Klein, I'm jumping into this very late, but I generally agree with your assessment of this story-- it was a bad idea that someone high up had that was rejected at the proposal stage. I was pleased to see that JFK removed Lemnitzer from a position of authority. This article did get me thinking though. What about the Tonkin Gulf incident? It's not the same thing but it seems apparent now that the US used a minor or non-existent confrontation as a pre-text to launch the Vietnam War. There's clearly a difference, no one on the US side got hurt and the incidents were not pre-planned. However, there is a similarity, deceiving the American people to start a war. I tend to think that the Tonkin Gulf is a good indicator of how amateur hour the US military and intelligence communities are. A truly sinister group would have come up with something better. You know like Putin killing 1000+ people by having the FSB plant bombs in civilian housing across Russia in 1999. Now there's a false flag op!