False flag

From Wikispooks
Revision as of 12:48, 18 March 2012 by Peter (talk | contribs) (→‎September 11th, 2001: some additional info and edits)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

False flag attacks are carried out in ways calculated to deceive the victim as to the nature of the perpetrator, conventionally (though not necessarily) by a device such as flying false colours. Operations of this nature have sometimes been used in commerce and politics.

Please Note - This article is offered as an adjunct to the Wikipedia article "False Flag". It aims to fill in some otherwise puzzling gaps, presenting missing incidents from a "Neutral Point of View" to the "Reliable Source" standard of Wikipedia. However, see "Notes" at the end, where some information acceptable to the Wikipedia, and quoted from there, is not to a high standard.

Important examples inadequately covered at WP

September 11th, 2001

Main Pages: Category:9/11

On September 11, 2001, a complex attack was carried out for which no one has been brought to justice. US government continues neither to investigate the evidence, admit reponsibility nor answer reasonable outstanding questions. Two US passenger planes were flown into two of the World Trade Center Towers, both of which collapsed just an hour or two later, as did WTC7, a third tower in the World Trade Centerwhich was not hit by an aeroplane. There is considerable compelling evidence - both forensic and from eye-witnesses - that explosives were involved in all three tower collapses. An attack was launched against the Pentagon, which was subject to a military stand down. Official procedure was followed neither before, during nor after the attack. None of the hijacked aircraft were intercepted, fighter jets were not scrambled, and the evidence of the demolished World Trade Center buildings was removed without being subjected to any investigation. There are many other serious anomalies and problems with the official narrative of these events. Wikipedia editors seem determined to remove any evidence from the 9/11 pages which contradicts the US government's official conspiracy theory. Subsequent to the 9/11 attacks, another possible false flag was carried out - the ' Amerithrax' Anthrax attacks, which were blamed on Islamic Terrorists at the time, although a $100M FBI investigation concluded that the Antrax used was of US military origin. The case is now closed and some of the evidence remains 'under seal'[1] .

1954 Lavon Affair

Main Article: Lavon Affair

This was an Israeli plan to place bombs in Egypt against Egyptian, American and British-owned targets, to induce the British government to retain its occupying troops in Egypt's Suez Canal zone. It was uncovered when an israeli was caught planting a bomb. Despite almost entirely ignoring this affair at the article on "False Flag", there is a Wikipedia article on it at Lavon Affair. The Wikipedia says that it was "disastrous for Israel in several ways" but fails to mention any of the very serious effects on Egypt or Egyptian Jews (mentioned below). It may otherwise be largely complete and trustworthy.

1950 Baghdad Bombings

Never acknowledged by Israel

The April 1950 bombings that helped panic most of the 150,000 Jews of Iraq to leave for Israel have never been claimed by the Zionists.

For and against the Zionists having done it

The Wikipedia generally presents a large number of other reasons why the Jews would have wanted to leave and strongly implies that the existence of Israel, and the activities of the Zionists in Iraq did nothing to cause problems for the Jews. But in the article on "Jews in Iraq" (Oct 2011) it admits:

The true identity and objective of the masterminds behind the bombings has been the subject of controversy. A secret Israeli inquiry in 1960 found no evidence that they were ordered by Israel or any motive that would have explained the attack, though it did find out that most of the witnesses believed that Jews had been responsible for the bombings.[2][3] The issue remains unresolved: Iraqi activists still regularly charge that Israel used violence to engineer the exodus, while Israeli officials of the time vehemently deny it. Historian Moshe Gat reports that "the belief that the bombs had been thrown by Zionist agents was shared by those Iraqi Jews who had just reached Israel".[4] Sociologist Phillip Mendes backs Gat's claims, and further attributes the allegations to have been influenced and distorted by feelings of discrimination.[5]

Journalist Naeim Giladi's position that the bombings were "perpetrated by Zionist agents in order to cause fear amongst the Jews, and so promote their exodus to Israel" is shared by a number of anti-Zionist authors, including the Israeli Black Panthers (1975), David Hirst (1977), Wilbur Crane Eveland (1980), Uri Avnery (1988), Ella Shohat (1986), Abbas Shiblak (1986), Marion Wolfsohn (1980), and Rafael Shapiro (1984). In his article, Giladi notes that this was also the conclusion of Wilbur Crane Eveland, a former senior officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who outlined that allegation in his book "Ropes of Sand".

Other accounts state that arms were stock-piled in synagogues by the Zionists and were shown to the Iraqi services by a captured member of the underground.

International Law, with examples

Naval warfare

The Wikipedia section here says that "This practice was considered acceptable in naval warfare, provided the false flag was lowered and the national flag raised before engaging in battle" and covers (as at Oct 2011) the following: "Auxiliary cruisers" in both World Wars, Q-ships, the German commerce raider Kormoran sinking the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney in 1941, the use of a Kriegsmarine Ensign in the St Nazaire Raid and the destroyer Campbeltown made to resemble a German destroyer.

If you have published evidence of further cases wrongfully rejected at Wikipedia by bias, please add them. (You may wish to populate this section from the current Wikipedia entry at the same time).

Wikispooks admins will not interfere without good reason as long as this notice is in place.

Air warfare

The Wikipedia section here states that aircraft must always be correctly marked by nationality and their military nature. There are no incidents reported.

If you have published evidence of further cases wrongfully rejected at Wikipedia by bias, please add them. (You may wish to populate this section from the current Wikipedia entry at the same time).

Wikispooks admins will not interfere without good reason as long as this notice is in place.

Land warfare

The Wikipedia page here states that International Law permits approach of an enemy in his uniform, but it must be discarded before shooting.

Deception of other forms (eg false use of the Red Cross) are known as perfidy and are forbidden.

The only example given (and the one on which International Law is based) is Operation Greif. Otto Skorzeny had ordered his men to infiltrate behind American lines in American uniforms but was cleared by the military court at the Dachau Trials.

If you have published evidence of further cases wrongfully rejected at Wikipedia by bias, please add them. (You may wish to populate this section from the current Wikipedia entry at the same time).

Wikispooks admins will not interfere without good reason as long as this notice is in place.

Other types of False Flag and examples

The Wikipedia article includes these categories of "False Flag" including some useful examples.

As pretexts for War

The Wikipedia page here covers a few incidents of False Flag Attacks used as pretexts for war eg 1931 Mukden incident, the Gleiwitz incident on August 31, 1939, and the 1953 overthrow of Mohammed Mosaddeq. Also the 1962 Operation Northwoods plot intended to excuse an attack on Cuba.

If you have published evidence of further cases wrongfully rejected at Wikipedia by bias, please add them. (You may wish to populate this section from the current Wikipedia entry at the same time).

Wikispooks admins will not interfere without good reason as long as this notice is in place.

Pseudo-operations

The Wikipedia page here covers a few more incidents of False Flag Attacks.

If you have published evidence of further cases wrongfully rejected at Wikipedia by bias, please add them. (You may wish to populate this section from the current Wikipedia entry at the same time).

Wikispooks admins will not interfere without good reason as long as this notice is in place.

Espionage

The Wikipedia page here includes under "False Flag Attacks" cases where communist authorities have used spies posing as peace-campaigners to discover secrets.

If you have published evidence of further cases wrongfully rejected at Wikipedia by bias, please add them. (You may wish to populate this section from the current Wikipedia entry at the same time).

Wikispooks admins will not interfere without good reason as long as this notice is in place.

Dirty War

The Wikipedia page here includes more "False Flag Attacks".

If you have published evidence of further cases wrongfully rejected at Wikipedia by bias, please add them. (You may wish to populate this section from the current Wikipedia entry at the same time).

Wikispooks admins will not interfere without good reason as long as this notice is in place.

Non-state operatives, Terrorism

The Wikipedia page here includes more "False Flag Attacks" carried out either by or against non-state operatives, eg the Reichstag Fire and actions during the Algerian Civil War. It alleges that some of the "Chechen Bombings" of the 1990s were actually carried out by the Russian state.

If you have published evidence of further cases wrongfully rejected at Wikipedia by bias, please add them. (You may wish to populate this section from the current Wikipedia entry at the same time).

Wikispooks admins will not interfere without good reason as long as this notice is in place.

Elections

The Wikipedia page here includes more "False Flag Attacks" carried out either by or against non-state operatives, eg shootings in the Caucasuses in 2008.

If you have published evidence of further cases wrongfully rejected at Wikipedia by bias, please add them. (You may wish to populate this section from the current Wikipedia entry at the same time).

Wikispooks admins will not interfere without good reason as long as this notice is in place.

Civilian usage

The Wikipedia page here includes more "False Flag Attacks" carried out by businesses, special interest groups, religions, political ideologies (eg Scientology) and campaigns for office (eg New Hampshire 2006).

If you have published evidence of further cases wrongfully rejected at Wikipedia by bias, please add them. (You may wish to populate this section from the current Wikipedia entry at the same time).

Wikispooks admins will not interfere without good reason as long as this notice is in place.

See also

Wikipedia offers other concepts on similar lines:

  • Black propaganda
  • Casus belli
  • Covert operation
  • Front organization
  • Inside job
  • Joe job, a similar online concept
  • Mimicry
  • State terrorism

Wikipedia offers these other examples:

  • 1962 CIA Operation Northwoods, a Plan to blame Cuba for a Terrorist attack in order to get a pretext for 'justified' War of aggression after USA funded and organized failed Terrorist attack known as CIA Operation Mongoose.
  • 1953 CIA Operation Ajax, overthrow of the Prime Minister of Iran and his replacement with the Shah.[6]
  • 1939 Shelling of Finland by Joseph Stalin and USSR in order to get pretext for 'justified' war of aggression named Winter War
  • 1933 The Reichstag Fire, Hitler's pretext for suspending the Weimar Constitution, may have been false flag.
  • Bloed, Bodem, Eer en Trouw (Flemish neo-Nazi group preparing false flag attacks)
  • Bologna massacre
  • Canuck letter
  • Celle Hole
  • CIA PBSUCCESS ([USA]) Operation for overthrowing the Arbenz government in Guatemala in 1954
  • CIA Project Cherry (USA non-stop assassination project to kill Norodom Sihanouk, Prince, and later King of Cambodia)
  • Gleiwitz incident - 3rd Reich Nazis Operation Himmler in order to get pretext for 'justified' war of aggression against Poland with USSR day after that - named Fall Weiß
  • Kommandoverband Jaguar German army unit conducting deep reconnaissance in Soviet uniforms
  • Lavon Affair Israeli attempt to plant bombs in Western targets in Egypt, in blaming Arab elements
  • Marxist-Leninist Party of the Netherlands (fake party set up by the Dutch security service)
  • Masada Action and Defense Movement ("Zionist" group bombing Arab targets in France, really French white supremacists)
  • Operation Jaque
  • Special Activities Division
  • The Plaza Miranda Bombings in the Philippines, which led to Ferdinand Marcos's suspension of the writ of habeas corpus.
  • The strategy of tension in Italy during the 1970s, when right-wing Italian, Spanish, Greek, and CIA agents caused various terrorist acts in Italy, which were publicly laid to Communist terrorist groups that were actually fakes, and to the Red Brigades who were actually innocent of these particular crimes

Notes

  1. FBI Summary Report Footnote pp. 8
  2. I. Black & B. Morris Israel's Secret Wars (Futura, 1992), p93. "secret Israeli inquiry in 1960 found no evidence ... did find out that most of the witnesses believed that Jews had been responsible for the bombings". This is the reference in current use at Wikipedia.
  3. Palestinian account of the bombings If Americans Knew, 25th Mar 2006. This is the reference in current use at Wikipedia.
  4. M. Gat, The Jewish Exodus from Iraq, 1948-1951 (Frank Cass, 1997), p186-187. "Iraqi activists still regularly charge that Israel used violence to engineer the exodus, while Israeli officials of the time vehemently deny it". This is the reference in current use at Wikipedia.
  5. Sociologist Phillip Mendes attributes the allegations to have been influenced and distorted by feelings of discrimination. FORGOTTEN REFUGEES. This is the (dead link) reference in current use at Wikipedia.
  6. All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror Stephen Kinzer, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2003. This is the reference in current use at Wikipedia.