- A false flag operation is a covert operation designed
to deceive often times an entire nation
to make them believe a particular group
or other nation is responsible
for some activity.
Many events like this have happened
in order to further the agenda of governments
who want to galvanize a nation to get behind that agenda,
but nothing stays buried for long.
Many events have been exposed as false flags.
The following are just such cases
which will leave you speechless.
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Here are 10 sinister false flag operations.
Number 10 is the Mukden Incident.
Also known as the Manchurian incident,
the Mukden Incident was used to justify an entire war.
The war in question was
the Second Sino War between Japan and China.
The false flag operation
which led to this conflict was carried out
on the 18th of September 1931.
A lieutenant in the Japanese army planted explosives
next to a railway line which was used
by Japan's own self Manchuria railway.
The explosion was intended to weaken the track
and derail the next passing train.
However, the explosion wasn't strong enough
and it only damaged the track.
It was still used as an excuse for war
by the imperial Japanese army who falsely claimed
that Chinese dissidence had planted
the explosives in a direct attack on Japanese sovereignty.
This was used by Japan as an excuse
to invade and conquer the region.
Number nine is Operation Northwoods.
Operation Northwoods is one of the most controversial
proposed false flag incidents in history.
Not just because it was to be perpetrated
by the United States to start a war with Cuba,
but also because it was overseen
by the Department of Defense
and the joint chiefs of staff of the U.S. government.
Operation Northwoods would of give permission
to the United States government
to attack it's own civilians and military,
and then blame this on the Cuban government.
The attacks were to include sinking Cuban refugee boats,
high jacking commercial American flights,
and blowing up a U.S. ship
and orchestrating a terrorist campaign on American soil.
All of this was to trick the American public
into supporting war.
The plan was eventually vetoed by JFK,
but many point to the proposal
as a dark day for U.s. ethics.
Number eight is The Winter War.
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The Winter War was a brutal conflict
between the Soviet Union and Finland
and it was all started by a false flag operation.
The entire affair was a ruse by the Soviet government
to capture Finnish territory in 1939.
Just months after the outbreak
of World War II on November 26th,
the Soviets launched an attack on the village of Manila.
What's so shocking about this
is that it was a Soviet village.
The Soviets shelled Manila and then reported several deaths.
In the aftermath, the Soviet Union claimed
that the shells had been fired
by Finnish artillery positions on the nearby border.
This ruse was then used
to justify invading Finnish territory
and starting a war and that war was a brutal one.
Many died as the temperatures dipped
to a biting minus 43 degrees Celsius.
When peace was finally agreed upon,
the Soviets had taken 11% of Finland's territory.
Number seven is Project TP-Ajax.
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In 1953 Iran, the then prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh
was overthrown in an uprising.
It wasn't until 2013 that it was publicly revealed
that this uprising was engineered
through a false flag operation.
The American CIA were directly involved in the uprising
which was a coup to remove the leader
of a foreign country and replace him
with one sympathetic to American interests.
It was conceived at the highest level
of the U.S. government behind closed doors.
In the run up to the coup, American Iranian negations
over Iranian oil had stalled
and it was clear that the Soviet Union
would benefit massively by striking a deal
themselves with Iran.
In order to stop this, CIA led propaganda
was then spread through the press and other means
to insight unrest and
bring down a democratically elected government.
Number six is the Russo-Swedish War.
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False flag operations are nothing new.
Several go back centuries including a plot
to start a war between Sweden and Russia.
In 1788, an opera company in Russia
which was used to make costumes for it's productions
was asked to create a number
of authentic looking Russian military uniforms.
Elements within the Swedish aristocracy
then used these uniforms to stage an attack
on a Swedish outpost along the border with Russia.
Until this point, the Swedish government had refused
to get involved in a conflict with Russia
despite recent tensions.
The false flag operation changed all that
and allowed the then king of Sweden
to launch a two year war against Russia
with the blessing of the Swedish government.
The Swedish king was then assassinated after the war
during a masquerade ball due to his zeal for war.
Number five is the Kormoran Raider.
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False flag operations often involve
duping enemy forces into a false sense of security
before unleashing a deadly attack.
This is exactly what happened on November 19th 1941.
When an Australian ship fell for this fatal trick.
It was during the Second World War
and Australian merchant vessels
were helping the war effort against the Nazis
and their allies by transporting supplies.
To blockade these supplies,
the Nazi cruiser, the Kormoran was disguised
as a friendly ship through the Atlantic
and then Indian oceans.
Due to her fake appearance, the Kormoran was able
to sail much closer to allied vessels
than any other ship of her kind.
This allowed the ship to launch a surprise attack
even though this broke international law.
The Kormoran sank 10 vessels before most famously
sinking the Australian cruiser, the HMAS Sydney.
Number four is the Lavon Affair.
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The Lavon Affair was a covert operation
carried out by Israeli government forces.
In 1954, elements within the Israeli government
wanted to bring enough attention to Egypt's Suez canal zone
so that British forces would remain there,
maintaining a European presence sympathic towards Israel
and therefore controlling the canal
and it's use for commerce.
A false flag operation was devised to achieve this aim.
Israeli military intelligence operatives
were to plant bombs in Egypt
with the intention of destroying Egyptian,
British, and American owned buildings.
This would then be blamed on the Egyptian group,
the Muslim brotherhood as well as communists.
While no civilians were killed, several operatives were.
The operation was uncovered
and the Israeli defense minister had
to resign as a consequence.
Number three is marble framework.
While most false flag incidents are either physical
acts of terror or the spreading of propaganda,
in the modern day world of cyber espionage,
hacking software has been used
to falsely implicate other nations of aggressive behavior.
This occurred recently with the marble framework.
The marble framework is a piece of software
which inserts fragments
of foreign language code into malware.
When that malware is used to incapacitate a website
or fish for secrets from foreign governments,
investigators attempting to find the source
of the malware are misled
by the foreign language code fragments
into thinking another country was to blame.
While no one is quite sure
to what extent the framework has been used,
it's clear that it was developed
by the CIA before being leaked to WikiLeaks.
Number two is the Reichstag fire.
Perhaps the most famous and most damaging
false flag operation of all time,
the Reichstag fire set a chain of events in motion
that allowed Adolf Hitler to increase his strangle hold
on the German government and it's people.
The fire took place in Berlin on the 27th of February 1933.
The Nazis claimed that a communist agent has been found
at the scene and therefore the attack on the Reichstag
was a communist attempt to grab control of the country.
Hitler and his supporters then used the public outrage
to bring about the Reichstag fire decree
which allowed opponents of the Nazis
to be rounded up and arrested while freezing civil liberties
in the pursuit of supposed security.
Many historians believed that the fire had been
deliberately orchestrated by the Nazis themselves
and the rest is history.
And number one is The Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident in 1964
was a confrontation between
North Vietnam and the United States.
One was the North Vietnam attack on the USS Maddox,
a lone destroyer in the region and another attack
on the same ship two days later.
Many now believe that at least one of these incidents
was staged, if not, both.
This included faking an attack on U.S. personnel
as well as faking radar data
to show North Vietnam boats which did not exist.
In 2004, a former United States secretary of defense
came forward and admitted that at least one of the attacks
was faked in order to give America an excuse
to enter the Vietnamese conflict.
As a result of this lie,
nearly 60,000 U.S. personnel died in the conflict
and as many as one million Vietnamese
on both sides of the border.
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