Northwoods disclosure Carl finally
had the Secretary’s full attention, “Madam Secretary, the plan approved by the
Pentagon called for terrorist attacks in Miami, other cities in Florida and in
Washington, DC. Attacks were planned on Cuban refugees living in the US,
including wounding the refugees, with the injuries being ‘
widely publicized’
.”

        
“
Wow
. Are you sure
you didn’t have this 1962 false flag plan available when you wrote Four Winds? “

        
“If you think that’s eerie, listen to this. Northwoods
included
‘exploding a few plastic bombs
in carefully chosen spots’.
How about that for a parallel with Four Winds?
“

        
“Incredible….Carl…. I’ll fully analyze all aspects of Four
Winds, of course, before I sign off and courier it over to the White House, but
how many car bombs did you end up recommending? I know we talked about as many
as ten. What did you end up with?”

        
“We kicked it around a lot, but we finally came back to just
six car bombs
. Six, located across
the country in the major cities we decided on, seems a number that a radical
Christian conspiracy could put together and pull off. Any more than six might
imply that some larger organization did it, you know,
like the federal government
. The right wingers and talk radio kooks
will say the bombs are false flags, anyway, but more than six would add some
fuel, so to speak, to their fire. We picked New York, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, LA
and Houston, subject to change, of course.”

        
Alright, I’m
way over
on the time set for this discussion. Anything else you haven’t told me about
Northwoods? I’m obviously fascinated by what the federal government was doing
to concoct false flags
a half century ago.”

        
“Yes, Madam Secretary, two things. The main reason you’ve
never heard of Northwoods is that when the plan hit President Kennedy’s desk he
shot it down
. A few decades later
former Secretary of Defense Bob McNamara
denied
that he’d ever heard of anything about Northwoods, even though he was SecDef at
the time. Secondly, we haven’t discussed Northwoods’ faked aircraft incidents.
Four Winds doesn’t involve any aircraft, so are you interested. Maybe….”

        
“No. It’s not relevant, so, just give me a readers digest
quick summary. You said something about vacationing students?”

        
“Northwoods called for two aircraft false flag events. The
first was to charter a flight to a South American country with a route over
Cuba, the plane being full of college students on holiday. An airplane was to
be acquired from the CIA and painted to exactly match the appearance and number
of a civilian aircraft. The two aircraft, one being a drone, the other full of
passengers ‘with carefully prepared aliases’, were to take off at the same time
flying towards Cuba. Then the passenger-carrying plane was to land at Eglin air
base in Florida, with the drone to fly over Cuba, sending out a MAY DAY signal
of attacks by Cuban MIG aircraft at the appropriate location over Cuba. The
drone would be exploded by radio signal. The plane at Eglin was to be returned
to its original condition. Obviously, the students purportedly killed in the
crash weren’t
real
people, hence, the
reference to aliases. No one would actually
die
,
though
the world was to be told otherwise
.”

        
“What was the second aircraft false flag?”

        
“Four or five F-101 US aircraft were to fly within twelve
miles of Cuba. One of the pilots was to hang back from the other aircraft, then
falsely radio that he had just been jumped by unfriendly Cuban MIG aircraft. He
was to drop to a low altitude and land at Eglin. His aircraft was to be
‘quickly stored and given a new tail number’. The pilot and the aircraft would
then ‘have disappeared’. A submarine was to release F-101 aircraft debris in
the waters near Cuba. The other pilots would believe a ‘true story as far as
they knew’.”

        
“Uh-huh. OK. But since we’re not using aircraft, at least
not yet, I’ll remember it if we need a false flag later involving aircraft.
Most Christian or gun nuts aren’t pilots but everybody has a car or a truck, of
course. So,
its car bombs
. Six of
those little devices should be all we need, really. In case you haven’t
noticed, the crazies on Capitol Hill are going after our boss, so the White
House wants all of this expedited. Good job, Carl. I’ll e-send you a courtesy
heads up when Four Winds is approved….Oh, one more thing….I don’t need to
repeat this, but I will. Make sure that the DC car bomb is across town. Keep it
away from these offices. Got it?”
     

Small
Group Bible Study, Home of Hannah & Gary

Birmingham,
Alabama

               
“Wow!
Scott, tonight’s lesson knocked me for a loop,” exclaimed Liz, as the small
group collected their coffee and iced tea and started their Bible study. “I
have a dramatically different view of my own country now that I’ve studied and
researched the prophecies. It’s
not
a
very pretty picture, is it?”

        
“Liz, I’ll refrain from offering my own opinions until I
hear what you all have to say. The key question is this - prophecy uses the
phrase the ‘great whore’, or the ‘great harlot’ or ‘great prostitute’ to describe
the rich, powerful and influential end times nation that we’ve been studying.
Is this phrase
too harsh
,
particularly if we apply it to our own country, to the United States of
America? Any thoughts?”

        
“That’s kind of a
strong
description, Scott, don’t ‘cha’ think?” Hannah asked.

        
“Hannah, there’s no question that it’s strong, kind of like
a garlic milk shake, but the question is whether it’s true. What do y’all
think? You’ve read what John wrote as he described Babylon the Great. In
Revelation 14, 17, 18 and 19 he said that this end times nation would be the
mother of abominable things and filth. That it will make the nations of the
world drink the maddening wine of her adulteries which corrupted the earth.
That’s not a pretty picture. I’ll admit that the first time I started studying
this issue I instantly rejected the idea that the verses could possibly apply
to my country. You know, my country
right
or wrong
….But, my real country, according to scripture, is in heaven. So,
let’s face facts as they are. Does anyone see how America
could be
the mother of abominations of the earth, as John wrote in
Revelation 17:5?”

        
None of the small group appeared to be very anxious to
answer Scott’s open-ended invitation to criticize their country….Scott
waited….Finally, Beau’s wife, Audrey, considered the sweetest natured member of
the small group, spoke up, “Scott. I was like you….till I started praying about
it….the very first thing that I thought of was how America led the world in
declaring it
legal to abort babies in the
womb
. Before Roe versus Wade, only two countries, Finland and Great
Britain, allowed abortion, but only under extremely limited circumstances. Two
doctors. Life of the mother. That sort of thing. But, then….boom….the highest
court of the world’s leading nation declares abortion on demand
legal
. Since then the US has killed over
56 million American babies, but the global death toll from abortion totals over
one point two billion
, that’s with a
B, worldwide, total since Roe.
Mother of
abominations, indeed.”

        
Tom added, “Plus, Audrey, don’t forget that over the years
since the Roe case the US used its money, taxpayer money and otherwise, to
induce other countries to change their laws to allow abortion. Some Catholic
countries, like Chile, refused the bribes and kept their pro-life laws, but
many
did
change their laws to allow
their infants to be slaughtered, because the US financially pushed what it
called ‘family planning’. What an
abomination
….It
makes me
sick
at my stomach.”

        
Liz said, “The saddest part of Jeremiah 51:7 is the past
tense statement. ‘Babylon
was
a gold
cup in the Lord’s hand’. That’s
truly
sad. God knew ahead of time how this end times nation would be used for great
spiritual purposes, but….then there would come a time when the golden cup would
be full of ‘abominable things and filth’, as John wrote in Revelation 17. Look
I’m as big a patriot as anybody in America, but that doesn’t mean I’ve got to
lie to myself
about what’s happened to
my country.”

        
Beau agreed, “Liz, once the US decided to tell God He
wasn’t welcome
in our public
schools…couldn’t even be mentioned, and once we
kicked God out
of our court houses and state houses, what did
we expect
would happen? He’s a
gentleman; he’s not going to push Himself in where He’s not wanted.”

        
Scott asked, “Besides abortion, does anyone see where
America could legitimately be called the source, the Mother, of other
abominations?”

        
Beau asked sarcastically, “Well, duh, how about pornography,
filthy movies and television, legalizing same sex marriage, our drug culture,
even witchcraft….what abomination
haven’t
we promoted to the world? Step back and pretend that you’re God….OK, I know
that’s easier for Tom than most of us….just kidding, love ya’ Tom. But,
seriously, pretend you created America, funded it, prospered it, made it the
wealthiest, most powerful, influential country on the globe. In return, it was
a major source of missionary efforts around the earth, great ministries,
wonderfully used by God through the decades….but….then, this nation in the
middle part of the last century started acting like it
never even heard of God
.
Get
out
of our schools,
keep away
from our government,
don’t come near
many of our homes and even our churches. As bad as these things are, we then became
the world leader in killing God’s created infants in the womb, promoting
adultery and divorce in movies and TV, buying billions of dollars of illegal
drugs from south of the border, pushing witchcraft and sorcery. If
I were God
I wouldn’t put up with that
very long, I’ll tell you.”

        
“Beau, that’s the point, isn’t it? God
has
put up with our abominations for a really long time…..in the
fifty year plus range.
Why
is that?”
Liz asked.

        
“Liz,” Beau replied, “I think I understand what God
foretells through the five Old and New Testament Prophets who gave us
prophesies about the Daughter of Babylon. He doesn’t say that the nation will
be destroyed
because
of its
abominations. The
number
of immediate
deaths may be determined
by
its
abominations, like fifty six million aborted babies. He does say, though, that
the future destruction will come
because
it betrays Israel
, leading to
bloodshed in Israel.”

        
Scott, sensing that the evening’s discussion was winding
down, said, “Good place to stop, guys. Next week we’ll look at what Beau was
talking about. What does Babylon the great do to
deserve
destruction? The week after that we’ll look at who might be
used to bring about the destruction and how they would do it. Let’s break up
now into our prayer groups. Hannah says there are a few toffee bars left.”