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A '''false flag''' is a [[political]] or military action carried out with the intention of blaming an opponent for it. Nations have often done this by staging a real or simulated attack on their own side and saying the enemy did it, as a pretext for going to war. The term was first used in the 16th Century to describe how pirates flew the flag of a friendly nation to deceive merchant ships into allowing them to draw near. False flag attacks have a long and ignoble history.<ref>O'Conner, Patricia; Kellerman, Stewart (11 May 2018). "The True History of False Flags". Grammarphobia.com.</ref><ref>
'''False flag'''  or '''false-flag operation''' is a covert operation designed to deceive; the deception creates the appearance of a particular party, group, or nation being responsible for some activity, disguising the actual source of responsibility. It can led merely to defamatory damage, but in severe cases also to [[terrorism]] and [[war]].
"How the term 'false flag' migrated to the right". Columbia Journalism Review.</ref><ref>"False flags: What are they and when have they been used?". BBC News. 18 February 2022. Politakis, George P. (2018).</ref><ref>"Modern Aspects of the Laws of Naval Warfare and Maritime Neutrality". Taylor & Francis. pp. 281–. ISBN 978-1-136-88577-8.Faye Kert (30 September 2015).</ref><ref>"Privateering: Patriots and Profits in the War of 1812" JHU Press. pp. 62–. ISBN 978-1-4214-1747-9.</ref>


==History==
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The term "false flag" originally referred to pirate ships that flew flags of countries as a disguise to prevent their victims from fleeing or preparing for battle. Sometimes the flag would remain and the blame for the attack laid incorrectly on another country. The term today extends beyond naval encounters to include countries that organize attacks on themselves and make the attacks appear to be by enemy nations or terrorists, thus giving the nation that was supposedly attacked a pretext for domestic repression and foreign military aggression.


==Known false flag attempts==
Operations carried out during peace-time by civilian organizations, as well as covert government agencies, can (by extension) also be called false flag operations if they seek to hide the real organization behind an operation.


===The Sinking of the USS Maine===
Identifying a false flag operation without the intelligence available to states can be difficult, but it’s important to keep in mind that many false flag operations conducted by states in the past have not been advanced. By investigating deeply into acts of hostility or incriminating actions and keeping in mind the possible missing links, spotting a false flag can be easier than expected, as they do not necessarily have to be foolproof to be successful.
The USS Maine was a United States Naval vessel which was deliberately sunk as it sat docked in Havana Harbor on February 15th, 1898.  Its destruction was used as the catalyst for the US to enter into war with Spain, a move which enjoyed little popularity at a time when isolationism, aka, minding one's own business, was the norm. The Maine was deliberately blown up using the ship's powder charge for its own guns.  Of the 355 crewmen aboard at the time, 261 men either died in the initial explosion or drowned in the immediate sinking.  The Spanish, who had their own interests in Cuba at the time, were blamed straight away for the ship's sinking.


William Randolph Hearst, who wielded his massive media empire as a political weapon, wasted no time in mobilizing his propaganda machine to press the baseless narrative that the Spanish had deliberately sank the Maine to push for war with the US, and that the US must oblige at once. Several other media outlets of the time followed suit with endless coverage, editorials, and sensationalist posturing to manufacture public outrage, and American support for a pointless foreign war. The raison d'etre for such a war was put forth in the simpleton altruistic argument of, "Cuban independence", which simply meant "liberating" Cuba from the clutches of Spain so that the US could take the lucrative island nation for itself.
===Katyn Massacre===
In the spring of 1940, [[Stalin]]'s [[NKVD]] executed 22,000 Polish officers, ensigns and state officials near the Russian village of Katyn and other places. When [[Wehrmacht]] soldiers discovered some of the graves three years later, the Soviets succeeded in convincing [[Theodore Roosevelt|US President Roosevelt]] of the German perpetration. British Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]] had no clear picture of the crime, and therefore made no public comments. Using thousands of recently released US documents, this book refutes the popular thesis that the [[Western Allies]] deliberately lied about the Katyn case in order not to endanger the alliance with Stalin. As well as consulting Polish and Russian documentation on this war crime, for the first time, the diaries of the Minister of Propaganda [[Joseph Goebbels]], who wrote a great deal about Katyn, have been examined. Completely new for research is the role that [[Hitler]]'s opponents in the Wehrmacht played in solving the crime: at the [[Nuremberg Trial]] they convinced the US delegation that the executors were not from the [[SS]], but from the NKVD. Nevertheless, it took until 1990 for [[Mikhail Gorbachev|Kremlin chief Gorbachev]] to admit Soviet responsibility. Today in [[Putin]]'s [[Russia]], however, there is a tendency once more to keep quiet about the crime or even to blame the [[Germans]].<ref>Thomas Urban: ''The Katyn Massacre 1940 – History of a Crime'', ‎Pen & Sword Military, 2021</ref>
===Israel===
One examples is the [[Lavon affair]], a failed [[Israeli]] covert operation, codenamed Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the summer of 1954. As part of the false flag operation, a group of Egyptian Jews were recruited by Israeli military intelligence to plant bombs inside Egyptian-, American-, and British-owned civilian targets: cinemas, libraries, and American educational centers. The bombs were timed to detonate several hours after closing time. The attacks were to be blamed on the [[Muslim Brotherhood]], Egyptian [[Communists]], "unspecified malcontents" or "local nationalists" with the aim of creating a climate of sufficient violence and instability to induce the British government to retain its occupying troops in Egypt's Suez Canal zone. Israel publicly denied any involvement in the incident for 51 years; however, the surviving agents were officially honored in 2005, being awarded certificates of appreciation by Israeli President Moshe Katsav.


Not surprisingly, only two months after the sinking of the Maine, and after a non stop media barrage of anti Spanish sentiment, the US entered into a costly and unnecessary war with Spain on April 28th, 1898.  
===Russia===
: ''The [[Soviet Union]] also used a false-flag operation to initiate hostilities in the Russo-Finnish War. On November 26, 1939, Red Army forces shelled the village of Mainila. The seven rounds landed just eight hundred meters inside Soviet territory, but Soviet authorities claimed Finnish forces had fired the shots, supposedly causing several casualties in the village. The Finnish government offered to submit to a neutral investigation of the incident, but Stalin rejected the offer. Four days later Red Army forces rolled into [[Finland]], beginning a war that would not end until mid-March with a negotiated settlement that ceded roughly 10 percent of Finnish territory to the Soviet Union. [[Vladimir Putin]] has used the same playbook. Putin trumped up allegations of Ukrainian shelling and ethnic cleansing—amounting to genocide—in the eastern breakaway territory of Donbas to justify an attack by upwards of 190,000 Russian Army troops in western Russia and Belarus into [[Ukraine]]. President Joe Biden got ahead of the curve, warning of Russia’s intended use of a false-flag operation to justify a military assault.''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20230716130317/https://www.hoover.org/research/false-flag-operations False-Flag Operations]</ref>


===Operation Northwoods===
==See also==
Operation Northwoods is a known false flag attempt in which the US Department of Defense in 1962 concocted a scheme to try to enter into war with Cuba.  At the height of the cold war, the US government came up with the idea to fabricate attacks on its own military, attack and kill Cuban immigrants, blow up buildings, and destroy the boats of Cuban migrants attempting to cross the Straights of Florida to escape Castro's [[communist]] regime.  All of these actions were to be blamed on Cuba as an impetus to draw the US into an unpopular war with the island nation, which at that point in time had not signed onto the Warsaw pact.  The US government was hungry to start a war with Cuba before any attachments to the [[Soviet Union]] had been made. 
*[[Agent provocateur]]
*[[Front organization]]
*[[Hate_crime#Fake_hate_crimes_and_fake_anti-Semitism|Hate crime: Fake hate crimes and fake anti-Semitism]]
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Operation Northwoods emphasized hitting civilian soft targets as a way to enrage the [[America]]n people and drum up support for a war against Cuba. These actions where suggested all throughout Florida, and even as far reaching as Washington DC. The plan was concocted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, including its chairman at the time, Lyman Lemnitzer, whose last name belongs to exactly the tribe that you think it does. The proposal was ultimately rejected by then President John F. Kennedy, whose basis for rejection was rumored to be the fact that history would hold him in poor regard should knowledge of his involvement in a known false flag upon his own people ever be leaked to the public.
==External links==
 
* [https://greydynamics.com/a-guide-to-false-flag-operations/ A Guide to False Flag Operation] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20230605125946/https://greydynamics.com/a-guide-to-false-flag-operations/ Archive])
===Operation Mongoose, an adjunct to Operation Northwoods===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20230825141742/https://ge.usembassy.gov/how-russia-conducts-false-flag-operations/ How Russia conducts false flag operations], U.S. Embassy in Georgia, 24 January 2022
 
Operation Mongoose was another 1962 false flag project peddled by the US Department of Defense under the auspices of harassing Cuba into a response so that the US could retaliate and make the case for military involvement against the island nation.  Aligning in proposed actions, Operation Mongoose also advocated various self inflicted attacks on US soil and citizens under the guise of holding Cuba responsible.  As if all that wasn't quite enough, there was still more evil in the works with Operation Dirty Trick, a false flag of the same vein orchestrated to down the 1962 Mercury space craft at the height of the space race and blame it on Cuban interference. 
 
Various other tangled webs were also suggested in which a proxy state was urged to take action against Cuba and seeming draw the US in from out of nowhere. 
 
Operation Northwoods introduces us to one Robert Strange McNamara, whose name definitely fits his penchant for evil. His debut as Secretary of Defense under John F. Kennedy saw him immediately embroiled in Operation Northwoods and the Cuban "crisis", but this demon's illustrious career of nation wrecking was far from over, as we see him make many more appearances in pointless and unnecessary conflicts for the benefit of neo liberalism all over Asia, always at the ready to suggest the most abusive and destructive tactics possible.


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The Katyn Forest Massacre

False flag or false-flag operation is a covert operation designed to deceive; the deception creates the appearance of a particular party, group, or nation being responsible for some activity, disguising the actual source of responsibility. It can led merely to defamatory damage, but in severe cases also to terrorism and war.

History

Logical fallacies and
propaganda methods
Ad hoc
Ad hominem
Agent provocateur
Astroturfing
Big lie
Black propaganda
Cherry picking
Confirmation bias
Continuum fallacy
Domino theory
Double standard
Euphemism
Fake news
False counterexample
False flag
Godwin's Law‎
Guilt by association
Lewontin's fallacy
Name calling
Slippery slope
Straw man
The sociologist's fallacy

The term "false flag" originally referred to pirate ships that flew flags of countries as a disguise to prevent their victims from fleeing or preparing for battle. Sometimes the flag would remain and the blame for the attack laid incorrectly on another country. The term today extends beyond naval encounters to include countries that organize attacks on themselves and make the attacks appear to be by enemy nations or terrorists, thus giving the nation that was supposedly attacked a pretext for domestic repression and foreign military aggression.

Operations carried out during peace-time by civilian organizations, as well as covert government agencies, can (by extension) also be called false flag operations if they seek to hide the real organization behind an operation.

Identifying a false flag operation without the intelligence available to states can be difficult, but it’s important to keep in mind that many false flag operations conducted by states in the past have not been advanced. By investigating deeply into acts of hostility or incriminating actions and keeping in mind the possible missing links, spotting a false flag can be easier than expected, as they do not necessarily have to be foolproof to be successful.

Katyn Massacre

In the spring of 1940, Stalin's NKVD executed 22,000 Polish officers, ensigns and state officials near the Russian village of Katyn and other places. When Wehrmacht soldiers discovered some of the graves three years later, the Soviets succeeded in convincing US President Roosevelt of the German perpetration. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had no clear picture of the crime, and therefore made no public comments. Using thousands of recently released US documents, this book refutes the popular thesis that the Western Allies deliberately lied about the Katyn case in order not to endanger the alliance with Stalin. As well as consulting Polish and Russian documentation on this war crime, for the first time, the diaries of the Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, who wrote a great deal about Katyn, have been examined. Completely new for research is the role that Hitler's opponents in the Wehrmacht played in solving the crime: at the Nuremberg Trial they convinced the US delegation that the executors were not from the SS, but from the NKVD. Nevertheless, it took until 1990 for Kremlin chief Gorbachev to admit Soviet responsibility. Today in Putin's Russia, however, there is a tendency once more to keep quiet about the crime or even to blame the Germans.[1]

Israel

One examples is the Lavon affair, a failed Israeli covert operation, codenamed Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the summer of 1954. As part of the false flag operation, a group of Egyptian Jews were recruited by Israeli military intelligence to plant bombs inside Egyptian-, American-, and British-owned civilian targets: cinemas, libraries, and American educational centers. The bombs were timed to detonate several hours after closing time. The attacks were to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Communists, "unspecified malcontents" or "local nationalists" with the aim of creating a climate of sufficient violence and instability to induce the British government to retain its occupying troops in Egypt's Suez Canal zone. Israel publicly denied any involvement in the incident for 51 years; however, the surviving agents were officially honored in 2005, being awarded certificates of appreciation by Israeli President Moshe Katsav.

Russia

The Soviet Union also used a false-flag operation to initiate hostilities in the Russo-Finnish War. On November 26, 1939, Red Army forces shelled the village of Mainila. The seven rounds landed just eight hundred meters inside Soviet territory, but Soviet authorities claimed Finnish forces had fired the shots, supposedly causing several casualties in the village. The Finnish government offered to submit to a neutral investigation of the incident, but Stalin rejected the offer. Four days later Red Army forces rolled into Finland, beginning a war that would not end until mid-March with a negotiated settlement that ceded roughly 10 percent of Finnish territory to the Soviet Union. Vladimir Putin has used the same playbook. Putin trumped up allegations of Ukrainian shelling and ethnic cleansing—amounting to genocide—in the eastern breakaway territory of Donbas to justify an attack by upwards of 190,000 Russian Army troops in western Russia and Belarus into Ukraine. President Joe Biden got ahead of the curve, warning of Russia’s intended use of a false-flag operation to justify a military assault.[2]

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ Thomas Urban: The Katyn Massacre 1940 – History of a Crime, ‎Pen & Sword Military, 2021
  2. ↑ False-Flag Operations

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