A “false flag operation” is a time-tested technique of intelligence services. It is the propagation of a vicious lie–the false attribution of a deed to the enemy–so as to justify war. From the explosion on the Maine battleship in Havana Harbor in 1898 to the supposed attack on U.S Navy ships in Vietnam’s Gulf of...
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Why Insiders Suspected a False Flag Operation in the Middle East
In POLITICO Magazine, two top former U.S. counterterrorism officials make a revealing confession about last month’s attacks on two tanker ships off the coast of Iran. Dan Benjamin and Steve Simon, senior policymakers for President Obama, can’t be mistaken for conspiracy theorists. Yet they wondered who was behind the attacks, which generated indelible images of...