42 Documented False Flag Attacks By Governments Since 1931
www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/41-admitted-false-flag-attacks.html
There
are many documented false flag attacks, where a government carries out a
terror attack … and then falsely blames its enemy for political
purposes.
In the following 42 instances, officials in the
government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed an
attack) admits to it, either orally or in writing:
(1) Japanese troops set off a small explosion on
a train track in 1931, and falsely blamed it on China in order to
justify an invasion of Manchuria. This is known as the “Mukden Incident”
or the “Manchurian Incident”. The Tokyo International Military Tribunal
found: “Several of the participators in the plan, including Hashimoto
[a high-ranking Japanese army officer], have on various occasions
admitted their part in the plot and have stated that the object of the ‘Incident’ was to afford an excuse for the occupation of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army ….” And see this.
(2) A major with the Nazi SS admitted at the
Nuremberg trials that – under orders from the chief of the Gestapo – he
and some other Nazi operatives faked attacks on their own people and
resources which they blamed on the Poles, to justify the invasion of
Poland.
(3) Nazi general Franz Halder also testified at
the Nuremberg trials that Nazi leader Hermann Goering admitted to
setting fire to the German parliament building in 1933, and then falsely
blaming the communists for the arson.
(4) Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev admitted in
writing that the Soviet Union’s Red Army shelled the Russian village of
Mainila in 1939 – while blaming the attack on Finland – as a basis for
launching the “Winter War” against Finland. Russian president Boris
Yeltsin agreed that Russia had been the aggressor in the Winter War.
(5) The Russian Parliament, current Russian
president Putin and former Soviet leader Gorbachev all admit that Soviet
leader Joseph Stalin ordered his secret police to execute 22,000 Polish
army officers and civilians in 1940, and falsely blame it on the Nazis.
(6) The British government admits that – between
1946 and 1948 – it bombed 5 ships carrying Jews attempting to flee the
Holocaust to seek safety in Palestine, set up a fake group called
“Defenders of Arab Palestine”, and then had the psuedo-group falsely
claim responsibility for the bombings (and see this, this and this).
(7) Israel admits that in 1954, an Israeli
terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings,
including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind “evidence”
implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated
prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several
of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this).
(8) The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the
1950′s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to
turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister.
(9) The Turkish Prime Minister admitted that the
Turkish government carried out the 1955 bombing on a Turkish consulate
in Greece – also damaging the nearby birthplace of the founder of modern
Turkey – and blamed it on Greece, for the purpose of inciting and
justifying anti-Greek violence.
(10) The British Prime Minister admitted to his defense
secretary that he and American president Dwight Eisenhower approved a
plan in 1957 to carry out attacks in Syria and blame it on the Syrian
government as a way to effect regime change.
(11) The former Italian Prime Minister, an
Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit
that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror
bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed
the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments
in Europe in their fight against communism. As one participant in this
formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people,
women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any
political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force
these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for
greater security” (and see this) (Italy and other European countries
subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings
occurred). And watch this BBC special. They also allegedly carried out
terror attacks in France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, the
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK, and other countries.
(12) In 1960, American Senator George Smathers
suggested that the U.S. launch “a false attack made on Guantanamo Bay
which would give us the excuse of actually fomenting a fight which would
then give us the excuse to go in and [overthrow Castro]“.
(13) Official State Department documents show
that, in 1961, the head of the Joint Chiefs and other high-level
officials discussed blowing up a consulate in the Dominican Republic in
order to justify an invasion of that country. The plans were not carried
out, but they were all discussed as serious proposals.
(14) As admitted by the U.S. government,
recently declassified documents show that in 1962, the American Joint
Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes
(using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also
to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the
Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the following ABC
news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with the
former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News Tonight
with Peter Jennings.
(15) In 1963, the U.S. Department of Defense
wrote a paper promoting attacks on nations within the Organization of
American States – such as Trinidad-Tobago or Jamaica – and then falsely
blaming them on Cuba.
(16) The U.S. Department of Defense even
suggested covertly paying a person in the Castro government to attack
the United States: “The only area remaining for consideration then would
be to bribe one of Castro’s subordinate commanders to initiate an
attack on Guantanamo.”
(17) The NSA admits that it lied about what
really happened in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 … manipulating
data to make it look like North Vietnamese boats fired on a U.S. ship so
as to create a false justification for the Vietnam war.
(18) A U.S. Congressional committee admitted
that – as part of its “Cointelpro” campaign – the FBI had used many
provocateurs in the 1950s through 1970s to carry out violent acts and
falsely blame them on political activists.
(19) A top Turkish general admitted that Turkish
forces burned down a mosque on Cyprus in the 1970s and blamed it on
their enemy. He explained: “In Special War, certain acts of sabotage are
staged and blamed on the enemy to increase public resistance. We did
this on Cyprus; we even burnt down a mosque.” In response to the
surprised correspondent’s incredulous look the general said, “I am
giving an example”.
(20) The German government admitted (and see
this) that, in 1978, the German secret service detonated a bomb in the
outer wall of a prison and planted “escape tools” on a prisoner – a
member of the Red Army Faction – which the secret service wished to
frame the bombing on.
(21) A Mossad agent admits that, in 1984, Mossad
planted a radio transmitter in Gaddaffi’s compound in Tripoli, Libya
which broadcast fake terrorist trasmissions recorded by Mossad, in order
to frame Gaddaffi as a terrorist supporter. Ronald Reagan bombed Libya
immediately thereafter.
(22) The South African Truth and Reconciliation
Council found that, in 1989, the Civil Cooperation Bureau (a covert
branch of the South African Defense Force) approached an explosives
expert and asked him “to participate in an operation aimed at
discrediting the ANC [the African National Congress] by bombing the
police vehicle of the investigating officer into the murder incident”,
thus framing the ANC for the bombing.
(23) An Algerian diplomat and several officers
in the Algerian army admit that, in the 1990s, the Algerian army
frequently massacred Algerian civilians and then blamed Islamic
militants for the killings (and see this video; and Agence
France-Presse, 9/27/2002, French Court Dismisses Algerian Defamation
Suit Against Author).
(24) An Indonesian fact-finding team
investigated violent riots which occurred in 1998, and determined that
“elements of the military had been involved in the riots, some of which
were deliberately provoked”.
(25) Senior Russian Senior military and
intelligence officers admit that the KGB blew up Russian apartment
buildings in 1999 and falsely blamed it on Chechens, in order to justify
an invasion of Chechnya (and see this report and this discussion).
(26) According to the Washington Post,
Indonesian police admit that the Indonesian military killed American
teachers in Papua in 2002 and blamed the murders on a Papuan separatist
group in order to get that group listed as a terrorist organization.
(27) The well-respected former Indonesian president also admits that the government probably had a role in the Bali bombings.
(28) As reported by BBC, the New York Times, and
Associated Press, Macedonian officials admit that the government
murdered 7 innocent immigrants in cold blood and pretended that they
were Al Qaeda soldiers attempting to assassinate Macedonian police, in
order to join the “war on terror”.
(29) Senior police officials in Genoa, Italy
admitted that – in July 2001, at the G8 summit in Genoa – planted two
Molotov cocktails and faked the stabbing of a police officer, in order
to justify a violent crackdown against protesters.
(30) Although the FBI now admits that the 2001
anthrax attacks were carried out by one or more U.S. government
scientists, a senior FBI official says that the FBI was actually told to
blame the Anthrax attacks on Al Qaeda by White House officials
(remember what the anthrax letters looked like). Government officials
also confirm that the white House tried to link the anthrax to Iraq as a
justification for regime change in that country.
(31) Similarly, the U.S. falsely blamed Iraq
for playing a role in the 9/11 attacks – as shown by a memo from the
defense secretary – as one of the main justifications for launching the
Iraq war. Even after the 9/11 Commission admitted that there was no
connection, Dick Cheney said that the evidence is “overwhelming” that al
Qaeda had a relationship with Saddam Hussein’s regime, that Cheney
“probably” had information unavailable to the Commission, and that the
media was not ‘doing their homework’ in reporting such ties. Top U.S.
government officials now admit that the Iraq war was really launched for
oil … not 9/11 or weapons of mass destruction (despite previous “lone
wolf” claims, many U.S. government officials now say that 9/11 was
state-sponsored terror; but Iraq was not the state which backed the
hijackers).
(32) Former Department of Justice lawyer John
Yoo suggested in 2005 that the US should go on the offensive against
al-Qaeda, having “our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist
organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers,
training camps, and fundraising operations. It could launch fake
terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes,
helping to sow confusion within al-Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to
doubt others’ identities and to question the validity of
communications.”
(33) United Press International reported in June 2005:
U.S. intelligence officers are reporting that
some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92
pistols, but the pistols seem to have had their serial numbers erased.
The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed; the pistols
seem to have come off a production line without any serial numbers.
Analysts suggest the lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons
were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with
substantial government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are
probably from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent
provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as U.S.
authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of the
illegitimacy of the resistance.
(34) Undercover Israeli soldiers admitted in
2005 to throwing stones at other Israeli soldiers so they could blame it
on Palestinians, as an excuse to crack down on peaceful protests by the
Palestinians.
(35) Quebec police admitted that, in 2007, thugs
carrying rocks to a peaceful protest were actually undercover Quebec
police officers (and see this).
(36) At the G20 protests in London in 2009, a
British member of parliament saw plain clothes police officers
attempting to incite the crowd to violence.
(37) Egyptian politicians admitted (and see
this) that government employees looted priceless museum artifacts in
2011 to try to discredit the protesters.
(38) A Colombian army colonel has admitted that
his unit murdered 57 civilians, then dressed them in uniforms and
claimed they were rebels killed in combat.
(39) The highly-respected writer for the
Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says that the head of Saudi
intelligence – Prince Bandar – recently admitted that the Saudi
government controls “Chechen” terrorists.
(40) High-level American sources admitted that
the Turkish government – a fellow NATO country – carried out the
chemical weapons attacks blamed on the Syrian government; and
high-ranking Turkish government admitted on tape plans to carry out
attacks and blame it on the Syrian government.
(41) The former Ukrainian security chief admits
that the sniper attacks which started the Ukrainian coup were carried
out in order to frame others.
(42) Britain’s spy agency has admitted (and see
this) that it carries out “digital false flag” attacks on targets,
framing people by writing offensive or unlawful material … and blaming
it on the target.
In addition, two-thirds of the City of Rome
burned down in a huge fire on July 19, 64 A.D. The Roman people blamed
the Emperor Nero for starting the fire. Some top Roman leaders –
including the Roman consul Cassius Dio, as well as historians like
Suetonius – agreed that Nero started the fire (based largely on the fact
that the Roman Senate had just rejected Nero’s application to clear 300
acres in Rome so that he could build a palatial complex, and that the
fire allowed him to build his complex). Regardless of who actually
started the fire, Nero – in the face of public opinion accusing him of
arson – falsely blamed the Christians for starting the fire. He then
rounded up and brutally tortured and murdered scores of Christians for
something they likely didn’t do.
We didn’t include this in the list above,
because – if Nero did start the fire on purpose – he did it for his own
reasons (to build his palatial complex), and not for geopolitical
reasons benefiting his nation.
So Common … There’s a Name for It
The use of the bully’s trick is so common that it was given a name hundreds of years ago.
“False flag terrorism” is defined as a
government attacking its own people, then blaming others in order to
justify going to war against the people it blames. Or as Wikipedia
defines it:
False flag operations are covert operations
conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which
are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other
entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false
colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one’s own.
False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency
operations, and have been used in peace-time; for example, during
Italy’s strategy of tension.
The term comes from the old days of wooden
ships, when one ship would hang the flag of its enemy before attacking
another ship. Because the enemy’s flag, instead of the flag of the real
country of the attacking ship, was hung, it was called a “false flag”
attack.
Indeed, this concept is so well-accepted that
rules of engagement for naval, air and land warfare all prohibit false
flag attacks.
Leaders Throughout History Have Acknowledged False Flags
Leaders throughout history have acknowledged the danger of false flags:
“A history of false flag attacks used to
manipulate the minds of the people! “In individuals, insanity is rare;
but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death”.
– Adolph Hitler
“Why of course the people don’t want war … But
after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and
it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a
democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist
dictatorship … Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to
the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell
them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of
patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any
country.”
– Hermann Goering, Nazi leader.
“The easiest way to gain control of a population
is to carry out acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws
if their personal security is threatened”.
– Josef Stalin
P.S. There are more: Hotel King David in Jerusalem 1946, Lavon Affair 1954, USS Liberty in 1967...
