False flag operation

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A false flag operation is an operation conducted by one party or government and made to appear as though it were sponsored by another party or government.

Examples

A list of such attacks either determined or widely held to be false flag attacks follows:

  • Nero burns Rome, blames it on the Christians.[1][2]
  • Mukden Incident: A railroad in Manchuria owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway was sabotaged in 1931, probably by Japanese provocateurs, and used as a pretext by Japan to invade, occupy, and set up a puppet government in Manchuria. Japan ended up leaving the league of nations on March 27, 1933 when it became clear that the world was against the Japanese control of Manchuria, with the famous "Our Empire deems it essential to respect the independence of the new State [Manchuria puppet state] and to encourage its healthy development, in order that the sources of evil in the Far East may be eradicated and an enduring peace thereby established." Manchuria was Japan's Iraq. Let's hope Iraq doesn't lead to World War--but those who study history are condemned to watch history repeats itself.</ref>
  • Hitler's henchmen burn the Reichstag, and blame it on the Communists (and by implication, the Jews).
  • Operation Canned Goods: Germany fakes an attack on themselves 'from' Poland, then invades Poland to 'counter Polish aggression'.
  • The Tonkin Gulf incident. US politicians use a non-existent confrontation to further involvement in Viet Nam.
  • Operation Susannah and the Lavon affair: Israeli agents conduct minor terrorist attacks against American and British interests in Egypt while trying to make it appear as though radical Muslims were responsible, in a complex scheme to discredit the Egyptian Nasser's government.
  • 9/11: US administration officials use the attacks to further an agenda which has little to do with them, like starting the Iraq war.

Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy theorists have claimed that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were a false flag operation, notably in the "documentary" Loose Change. Their claims are not seen as credible by most investigators.

Footnotes

  1. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/rome.htm
  2. http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/guide03/timeline17.html
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