false flag

The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire
by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson
Published 14 Apr 2020

It stated that the intelligence came from local residents of Jisr al-Shughur.3 Russia had repeatedly warned that another false flag chemical weapon attack was being prepared in Idlib, with the hope of giving the American Empire the justification to attack the Syrian government, which is what they were desperate for. American officials had threatened Assad with retaliation if he used chemical weapons in Idlib and even preemptively assigned the blame for any such attack to him, which made it pretty obvious that they were planning to use a false flag attack and blame it on Assad. What they did not want was for a country like Russia to announce their plans in advance, thus removing the element of surprise and creating a difficult explanation for an event that would unfold exactly as Russia said it would.

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Decisions are being bought and sold by people that are compromised and unethical, and the American public pays the price, both figuratively and literally. However, when outright bribery does not get the job done of influencing the public to settle the way in which they desire, sometimes they need to bring in the big boys to influence public opinion in a very different, and more serious way. False Flags For Change A “false flag” is a horrific, staged event, that is blamed on a political enemy and used as a pretext to start a war or enact draconian laws in the name of “national security”. A false version of an event is given to the general public by the government and their accomplices in the corporate media with the intent of manipulating the emotions of the people, while simultaneously manufacturing an outburst of patriotic support that the government can then use as their justification to introduce laws that would normally be unpopular.

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When a country wants to go to war against another country, but they do not have an honest justification for doing so, sometimes they pretend to be the other side and invade themselves. The Reichstag fire that enraged the Germans when it was discovered that the Poles had been responsible, was a perfect example of a false flag by the Germans against themselves in order to justify the slaughter of well over a million Poles, and the reduction of Warsaw, the most heavily bombed city during World War 2, to literal rubble.194 False flags have been a tool of psychopathic governments for so long because they are very effective as a tool against their citizens. The average person is at an enormous disadvantage when trying to comprehend the idea of attacking one’s self in order to blame it on a political rival to generate the pretext for going to war.

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
by Elizabeth Williamson
Published 8 Mar 2022

To understand how Jones came to be the foremost vector for the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory, Friesen listened to how Jones talked about the Sandy Hook shooting from the day of the tragedy forward, tracking his narrative arc. On the day of the shooting, “Jones was trying to dance around and figure out how to make a false flag narrative out of this. He wanted to suggest it was fake immediately—but he also didn’t seem to care that much,” Friesen told me. “It’s only after he finds out that lots of kids have died that he moves into the territory of trying to talk himself into it being a false flag.” At that point Jones could not ignore the threat the massacre posed to his pro-gun agenda. “Once there are kids that are dead, Alex can recognize that denial may be a useful tool.

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Renewed public interest in gun safety legislation fed a corresponding rise in false flag claims, including some that falsely cast Obama as the crimes’ hidden instigator. Larry Pratt, who led Gun Owners of America, a radical competitor of the NRA, appeared on Infowars a week after the Aurora shooting, agreeing with Jones’s false claim that it suggested a United Nations–led plot to impose a global gun ban. And at least one NRA executive would make a cynical attempt to exploit Sandy Hook conspiracism too.[5] * * * — It’s hard to know whether Alex Jones truly believed that Sandy Hook was a false flag or that it didn’t happen. Jones did seem convinced that Sandy Hook posed an urgent threat to gun ownership.

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But Farrar & Ball posted the full versions of all of Jones’s depositions and those of his associates, including Rob Dew and Paul Joseph Watson, to its YouTube channel.[1] Together they provide an aerial tour of America’s scorched, post-truth landscape. “One of the things that you’ve tried to make clear is that you’re not the one who started the theory that Sandy Hook was a false flag, correct?” Bankston asked Jones, who answered, “Yes.”[2] Bankston played a ninety-second montage of Jones’s remarks during his December 14, 2012, broadcast, which Infowars later posted under the header “Connecticut School Massacre Looks like False Flag Says [sic] Witnesses.” “You’ve heard me say look for a big mass shooting at schools,” Jones said in the clip. “You’ve heard me. We’ve gotta find the clips. The last two months I’ve probably said it twenty times.”

Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
by Andy Greenberg
Published 5 Nov 2019

The deeper forensic analysts looked, the further they seemed to be from a definitive conclusion. The security world had seen plenty of false flags before: The state-sponsored hackers behind every major attack for years had pretended to be something else, their masks ranging from those of cybercriminals to hacktivists to another country’s agents. But this was different. No one had ever seen quite so many deceptions folded into the same piece of software. Wading into the Olympic Destroyer code was like walking into a maze of mirrors, with a different false flag at every dead end. * * * ■ In the midst of that fog of confusion and misdirection, a leak to The Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima cut through with an unequivocal statement.

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The other red herrings in Olympic Destroyer had been so vexing in part because there was no way to tell which clues were real and which were deceptions. But now, deep in the folds of false flags wrapped around the Olympic malware, Soumenkov had found one flag that was provably false. It was now perfectly clear that someone had tried to make the malware look North Korean and only failed due to a slipup in one instance and through Soumenkov’s fastidious triple-checking. “It’s a completely verifiable false flag. We can say with 100 percent confidence this is false, so it’s not the Lazarus Group,” Soumenkov would later say in a presentation at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit, using the name for the hackers widely believed to be North Korean.

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Breakdown 27. The Cost 28. Aftermath 29. Distance PART V IDENTITY 30. GRU 31. Defectors 32. Informatsionnoye Protivoborstvo 33. The Penalty 34. Bad Rabbit, Olympic Destroyer 35. False Flags 36. 74455 37. The Tower 38. Russia 39. The Elephant and the Insurgent PART VI LESSONS 40. Geneva 41. Black Start 42. Resilience   Epilogue   Appendix: Sandworm’s Connection to French Election Hacking Acknowledgments Source Notes Bibliography About the Author INTRODUCTION On June 27, 2017, something strange and terrible began to ripple out across the infrastructure of the world.

We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
by Eliot Higgins
Published 2 Mar 2021

At another location, he was able to walk up to the cockpit, still with human remains inside but not a single investigator to be seen. The Russian Defence Ministry was now contending that a Buk missile system had shot down the plane – but that it came from Ukrainian-controlled territory.4 A bizarre new statement came from Strelkov, the Russian operative, suggesting that the downing of MH17 had been a false-flag operation, that the airliner had taken off with dead bodies inside, and was shot down to frame the insurgents.5 A correspondent for RT, Sara Firth, resigned in protest at the broadcaster’s falsehoods, saying, ‘Every single day we’re lying and finding sexier ways to do it.’ An RT spokeswoman responded: ‘Sara has declared that she chooses the truth; apparently we have different definitions of truth.’6 Far away in a North Carolina office building, twenty-five-year-old Aric Toler was monitoring online reports of the tragedy.

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The hatred for me worsened in August 2013, when I presented Brown Moses evidence about the Ghouta chemical attacks. A week after this war crime, Susli – who hails from Damascus and now lives in Australia17 – posted a video stating: ‘It looks like we’re about to see another imperialist war, this time against my own country. The false-flag chemical weapons attack that I said would happen last year has occurred.’ She described me as unqualified and biased,18 adding on Twitter that I was ‘a plant’19 and ‘the guy with no military training who makes up crap out of dubious photos and thinks he has proved anything’.20 Her comments – paranoiac rants that would have condemned a person to obscurity in another era – gained an audience online, reaching a mutually reinforcing community of fact-deniers.

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Seven years after the uprising in Syria spiralled into civil war, the Russian intervention had turned the conflict decisively in favour of Assad, and his forces sought to eliminate the final resistance with chemical attacks on rebel-held civilian areas. The West had no will to invade; that had been obvious for years. Yet major chemical attacks still provoked an international reaction, meaning that Assad and his supporters had to conceal them. This event, they claimed, was a false-flag operation conducted by the rescuers themselves in an attempt to frame the Assad regime. Moscow went further, asserting that it was the British government that had ordered the White Helmets to fake the chemical attack. Russian state TV claimed a major scoop: photos of a White Helmets film set in eastern Ghouta, where they had supposedly falsified evidence.

Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World
by James Ball
Published 19 Jul 2023

On any given day, Infowars’ home page may feature headlines like ‘Global Bombshell! Eugenics Op Exposed: Hospitals Caught Mass Murdering Covid Patients with Lethal Injections’, alongside a poll asking ‘What False Flag Are the Globalists Most Likely to Unleash to Escalate War?’.18 Outside of the conspiratorial fringe, Jones is best known for accusing the parents of the twenty six- and seven-year-old children killed in the Sandy Hook Massacre of being agents of the deep state acting in a false flag operation, for which they (understandably) have taken him to court. The first of ten families secured damages of almost $50 million in a July 2022 ruling.19 Later rulings brought the total payout due from Jones to the victims of his disinformation to $1.4 billion.

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Usually, elections are carefully stage-managed, but a small group of ‘patriots’ had helped Trump win by preventing the vote rigging that usually occurs. As a result, there was a high chance of assassination or some other means (such as impeachment) to remove Trump. Both Obama and Hillary Clinton were high-ranking members of the cabal, which was able to stage false flag operations, mobilise protestors and more – but Trump would soon secure their arrest, likely causing widespread unrest and violence orchestrated by that cabal. Not quite core to the conspiracy, but widely believed, was that the cabal was heavily involved in large-scale child abuse, quite probably for satanic or other ritual purposes, with many people following Q also believing that either the cabal or Trump’s forces were making use of a huge network of secret tunnels under the USA.

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Nawaz is a self-admitted former Islamic extremist who went on to found Quilliam, a think tank focused on anti-extremism and deradicalisation – which for the first few years of its existence was funded by the UK government.35 As that think tank wound down, Nawaz pursued a career as a talk radio presenter for the UK’s national station LBC, but raised alarms as he started to promote a series of seemingly separate but linked conspiracy theories. Nawaz would via social media push posts suggesting that Trump had been the victim of election fraud (while claiming to take no view on the issue), that Anthony Fauci was an investor in a biolab in Wuhan connected to Covid-19, and even that the Capitol riots of 6 January had been a false flag operation by Antifa.36 Not only could Nawaz serve as a respectable voice for such theories in the UK – thanks to his mainstream show on strictly regulated UK radio – but he was also something of an establishment figure, having set up a publicly funded think tank. One final international example for the moment comes in the form of Attila Hildmann, a vegan chef in Germany who became the de facto leader of the QAnon movement in that country – another example of the wellness-to-conspiracy pipeline.

Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy
by Rory Cormac
Published 14 Jun 2018

State Department officials consented, but warned against expending assets prematurely. Accordingly, Dulles and Lloyd agreed to ‘minor sabotage’.55 False flag operations formed another important tactic. SIS and the CIA stressed how the Syrian regime had to be ‘made to appear as the sponsor of plots, sabotage and violence against neighbouring governments’. They also planned for special operations ascribable to Syria to be mounted in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon, including ‘sabotage, national conspiracies and various strong-arm activities’.56 False flag sabotage, conducted against a backdrop of hostile propaganda, would help incite violence both within and against Syria.

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Accordingly, the Information Research Department and SIS covertly exploited rifts between various internal factions inside Iran. These included tensions between the rich and poor, communism and Islam, communism and nationalism, and modernization and traditionalism.97 OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 06/02/18, SPi 102 E n d of E m pi r e Propaganda extended to false flag operations, a particularly provocative tactic seeking to incriminate targets so as to generate public hostility.98 The plan included staged attacks against respected religious leaders, which others would then blame on Mossadeq. It also suggested that fabricated documents would ‘prove’ links between Mossadeq and the communists.

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Britain had long used subterranean teams to fight terrorists and insurgents across the empire. These units operated undercover, disguised as the local or insurgent population in order to gather intelligence and engage in OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 06/02/18, SPi 204 Age of I llusions p­ roactive measures to eliminate the enemy, including ambushes, armed assaults, and false flag operations intended to provoke discord within an insurgent movement.55 Some of these groups, known as counter-gangs, also comprised former insurgents who had switched sides to work with the security forces. Britain had turned to counter-gangs when fighting Zionist guerrillas in Palestine after the Second World War.

Red Rabbit
by Tom Clancy and Scott Brick
Published 2 Jan 2002

It was his job to crack into the deepest secrets of their country. He was the new Chief of Station, but he was supposed to be a stealthy one. This was one of Bob Ritter's new and more creative ideas. Typically, the identity of the boss spook in an embassy wasn't expected to be a secret. Sooner or later, everyone got burned one way or another, either ID'd by a false-flag operation or through an operational error, and that was like losing one's virginity. Once gone, it never came back. But the Agency only rarely used a husband-wife team in the field, and he'd spent years building his cover. A graduate of New York's Fordham University, Ed Foley had been recruited fairly young, vetted by an FBI background check, and then gone to work for The New York Times as a reporter on a general beat.

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It was like being an animal in the goddamned zoo, with people watching and laughing and pointing. Would KGB keep a log of how often he and his wife got it on? They might, he thought, looking for marital difficulties as a pretext for recruiting him or Mary Pat. Everyone did it. So, they'd have to make love regularly just to discourage that possibility, though playing a reverse false-flag did have interesting theoretical possibilities of its own… No, the Station Chief decided, it'd be an unnecessary complication for their stay in Moscow, and being Chief of Station was already complex enough. Only the ambassador, the defense attaché, and his own officers were allowed to know who he was.

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He deftly removed the message blank from the pack and palmed it, shuffling about the car as it slowed for a station, making room for another passenger. It worked perfectly. He jostled into the American and made the transfer, then drew back. Zaitzev took a deep breath. The deed was done. What happened now was indeed in other hands. Was the man really an American—or some false-flag from the Second Chief Directorate? Had the "American" seen his face? Did that matter? Weren't his fingerprints on the message form? Zaitzev didn't have a clue. He'd been careful when tearing off the form—and, if questioned, he could always say that the pad just lay on his desk, and anyone could have taken a form—even asked him for it!

Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
by Jeffrey Toobin
Published 1 May 2023

In recent years, the right has continued to deny the existence of violence and extremism in its ranks, often attempting instead to blame “false flag” operations—that is, left-wing terrorism that is camouflaged to embarrass the right. This claim has been made about virtually all the mass shootings by white supremacists, including those in El Paso, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo. In 2018, Marjorie Taylor Greene, before she was elected to Congress, agreed on Facebook with the view that the mass shooting that killed seventeen people in Parkland, Florida, “was a false flag planned shooting.” (Alex Jones made the notorious claim that the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut in 2012 was faked.)

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: https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2005/04/19/house-section/article/H2143-1. A 2012 book called: Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles, Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed and Why It Still Matters (New York: William Morrow, 2012), p. 5. attempting instead to blame “false flag” operations: For a summary of false flag claims about mass shootings, see Anya van Wagtendonk and Jason Paladino, “After the Uvalde School Shooting, a Familiar Lie,” Grid, May 26, 2022, https://www.grid.news/story/misinformation/2022/05/26/after-the-uvalde-school-shooting-a-familiar-lie/. The most prominent example: See “Antifa Didn’t Storm the Capitol.

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The most prominent example of the effort to divert attention from the right-wing roots of extremist action came after the January 6, 2021, attempted insurrection at the Capitol. Notwithstanding the overwhelming evidence that supporters of Donald Trump staged the riot, some conservatives, including many voices on Fox News, tried to attribute the violence to a false flag operation led by the left-wing group antifa. As Rush Limbaugh said, the riots “undoubtedly included some antifa Democrat-sponsored instigators.” But these imaginings cannot obscure the truth—that from McVeigh to the present, a meaningful part of the conservative movement in the United States has engaged in violence.

Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy
by Eric O'Neill
Published 1 Mar 2019

A good defense attorney could easily raise enough questions about the witness’s motives to secure a “not guilty” verdict. The FBI needed Pitts to confess. In order to make that happen, the bureau created a compartmentalized squad of agents to run what’s known as a “false flag” operation. In August 1995, the FBI used the confidential witness, alongside a team of FBI agents led by Donner and posing as Russian intelligence officers, to fool Pitts into believing that Russia wanted to reactivate him as a spy. The false flag operation lasted sixteen months. During that time, Pitts made twenty-two drops of classified and unclassified FBI information and documents, held two face-to-face meetings and nine phone conversations with his pretend Russian handlers, and accepted payment of $65,000 for his attempted espionage.

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They needed to coax him back into the fold in a way that would mend his fractured ego, give him access to juicy information, and encourage him to spy. And they needed to do all that without tipping him off that he was walking into a mousetrap. Much like the way Donner’s squad operated during the Earl Pitts case, the squad investigating Hanssen wanted to slowly build a case. A key difference was that no FBI agents would false-flag Hanssen. We wanted him to spy for the actual Russians. To accomplish this impossible task, the powers that be decided to give Hanssen his dream job. He’d spent years complaining that the FBI’s systems were vulnerable to outside hackers and inside spies, and the FBI had spent years ignoring his concerns.

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Often, Igor would task Boone to steal specific documents. One such top-secret document was titled United States Signals Intelligence Directive (USSID) 514. It detailed the targeting of US nuclear weapons against Soviet targets. When Boone’s spying came to light in 1998, the FBI decided to launch a false-flag operation against him. An FBI asset posing as a Russian intelligence officer called Boone, still living in Germany, and asked him to come to London for a meeting. During the meeting, an FBI asset introduced himself as Igor’s successor with the new Russian intelligence service and paid Boone $9,000.

Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence
by Jonathan Haslam
Published 21 Sep 2015

The Germans for the time being work alone.”59 In turn, the Polish, Estonian, and Finnish governments backed the Trust, even providing its members diplomatic asylum in the event of failure.60 The brunt of MI6 subversion and intelligence gathering was carried out via passport control officers at British legations in Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia), Riga (Latvia), Helsinki (Finland), and Stockholm (Sweden). The KRO had already recruited Ado Birk under a false flag (American) by the time he was sent to serve in the Estonian mission to Russia (1922–1926). In June 1923, Birk made contact with the British legation in Reval, where Colonel Ronald Meiklejohn, assisted by an emigré named Zhidkov, was MI6 station chief. Zhidkov opened communication with the Trust.61 It was also through the Trust, and via Captain Ernest Boyce at the MI6 station in Helsinki, that the former secret service employee Sidney Reilly, notorious as the “Ace of Spies” and hitherto much feared by the Bolsheviks, crossed the Finnish border on September 25, 1925, only to be lured to his death.

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The secret documents rescued from the ensuing conflagration included Oginskii’s situational reports; his correspondence with Moscow; lists of agents and payments; documents purloined from other embassies; details on the supply of armaments to the Nationalist armies; lists of Soviet advisors to those armies, along with their noms de guerre; reports from the same, including from the Soviet military commanders Vasilii Blyukher and Mikhail Borodin; the Chinese Communist Party’s regional committee records; and the secret addresses of Communists.67 The North China Daily News published seven pages of less sensitive though still embarrassing documents, in translation. This was followed by extracts in the Straits Times that included techniques of agent recruitment—recruitment under a false flag, for example, which would make the target believe he or she worked for a government other than the one recruiting. More damaging raids ensued: on consulates in Shanghai, Tianjin (Tientsin), and then in Guangzhou (Canton). Meanwhile, in France the officially prohibited practice of using members of the Party for intelligence also endangered the network.

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There she became acquainted with her future husband, already no longer a young diplomat, a typical Prussian civil servant. People who know Marta characterise her as a lover of life, a sociable person who loves to amuse herself but always conducts herself like a lady. She knows her own worth and has a good reputation. Moscow eventually permitted recruitment under a false flag, the Japanese, for which she was paid. A camera was purchased with the story that Marta had taken up photography; in fact, she used it to copy documents. Throughout most of the thirties, Marta was in a position to provide the Russians with direct information from the very top of the Ausamt and copies of original documents that enabled Moscow’s cryptanalysts to break open the German diplomatic one-time pads (ciphers used only once).

The Skripal Files
by Mark Urban

There followed a period of conflict with the authorities, a press conference by Litvinenko and other FSB dissenters, and finally time in jail before the intelligence officer fled the country. Once in London, Litvinenko was initially very much Berezovsky’s creature, taking money from him and co-authoring a book, Blowing Up Russia, that accused the FSB of carrying out the 1999 apartment bombings as false-flag operations that would create a pretext for a second Chechen War. Later their relationship became more distant. From a Russian perspective, it was London’s willingness to give asylum to the tycoon and former FSB officer that did much to sour the post-9/11 spirit of cooperation. The Kremlin regarded the British playing host to people making such incendiary and hostile claims as a basic breach of good faith.

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The reaction to MH17 or events in Syria though had shown the Kremlin that the hue and cry after a major event was limited. Condemnation, sanctions even, could be weathered, and had the useful side effect of contributing to Putin’s messages about Western hostility to Russia and its people. Many of the counter-theories about the poisoning, ranging from a false-flag operation (i.e., one by someone other than Russia) to wreck the World Cup to ‘why would Putin do it in the run-up to the election?’, ignore this simple truth: the events of the previous few years had shown it was a reasonable bet that an assassination could be carried out without any really serious effect on Russia’s relations with the wider world.

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On the same day that Theresa May challenged his government (12 March), Putin, who was campaigning in southern Russia, gave his first reaction to BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg. Asked whether Russia was behind the poisoning, the president replied, ‘Get to the bottom of things there and then we’ll discuss it.’ Other voices were far less cautious. Vyacheslav Volodin, Speaker of the Duma, was one of the first to suggest the assassination plot was a false-flag operation, claiming Theresa May was ‘inappropriately attempting to shift suspicion away from Britain’. In this conspiracy, the British themselves wanted to kill Skripal as a pretext for further demonization of Russia. Sergei Stepashin, who briefly ran Russian security after the dissolution of the KGB, asked rhetorically, ‘What kind of idiot in Russia would decide to do this?

Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Published 9 Oct 2017

And according to a 2016 investigation by ProPublica, their results are typical: only about six out of ten defendants who COMPAS predicts will commit a future crime actually go on to do so. That figure is roughly the same across races. But the way the software is wrong is telling: Black defendants are twice as likely to be falsely flagged as high-risk. And white defendants are nearly as likely to be falsely flagged as low-risk. ProPublica concluded that COMPAS, which is used in hundreds of state and local jurisdictions across the United States, is biased against black people.2 It’s also secret. COMPAS is made by a private company called Northpointe, and Northpointe sees the algorithms behind the software as proprietary—secret recipes it doesn’t want competitors to steal.

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The options include: • Affected by abuse, stalking or bullying • Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer • Ethnic minority • Other5 This information, plus any notes a user provides about their situation, then goes to an administrator, who decides whether to require the user to provide copies of identification or other documentation of their name. Sure, it’s a kinder process than before, and it probably reduces false flags. But there’s still the fact that Facebook has placed itself in the position of deciding what’s authentic and what isn’t—of determining whose identity deserves an exception and whose does not. Plus, names are just plain weird. They reflect an endless variety of cultures, traditions, experiences, and identities.

Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy
by Jennifer Carlson
Published 2 May 2023

Mann, M. and Schleifer, C. (2020). Love the Science, Hate the Scientists: Conservative Identity Protects Belief in Science and Undermines Trust in Scientists. Social Forces, 99(1), 305–332. Marbut, G. (2021). Armed Rallies at State Capitols? Beware: Potential False Flag Event. Ammoland. Accessed October 25, 2021. https://www.ammoland.com/2021/01/armed-rallies-at-state-capitols-beware-false-flag-event/. Martel, B. (2015). Katrina May Have Killed Thousands in New Orleans, Mayor Says. Billings Gazette. Accessed August 2, 2021. https://billingsgazette.com/news/national/katrina-may-have-killed-thousands-in-new-orleans-mayor-says/article_8635402d-ee24-5a89-98a9-5408cf21aa1d.amp.html.

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Perhaps George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, was paying protestors, covering the costs to have them bused to cities across the United States, and even supplying them with bricks to destroy police precincts.60 Likewise, maybe the viral video of 75-year-old peace activist Martin Gugino being shoved to the ground by police without provocation was not an indication of police brutality but rather a clever “false flag” stunt orchestrated by an ANTIFA provocateur.61 Perhaps the displays of anger, frustration, and grief were not the pent-up result of the protracted injustice built into the US system but rather the connivance of people set on destroying American society. Maybe George Floyd wasn’t even dead—or maybe he was dead, but his death was the result of a scheme involving counterfeit money and drug trafficking in a local night club that was so elaborate the FBI was involved.62 And if that wasn’t enough, the voices of people of color who had concerns about the protests could be raised up to reinforce the notion that the protests were misguided.

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See anti-elitism emotion: in assessing truth and facts, 122–23; associated with conservatives, 122; associated with liberals, 112–14, 120, 122–23 empowerment: conspiracism as means of, 72, 97–99; guns as means of, 8, 43, 58–63, 141, 143 equality, guns as means of conferring, 7, 41, 55, 62, 68, 121 equanimity, political, 172–73 evangelical Christianity. See Christianity: individualism/self-reliance and, 81; NRA linked to, 204n38 Everytown for Gun Safety, 16, 68 experts. See anti-elitism; science facts. See truth and facts fake news, 3, 77, 80, 88, 96, 217n39 false flag stunts, 90 Fanon, Frantz, 175 Fauci, Anthony, 83, 147 Feagin, Joe, 147 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 90 Feinblatt, John, 68 Fenster, Mark, 76 Fifteenth Amendment, 132 Florida, 47 Floyd, George, 54, 55, 57, 88–90, 157, 199 Fox News, 78, 79, 86, 94, 133 freedom: attacks on CDC in the name of, 135; conceptions of, 68; gun ownership associated with, 7, 12, 41, 67–68; libertarian imagination and, 140–46.

The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
by Sean McFate
Published 22 Jan 2019

Hire mercenaries as agents provocateur to draw others into a war of your choosing. Hire mercenaries for covert actions, maximizing your plausible deniability. This is useful for conducting wars of atrocity: torture, assassination, intimidation operations, acts of terrorism, civilian massacres, high-collateral-damage missions, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Conduct false-flag operations: secretly hire mercenaries to instigate a war between your enemies, while keeping your name out of it. Hire mercenaries for mimicry operations to frame your enemies for massacres, terrorist acts, and other atrocities that provoke a backlash. Buy a large number of mercenaries, march them into your enemy’s territory, and then release them, unpaid.

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The first set of tools are kinetic, meaning guns and men and women to shoot them. Specifically, these kinetic tools consist of nonattributable forces that are designed for maximum plausible deniability, conducting “zero-footprint” missions that are invisible to the world, and especially to the target. Such forces can also perform misattributable or false-flag operations that frame foreign actors. In the future, it’s a frame-or-be-framed battlefield. The shadow warrior class includes special operations forces, the foreign legion, proxy militias who fight for shared interests, masked soldiers (or “little green men”), and mercenaries of every stripe. Battles will become black-on-black affairs.

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See Counterinsurgency COINistas, 91, 93–95 Cold War, 21, 33–34, 188 containment policy, 78–79 Fulda Gap, 33, 103–4 “Collateral damage,” 64, 207 Colonialism, 95, 97, 98, 129, 177, 180 Confirmation bias, 48 Congo, 118, 127, 128, 150, 156–57, 182–83 Congressional Budget Office (CBO), 130–31 Conspiracy and deep state, 158–61 Containment policy, 78–79 Contract wars, 128–31 Control the narrative, 41, 66, 67–68, 108–13, 227 Conventional wars, 5–6, 25–42 modeling the future on past, 33–36 redefining war, 179–85 short history of, 30–33 transforming the military, 37–42 use of term, 29 Western way of war, 28–30 Conventional weapon systems, 37–38, 41 Corporations and politics (corporatocracy), 165–68 Corruption, 113, 148–49, 166, 174–75, 216 Counterinsurgency (COIN), 4, 83–102 First Jewish-Roman War, 83–90, 96 foreign legions, 98–102 Iraq War, xiii–xvi, 90–91, 93–95 successful strategies, 95–98 Countermessaging, 111–13 Crimea annexation, 3, 37, 64, 197–98, 203, 237 Cronkite, Walter, 225 Crusades, 74, 127, 144 Cuba, 211 Cultural dominance, 80 “Cyber,” 15 Cyberwar, 13, 14–17, 137–38, 214 Darfur genocide, 3, 146, 182 Dark arts, 203–6 David and Goliath, 223, 227, 229, 231, 233 Deception, 203–6, 211 Deep state, 158–69 Defense budget, 37–38, 41, 46, 47, 50, 102, 106–7, 445 Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental (DIUx), 50 Democracy, 80–81, 95, 165 Denigration campaigns, 108–9, 111–12, 215 Dereliction of duty, 263n DeWe Security, 136 Dick, Philip K., 51 Diplomacy, 31, 41–42, 71, 217 Discrediting, 111 “Domino effect,” 78 Double-crossing, 189 “Double government,” 163–64 “Drain the swamp” strategy, 96 Drones, 46, 235 Drug wars, 9, 134, 149, 153, 171–78, 180, 287n Dulles, John and Allen, 209 Dunford, Joseph, 237–39 Dunlop, John, 207 Durable disorder, 8–10, 33, 80, 150, 245, 247 DynCorp, 131 Economic dominance, 80 Egypt, 126, 162–63 82nd Airborne Division, 23, 34, 91–92 Eisenhower, Dwight, 166–67, 168, 209 Eleazar ben Yair, 89 Elizabeth I of England, 79 English Constitution, The (Bagehot), 163–64 Espionage, 204–5 Evro Polis, 134 “Export and relocate” strategy, 96–97 Extortion, 175, 178, 180, 187, 192 Extrajudicial killings, 93, 95 ExxonMobil, 136, 152, 155 Failed states, 147–50 Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt, 45 Fake news, 111 False-flag operations, 191, 213 False prophets, 12–17 Farrow, Mia, 146, 151, 154 Fawkes, Guy, 159, 160 First Jewish-Roman War, 83–90, 96 First Offset Strategy, 48 Fitzgerald, USS, incident, 52–54 “Flag follows trade” policy, 80 Florentine Republic, 123–24 Florus, 83–84, 86 “Fog of war,” 29, 205 Fonda, Jane, 226–27 “Force projection,” 65, 69, 80, 106 Forces Nationales de Libération (FNL), 118, 120 Foreign bases, 69 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 216 Foreign legions, 98–102 “Forever wars,” 9, 74, 246 Fragile states, 148–49 Fragile States Index, 32 Franklin, Benjamin, 228 Freedman, Lawrence, 11 Freeport-McMoRan, 136 Free trade, 80–81, 165 French Foreign Legion, 99 French invasion of Russia, 230 Friedman, Milton, 180 FSB (Federal Security Service), 207 FUBAR, 71, 119 Fulda Gap, 33, 103–4 Fuller, John “Boney,” 20–21, 238 Future wars, 244–48 “Futurism,” 17 Futurists.

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous
by Gabriella Coleman
Published 4 Nov 2014

A minority supported the doxing simply because it served the greater purpose of media attention, or was an example of the “fractal chaos” that partly defines Anonymous. The doxing also marked the first time that suspicions of a “false flag operation” fully flared within Anonymous. A false flag operation is a secret intervention in which a government agent performs a controversial action on behalf of a group that opposes the government, to seed mistrust and controversy or provide justification for the government’s own escalated response. Two days later, Lamaline_5mg published a statement on Pastebin that seemed to quell rumors of a false flag, though it did little to extinguish the controversy: I find it shameful that the media do not condemn taking such drastic actions against a protest after the *killing* of an innocent citizen.

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But one controversy remained. As weeks turned into months, criticism of AntiSec’s defacements and hacks mounted, even as the group’s support base grew. Some Anons saw AntiSec as reckless, and many were suspicious of its motives. Rumors circulated that not only particular actions, but also the entirety of AntiSec might be a false flag operation. AntiSec, perhaps unsurprisingly, was simultaneously respected, tolerated, and vilified. Many of AntiSec’s core members had been essential to past iterations of the Anonymous/AnonOps/LulzSec constellation. Their significance coincided with the fading of WikiLeaks, which suffered from internal frictions and legal troubles.

Revolution Business
by Stross, Charles
Published 9 Apr 2009

Getting to see the colonel was a nontrivial problem; he was a busy man, and Mike was on medical leave with a leg that wasn't going to bear his weight any time soon and a wiretap on his phone line. But he needed to talk to the colonel. Colonel Smith was, if not a friend, then at least the kind of boss who gave a shit what happened to his subordinates. The kind who figured a chain of command ran in two directions, not one. Unlike Dr. James and his shadowy sponsors. After James's false flag ambulance had dropped him off at the hospital to be poked and prodded, Mike had caught a taxi home, lost in thought. A bomb in a mobile phone, to be handed out like candy and detonated at will, was a scary kind of message to send. It said, we have nothing to talk about. It said, we want you dead, and we don't care how.

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He didn't say a word until they were a mile down the road. "This car is not bugged. I swept it myself. Talk." Mike swallowed. "You're my boss. In my chain of command. I'm talking to you because I'm not from the other side of the fence-Is it normal for someone higher up the chain of command to do a false-flag pickup and brief a subordinate against their line officer?" Smith didn't say anything, but Mike noticed his knuckles whiten against the leather steering wheel. "Because if so," Mike continued, "I'd really like to know, so I can claim my pension and get the hell out." Smith whistled tunelessly between his teeth.

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Thinking back, there'd been the horror-flick prop they'd found in a lockup in Cambridge, thick layers of dust covering the Strangelovian intrusion of a 1950s-era hydrogen bomb, propped up on two-by-fours and bricks with a broken timer plugged into its tail. Nobody ever said what it had been about, but the NIRT inspectors had tagged its date: early 1970s, Nixon administration. What kind of false-flag operation involves nuking one of your own cities? How about one designed to psyche your country up for a nuclear war with China? Except it hadn't happened. But the Clan have a track record of stealing nukes from our inventory. Mike shuddered. And WARBUCKS had backed BOY WONDER's plan to invade Iraq, even after Chemical Ali had offed his cousin Saddam and sued for peace on any terms.

The Trade of Queens
by Charles Stross
Published 16 Mar 2010

They're the folks Miriam stumbled across—and it turns out that they're big, bigger than the Medellin Cartel, and they've got contacts all the way to the top." "Operation—what was that operation you mentioned?" Steve stared at his visitor. Jesus. Why do I always get the cranks? "Operation Northwoods. Back in 1962, during the Cold War, the Chiefs of Staff came up with a false flag project to justify an invasion of Cuba. The idea was that the CIA would fake up terrorist attacks on American cities, and plant evidence pointing at Castro. They were going to include hijackings, bombings, the lot—the most extreme scenarios included small nukes, or attacks on the capitol; it was all 'Remember the Maine' stuff.

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Knowing too much about the Family Trade Operation was bad enough; knowing too much about the new president's darker secrets was a one-way ticket to an unmarked roadside grave, sure enough. And the hell of it was, there was probably no price he could pay that would buy his way back in, even if he wanted in on what looked like the most monstrously cynical false-flag job since Hitler faked a Polish army attack on his own troops in order to justify the kickoff for the Second World War. I need to be out of this game, he realized blearily. Preferably in some way that would defuse the whole thing, reduce the risk of escalation. Stop them killing each other, somehow.

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"You're going to think I'm nuts if you don't get this through official channels, I swear—they briefed everybody yesterday and this morning, half of us thought they were mad but they have evidence, Mordechai, hard evidence. It's a new threat, completely unlike anything we imagined." "Really? My money was on a false-flag operation by the Office of Special Programs." "No, no, it wasn't us. Well, the bombs were ours. They were stolen from the inactive inventory." "Stolen? Tell me it's not true, Jack! Nobody 'just steals' special weapons like they're shoplifting a candy store—" "Take a deep breath, man. There are other universes, parallel worlds, like ours but where things happened differently.

1939: A People's History
by Frederick Taylor
Published 26 Jun 2019

A body – dressed similarly to the departed false-flag agents – was found left outside, bearing gunshot wounds to the head. The corpse was that of Franz Honiok. It is thought he had been rendered unconscious by injection, delivered in that state to the site by a separate group of conspirators, and then killed to look like the victim of a gun battle with German police. Honiok had been chosen because he was known to have taken up arms on the Polish side in 1921 during the dispute over the area, so when his body was found a feasible account could be cooked up. There were several other false-flag operations at points in German Silesia close to the border that night, however, all likewise staged at Heydrich’s behest and under his close supervision.

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As Heydrich explained it: ‘An actual proof of Polish encroachments is necessary for the foreign press and for German propaganda.’64 There were also conversations with the Gestapo chief, Heinrich Müller (known as ‘Gestapo Müller’), who mentioned having a store of concentration-camp inmates who could be used in case of ‘false-flag’ operations, and promised Naujocks one of them. On 31 August, as the group prepared for their operation, an agricultural machinery salesman by the name of Franz Honiok, who had been arrested for pro-Polish activities, was delivered over to the conspirators. At 4 p.m. on 31 August, Heydrich telephoned Naujocks with the coded message ‘Grandmother is Dead’.

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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
by Scott J. Shapiro

What’s Their Game? The Russian government denied responsibility. When asked about the attacks in September, Vladimir Putin answered with a smirk and raised eyebrow, “No, I don’t know anything about that. You know how many hackers there are today?” Putin was insinuating that the DNC hacks were a false-flag operation—designed by non-Russian hackers to make it appear as though Russian intelligence was responsible. Is there any validity in Putin’s accusation? In a sense, yes. As Descartes showed, skepticism is cheap and easy. Descartes began his philosophy by doubting that the world exists. He wondered whether an evil genie was hacking his mind, making him believe that the external world exists when it does not.

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Paras would use this handle when trying to extort money from particular DDoS victims (though he continued to use Anna-Senpai when posting on Hack Forums). Paras hoped to throw law enforcement off the trail by creating this imaginary hacker named OG_Richard_Stallman. It is probably no coincidence that Paras’s false-flag operation coincided with Russian intelligence actions in the DNC hacks. On June 15, Fancy Bear created the Guccifer 2.0 persona on Twitter and Facebook to throw people off its track. It also created a fake website, DCLeaks.com, to disseminate the information. On July 6, Guccifer 2.0 used WikiLeaks to release the Clinton emails to a wider audience.

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Dumping code is reckless, but not unusual. Hackers often irresponsibly disclose vulnerabilities and exploitations to hide their tracks. If the police find source code on any of the hackers’ devices, they can claim that they “downloaded it from the internet.” Paras’s irresponsible disclosure was part of his false-flag operation. Indeed, the FBI had been gathering evidence indicating Paras’s involvement in Mirai and contacted him to ask questions. Though he gave the agent a fabricated story, hearing from the FBI probably terrified him. Mirai’s Next Steps Mirai had captured the attention of the cybersecurity community and of law enforcement.

Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media
by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking
Published 15 Mar 2018

utm_term=.63e54b2d390d. 128 tearful farewell: Grace Hauck, “‘Pizzagate’ Shooter Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison,” CNN, June 22, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/politics/pizzagate-sentencing/index.html. 128 sentenced to four years: Ibid. 128 For James Alefantis: Ibid. 128 known collectively as #Pizzagate: Fisher, Cox, and Hermann, “Pizzagate.” 128 1.4 million mentions: Robb, “Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal.” 128 “Something’s being covered up”: Ibid. 128 Russian sockpuppets working: Ibid. 128 nearly half of Trump voters: Catherine Rampell, “Americans—Especially but Not Exclusively Trump Voters—Believe Crazy, Wrong Things,” Washington Post, December 28, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/12/28/americans-especially-but-not-exclusively-trump-voters-believe-crazy-wrong-things/. 128 “the intel on this”: Adam Goldman, “The Comet Ping Pong Gunman Answers Our Reporter’s Questions,” New York Times, December 7, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/us/edgar-welch-comet-pizza-fake-news.html. 129 Posobiec was relentless: Fisher, Cox, and Hermann, “Pizzagate.” 129 “They want to control”: Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec), “ANNOUNCING: My next book 4D Warfare: How to Use New Media to Fight and Win the Culture Wars! Published by @VoxDay and Castalia House!,” August 3, 2017, 8:03 A.M., https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/893125262958891009. 129 “False flag”: Paul Farhi, “‘False Flag’ Planted at a Pizza Place? It’s Just One More Conspiracy to Digest,” Washington Post, December 5, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/false-flag-planted-at-a-pizza-place-its-just-one-more-conspiracy-to-digest/2016/12/05/fc154b1e-bb09-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.7ecbd9f78337. 129 “Nothing to suggest”: Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec), “DC Police Chief: ‘Nothing to suggest man w/gun at Comet Ping Pong had anything to do with #pizzagate’” (tweet deleted), available at Scoopnest, https://www.scoopnest.com/user/JackPosobiec/805559273426141184-dc-police-chief-nothing-to-suggest-man-w-gun-at-comet-ping-pong-had-anything-to-do-with-pizzagate. 129 livestreaming from the White House: Jared Holt and Brendan Karet, “Meet Jack Posobiec: The ‘Alt-Right’ Troll with Press Pass in White House,” Slate, August 16, 2017, https://www.salon.com/2017/08/16/meet-jack-posobiec-the-alt-right-troll-with-a-press-pass-in-white-house_partner/; Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec), “Free our people,” Twitter, May 9, 2017, 10:28 A.M., https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/861996422920536064. 129 retweeted multiple times: Colleen Shalby, “Trump Retweets Alt-Right Media Figure Who Published ‘Pizzagate’ and Seth Rich Conspiracy Theories,” Los Angeles Times, August 14, 2017, http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-updates-everything-president-trump-retweets-alt-right-blogger-who-1502769297-htmlstory.html; Maya Oppenheim, “Donald Trump Retweets Far-Right Conspiracy Theorist Jack Posobiec Who Took ‘Rape Melania’ Sign to Rally,” Independent, January 15, 2018, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-jack-posobiec-pizzagate-rape-melania-sign-twitter-conspiracy-theory-far-right-a8159661.html. 129 “power law”: Emma Pierson, “Twitter Data Show That a Few Powerful Users Can Control the Conversation,” Quartz, May 5, 2015, https://qz.com/396107/twitter-data-show-that-a-few-powerful-users-can-control-the-conversation/. 130 study of 330 million: Xu Wei, “Influential Bloggers Set Topics Online,” China Daily Asia, December 27, 2013, https://www.chinadailyasia.com/news/2013-12/27/content_15108347.html. 130 a mere 300 accounts: Ibid. 130 susceptibility to further falsehoods: Sander van der Linden, “The Conspiracy-Effect: Exposure to Conspiracy Theories (About Global Warming) Decreases Pro-Social Behavior and Science Acceptance,” Personality and Individual Differences 87 (December 2015): 171–73. 130 more supportive of “extremism”: Sander van der Linden, “The Surprising Power of Conspiracy Theories,” Psychology Today, August 24, 2015, https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/socially-relevant/201508/the-surprising-power-conspiracy-theories. 130 spread about six times faster: Brian Dowling, “MIT Scientist Charts Fake News Reach,” Boston Herald, March 11, 2018, http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2018/03/mit_scientist_charts_fake_news_reach. 130 “Falsehood diffused”: Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, and Sinan Aral, “The Spread of True and False News Online,” Science 359, no. 6380 (March 9, 2018): 1146–51. 131 fake political headlines: Silverman, “This Analysis Shows.” 131 study of 22 million tweets: Philip N.

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“They want to control what you think, control what you do,” he bragged. “But now we’re able to use our own platforms, our own channels, to speak the truth.” The accuracy of Posobiec’s “truth” was inconsequential. Indeed, Welch’s violent and fruitless search didn’t debunk Posobiec’s claims; it only encouraged him to make new ones. “False flag,” Posobiec tweeted as he heard of Welch’s arrest. “Planted Comet Pizza Gunman will be used to push for censorship of independent news sources that are not corporate owned.” Then he switched stories, informing his followers that the DC police chief had concluded, “Nothing to suggest man w/gun at Comet Ping Pong had anything to do with #pizzagate.”

An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
by Owen Matthews
Published 21 Mar 2019

Ozaki also spoke often to Smedley’s circle of communist sympathisers who brought reports from beleaguered CCP-held areas of the Chinese interior. And Ozaki was also in frequent contact with pro-Japanese elements in the Nanking government. Sorge quickly recruited Ozaki – though as we have seen, under the false flag of the Comintern. Soon they were meeting frequently in restaurants and teahouses to exchange information and political gossip. Ozaki had also signed up an informant of his own, his colleague and friend the Japanese journalist Teikichi Kawai of the Shanghai Weekly. Kawai, like Ozaki, sympathised with communism but was not a party member.

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It is possible that he was a cousin of Miyagi’s father, Yosaburo, a second-generation Japanese immigrant who was arrested in January 1932 at a Communist Party meeting in Long Beach and charged with plotting the overthrow of American institutions.48 Though the Japanese-American ‘Roy’ was indeed a US citizen, perhaps Miyagi was trying to throw investigators off the scent of his communist relative by implying that his recruiter was a Caucasian.49 The visitors proposed that Miyagi help the cause by travelling to Tokyo for ‘a short time’ to establish a Comintern group in Japan – the same false flag used with Vukelić in Paris and with Hotsumi Ozaki in Shanghai. Miyagi, pleading the prevalence of tuberculosis in Japan, protested his ill health. But in September 1933, Yano and Roy were back. The moment had come for Miyagi to serve world peace, they said, promising their new agent that his mission would last no more than three months.50 Miyagi, who had been eking out a precarious existence selling paintings that summer, accepted.

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Hitler was already resolved to invade Russia. But nonetheless, in late 1940 and early 1941, Berlin floated several diplomatic démarches designed to disguise Germany’s true intentions until the invasion force was ready. One was a proposed deal with Stalin to carve up the Balkans between the USSR and Germany – a false-flag operation that allowed Hitler to pass off his build-up of troops on the Eastern front as an invasion force intended for Yugoslavia and Romania. The other deal was the (in retrospect) bizarre suggestion that the Soviet Union actually join the Axis. The deal – which Molotov discussed with Hitler and Ribbentrop in Berlin in February 1941 – would entail the Soviet Union signing up to the Tripartite Pact formula of recognising the ‘leadership’ of Germany, Italy, and Japan in, respectively, Europe and East Asia.

Pity the Billionaire: The Unexpected Resurgence of the American Right
by Thomas Frank
Published 16 Aug 2011

This was the point of an amazing 2009 essay in Forbes magazine penned by soon-to-be-famous Congressman Paul Ryan and titled “Down with Big Business.” The giant corporation, Ryan wrote, could not be counted upon to defend capitalism in its hour of need: “It’s up to the American people—innovators and entrepreneurs, small business owners … to take a stand.”25 False Flag It’s exciting to imagine a vigilant small-business everyman disciplining the giant corporation for its deviations from free-market orthodoxy, but that’s almost completely the reverse of what’s actually happening. The famous hedge fund manager Cliff Asness didn’t buy Paul Ryan $700 worth of wine at dinner one night in the summer of 2011 in order to placate a dangerous enemy and quell the possibility that an angry crowd of Wisconsin roofing contractors might soon come marching down Wall Street.

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If we don’t all get vaccinated one hundred thousand people will die in a super swine-flu pandemic.… Now they’re telling us that if we don’t pass this worldwide carbon tax right now the world will soon be underwater.9 As Beck’s plot unfolds, the reader learns of the most diabolical fake crisis of them all: a “false-flag domestic attack” in which these nefarious libs set off an atomic bomb near Las Vegas, blame the deed on Tea Party types, and then, in the ensuing hysteria, put over their grand plan for remaking the country according to their enlightened theories. But wait: go back a step. Of the several fake crises Beck’s PR boy mentions to his girlfriend, three are standard-issue right-wing talking points.

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
by Nicole Perlroth
Published 9 Feb 2021

Nimda’s timing—just one week after 9/11—caused government officials to suspect cyberterrorists. A line in the code—“R.P. China”—pointed to China. Or had it been planted there to throw off responders? Why RPC and not PRC? Was it the work of a Chinese speaker who didn’t know English grammar conventions? Or terrorists planting a false flag? Nobody ever found out. But the mere suspicion that the attack had been the work of cyberterrorists made Microsoft’s security woes too alarming for the government to ignore. Before 9/11, there were so many holes in Microsoft’s products that the value of a single Microsoft exploit was virtually nothing.

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‘Do you feel in charge?’ Wealthy elites, you send bitcoin, you bid in auction, maybe big advantage for you?” To my ear, and to others in other newsrooms, and to Russian experts all over the world, the Shadow Brokers’ mock-Russian broken English sounded like a native English speaker trying to sound Russian, a false flag of sorts. This did not sound like the sophisticated Russian hacking units we all were becoming intimately acquainted with. But that August—on the heels of Russian hacks of the DNC—nobody put it past them. Jake Williams, thirty-nine, was sitting in a nondescript command center in Ohio, helping yet another company clean up from a vicious cyberattack.

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Other hard links to North Korea emerged. The attackers had barely bothered to tweak the backdoor programs and data-wiping tools that previously had only been only seen in attacks by Pyongyang. Some surmised that the recycling of North Korea’s tools, the blatantness of it, was itself an artful deflection, a false flag to throw investigators off. But within a few hours I was on a call with researchers at Symantec, who concluded that the WannaCry attacks were in fact the work of the group they called Lazarus, their code name for North Korea’s notorious hacking unit. It wasn’t just Sony; North Korea’s hackers had used the same attack tools in an impressive list of bank heists over the previous year and a half.

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
by Glenn Greenwald
Published 12 May 2014

Targeting Anonymous and hacktivists amounts to targeting citizens for expressing their political beliefs, resulting in the stifling of legitimate dissent,” Coleman explained. Yet Anonymous has been targeted by a unit of the GCHQ that employs some of the most controversial and radical tactics known to spycraft: “false flag operations,” “honey-traps,” viruses and other attacks, strategies of deception, and “info ops to damage reputations.” One PowerPoint slide presented by GCHQ surveillance officials at the 2012 SigDev conference describes two forms of attack: “information ops (influence or disruption)” and “technical disruption.”

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Emphasizing that “people make decisions for emotional reasons not rational ones,” the GCHQ contends that online behavior is driven by “mirroring” (“people copy each other while in social interaction with them”), “accommodation,” and “mimicry” (“adoption of specific social traits by the communicator from the other participant”). The document then lays out what it calls the “Disruption Operational Playbook.” This includes “infiltration operation,” “ruse operation,” “false flag operation,” and “sting operation.” It vows a “full roll out” of the disruption program “by early 2013” as “150+ staff [are] fully trained.” Under the title “Magic Techniques & Experiment,” the document references “Legitimisation of violence,” “Constructing experience in mind of targets which should be accepted so they don’t realize,” and “Optimising deception channels.”

How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
by Fredrik Deboer
Published 4 Sep 2023

These actions by a very small percentage of protesters could never undermine the righteousness of the protests, which were a natural and necessary response to a horrific act of police violence. But they did create a bit of a dilemma among a lot of observers on the left: Condemn or condone? Some alleged that the rioting was the product of false flag operations—that is, that “agent provocateurs” committed acts of violence as a way to undermine the protests. (A notorious case involved “Umbrella Man,” a figure seen on video smashing windows in Minneapolis who was later revealed to be a member of the Hells Angels.) I don’t doubt that a little of that went on, but I’m also sure that the large majority of rioting behavior didn’t stem from these motives.

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Destined for War: America, China, and Thucydides's Trap
by Graham Allison
Published 29 May 2017

An array of dangerous accelerants in cyberspace might inadvertently bring the United States and China into conflict. First, a denial and deception campaign could sufficiently convince investigators that China was not involved in an offensive attack, leading them to hold a third party accountable instead. Such a campaign might employ false personas on social media, co-opted media organizations, or false-flag indictors left behind in malware to distract US investigators from getting to ground truth. If such a campaign were effective, it would make the fog of war much denser. Another accelerant might involve compromising the confidentiality of sensitive networks. Some are obvious, such as those that operate nuclear command-and-control.

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To prevent the Japanese naval force from being annihilated while it is incommunicado, US submarines sink three PLA Navy warships off the Senkakus with torpedoes. China, Japan, and the United States have now fired their opening shots in a three-nation war. But what if it was not the PLA that launched the cyberattack after all? What if it was a carefully timed false-flag operation by Russia, seeking to draw the United States and China into a conflict in order to distract Washington from its wrestling match with Russia over Ukraine? By the time intelligence agencies around the world learn the truth, it will be too late. Moscow has played its hand brilliantly. From the Senkakus, the war zone spreads as China attacks more Japanese vessels elsewhere in the East China Sea.

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As they move up this escalation ladder, US financial markets suffer a series of cyber glitches similar to the 2010 “flash crash” when high-frequency traders caused the stock market to lose $1 trillion in a half hour (although it quickly recovered).35 Unlike that singular incident, such flash crashes happen repeatedly over the course of a week, and though each time the markets bounce back, they do not recover their losses. In investigating the cause, the FBI discovers that malicious software has been inserted in critical financial systems. While the digital signatures point to China, agents cannot dismiss the possibility of a false flag. Investigators conclude that if the malware is activated, the damage will be not just a temporary denial of service, but also the loss of transaction records and financial accounts. The secretary of the Treasury advises the president that even rumors about the malware could raise questions about the integrity of the entire American financial system and cause panic.

Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
by Julia Ebner
Published 20 Feb 2020

Third, the internet provides an outlet for collaborative fiction creation, thereby boosting alternative explanations for real-world observations – from political dynamics to natural phenomena.8 ‘Ready for the Great Awakening?’ one anon (as QAnon adherents call themselves) asks me. To him, terrorist incidents are false flags, plane crashes are planned and diseases are designed to kill. ‘Then follow the White Rabbit.’ A meme in the chat room shows Alice in Wonderland taking the red pill – mixing Lewis Carroll with the Wachowski siblings’ The Matrix. Like investigative journalists and intelligence officers, the anons are collecting alleged ‘evidence’ day and night.

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The reorganised United Cyber Caliphate (UCC) hacker group also trained a group of female hackers. The group first focused on social network accounts before turning to cyberattacks against educational institutions and critical infrastructure.9 The problem is that terrorism isn’t just about real skills, it’s about perceived capabilities and about the ability to instil fear. ‘Operation “False Flag” or how we trolled the Media!’ Mahed announces in December 2018. ‘We decided to take revenge on the stupid kuffar [non-believer] media by photoshopping a well-known tool named “SuperScan” into a magic dangerous Jihadist Cyberweapon. And just like we did expect the usual stupid trolls did buy our story.’

The Twittering Machine
by Richard Seymour
Published 20 Aug 2019

The US Military has run an online sock-puppet operation since 2011, dubbed ‘Operation Earnest Voice’, to spread pro-American propaganda overseas. Since 2016, it has authorized and funded what it calls ‘counter-propaganda’, targeting US citizens. The UK’s Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group runs an extensive programme of trolling and false flags to undermine and smear individuals and companies that the government has a problem with.48 The relationship between trolling and far-right politics is unclear. To blame it on trolling can be a way of depoliticizing a problem, as when popular Norwegian media reacted to Anders Behring Breivik’s massacre of Labour Party members in Oslo and Utøya by stressing the need to engage right-wing activists more in the media.

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But if a story is believed by tens or hundreds of thousands of people, it may have been believed by its original author. And that’s the hard question. Why did so many people want what Infowars was giving them? There are, of course, such things as conspiracies, political murders, occult rituals, terrorist false flags and sex slaves. These things are part of the world we live in. But growing numbers of people seem to want networks of conspiracy to do the work of shorthand political sociology, explaining how their lives got so bad, and how official politics became so remote and oppressive. They seem to want to believe that, rather than representing business as usual, today’s centrist state managers are malign outsiders usurping a legitimate system.

Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict
by Max Brooks , John Amble , M. L. Cavanaugh and Jaym Gates
Published 14 May 2018

With a little assist from the Force, our heroes win the Ewoks’ hearts and minds, and the Ewoks’ insurgency tips the balance of the battle against the Emperor’s best troops and enables the Rebels to disable the shield, thereby allowing the ultimate attack on the Death Star to proceed and win. Even if the ground battle is more insurgency than hybrid warfare, it is nevertheless notable for a few reasons. First, the opening gambit of a special operations insertion by means of a captured enemy shuttle is a classic false-flag operation—and a real no-no for conventional militaries on earth.4 Clandestinely inserting a single special operations team is not out of the realm of possibility, but it is easy to see how these tactics can scale. Those who have read Ghost Fleet will recall that novel opening with an invasion borne by commercial roll-on–roll-off ships, and what could be more ordinary than that?

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Erickson, for example, “China’s Third Sea Force, the People’s Armed Forces Maritime Militia: Tethered to the PLA,” China Maritime Report No. 1 (China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College, Newport RI, March 2017), https://cwp.princeton.edu/news/china%E2%80%99s-third-sea-force-people%E2%80%99s-armed-forces-maritime-militia-tethered-pla-cwp-fellow-alumni. 4. A false-flag operation is one in which one military carries out an activity with the intent of making it appear as though it were carried out by another force (a third party or even the same force that is attacked). This has been expressly illegal for over a century, since The Hague Regulations of 1899, and has been consistently reaffirmed in international law since then.

The Hostage's Daughter
by Sulome Anderson
Published 24 Aug 2016

Of course, Ostrovsky’s claims have been challenged, and I have to take that into account. Then again, when an ex-Mossad katsa (case officer) leaves the agency and starts writing highly uncomplimentary books about his former employers, I’d imagine people ideologically aligned with the Israeli government would challenge his credibility. False flags, morally reprehensible covert operations, and professional betrayals do happen in this environment. Spy agencies don’t spend their time knitting sweaters. Yet we continue to dismiss almost all suggestions of covert operations, especially those of Western or Western-allied nations, as conspiracy theories.

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They were sent from Israel to bomb American installations in Cairo to make it look like there was an anti-American movement in Egypt and cause damage to that relationship.” The episode in Egypt that Ostrovsky is referring to is known as the Lavon affair, which took place in 1954. It’s a documented false-flag operation in which a group of Egyptian Jews was recruited by the Israeli military to plant bombs inside American and British civilian targets, such as movie theaters and libraries. The attacks were meant to turn the Americans against Egypt and create an environment of instability that would prompt the British to retain their troops in the Suez Canal.

Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias
by Kevin Cook
Published 30 Jan 2023

It was “proven,” Jones said, that the FBI had “machine-gunned men, women, and children as they tried to exit” the burning compound. What was more, it was “proven” that Timothy McVeigh was not responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing on Waco’s second anniversary. Bill Clinton was. The destruction of the Murrah Federal Building “was an inside job—a false-flag operation” coordinated by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Asked about the victims of the Oklahoma bombing, Jones said he felt “horribly sad” for the office workers and preschoolers who died that day. “I’m sad that the FBI and NSA had to blow that building up and kill all those people.” Just before noon, visitors began filing into the church, a tidy white building beside the Davidians’ long-neglected swimming pool.

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ALEX JONES built InfoWars into an empire worth well over $100 million by claiming that events ranging from Waco in 1993 to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center, the 2012 shootings of twenty children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol, which he supported, were “inside jobs,” false-flag operations. In April 2022, after losing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Sandy Hook parents, whom Jones called “crisis actors” conspiring in “a hoax,” InfoWars filed for bankruptcy. The INCIDENT AT WACO remains the deadliest action by federal forces on American soil since the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890.

Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
by Kelly Weill
Published 22 Feb 2022

He accused an escalating series of horrors of being “false flags,” a conspiracy term for a staged event designed to further some nefarious aim. Jones slapped the label on everything from the murder of children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 to a deadly white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, by which point milder conspiracy theorists like Avery wanted nothing to do with him. “Before when you said you believed in 9/11 Truth, it meant the original investigation was shoddy, but you weren’t a nutjob. Now, as soon as something happens, people say it’s a false flag,” Avery told the Outline in 2017.

The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War
by Jeff Sharlet
Published 21 Mar 2023

“Right-wing terrorism used to rise and fall depending on who was president,” writes Walter, surging in response to Democrats and subsiding with Republicans. “President Trump,” writes Walter, “broke the pattern.” Trump said more, and the militias heard, all the new little armies formed in panicked response to Obama metastasizing. Trump said, “stand by,” and they gathered. Rob called January 6 a false flag—a hoax, staged—even though he was there. I’d been listening to the January 6 hearings, but who else had? Nobody I’d met on the road. Everybody seemed to know someone who’d participated (or, like Rob, had participated), and yet nobody believed it’d really happened. If, as F. Scott Fitzgerald suggested, “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function,” such cognitive dissonance is the awful genius of our ecstatically disinformed age.

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But here’s what fascism does with those matches: January 6; Dobbs v. Jackson, a decision seemingly tailored to provoke conflict; a long line of mass shooters. Christchurch, El Paso, Buffalo, and Bobby Crimo, of the Fourth of July, whom Marjorie Taylor Greene—accelerationist congresswoman of Georgia—suggested may have acted in a “false flag” capacity, perpetrating a hoax “designed” to promote gun control. “That would sound like a conspiracy theory, right?” she asked. Chuckling, she answered herself: “of course.” Meaning, exploding and collapsing. I drove to the woods in which Slender Man received his sacrifice (the girl lived), but the trees had been replaced by playing fields, which were filled with children, so I moved along, ashamed for looking.

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
by Roger McNamee
Published 1 Jan 2019

The company then announced greater transparency for political ads, following the model of the Honest Ads Act introduced by Senators Mark Warner, Amy Klobuchar, and John McCain but extending it to include ads supporting issues as well as candidates. Uniquely among Facebook’s recent changes, this one stood out for being right on substance, as well as on appearances. While false flag ads had played a relatively small role in the Russian interference in 2016, that role had been essential to attracting American voters into Russian-organized Facebook Groups, which in turn had been a major tool in the interference. If the new Facebook policy eliminated false flag ads, that would be a very good thing. With pressure building, journalists and technologists seemed nearly unanimous in their view that members of Congress did not understand technology well enough to regulate it.

The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
by Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake
Published 15 Jul 2019

According to the United Kingdom’s National Cybersecurity Center in October 2018, the GRU has engaged in a sustained campaign of low-level cyber war for several years, going back at least to its 2007 attack on Estonia and its 2008 attack on the nation of Georgia. According to the U.K., the GRU, operating under the false flag name of Sandworm, attacked the Ukrainian power grid in 2015 and again in 2016. Operating under the false flag name of Cyber Caliphate (sounds like an Arab terrorist group, right?), it shut down a French television network, TV5Monde. It attempted to interfere through cyberattacks in the investigations of the Russian assassination attempt in Bristol, England, Russian doping of Olympic athletes, and the Russian downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
by Brené Brown
Published 15 Mar 2017

One collective assembly can start to heal the wounds of a traumatized community, while another can initiate trauma in that same community. When we come together to share authentic joy, hope, and pain, we melt the pervasive cynicism that often cloaks our better human nature. When we come together under the false flag of common enemy intimacy, we amplify cynicism and diminish our collective worth. GETTING SOCIAL In our efforts to create more opportunities for collective joy and pain, can social media play a positive role, or have they just become a home for hate and cat pictures? Can social media help us develop real relationships and true belonging, or do they always get in the way?

Humble Pie and Cold Turkey: English Expressions and Their Origins
by Caroline Taggart
Published 29 Sep 2021

Metaphorically speaking, nailing your colours to the mast has been around since the early nineteenth century, when it was used of politicians declaring which side they were on in a contentious debate. Even older is the idea of with flying colours – if you pass a test with flying colours, you pass easily and with distinction; a regiment or ship that kept its colours flying was proudly calling attention to itself and making its identity clear. In the same vein, a ship may fly a false flag – sail under false colours – in order to mislead the enemy and then reveal itself at the last minute; a person who does the same thing has been disguising some disreputable motive or behaviour and now shows themselves in their true colours: He seemed very easy-going until someone contradicted him, but as soon as he was annoyed he showed himself in his true colours.

The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives
by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
Published 22 Apr 2013

Among other reasons, security analysts unpacking the worm (their efforts made possible because Stuxnet had escaped “into the wild”—that is, beyond the Natanz plant) noticed specific references to dates and biblical stories in the code that would be highly symbolic to Israelis. (Others argued that the indicators were far too obvious, and thus false flags.) The resources involved also suggested government production: Experts thought the worm was written by as many as thirty people over several months. And it used an unprecedented number of “zero-day” exploits, malicious computer attacks exposing vulnerabilities (security holes) in computer programs that were unknown to the program’s creator (in this case, the Windows operating system) before the day of the attack, thus leaving zero days to prepare for it.

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With weapons this technically complex, it’s possible that a rogue individual would install his own back door in the program—a means of access that bypasses security mechanisms and can be used remotely—which would remain unnoticed until he decided to use it. Or perhaps a user would unknowingly share a well-constructed virus in a way its creators did not intend, and instead of skimming information about a country’s stock exchange, it would actually crash it. Or a dangerous program could be discovered that would bear several false flags (the digital version of bait) in the code, and this time the targeted country would decide to take action against the apparent source. We’ve already seen examples of how the attribution problem of cyber attacks can lead to misdirection on a state level. In 2009, three waves of DDoS attacks crippled major government websites in both the United States and South Korea.

Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal
Published 1 Jan 2010

Quite a few M.E.K. militants had been trained in secret facilities in Israel, and even rehearsed some of the operations on specially built models—like a Tehran street—where they were to ambush an Iranian nuclear scientist’s car or plant a bomb near his home. In other cases, Iranian dissidents were approached by different means. Several CIA memos even maintained that Mossad officers carried out “False Flag” recruiting missions. The Israelis, allegedly posing as CIA agents, recruited militants of the Pakistani terrorist organization Jundallah and sent them on sabotage and assassination missions inside Iran. According to the CIA memos, the Israelis posed as American intelligence officers in order to overcome the devout Muslims’ objection to serving the Jewish state.

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Com, March 1, 2011 (H) “Iran Threat Is Too Much for the Mossad to Handle: Israel’s Intelligence Agencies Operate Brilliantly but They Can’t Tackle Historic Challenges Singlehandedly,” Ari Shavit, Haaretz.com, February 18, 2010 (H) “The Superman of the Hebrew State,” Ashraf Abu El-Hul, El-Aharam, January 16, 2010 CHAPTER 3: A HANGING IN BAGHDAD Hagai, Eshed, One-Man Mossad, Reuven Shiloach: Father of the Israeli Intelligence (Tel Aviv: Idanim, 1988) (H) Shabtai, Teveth, Ben-Gurion’s Spy, The Story of the Political Scandal that Shaped Modern Israel (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990) (H) Strasman, Gavriel, Back from the Gallows (Tel Aviv: Yedioth Ahronoth Books, 1992) (H) Bar-Zohar, Michael, Spies in the Promised Land (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972) Interviews with Shlomo Hillel, Yehuda Taggar, Mordechai Ben-Porat CHAPTER 4: A SOVIET MOLE AND A BODY AT SEA THE AVNI AFFAIR Avni, Ze’ev, False Flag: The Soviet Spy Who Penetrated the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service (London: St. Ermin’s Press, 2000) Censored and unpublished chapter about Ze’ev Avni, prepared for Michael Bar-Zohar’s book Spies in the Promised Land, as told by Isser Harel Interviews of Ze’ev Avni, former ramsad Isser Harel, former head of the Shabak Amos Manor, members of the Mossad and Shabak (anonymously) A BODY AT SEA Censored and unpublished chapter about Alexander Israel, “The Traitor,” prepared for Michael Bar-Zohar’s book Spies in the Promised Land Interviews with Isser Harel, Amos Manor, Rafi Eitan, Raphi Medan, Alexander Israel’s family members and friends (anonymously) Michael Bar-Zohar, “The First Kidnapping by the Mossad,” Anashim (People Magazine), 19-15, April 1997 (no. 14) (H) CHAPTER 5: “OH, THAT?

Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves
by Matthew Sweet
Published 13 Feb 2018

In December 1974, a few words in a Swedish newspaper editorial were transmuted into proof that Olof Palme had been instructed by Nelson Rockefeller to increase Sweden’s offensive capability against Russia. LaRouchian hacks became masters at this kind of distortion: they could spin any innocuous remark into evidence for a plan of genocide. In 1975, the West German Embassy in Stockholm was bombed: LaRouche publications pronounced it a false flag operation by International Socialists—with whom Palme and all the journalists working on the story had collaborated. Those involved should “expect to answer to these actions with their lives.” These bizarre outpourings were not limited to the printed page. The organization was a disruptive presence at all kinds of public, professional, and political gatherings.

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“He was pretty unbalanced”: Today William Engdahl comments on geopolitical matters, usually with a conspiracist tone. In January 2014, he suggested that terrorist bombings in Russia were the work of Israeli intelligence (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/01/24/is-netanyahu-getting-back-at-putin-with-volgograd-bombings/). In 2014 he told Russia Today that ISIS was a “false flag operation” by the CIA and Israeli intelligence (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5OYeBQdrFE). In November 2015 he told the fringe political website the Corbett Report that he had seen evidence that the Paris attacks of that month were “engineered to whip up hysteria” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination
by Mark Bergen
Published 5 Sep 2022

Staff called these rare, exploitable holes “data voids” or “evil unicorns” and rushed to patch them after the 2016 election, when a top result under Google searches for “who won the popular vote” momentarily showed an anonymous blog that falsely claimed Trump did. More than a year later YouTube was either unwilling to tackle this beast or still unprepared for it. But the beast kept rearing its head. After the mass shooting in Las Vegas in October 2017, some YouTubers filled the data void with crackpot theories about “false flags” signaling that the massacre was staged. That happened again after a November shooting in Texas. Then again in February, when a gunman killed seventeen at a high school in Parkland, Florida. On the internet fringes, theories arose that student survivors from that tragedy, outspoken in their gun reform support, were paid “crisis actors.”

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See also Zappin, Danny Dickson, Marion, 10 Digg, 95 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA, 1998), 35, 36, 37, 61, 99 Disney content on YouTube, 242–43 and Frozen (film), 241–42 Maker Studios acquired by, 219, 242 and PewDiePie/Kjellberg, 219, 278 and success of YouTube model, 210 YouTube’s attempt to partner with, 130 and Zappin, 107 DisneyCollectorBR, 171–73, 174, 239, 242 DistBelief, 232 diversity, 301, 302, 344 do-it-yourself crafting, 57 dollar-sign indicators for creators, 268 domain for YouTube.com, 16 Donahue, Kevin, 28–29, 66–67, 168–69 Donaldson, Jimmy, 353 Donovan Data Systems, 74 Donovan, Lisa, 106–7, 186 Dorsey, Jack, 397 DoubleClick Incorporated, 70–71, 75, 197, 198, 257, 284 Douek, Evelyn, 398 Downs, Juniper, 281 doxing problem at YouTube, 262–63 DreamWorks, 210 Drudge Report, 270 Drummond, David, 215, 216 Ducard, Malik, 378 Dynamic Ad Loads (Dallas), 191–92, 194 E eBaum’s World, 21 eBay, 52 echo chambers of YouTube, 265–66, 299 edgelords, 275–76, 383 EduTubers, 170, 245, 246 egalitarianism prioritized at YouTube, 164, 180, 194 Egypt, 137–38, 141–42, 143 Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), 37, 215 Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 92, 126 Elsa, people dressed as, 305–7, 309, 312 Elsagate, 314, 321 employees of YouTube contract employees, 317–20, 327, 349 diversity hiring in, 301 as parents, 174 and perks at YouTube offices, 148 poached from Yahoo, 52 and Wojcicki, 211–13 engagement of users emphasis placed on, 154, 158–59 (see also watch time of audience) and machine learning applied to advertising, 191 payments based on (Moneyball proposal), 337–38, 341 strain related to goals for, 203 See also comments and comment section; likes Equals Three (=3) production company, 120 Europe, 340, 365, 371 European Parliament, 215–16 EvanTubeHD, 237–38 Ezarik, Justine (iJustine), 40, 78, 95, 110, 119, 392 F Facebook advertising on, 252, 284 and Arab Spring, 142 boycotts of, 382 Cambridge Analytica scandal, 341 Chen’s employment with, 24 competition of YouTube with, 264–65 and COVID-19 misinformation, 397, 398 criticisms of, 366 engagement of users, 154 as global public square, 142 growth/popularity of, 93, 138, 146, 284 “Like” button, 138 as media company, 285–86 “move fast and break things” motto of, 309 and New Zealand terrorist attack, 10, 358, 359 political quagmires of, 340, 391, 397 recruitment of creators, 390 and Russian agents, 326–27, 340 Russia’s blocking of, 397 and Sandberg, 195 screeners at, 319 and Stapleton, 81 Steyer’s distrust in, 402 struggles for relevancy, 6 and Trump, 370 users leaving platform, 394 and video, 210, 251, 264–65 YouTube clips shared on, 251 faceless channels, 171–72 “fake news,” 399 fakes on YouTube, 144–45 “false flags,” 326 fashion industry, 189 Fast Company, 299–300 Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 168, 224 Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 168, 243, 368, 394 “Feet for Hands” (Smosh), 67 feminism, 223, 224, 225 fetish, borderline, 309, 310 Figglehorn, Fred (Cruikshank), 65–66, 69, 77–78, 131, 169 financials of YouTube crossing $1 billion in revenue, 126 and expectation of profitability, 93–94 and first profit of YouTube, 50 funding from Sequoia Capital, 29–30, 50 and Google’s priorities for YouTube, 68 impact of changed algorithm on, 159 and monetization of YouTube, 66–67, 93–94, 96 money lost by YouTube, 93 and PewDiePie, 8–9 revenue goals of Wojcicki, 252, 382 and videos eligible for advertising, 110 “Finger Family” videos, 239–40, 312 Finland, mass shooting in (2007), 64 flagged content, 165 Flannery, Michele, 94, 95, 101 Flash, 21, 24 flat-earth videos, 299, 328 Flickr, 17, 18 Flinders, Mesh, 41–42 Floyd, George, 378, 384 Foley, James, decapitation of, 213, 215 Forbes, 29 founders of YouTube, 26.

Start It Up: Why Running Your Own Business Is Easier Than You Think
by Luke Johnson
Published 31 Aug 2011

A society is condemned to stagnate if it rejects material advancement, takes a degraded view of humankind as an exploiter and adopts a fatalistic perspective of our system. Why would a world of deliberately diminished expectations lead to increased contentment? I worry that politicians will use the promise of upgrading our overall ‘quality of life’ as a false flag in order to pursue more government intrusion, greater regulation and higher levels of redistribution. Happiness is about independence and freedom, and vital engagement with one’s craft in a productive way. I have faith in humanity, and applaud those who attempt to improve their lot. For millions, this involves something of a heroic daily struggle.

The Teeth of the Tiger
by Tom Clancy
Published 2 Jan 1998

"Did you really trust Hassan, Jew?" the man asked. But he displayed no satisfaction in his voice. The emotionless delivery proclaimed contempt. In his last moments of life, before his brain died from lack of oxygen, David Greengold realized that he'd fallen for the oldest of espionage traps, the False Flag. Hassan had given him information so as to be able to identify him, to draw him out. Such a stupid way to die. There was time left for only one more thought: Adonai echad. The killer made sure his hands were clean, and checked his clothing. But knife thrusts like this one didn't cause much in the way of bleeding.

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There was no definite reason to suspect foul play in the loss of three field personnel, but he hadn't lived to the age of thirty-one in the business of intelligence by being foolish. He had the ability to tell the harmless from the dangerous, he thought. He'd gotten David Greengold six weeks earlier, because the Jew hadn't seen the False Flag play even when it bit him on the ass-well, the back of the neck, Mohammed thought with a lowercase smile, remembering the moment. Maybe he should start carrying the knife again, just for good luck. Many men in his line of work believed in luck, as a sportsman or athlete might. Perhaps the Emir had been right.

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
by Kim Zetter
Published 11 Nov 2014

Or it may simply have been the work of hacktivists opposed to US foreign policy in the Middle East (a group of hackers calling themselves the Cutting Sword of Justice took credit for the attack). It might even have been a “false flag” operation launched by another country to make it look like the perpetrator was Iran (NSA documents released by Edward Snowden disclose that the UK sometimes uses false flag operations to pin blame on third parties). 17 In August 2008, armies of computers with Russian IP addresses launched distributed denial-of-service attacks that knocked Georgian government and media websites offline, thwarting the government’s ability to communicate with the public.

Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine (But Also My Mom's, Which I Know Sounds Weird)
by Michael Ian Black
Published 5 Jan 2016

Chapter Four Too good to be true Although I can’t quite bring myself to believe in God, I pretty much believe in everything else. I’m willing to entertain any crank theory about UFOs, the authorship of William Shakespeare’s plays, fluoride in the water, the Bermuda Triangle, Bigfoot, black helicopters, false flag operations, and Star Children. You say Lee Harvey Oswald was the patsy in a Russian/Cuban/CIA/mafia conspiracy? I believe it. You say Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone? I believe it. At any given moment, the conviction I hold most dear is whichever thing is the last one I heard. Yet even I—gullible idiot that I am—know that when a telephone rings and a man on the other end tells you a long-lost uncle has died and left you money, that man is a liar.

The Docker Book
by James Turnbull
Published 13 Jul 2014

Given that the port is not published to the local host, we now have a very strong security model for limiting the attack surface and network exposure of a containerized application. Tip If you wish, for security reasons (for example), you can force Docker to only allow communication between containers if a link exists. To do this, you can start the Docker daemon with the --icc=false flag. This turns off communications between all containers unless a link exists. You can link multiple containers together. For example, if we wanted to use our Redis instance for multiple web applications, we could link each web application container to the same redis container. $ sudo docker run -p 4567 --name webapp2 --link redis:db ... . . . $ sudo docker run -p 4567 --name webapp3 --link redis:db ... . . .

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
by Jon Ronson
Published 12 May 2011

“Jeremy Vine, Steven Nolan, this is very prestigious stuff, listened to by millions of people,” he said. “Jeremy Vine and Steven Nolan only want you on because your theory sounds nuts,” I said. David countered that not only was it not nuts, but in terms of holograms this was just the beginning. Plans were afoot to “create the ultimate false flag operation, which is to use holograms to make it look like an alien invasion is under way.” “Why would they want to do that?” I asked. “To create martial law across the planet and take away all our rights,” he said. Actually, the idea that the government may one day utilize holograms to mislead a population was not quite as farfetched as it sounded.

Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
by Antonio J. Mendez and Matt Baglio
Published 14 Jun 2012

But he did appreciate my work enough that when he left for an assignment to be chief of graphics at our Far East base a year later, he specifically requested me to be his subordinate, ahead of other artists with more seniority. As artists we were reproducing mostly personal identity documents that could be used for operational purposes such as travel, renting safe houses or hotel rooms. They could also be used for exfiltrations, false flag recruitment, entrapment, or crossing international borders. The forgeries sometimes were designed to discredit individuals and governments, just like the KGB did to us. Their program was called Special Measures. Our program had no name—we just called it covert action. Other documents that we produced could take the form of disinformation, letters in diaries, bumper stickers, or any other graphics item that could influence events of the day.

Professional Node.js: Building Javascript Based Scalable Software
by Pedro Teixeira
Published 30 Sep 2012

If omitted, a password-less connection is attempted. database: The database to be used upon successful connection. If omitted, no database is selected, and must be selected using a SELECT database query. debug: If set to true, node-mysql prints all incoming and outgoing data packets to the console. Defaults to false. flags: The MySQL connect protocol supports several flags that influence the low-level details of the connection handshake, such as which protocol version to use, whether to use compression or not, and so on. node-mysql ships with a sensible default, so unless your server is configured in a non-standard way, you don’t need to set any of these flags.

The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
by Bhaskar Sunkara
Published 1 Feb 2019

There would be some violence, but by comparison to the prevailing order it would be minimal. “We are not Utopians,” Lenin writes. “We do not ‘dream’ of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination.” But as socialism triumphed, the need for a repressive apparatus would dissipate and the state would wither away. Many have portrayed The State and Revolution as a false flag—a libertarian socialist document from the father of socialist authoritarianism. But it was a sincere work. It did, however, indicate how simple Lenin appeared to believe constructing a socialist state (and having that state wither away) would be. In power, the Bolsheviks would learn otherwise and horrifically transform themselves in the process.10 In August, it was the Right’s turn to revolt.

Spooked: The Trump Dossier, Black Cube, and the Rise of Private Spies
by Barry Meier
Published 17 May 2021

He pointed out that Steele’s claims that his collector had access to multiple Kremlin insiders seemed absurd on its face. But the internet sleuths, given their predilections for conspiracy theories, weren’t ready to take Shvets at his word. Instead, they wrote that his disparaging comments about the dossier might have been a “false flag” to steer attention away from him. “Shvets’ overall analysis of the Steele dossier was uncannily accurate—far more accurate and far more prescient than any contemporary US observer,” their analysis stated. “We cannot help but wonder if, like an arsonist on the scene of a fire he knows more about the dossier than he was letting on.”

The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro
Published 11 Sep 2017

After bemoaning their barbarity, Oppenheim went on to defend them: “Reprisals cannot be dispensed with, because without them illegitimate acts of warfare would be innumerable.”101 Brutality was used to counteract brutality.102 In this perverse way, war became more civilized—up to a point. Even when the rules of proper warfare were followed scrupulously—when prisoners of war were spared, poison gas was kept in its tanks, civilians were left unmolested, false flags of surrender were not raised—war was still an orgy of death and destruction. The rules of war relieved only a small fraction of the misery, suffering, and horror. They barely changed the true nature of the Old World Order: All this—all the death and destruction; all the misery, suffering, and horror—could be inflicted with perfect impunity.

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(Levinson), 115 Canton, 13 capital punishment (death penalty), 78–79, 141, 236, 251, 254–57, 262, 263–64, 288, 291–92 Capper, Arthur, 114 Carnap, Rudolf, 230 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 104n, 211, 246, 469n, 473n Carter, Ashton, 359 Casey, Edward “Ned,” 58–62, 76, 456n “cash and carry” provisions, 177, 190 Cassin, René, 249 Castle, William, 126 Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 67–68 casus belli (“cause of war”), 10, 54, 88, 96, 251, 449n casus foederis (“duty to aid an ally”), 54 Catherine II (“the Great”), Empress of Russia, 84, 310 Catholic Church, xix, 8–9, 21, 73, 95, 220, 221, 222, 226, 231, 234, 236, 281 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 329 Central Powers, 169, 317 Chaco War, 323 Changchun, 154 “change in gauge,” 376 Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant, 258 Chanler, William, 257–63, 266, 282, 283, 290 Charlemagne, 45, 65 Charles VIII, King of France, 38–39, 42–43, 54 Charles X, King of Sweden, 45 Charleston, S.C., 84–92 chemical weapons, 72, 80 Cheney, Dick, 371–72, 380 Chiang Kai-shek, 175, 324 Chicago Daily Tribune, 121 Chicago Herald-Tribune, 121 China, 5, 13, 15, 131–40, 145, 148–60, 164, 172, 180, 181, 313, 316, 318, 324, 349, 352, 358–63, 360, 387, 417–18, 422–23, 487n, 532n see also Manchuria Chinchow, 164 chivalry, 76 chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), 385–87 Christian Century, 165, 475n-76n Christianity, 22, 95, 116, 118n, 140, 156, 281, 413, 451n, 478n see also Catholic Church; Protestantism Churchill, Winston S., 189, 190–92, 203, 204–13, 250, 279, 283, 321, 345, 401, 516n Cicero, 10 civilians, 72, 74–77, 80, 154, 204, 256, 273, 281, 365, 417, 455n, 456n Civil War, U.S., 331 clarigatio (legal grievance), 35–36 Claudel, Paul, 124, 126 Clausewitz, Carl von, xv, 121 Clean Water Act (1972), 331–32 Clinton, Bill, 372 Clinton, George, 89 Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), 330 Cohen, Benjamin V., 194 Cohen, David, 390, 395 Cohen, Felix, 50 Cold War, xii, 370n, 405 collective responsibility, 79, 269–71, 282, 283–84, 521n Cologne, University of, 230, 231–34, 235, 244 colonialism, 76, 96, 172–73, 192, 321–22, 323, 341–42, 345–47, 355–57, 364, 398, 404, 462n Columbia University, 108, 115–17, 121, 194, 469n Comité de l’Afrique Française, 398 communism, 228–30, 295, 324 comparative advantage, 343 competition, 4, 22, 50, 103, 224–25, 341–43, 420, 436n Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act (2010), 389 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (2005), 365 Conant, James, 245 “Concept of the Political, The” (Schmitt), 217–19, 226, 292 Congress, U.S., 34, 39, 51, 102–3, 105, 111, 112, 118, 121, 126, 171, 184, 337, 389, 475n conquests, 43, 48–49, 97, 304, 313–15, 316, 317, 319–23, 320, 328, 330 conquistadores, 43, 48–49 conscription, 114–15, 147–48 Conscription Act (1873), 147 Conservative Party, 118 Constitution, U.S., 44, 213–14, 331, 449n Constitution, Weimar, 226–30, 231, 417 Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field (1929), 496n Convention for the Reduction of Armaments (1932–1934), 162 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) (1973), 377 Coolidge, Calvin, 187 cordon sanitaire (buffer zone), 32 “Correlates of War” dataset, 311–13, 323, 347–48, 367–68, 367, 530n, 531n Council of Europe, 384–85 Council of the League of Nations, 105–6, 131–33, 161–62, 465n–66n, 470n Council on Foreign Relations, 167 “countermeasures,” 375–76 Covenant of the League of Nations, 105, 106, 110–11, 119, 127, 128, 132–33, 155–56, 157, 161, 162, 168, 174–75, 195, 212, 330, 465n–66n, 470n, 490n–91n, 502n “Cow’s Tongue Line,” 359–63, 360 Crazy Horse, 51 Crimea, xiii, xvii, 202–3, 204, 309–11, 314, 328, 364, 390–94, 417, 418, 419, 422 “crimes against humanity,” 267, 290–92, 508n “crimes against peace,” 257, 508n criminal law, 80–81, 96, 109, 114–15, 248–49, 253–54, 257, 286–87, 288, 290–91 Cromwell, Oliver, 38, 45 Crusades, 96, 410 “cuartel general,” 78 Cuba, 43, 163, 387 Cushendun, Ronald McNeill, Lord, xi Custer, George Armstrong, 51, 58 Cyprus, 382–85 Cyrus the Great, 47 Czechoslovakia, 240, 241, 244, 318, 330 Dachau concentration camp, 279, 281–82 Daily Mail, 241 Daily Mirror, 178–79 daimyō (feudal lords), 139, 141 Dairen (Dalian), 152–53 Dallas, Alexander, 89 Darfur, 329, 365 Dar-ul-Islam (realm of Islam), 410 Davies, Norman, 51 Dawes, John, 224 Dawes Plan, 224 death penalty (capital punishment), 78–79, 141, 236, 251, 254–57, 262, 263–64, 288, 291–92 Declaration of Independence, xiv “Declaration of the Rights of Man,” 85 “Declaration of the United Nations” (1942), 191–93, 197, 210–12, 330, 345 Declaration of War on Spain (1719), 41 declarations of war, 34, 36, 40, 41, 63–64, 76, 102, 104, 151, 180–81, 190–93, 448n, 483n–84n, 487n “declinists,” 334–35 decolonialism, 76, 96, 172–73, 192, 321–22, 323, 341–42, 345–47, 355–57, 364, 398, 404, 462n defensive wars, 10, 32, 34, 43, 44, 62, 123, 126, 127, 156, 159–61, 199, 213, 253, 333, 341, 353, 370, 406, 416 de Gaulle, Charles, 249 De Jure Belli ac Pacis Libri Tres (Law of War and Peace, The) (Grotius), 20–28, 47–48, 94, 95, 145–47, 299–300, 409, 441n democracies, 85, 111–12, 225, 226, 228–34, 244, 332–33, 334, 336, 369, 391, 448n, 535n, 549n Democracy: A Religion (Maqdisi), 549n destroyers for bases program, 194 Detroit, USS, 128 Dewey, John, 108, 109, 113, 115, 119, 123, 125, 195, 415 dictatorships, 226–38, 244–45, 258–59 Dietrich, Marlene, 286 diplomacy, gunboat, xvii, 51, 96, 97, 134–38, 149, 181, 300, 301–3, 304, 332, 370, 460n, 478n–79n, 480n, 481n disarmament, 109, 116–17, 120, 162, 191, 196, 272–73, 287 Dispute Settlement Body, 379–80 divine law, 29–30, 48, 73–75, 136, 294, 409, 410, 413, 455n Dix, Rudolf, 273–75 Dominican Republic, 187, 242 Dönitz, Karl, 290 Doppō (Soldiers’ Rules), 148 Dorotić, Pavla (Cari), 220–21, 226 “Draft Constitution of International Organization,” 197 Drezner, Daniel, xiii Druze, 413 Dubats, 172 duelling, 109 due process, 256–57, 291–92 Dumbarton Oaks conference (1944), 199–201, 205, 207–8 Dutch East India Company, 4, 8, 13, 14–19, 22–23, 26, 51, 94, 153, 299, 462n Dutch Republic, 3–23, 26–27, 51, 436n–37n, 439n see also Netherlands Dutch West India Company, 17 “duty of war,” 106 East Indies, 4–6, 13, 17, 18, 22, 26, 51, 95–96, 136, 357, 358–59 East Prussia, 322 East Timor, 364 Ečer, Bohuslav, 252–54, 257, 259, 260, 266, 282, 283, 290, 291 Ečer-Chanler theory, 266, 282, 283, 290 economic sanctions, 91, 105–6, 114, 118, 119, 121, 125, 127, 164, 165, 170, 172–75, 179–82, 208, 223, 238, 239, 253, 272, 273, 282, 289, 304, 316, 332, 374, 381, 387–94, 415, 418, 421, 422, 470n, 492n, 522n economies: mercantile, 340 protectionism in (import quotas) in, 342, 371–72, 379, 535n tariffs in, 371–72, 380, 385, 480n Ecuador, 323, 358 Eden, Anthony, 185–86, 207 Eden, Garden of, 375 Edo, 135–37, 138, 141, 147 see also Tokyo Edward III, King of England, 41 “Effect of the Briand-Kellogg Pact of Paris in International Law” report (1934), 170–71 Egypt, 75, 329, 356, 402–8, 531n Eight Books on the Law of Nature and Nations (Pufendorf), 27–28 Eighty Years’ War, 78 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 264 Elba, 65–66, 67, 68–69, 251 Eldon, John Scott, Lord Chancellor, 68 Elements of International Law (Wheaton), 144 Elgin, James Bruce, Earl of, 140 Eliot, Charles W., 107–8 Elsje (Grotius’s chambermaid), 21 Embuscade, 84–85 emergency decrees, 228–33 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 116 “End of Sykes-Pikot” video, 396–97, 413 English Channel, 37n Enlightenment, 29, 75 environmental issues, 341, 377, 382, 385–87, 421 Erasmus, 6 Eric XIV, King of Sweden, 83–84 Eritrea, 172–74, 321 Estado da Índia, 46 Estonia, 318–19, 506n Ethiopia, 172–74, 238, 258, 259, 273, 319, 357, 531n etiamsi daremus (“even if we should concede”) passage, 29–30, 409 Eucharist, 116, 118n “Euromaidan” protests (2010), 310 Europe, 15, 45, 169, 240–43, 286, 317–19, 322, 339–40, 343, 344, 417, see also specific countries European Convention of Human Rights (1950), 384 European Court of Human Rights, 45, 384 European Union (EU), 45, 343, 372, 380, 385, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 418–19 exile, 65–66 Exner, Franz, 286, 524n ExxonMobil, 393 failed states, 364–68, 366, 367 Faisal I, King of Iraq, 399 false flags, 80 Farouk, King of Egypt, 405 fascism, 238, 244–45, 258–59 Feilchenfeld, Ernst, 260 Fernando, Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, Don, 36 Fiery Cross Reef, 359–63, 360 Fifteenth Amendment, 331 financial crisis (2008), 391 Finland, 177, 322 Fisuserinku-shi Bankoku Kōhō (“Vissering’s International Law”) (Nishi), 144 428, 482n Flechtheim, Ossip, 295 Fleming, Ian, 61 Flick, Friedrich, 216–17, 271–75, 286 Fontaine, Arthur, 120 Fontainebleau, Treaty of (1814), 65, 67, 68, 251 Fordow nuclear facility, 394 Fort Meade, 60 Fourteen Points, 105–6 Fourteenth Amendment, 331 France, ix–xi, 32, 36–39, 41, 65–67, 78, 82–92, 102, 176, 184, 208, 267–68, 317, 319, 321, 322, 349, 355, 376, 396–402, 401 Franconia, 279 Franco-Prussian War, 45–46, 47, 221 Franco-Russian Alliance Military Convention (1892), 102 Frank, Hans, 235–36, 238, 242, 285, 290 Frankfurter, Felix, 167–68 Franklin, Benjamin, 83 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, 101–2 Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 102–3 Frederick II (“the Great”), King of Prussia, 32, 45, 445n-46n “freedom of the seas,” 18, 22–23, 26, 82–92, 95, 104, 105, 118 free trade, 18, 223–24, 332–33, 341–43, 344, 345, 346, 368, 371, 378–80, 419–20 French Revolution, 76, 82–92, 458n Freud, Sigmund, 231 Frick, Wilhelm, 290 “friend-enemy” distinction, 218–19, 220, 222, 223 Fritzsche, Hans, 285, 290, 296, 526n Fruin, Robert, 95, 434n, 435n, 439n, 443n, 461n Fulgosius, Raphael, 24–25, 442n Funk, Walther, 285, 290 Furtado de Mendonça, André, 4–5 Galicia, 239 ganbaru attitude, 151–53 Ganghwa Island, Treaty of (1876), 149–50 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 372, 378–80, 381 General Treaty for the Renunciation of War (1928), 129, 249, 283, 302 see also Peace Pact (1928) Genêt, Edmond-Charles, 82–92, 460n Geneva, 62–63, 244 Geneva Convention (First) (1864), 77 “Geneva Protocol,” 117–19, 120, 125, 126, 217, 470n genocide, xi, 256, 274, 352, 365 see also Holocaust gens de guerre (combatants), 63 Gentili, Alberico, 49 George III, King of England, 50 Germany, Imperial, 45–46, 249, 251–52, 323 Germany, Nazi, 162, 176, 184, 185, 191, 204, 218, 224–36, 254, 278–80, 286, 318–19, 403, 508n–9n, 526n Germany, Weimar, 225, 226–33, 295 Gerry, Peter, 186–87 Gestapo, 255, 274 Gheyn, Jacques de, 6–7 Ghost Dance, 56–58 “ghost shirts,” 57 Gibraltar, 17–18 Gilbert, Gustave, 256–57, 280 Girondins, 84, 88, 89 global economy, xvi, 14, 16, 17, 28, 55, 96, 133, 173–74, 224, 226, 240, 332–34, 339–43, 346, 368, 371–73, 378–79, 381, 391, 392–93, 395, 419, 420–21, 481n–82n Goa, 324 God, 29–30, 48, 73–75, 136, 294, 409, 410, 413, 455n see also Allah Goebbels, Joseph, 225, 229, 263, 264, 519n Goebbels, Magda, 519n Good Neighbor Policy, 187, 242–43 Gore, Al, 371–72 Göring, Edda, 279 Göring, Hermann, 225, 229, 232–33, 235, 237, 242, 256, 263, 264, 270, 277, 278–80, 281, 284–85, 290, 523n government: democratic, 85, 111–12, 225, 226, 228–34, 244, 332–33, 334, 336, 369, 391, 448n, 535n, 549n fascist, 238, 244–45, 258–59 imperialist, xx, 52, 95–96, 341, 345–46, 355, 369, 410–11, 462n; see also colonialism parliamentary, 228–30, 231, 233–34 social contract and, 11, 29–30, 143, 409 totalitarian, 226–38, 244–45, 258–59; see also Nazism Gragas law code, 379 Grande Armée, 65 Grange, 85 Great Britain, 22, 40, 67–69, 82–92, 102–6, 120, 133, 159–60, 165, 176–82, 184, 189, 191–94, 246, 247, 267–68, 312, 343, 348–49, 396–402, 401, 407, 463n, 500n, 531n Great Depression, 164 Great Mosque (Mosul), 411–12 Great Purges, 257 Greece, 90, 382–85 “Green Line” (Cyprus), 383–85 Grey, Edward, Lord, 474n Gromyko, Andrei, 199, 200, 201, 206 Groot, Cornet de, 95 Gros, André, 267 Grossraum (“Great Space”), 240–43, 286, 289–90, 293, 295–96 Grotius, Hugo, xix–xx, 6–30, 35, 37, 44, 47–49, 53, 54, 61, 62, 69–72, 77, 80, 91, 93–98, 104, 136, 141, 143, 147, 153, 159, 239, 294, 299–300, 303–5, 314, 324, 358, 409, 410, 417, 437n, 441n, 442n, 443n, 449n, 454n, 455n, 460n, 462n, 481n, 527n Group of 8 (G-8), 390–91 Gulf War, 332, 387 gunboat diplomacy, xvii, 51, 96, 97, 134–38, 149, 181, 300, 301–3, 304, 332, 370, 460n, 478n–79n, 480n, 481n Gunjin chokuyu (Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors) (1882), 148 Gunjin kunkai (Admonition to Soldiers) (1878), 147–48 Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, 42 Gutachten (expert legal opinion), 227, 247, 272, 274, 286–87 Hackworth, Green, 194 Haggenmacher, Peter, 438n, 441n Hague Convention (First) (1899), 77, 79, 93, 97, 109, 445n Hague Convention (Second) (1907), 77, 79, 90, 109 Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 172–74 Hamilton, Alexander, 86 Hammond, George, 85 Handelshochschule, 226, 229 Hannibal, 449n Hard, William, 118 Harding, Warren G., 112 Harriman, Averell, 207 Harris, Townsend, 133–34, 136, 138–40, 480n Harvard University, 245 Hearst, William Randolph, 164 Heath, Edward, 82 Heemskerck, Jacob van, 3–18, 23–30, 94–95, 143, 144, 358, 436n–37n Heinsius, Daniel, 7 Henry IV, King of France, 6 Henry V (Shakespeare), 37 heralds, 36–37 Hess, Rudolf, 278–79, 285, 290 Hezbollah, 368, 388 Himmler, Heinrich, 225, 237, 263, 264 Hindenburg, Paul von, 227, 229, 232 Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 148, 159, 180 Hiroshima, bombing of (1945), 213 Hitler, Adolf, 162, 179, 185, 193, 213, 215, 225, 228, 232–38, 240–43, 249, 250, 251, 252, 257–64, 274, 279–80, 289–90, 506n Hitlerite Responsibility Under the Criminal Law (Trainin), 257 Hobbes, Thomas, 294, 381 Hoffmann, Johann Joseph, 142–43 Holocaust, xxi, 264–66, 274, 275, 279, 281, 285, 291–92, 298, 356 Holy Roman Empire, xix, 38–39, 42–43, 45, 65, 73 Hong Kong, 133–34 Honjō Shigeru, 155, 488n Hoover, Herbert, 163–65, 168, 178, 492n Hopkins, Harry, 189–90, 192 Hotta Masayoshi, 140 “House of German Justice,” 238 “How Lovely Are the Messengers That Bring Us Good Tidings of Peace” (Mendelssohn), 94 How Russia Betrayed Germany’s Confidence and Thereby Caused the European War and How the Franco-German Conflict Might Have Been Avoided, 102 Hughes, Charles Evans, 117 Hugo, Victor, 25 Hull, Cordell, 168, 173, 175, 176, 180–81, 185, 193, 197–98, 211, 247, 254–55, 268, 499n Human Nature and Conduct (Dewey), 115 human rights, xv, 22, 294, 346, 377, 382–85, 387, 389, 395 see also “crimes against humanity,” European Convention of Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, genocide, torture Humboldt University, 220 Hungarian Revolution (1956), 330 Hungary, 318, 330 Husayn ibn Ali, Sharif of Mecca, 399 Hussein, Saddam, 330, 332, 388 Hussein, Uday, 387–88 “hygienic wars,” 96, 240 Hymans, Paul, xi hyperinflation, 221, 224, 226 Iceland, 373–75, 379 Ii Naosuke, 140–41 immunity from prosecution, xvi, 61–63, 71, 77, 80–81, 96, 97, 260n, 454n, 460n impartiality, 87–92, 96, 97, 103, 165, 167, 169–70, 177–78, 182, 246–47, 304, 459n, 460n imperialism, xx, 52, 95–96, 341, 345–46, 355, 369, 410–11, 462n see also colonialism import quotas, 342, 371–72, 379, 535n “independences,” 346–48, 348, 537n India, 328, 352, 357, 383 individual responsibility, 270–71 Indonesia, 4–5, 328, 329, 346, 358 “Inquiry, The,” 116 Inter-Allied Peace Council, 250 Inter-American Bar Association, 247 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 394 International Coffee Organization, 344, 377 International Court of Justice (World Court), 196, 305, 363, 415 international institutions, xxi, 112, 114, 315, 344–46, 378, 418, 419, 420 see also specific institutions Internationalists, xxi, 94, 95, 106–7, 316, 331, 332, 419–24 International Labor Organization (ILO), 116 international law, xv, xvii, xix, xx, 27–30, 44–45, 47, 52, 61, 87–88, 90, 94, 96, 109–10, 118, 141, 143, 144–50, 153, 159, 167–68, 170–71, 212, 233, 238–39, 246, 248, 249, 251, 257–62, 266–74, 282–90, 299–304, 329, 353, 359, 363, 370–77, 382, 389, 391–92, 394, 406, 415, 420–22, 463n, 521n, 528n International Law (Oppenheim) (Oppenheim), 239, 246–47, 248, 260, 268, 377, 465n-66n International Law Commission, 301–2 International Monetary Fund (IMF), 343, 378, 393 International Olive Oil Council, 344 International Organization for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security, 198 International Whaling Commission, 344 interstate wars, xviii–xix, 214, 312, 332–35, 353, 368–70, 368, 418 interventionist policies, xx–xxi, 29, 43, 48–49, 96, 97, 177, 187, 222–23, 294, 312–13, 369–70, 383, 417–18, 450n–51n, 499n Interventionists, xx–xxi, 96, 97, 294, 417 intrastate wars, xix, 367–69, 367, 539n–40n Iran, 329, 388–90, 392, 394–95, 417 Iran Nuclear Deal, 394–95 Iraq, 330, 332, 367, 387–88, 397–402, 401, 419 Iraq War, 372, 387–88 Islamic fundamentalism, xiii, xx–xxi, 368, 396–415, 416, 417, 549n, 550n Islamic State, xiii, 368, 396–97, 400–402, 411–15, 416, 418–19 islands, legal status of, 358–59 isolationism, 111, 134, 164–65, 173–74, 175, 188, 246 Israel, 322, 355–57, 394–95, 399, 400, 410 Israelites, 74–75 Italian Socialist Republic, 259 Italy, xii–xiii, 172–74, 249, 258–59, 263–64, 329, 357 172–74, 238, 258, 259, 273, 319, 329, 357, 531n ius publicum europaeum (European Public Law), 294 Ivanov, Sergei, 392 Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, 414 Jackson, Andrew, 33, 444n Jackson, Robert H., 179, 248–49, 261–64, 266–68, 271–72, 276–77, 280–83, 291, 295, 298, 304, 377, 521n Jacobins, 89 Jahiliyyah (spiritual ignorance), 406–11, 550n Jahrreiss, Hermann, 234, 285, 286–90, 295, 297n James I, King of England, 19 James Bond, 61, 62 Japan, xiv, 15, 120, 131–84, 192, 193, 205, 213, 214, 250, 289, 302–3, 313, 316–22, 329, 330, 354, 361, 391, 422, 478n–79n, 480n, 490n, 492n, 496n, 505n–6n, 532n Java, 4–5, 346 Jay, John, 449n Jefferson, Thomas, 28, 49, 83, 85–92, 460n Jerome, St., 45 Jerusalem, 356 Jesus Christ, 57, 156, 294 “Jewish Spirit in German Law” conference (1936), 237 Jews, xxi, 21, 106–7, 216, 222, 229, 230, 231, 233–34, 235, 236, 237, 241, 255, 256, 264–66, 274, 275, 279, 281, 285–86, 291–92, 295, 298, 305, 355–57, 399, 403 jihad (holy war), 396, 398, 402, 404–15, 416 Jodl, Alfred, 285, 286, 290 Jodl, Luise, 286, 524n Johnson v.

City of Exiles
by Alec Nevala-Lee
Published 1 Dec 2012

In the old days, the sauna would be built before the rest of the house, so that the workers would have a place to relax during construction. Now, after his own journey, Karvonen finally felt the tension falling away. As he ladled water onto the electric stones, watching the steam rise, he thought of his history with Laila. He had recruited her two years ago, under a false flag, after she had been identified as a potential recruit based on certain postings on a message board for the extreme right. After feeling her out online, he had spent six months cultivating her, feeding her nationalism, and plying her with gifts, until he had been flying out almost weekly from London.

Messing With the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News
by Clint Watts
Published 28 May 2018

The site taunted U.S. intelligence agencies and the public, listing one hundred Instagram and Facebook accounts they claimed to control, stating, “These accounts work 24 hours a day, seven days a week to discredit anti-Russian candidates and support politicians useful for us than for you.”15 The entire effort likely represented a false flag and followed the general rule of Russian propaganda. When the Kremlin is being secretive and stealthy, they are trying to hide their hand in something they are doing, i.e., 2016. When the Kremlin is being loud and sloppy, they are trying to convince the world of something they are not actually doing, i.e., 2018.

Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
by Matt Taibbi
Published 7 Oct 2019

About a year after this story came out, Times reporters Scott Shane and Ann Blinder reported that the same outfit, New Knowledge, and in particular that same Jonathon Morgan, had participated in a cockamamie scheme to fake Russian troll activity in an Alabama Senate race. The idea was to try to convince voters Russia preferred the Republican. The Times quoted a New Knowledge internal report about the idiotic Alabama scheme: We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet… The Parkland story was iffy enough when it came out, as Twitter disputed it, and another of the main sources for the initial report, former intelligence official Clint Watts, subsequently said he was “not convinced” regarding the whole “bot thing.”

Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
by Paul Mason
Published 29 Jul 2015

But 200 years of experience show it was preoccupied with ‘living despite capitalism’, not overthrowing it. The workers were forced into revolutionary action by social and political crises, often provoked by war and intolerable repression. On the rare occasions when they achieved power, they couldn’t stop it from being usurped by elites operating under a false flag. The Paris Commune of 1871, Barcelona in 1937, the Russian, Chinese and Cuban revolutions all demonstrate this. The literature of the left is littered with excuses for this 200-year story of defeat: the state was too strong, the leadership too weak, the ‘labour aristocracy’ too influential, Stalinism murdered the revolutionaries and suppressed the truth.

Fuller Memorandum
by Stross, Charles
Published 14 Jan 2010

It must be some kind of trackside signal, because a moment later I feel a motor vibrate under me, and the train starts to roll forward. I make myself lie down: it'd be a really great start to the mission to scrape my face off on the tunnel roof. And a moment later I'm off, rattling feetfirst into the darkness under London, on a false-flag mission . . . AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME I'M FALLING FEETFIRST INTO A PIECE of railway history, another part of the plot is unfolding. Let me try to reconstruct it for you: A red-haired woman holding a violin case is making her way along a busy high street in London. Wearing understated trousers and a slightly dated Issey Miyake top, sensible shoes, and a leather bag that's showing its age, she could be a college lecturer or a musician on her way to practice: without the interview suit, nobody's going to mistake her for an auction house employee or a civil servant.

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
by Bandy X. Lee
Published 2 Oct 2017

Berwick); Who Rules the World?; and Requiem for the American Dream. References Frel, Jan. 2017. “Noam Chomsky: If Trump Falters with Supporters, Don’t Put ‘Aside the Possibility’ of a ‘Staged or Alleged Terrorist Attack.’” Alternet, March 27. www.alternet.org/right-wing/noam-chomsky-it-fair-worry-about-trump-staging-false-flag-terrorist-attack. Goodman, Amy, and Juan González. 2017. “Full Interview: Noam Chomsky on Trump’s First 75 Days & Much More.” Democracy Now, April 4. www.democracynow.org/2017/4/4/full_interview_noam_chomsky_on_democracy. Newman, Cathy. 2016. “Noam Chomsky Full Length Interview: Who Rules the World Now?”

The Power
by Naomi Alderman
Published 9 Oct 2017

Loosekitetalker What was the store? What was the exact time and place? We can find security footage. We can send her a message she won’t forget. Manintomany PM me details of exactly where you met her, and the name of the store. We are going to strike back against them. FisforFreedom Guys. I call false flag. A story like this, the OP could make you attack anyone, with minimal evidence. Could be an attempt to provoke reciprocal action just to make us look like the bad guys. Manintomany Fuck off. We know these things happen. They’ve happened to us. We need a Year Of Rage, just like they’re saying.

Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do About It
by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris
Published 10 Jul 2023

Biden’s vote totals in those precincts would necessarily have a lot more initial 8s and 9s than would be expected under Benford’s law. That’s not evidence of fraud—it’s a mathematical consequence of the fact that Biden and Trump split a fixed total number of votes.36 Even for data to which Benford’s law does apply, sometimes a red flag is a false flag. For example, company revenue and expenses generally follow Benford’s law. But if a company frequently purchases a product that costs $49.95, its expense reports will have a higher proportion of entries starting with 4 than the law predicts. A Benford analysis would show a potential problem, but that discrepancy can easily be resolved by verifying whether those expenses were legitimate.

How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations With Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
by Lee McIntyre
Published 14 Sep 2021

(Notably, the JFK assassination conspiracy was so widely held that it was excluded from the study.)16 Other common conspiracy theories—which run the range of popularity and outlandishness—are that “chemtrails” left by planes are part of a secret government mind-control spraying program, that the school shootings at Sandy Hook and Parkland were “false flag” operations, that the government is covering up the truth about UFOs, and of course the more “science-related” ones that the Earth is flat, that global warming is a hoax, that some corporations are intentionally creating toxic GMOs, and that COVID-19 is caused by 5G cell phone towers.17 In its most basic form, a conspiracy theory is a nonevidentially justified belief that some tremendously unlikely thing is nonetheless true, but we just don’t realize it because there is a coordinated campaign run by powerful people to cover it up.

Digging Up Mother: A Love Story
by Doug Stanhope
Published 9 May 2016

I freak out at traffic or figuring out gadgets. I punch dashboards and smash laptops. When serious shit happens, I’m generally rational and grounded. “Is it time?” I asked. “Yes, she’s ready to go.” “Now . . . as in today?” “Yes.” In the background, Mother wheezed out “I’ve had enough” with no less theater. We’d had enough false flags of a Mother suicide over the years that there wasn’t any immediate panic. In fact, there was no panic at all. At this point, she was in terminal care. So much had happened over the last short period—midnight ambulance rides and helicopter medevacs—that we were happy to have her go, for her own sake.

Political Ponerology (A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes)
by Andrew M. Lobaczewski
Published 1 Jan 2006

[Editor’s note.] * * * [12]: E.g., the events of September 11, 2001, undoubtedly engineered by the pathocracy. [Editor’s note.] * * * [13]: This is being very effectively used at the present time under the guise of “The War on Terror”, a completely manufactured device that utilizes “false flag operations” to herd people into “support camps” for the U.S. imperialist agenda. [Editor’s note.] * * * [14]: This is currently being done, and quite well, by alternative news sources on the internet, bloggers, and many “ordinary” people who can easily see what is going on. Unfortunately, to date, no ruling party in any significant country with the power to stand against the pathocracy of the U.S. has managed to think that far.

Saturn's Children
by Charles Stross
Published 30 Jun 2008

Yes, I’d love to witness your mopping-up. If you could record it for me, I am sure I can find a fitting use for it—pour encourager les autres.” She smiles coldly at the drone, then follows it aboard the police cutter. I shudder. Dainty feet kick off overhead, leaving behind the Pygmalion and the rest of her false flag operation. Granita must be working for Her, one of my ghost-selves warns me. I think I know which one it is, now, and I resolve to trust those instincts in future. A minute later, there’s a furious rattling and banging. Then the docking tube detaches. Almost immediately, the police cutter begins to fall away from Pygmalion, sliding past the air lock with the remorseless momentum of a freight train.

Docker: Up & Running: Shipping Reliable Containers in Production
by Sean P. Kane and Karl Matthias
Published 15 Mar 2018

As with so many pieces of Docker, you can replace the proxy with a different imple‐ mentation. To do so, you would use the --userland-proxy-path=<path> setting, but there are probably not that many good reasons to do this unless you have a very spe‐ cialized network. However, the --userland-proxy=false flag to dockerd will com‐ pletely disable the userland-proxy and instead rely on hairpin NAT functionality to route traffic between local containers. This performs a lot better than the userlandproxy and will likely become the preferred approach. Docker documentation cur‐ rently recommends it as the best approach, but it is not yet the default.

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
by Michael Bhaskar
Published 2 Nov 2021

The idea of fission came off the back of huge leaps in the understanding of nuclear physics. Fusion relies on the manipulation of plasma, a process inadequately understood when research began. Fission had military application in the immediate postwar years as a power plant for submarines, a government ‘must-have’ that fusion struggled to compete with. Over the decades came several false flags. The Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly in 1950s Britain almost seemed to have cracked it but was a false alarm, as was the hype around cold fusion in 1989 when two University of Utah chemists claimed to have done the seemingly impossible. At every stage, progress threw up new challenges. In Princeton, Oxfordshire or Moscow, it was a case of two steps forward, 1.9 steps back.

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
by Michael Wolff
Published 5 Jan 2018

I’m going to say this one last time: this is not the right way to do this. If you want to do this, the right way is to have him in and have a conversation. This is the decent way and the professional way.” Once more, the president seemed to calm down and become more focused on the necessary process. But that was a false flag. In fact, the president, in order to avoid embracing conventional process—or, for that matter, any real sense of cause and effect—merely eliminated everybody else from his process. For most of the day, almost no one would know that he had decided to take matters into his own hands. In presidential annals, the firing of FBI director James Comey may be the most consequential move ever made by a modern president acting entirely on his own.

The Defence of the Realm
by Christopher Andrew
Published 2 Aug 2010

A combined MI5 and Special Branch analysis of ROP finances in 1930 calculated that it was run at a loss of £370,000 to £390,000 per annum.27 The Security Service reported in 1932 that ‘one of the principal comrades who acts as liaison between ROP and the Party’ was Percy Glading,28 later convicted of espionage at the Woolwich Arsenal.29 ROP provided a sophisticated front for the increasing Soviet scientific and technological intelligence operations of the 1930s: among them probably the first Russian use in Britain of the ‘false flag’ technique, where a recruiter working for one agency claims to represent another. In September 1932 an employee of the ROP Bristol branch was discovered to be posing (under the alias ‘Olsen’) as a Romanian journalist reporting on the British oil industry, in an attempt to obtain commercial secrets from employees of the Shell Mex Company in London.30 The Security Service obtained an HOW on ‘Olsen’s’ address, which revealed that his real name was Joseph Volkovich Volodarsky.

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Most of these 90,000 pages comprised technical documentation on new aircraft (among them Concorde, the Super VC-10 and Lockheed L-1011), aero-engines (including Rolls-Royce, Olympus-593, RB-211 and SPEY-505) and flight simulators. ACE’s material on the flight simulators for the Lockheed L-1011 and Boeing 747 was believed to be the basis for a new generation of Soviet equivalents. ACE also recruited under false flag (probably that of a rival company) an aero-engines specialist codenamed SWEDE.94 The Security Service investigation of Gregory was hampered by the fact that he had been dead for ten years by the time it received Mitrokhin’s notes on his KGB file. An initial assessment in 1992 concluded: ‘He must have saved the Soviets millions of roubles in research and development, not least in the field of flight simulators.

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‘Bert’ 367, 368 Ewart, Sir John Spencer 10–11, 19, 20, 24, 29–30 Ewer, William Norman 145, 152–4, 156, 157–9 F Branch/Division 84, 236, 268, 281, 325, 551, 558, 561, 600, 622–3, 647, 648–9, 681, 683, 745; F1 408, 611, 664; FIA 332, 527–8, 529, 530, 660, 664, 673; FIB 604; FIC 332, 668; F2 561, 656; F2A 274, 278; F2C 277, 332, 561; F3 611, 615, 684; F4 402, 408, 498; F5 619, 622, 684, 700, 740–41; F8 700; see also Appendix 3 Falber, Reuben 386, 418 Falklands conflict (1982) 697, 755, 757 ‘false flag’ technique 167, 583 Farrell, Maire´ad 739, 740, 741–3, 744–5 Fascism: Italy 105, 124, 191, 193, 197; internment of British Fascists 192, 194, 227, 230–31, 235; Spain 259, 260; and labour unrest 595; see also British Union of Fascists Faux, Julian 607, 613, 619, 751 FBI (US Federal Bureau of Investigation): pre-war 210; and VENONA project 366, 372–3, 377; and atom spies 386–7, 389, 390; involvement in investigations into alleged Soviet penetration of security services 509, 514; Irish Republican investigations 697, 749–50; categorization of double agents’ motives 713 Ferguson, Victor 94, 96, 99 ‘fifth column’ fears: wartime 223–4, 225, 227, 228, 229–30, 859–50; Cold War 400, 405 Findlay, Mansfeldt de Carbonnel 86, 89 ‘Finney, Jim’ (IIB agent) 123, 149, 152 First United States Army Group (FUSAG) 284, 299, 305, 309 First World War: outbreak 50, 53–4; spy mania 53–5, 81, 223; Western Front 55, 73, 91, 96, 98–9, 104, 105, 106, 108, 861; opposition to 66, 94–5, 99, 101–4, 106; battle of Jutland 72; naval operations 72, 463; sabotage operations 75, 77, 78–9, 852; Eastern Front 77, 98; conscription 94–5; Caporetto 104; Amiens 106; Armistice 106; demobilization 140; Holt-Wilson on 187 Fischer Williams, Jenifer (later Hart) 375, 538–9, 540 Fisher, Sir Warren 119, 120, 136–7, 203, 218–19, 227 FLAVIUS, Operation 739–45 Fletcher, Yvonne 701, 702 Floud, Bernard 538–41 FLUENCY (joint Security Service–SIS working party) 510–12, 515–18, 521, 634 Foot, Sir Hugh 464, 465 Foot, Michael 166, 418, 464, 578, 638, 663 FOOT, Operation (1971 expulsion of Soviet intelligence personnel) 565–7, 571–3, 574–5, 576, 579, 586, 732, 859 Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) 481, 552–3, 566, 701, 724 Foreign Office 25, 35, 119, 174–5, 207, 208–9, 244, 246, 263–5, 268, 279, 393–4, 407, 410, 421, 425, 495, 496–7, 533, 854 FORTITUDE, Operation 296–8, 299–300, 310, 855 Foulkes, Frank 410, 411, 529, 530 FOXHUNTER, Operation 463 France: Triple Entente 8; Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) 11, 12; pre-First World War German intelligence in 52, 66; liaison with British intelligence 71, 137, 185; First World War 80, 98–9, 101; post-First World War threat 117; French Communist Party (PCF) 161; Nazi occupation 205, 222, 223, 230, 298; Allied invasion 284, 296–7, 304–10; decolonization 442; Suez crisis 445, 473; reaction to FOOT 574–5; terrorist attacks in 691, 692; PIRA bases in 699, 772; Islamist terrorism 802; see also DST Franco, Francisco 260, 267 Frazer, John 409, 410 Freeman, John 410, 446, 529, 530 Frolik, Josef 535, 541–3, 707 Fryers, Robert ‘Rab’ 777, 784–5, 855 Fuchs, Klaus: investigation, interrogation and confession 334, 371, 385–6, 858, 853; conviction and imprisonment 345, 377, 386–7; and Gouzenko defection 346; identified through VENONA decrypts 375, 376, 377, 384–5; case causes crisis in Special Relationship 386–7, 390; run by female GRU controller 550, 580; links with Melita Norwood 580 Fulton Report (1968) 338 Furnival Jones, Sir Martin (‘FJ’): recruited to MI5 219; on Masterman 317–18; appointed DG (1965) 328; background and character 328, 332; introduction of new career structure 332; management style 338, 547; and Philby case 432, 435; stationing of SLOs in Africa 469, 471; and phasing out of SLOs 481; and Portland spy-ring 485, 486; and Blake case 489; and investigations of Mitchell and Hollis 506–7, 515, 516, 517–18, 520; and FLUENCY working party 511–12, 515; and Golitsyn and Angleton’s conspiracy theories 513, 515, 516; and Wigg 524–5; industrial subversion investigations 528, 529, 588, 590–91, 594–6; and D-Notice affair 531; advises Marcia Williams’s removal 533; and Callaghan 534–6; and Thorpe affair 534; review of protective security 537, 607; and Blake escape and defection 538; and Floud and Owen cases 539, 542; Heath’s dislike of 547, 587; retirement (1972) 547; appointment of successor 547–8; and FOOT 567, 574; and Arab terrorism 601–2; and Northern Ireland 602–3, 604, 607, 618 FX Branch 560, 647, 683, 700, 702, 734, 745–6 G Branch 84, 93, 94, 745–6, 772, 805, 818; G1 95–6, 97; G4 145; see also Appendix 3 Gaitskell, Hugh 412, 416, 418–19, 526, 847–8, 853 Gallacher, Willie 148, 166, 278, 381, 404 Gandhi, Indira 446, 736–7 Gannon, Donal 795–7 Garby-Czerniawski, Roman (double agent BRUTUS) 298–9, 300, 309, 312, 316 Gardiner, Gerald, Baron 410, 525 Gardner, Meredith 366, 376, 423, 431, 433–4 GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters): collaboration with American A(F)SA 366, 372–3; VENONA project 366, 372, 378, 434; at Eastcote 428; Prime case 578–9, 712–13, 754, 756; counter-proliferation role 788 Gee, Ethel ‘Bunty’ 485, 487 General Strike (1926) 125–6 George V, King 146, 179 George VI, King 297, 310, 416, 856 German Communist Party (KPD) 188, 189–90 German embassy (London) 195–7, 199, 853 Germany, Imperial: pre-war espionage and invasion threat 3, 7–21, 30–52, 861; navy 8, 55, 64, 162; Meldewesen system 30; wartime espionage and sabotage attempts 66–80, 861–2; wartime subversion 86–7, 90–92, 94, 99–100, 101–3, 106–7, 852; Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918) 104; Treaty of Versailles (1919) 186, 195, 198, 852 Germany, Weimar 117, 186–8, 198, 852 Germany, Nazi: anti-Semitism 7, 189–90; Hitler’s rise 188–9; violence and repression 188–9, 190; concentration camps 189, 352, 364; rearmament 195; and Rhineland 198; annexation of Austria 200; threat to Czechoslovakia 200, 202, 207–8; pre-war espionage 210–11, 212–13; invasion of Poland 213; invasion of France and Low Countries 222, 223; planned invasion of Britain 230–31, 235, 250, 257–9, 858; invasion of Soviet Union 273, 292 Germany, post-war see East Germany; West Germany Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) 451–4, 468, 470–71, 859 Gibraltar: DSO 138, 220; Burgess goes wild in 422; attempted PIRA terrorist attack (1988) 739–45, 748 Glad, Tör (double agent JEFF) 292 Glading, Percy 137, 167, 179, 180–82, 183, 854 Gladstone, Hugh 62, 63, 64, 84 Glasgow 41, 139, 246, 254, 448, 653, 654; pub bombings (1979) 654; organized crime 790; terrorist attack on airport (2007) 836 GOLD, Operation 490 Goleniewski, Michal 484–5, 487, 488, 511 Golitsyn, Anatoli: intelligence on Cambridge Five 378, 435, 438, 439; defection 435, 503, 504; paranoia and exaggeration 439, 503, 504, 516; Vassall case 492; and Hollis and Mitchell 503–4, 507, 511, 512–13, 516, 518, 519; limitations of his evidence 503, 504; temporary move to Britain 504, 505, 506; and Sino-Soviet split 512–14; and CAZAB investigations 514–15 Gollan, John 402–3, 404, 410, 528, 592 Good Friday Agreement (1998) 782, 798 Gorbachev, Mikhail 680, 723, 725 Gordievsky, Oleg: posting to London 348, 708–12; identification of ELLI 348–9; on Pontecorvo 390; and identification of Fifth Man 440–41, 707–6; identification of Bob Edwards as KGB agent 527, 710–11, 711–12; on Jack Jones 536, 589, 657, 710–11; on KGB contacts with anti-nuclear movement 674–5; on funding of NUM 679; on Libyan terrorism 701; on Soviet fear of nuclear attack 709, 722–3, 861, 860; and Thatcher 709, 720, 725, 727, 730; succeeds Titov 710–11; and Hollis investigations 712; and Bettaney 714–18, 721; and Guk’s expulsion from London 724–5; appointed London resident designate 724–6; exposure and defection 726–7, 730; on Mikardo 758 Gordon Walker, Patrick 345, 412–13, 415, 416, 480, 526 Gorsky, Anatoli 184, 269, 272, 280 Gouzenko, Igor 282, 339–2, 343–49, 380, 431–2, 434 Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS): SIS control of 120; decrypts of Soviet ciphers 143–4, 146, 147, 154–5, 175–7, 178, 261; and ARCOS affair 156; surveillance of employees 158; decrypts of German ciphers 248, 253, 254, 300, 305, 855; relocation to Bletchley Park 248; Churchill’s interest in 287, 856; and Palestine intercept station 353; see also GCHQ; ISOS; ULTRA Government War Book 194, 404, 406, 859 Grant, Ted 660, 661, 682 Graves, Karl 40–41, 42–4, 50, 70 Gray, Olga 179–82, 183, 220–21, 401, 854 Green, Oliver 277, 281 Greene, Sir Hugh 396 Greenhill, Sir Denis, 565, 571, 572 Gregory, Ivor (Soviet agent ACE) 579, 582–3, 585 Grey, Sir Edward 37, 86, 89 Grieve, John 796, 855 Grist, Evelyn 274, 334–5 Grivas, George 462–5 Gromyko, Andrei 553, 566, 567, 573 Grosse, Heinrich 39–40, 42 GRU (Soviet military intelligence): pre-war anti-Western imperialist operations 161; wartime espionage 280, 374, 378–9; Canadian spy-ring 339–41, 344–49; messages decrypted by VENONA 378; growth of London residency in 1960s 491, 565–7; mass expulsion of London personnel (Operation FOOT) 565, 567, 571–3, 574–5, 732, 859; Operation RYAN 709, 722–3, 861; expulsion of agents following Gordievsky defection 727, 730, 736; policy on visas for 732–3 Guantánamo Bay 825 Guk, Arkadi 710, 714–17, 718, 719, 723–5, 732 H Branch 84, 779–80; H2 section see Registry; see also Appendix 3 Haddad, Wadi 60, 601, 605, 607 Hague, The 80, 651; SIS mission 200–201, 212–13, 241–2, 244–5, 246 Hahn, John 67, 68 Hain, Peter 641–2, 942 Haines, Joe 629, 631, 633, 634 Haldane, Maldwyn Makgill 59, 60, 63 Haldane, Richard Burdon, 1st Viscount 14–15, 19–20, 39, 54, 59 Halifax, E.

Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
by Jeremy Scahill
Published 22 Apr 2013

“But, instead, investigators found that he had developed close links” with the Taliban. “The government and security agencies were surprised to know that Davis and some of his colleagues were involved in activities that were not spelled out in the agreement.” The mainstream Pakistani conspiracy theories on Davis suggested that the American operative was setting up false flag bombings to force the Pakistani government to take a more aggressive approach toward militant groups or to give the impression that the country’s nuclear weapons were not secure. No evidence was ever presented to support these allegations. The truth may never be known, but it is certainly possible that Davis was up to something with the Taliban and al Qaeda that Pakistan did not like and the US government would never want to acknowledge.

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ABCNews.go.com, February 9, 2011. 415 “belonged to the security establishment”: Kamran Yousaf, “Raymond Davis Case: Men Killed in Lahore Were Intelligence Operatives, Says Official,” Express Tribune, February 5, 2011. 415 emphatically denied: “Agencies Rule Out Any Link with Lahore Killing Incident,” News International, February 8, 2011. 415 new chief of station: Rob Crilly, “Raymond Davis ‘Was Acting Head of CIA in Pakistan,’” Telegraph, February 22, 2011. 415 “a blessing in disguise”: Qaiser Butt, “‘CIA Agent Davis Had Ties with Local Militants,’” Express Tribune, February 22, 2011. 416 “Davis’s job”: Ibid. 416 false flag bombings: Ibid. 416 “All countries conduct espionage”: Colonel W. Patrick Lang, comment thread for post by Brigadier (Ret.) F. B. Ali, “#Update: The Raymond Davis Affair,” Sic Semper Tyrannis (blog), http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2011/02/update-the-raymond-davis-affair-fb-ali.html. 416 “a paper-shuffling diplomat”: Mazzetti, “A Shooting in Pakistan Reveals Fraying Alliance.” 417 drawn up plans: Marc Ambinder and D.

Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back
by Guy Shrubsole
Published 1 May 2019

Its proximity made Skripal’s poisoning seem like even more of a calculated insult: Putin’s demonstration that he could get away with a chemical attack right under the nose of the British establishment. A vast amount of nonsense has been written about what goes on at Porton Down. Forget the talk of alien corpses, ‘Britain’s Area 51’ and false-flag conspiracy theories; the truth is far stranger than fiction. This is where the UK’s chemical weapons programme began, over a century ago. And it began on land belonging to a land reformer. I caught the bus out of Salisbury to the tiny hamlet of Porton, and hiked up the hill to the high perimeter fence surrounding the defence laboratory.

Docker: Up & Running: Shipping Reliable Containers in Production
by Sean Kane and Karl Matthias
Published 14 May 2023

This interface will have a different name in the container’s namespace as well. As with so many pieces of Docker, you can replace the proxy with a different implementation. To do so, you would use the --userland-proxy-path=<path> setting, but there are probably not that many good reasons to do this unless you have a very specialized network. However, the --userland-proxy=false flag to dockerd will completely disable the userland-proxy and instead rely on hairpin NAT functionality to route traffic between local containers. If you need higher-throughput services, this might be right for you. Note A hairpin NAT is typically used to describe services inside a NATed network that address one another with their public IP addresses.

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
by Naomi Klein
Published 11 Sep 2023

I followed her as she burrowed deeper and deeper into a warren of conspiracy rabbit holes, places where it often seems that my own Shock Doctrine research has gone through the looking glass and is now gazing back at me as a network of fantastical plots that cast the very real crises we face—from Covid to climate change to Russian military aggression—as false flag attacks, planted by the Chinese Communists/corporate globalists/Jews. I tracked her new alliances with some of the most malevolent men on the planet, the ones sowing information chaos on a mass scale and gleefully egging on insurrections in country after country. I investigated their rewards—political, emotional, and financial—and explored the deep racial, cultural, and historical fears and denials off of which they feed.

Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All
by Costas Lapavitsas
Published 14 Aug 2013

Lenin, V.I., Imperialism and the Split of Socialism, in Collected Works, vol. 23, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1964 (1916), pp. 105–20. Lenin, V.I., The Question of Peace, in Collected Works, vol. 21, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1964 (1915), pp. 290–94. Lenin, V.I., Socialism and War, in Collected Works, vol. 21, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1964 (1915), pp. 297–338. Lenin, V.I., Under a False Flag, in Collected Works, vol. 21, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1964 (1917), pp. 135–57. Levine, Ross, ‘Financial Development and Economic Growth’, Journal of Economic Literature 35:2, 1997, pp. 688–726. Levine, Ross, and Sara Zervos, ‘Stock Market Development and Long-Run Growth’, The World Bank Economic Review 10:2, 1996, pp. 323–39.

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
by Thomas Rid

“It has been established that the Kampfverband is a phantom organization, existing only as a signature placed on letters and leaflets which are prepared by the East German foreign intelligence service HVA,” the CIA concluded.11 Shortly thereafter, in his testimony before the Senate, Richard Helms brought up this episode and accused the Ministry of State Security in East Berlin of having plotted the terrorist attack under a false flag: “Evidence discovered during police investigation pointed toward the nonexistent West German group as the murderer, precisely as the East German intelligence service had intended,” Helms told the Senate Committee of the Judiciary.12 But the CIA was wrong. The defector either lied or erred. The HVA didn’t do it.

Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
by Clive Thompson
Published 26 Mar 2019

At Columbia University, the researcher Jonathan Albright experimentally searched on YouTube for the phrase “crisis actors,” in the wake of a major school shooting, and took the “next up” recommendation from the recommendation system. He quickly amassed 9,000 videos, a large percentage that seemed custom designed to shock, inflame, or mislead, ranging from “rape game jokes, shock reality social experiments, celebrity pedophilia, ‘false flag’ rants, and terror-related conspiracy theories,” as he wrote. Some of it, he figured, was driven by sheer profit motive: Post outrageous nonsense, get into the recommendation system, and reap the profit from the clicks. Recommender systems, in other words, may have a bias toward “inflammatory content,” as Tufekci notes.

Bleeding Edge: A Novel
by Thomas Pynchon
Published 16 Sep 2013

When it happened? The Day Everything Changed, where were you?” “In my little cubicle. Reading Tacitus.” The warrior-scholar routine. “Who makes a case that Nero didn’t set fire to Rome so he could blame it on the Christians.” “Sounds familiar, somehow.” “You people want to believe this was all a false-flag caper, some invisible superteam, forging the intel, faking the Arabic chatter, controlling air traffic, military communications, civilian news media—everything coordinating without a hitch or a malfunction, the whole tragedy set up to look like a terror attack. Please. My wised-up civilian heartbreaker.

Lords of the Desert: The Battle Between the US and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East
by James Barr
Published 8 Aug 2018

Allen Dulles described Gromyko’s intervention as ‘perhaps the bitterest attack ever made by a Soviet official on the United States’, and that evening his elder brother tried to reduce the tension slightly by saying that he did not think American troops would be needed in the area.19 On 13 September an Anglo-American Working Group, which had been set up in Washington a week earlier to consider the options, produced a preliminary report. Agreeing with Dulles that only outside force could rapidly change the situation, it set out a plan to encourage unrest inside Syria, border incidents and false flag operations in neighbouring countries that would give Syria’s neighbours grounds to intervene, as well as sabotage, harassment and the assassination of Sarraj, Bizri and Bakdash. When this ‘Preferred Plan’ was signed off on the eighteenth, both sides agreed that it would be better if the Arab states could be persuaded to act, with Turkey – the region’s old imperial power – only intervening in the last resort.

Politics on the Edge: The Instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller From the Host of Hit Podcast the Rest Is Politics
by Rory Stewart
Published 13 Sep 2023

A few days later, a newspaper article appeared revealing that Grant had recruited a tight group of chief agents for Boris Johnson, and was sending them out to cultivate targets, testing their loyalty, probing for weak points. His favourite technique was said to be pretending to support Theresa May. The papers called this, in dramatic tones, a ‘false-flag operation’. Part Four 13. ‘A Balliol man in Africa’ I had first met Boris Johnson outside the sandbagged shipping container in which I lived in Iraq in 2005, when I was still working as an administrator and he was a backbench MP. He was wearing blue body armour, and he had not looked overweight then: his white-blond hair was short and clean, his cheeks were pink.

The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine
by Christopher Miller
Published 17 Jul 2023

Speaking to reporters at the scene, Alexander Zakharchenko, the DNR’s figurehead, accused Ukrainian forces of carrying out the attack and vowed to go on the offensive. “There is no ceasefire. We will fight. I promise,” he said. In Kyiv, Yatsenyuk said the blame rested with Russia, suggesting their forces carried out the shelling in a false-flag attack. “Today Russian terrorists once again committed a terrible act against humanity, and the Russian Federation bears responsibility for that,” he said. Back at the Ramada, I asked a pro-Russian local fighter what was next. He answered with the bravado I had come to expect of everyone who carried a gun here.

Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
by Peter Biskind
Published 6 Nov 2023

One of the smart things it did was to drill down into the conflict in the Middle East, airing either originals, as in the case of a little Palestinian gem called Huda’s Salon, a feel-bad, no-way-out movie, or remaking large-scale Israeli series, a la Showtime’s Homeland, in this case Tehran, as well as Keshet’s False Flag, aka Suspicion, and Mark Boal’s Echo 3, co-produced by Keshet and Apple. Best of all is its crackling spy thriller, Slow Horses, about a clutch of deplorables guilty of crimes against their employer, MI5, that can’t fire them but can’t use them, either, and puts them out to pasture in Slough House, headed by Gary Oldman, as an older, even more curdled George Smiley, whom he played in John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in 2011.

The Disappearing Act
by Florence de Changy
Published 24 Dec 2020

Wattrelos did not contest the fact that Bajc was a professional when it came to communication. She clearly was, and she knew how to break into tears at just the right moment. Some MHists had even raised questions about her ‘TV performances’, and dismissed her as a ‘crisis actress’ taking centre stage in a ‘false flag’ story. It was amazing what you could find on the internet. Yet, at any rate, Bajc’s LinkedIn profile was flawless, even though she had almost never stayed in the same job for more than two years. She held senior executive positions in Tel Aviv with Tescom, an Israeli software quality assurance and testing company, which also had an armaments division.

Inside British Intelligence
by Gordon Thomas

Ari Ben-Menashe, who ran several informers for the Mossad, described what is involved to the author, “When you initiate an asset into working for your service, you tell him only what he needs to know to protect himself and you. You want to know his secrets, but you don’t tell him yours—or if it is vital to do so to keep him on your side, you tell him ‘false flags’ that sound totally convincing, but he cannot really check. You constantly remind him he does nothing without your approval. You give him a personal code—a word or a short sentence—which only the two of you know. From the outset you must establish he works only for you. He will probably at some stage need you to play the part of confessor, reassuring him.

The Economic Weapon
by Nicholas Mulder
Published 15 Mar 2021

Although an escalating economic and financial crisis was spreading across Central Europe, the League Assembly that convened in September 1931 still took place in an atmosphere of peace. Cecil even told those assembled in Geneva that “scarcely ever has there been a period in the world’s history when war seemed less likely than it does at the present.”15 Eight days later, on Friday, 18 September, this notion was shattered. In an infamous false-flag attack, the Mukden Incident, Japanese army officers bombed the South Manchurian Railroad as a pretext to take over large parts of the region. On the same weekend, a mutiny among Royal Navy sailors in Scotland led to panic on the London Stock Exchange and in currency markets, forcing the British government to take sterling off the gold standard on Monday, 21 September.

Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
by John P. Carlin and Garrett M. Graff
Published 15 Oct 2018

Other financial institutions found themselves targets: US Bank, Wells Fargo, PNC Bank, BB&T, HSBC, Capital One, Key Bank, and others, nearly four dozen in all.18 We knew almost immediately that despite the public statements, the attacks weren’t coming from some hackers aggrieved about a low-budget YouTube movie. Just as with Shamoon, this was another false flag to distract from the most likely suspect: Iran. Senator Joe Lieberman, the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, announced that he blamed an elite unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. “I don’t believe these were just hackers who were skilled enough to cause disruption of the Web sites,” Lieberman told C-SPAN in late September 2012.

The Cardinal of the Kremlin
by Tom Clancy
Published 2 Jan 1988

It took no small amount of moral courage for an officer of the Second Chief Directorate to say that he was not on a counterespionage case. "How sure are you?" "We'll never be sure, Comrade Colonel, but if CIA had done the murder, would they not have disposed of the body- or, if they were trying to use his death to protect a highly placed spy, why not leave evidence to implicate him as a totally separate case? There were no false flags left behind, even though this would seem the place to do so." "Yes, we would have done that. A good point. Run down all your leads anyway." "Of course, Comrade Colonel. Four to six days, I think." "Anything else?" Vatutin asked. Heads shook negatively. "Very well, return to your sections, Comrades."

The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling
by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross
Published 30 Jun 2013

Location intensive dimensions may have multiple geographic hierarchies. In all of these cases, the separate hierarchies can gracefully coexist in the same dimension table. Chapter 3 Retail Sales Chapter 19 ETL Subsystems and Techniques Flags and Indicators as Textual Attributes Cryptic abbreviations, true/false flags, and operational indicators should be supplemented in dimension tables with full text words that have meaning when independently viewed. Operational codes with embedded meaning within the code value should be broken down with each part of the code expanded into its own separate descriptive dimension attribute.

Dead or Alive
by Tom Clancy and Grant (CON) Blackwood
Published 7 Dec 2010

“His name is Cassiano Silva. Brazilian by birth, raised in the Catholic faith. He converted to Islam six years ago. He is one of the faithful, of that I’m sure, and he’s never failed to provide what I’ve asked of him.” “Tariq tells me your recruitment of him was nicely done.” “Western intelligence calls it a ‘false flag.’ He believes I’m with Kuwait’s intelligence service, with connections to OPEC’s Market Analysis Division. I thought he would find the idea of industrial espionage more . . . palatable.” “I’m impressed, Ibrahim,” the Emir said, meaning it. “You’ve shown good instincts.” “Thank you, sir.” “And your plan . . . you’re confident it is feasible?”

Gnomon
by Nick Harkaway
Published 18 Oct 2017

Gnomon was Smith’s creature, but Hunter was waiting with open arms. She changes trains, wondering where she should go, not knowing where to go, and in consequence able to think of only one place. Pulling up the hood of her rain cape, she returns to the surface, and boards a tram. She wonders briefly whether Kraken is simply a ruse, a false-flag operation of the Witness, and there is simply nowhere to run. She changes seats in the tram, left and then right and front and back, the absurd twitching of a mouse already caught or already escaped from the cat, until at last she washes up in a place she has never been before, her face against the cool door.

Global Catastrophic Risks
by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic
Published 2 Jul 2008

As a counterargument to the above assertions regarding the adoption of new weapons technologies, it is possible that following the initial use by terrorists 5° For more information on the topic of disruptive technologies and their singular adoption behaviour, see Bower and Christensen (1995). Table 19.1 Most Extreme Overall Scenario: Terrorists Precipitate a Full-scale Interstate Nuclear War (Either by Spoofing, Hacking, or Conducting a False Flag Operation) Time Period Likelihood of Motivational Threshold Being Met Likelihood of Capability Requirements Being Met Probability of Successful Attack (Taking into Account Motivations and Capabilities) Consequences of Successful Attack Global Risk Present Moderate Extremely low Requires ability to Extremely low Extremely adverse (Global Scale) Catastrophic (LocalJNational Scale) - equal to consequences of large-scale interstate nuclear war Extremely low (globally endurable risk) Very low to low Extremely adverse (Global Scale) Catastrophic (LocaljNational Scale) - equal to consequences of large-scale interstate nuclear war Extremely low (globally endurable risk) 1 . crack launch systems (of U S / Russia) OR 2. spoof early warning systems (of U S J Russia) O R 3. detonate their own warhead Future (within 1 00 years) Moderate to high AND ability to disguise their involvement AND luck that states would be fooled Very low (likelihood is similar to present with the exception of the possibility of more states with nuclear weapons and technological advances enabling easier self-production or acquisition of nuclear weapons.

Rainbow Six
by Tom Clancy
Published 2 Jan 1998

Besides, it had turned out, the elderly married couple they'd used as couriers to the West, delivering cash to Soviet agents in America and Canada, had been under FBI control almost the entire time! Popov had to shake his head. Excellent as the KGB had been, the FBI was just as good. It had a long-standing institutional brilliance at false-flag operations, which, in the case of the couriers, had compromised a large number of sensitive operations run by the "Active Measures" people in KGB's Service A. The Americans had had the good sense not to burn the operations, but rather use them as expanding resources in order to gain a systematic picture of what KGB was doing-targets and objectives-and so learn what the Russians hadn't already penetrated.

Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell
by Neal Stephenson
Published 3 Jun 2019

“Where is He now?” “We don’t know! Maybe here. He has been in eclipse for two thousand years. The conspiracy of the church was powerful. They staged a fake Reformation to get people to believe that reform was possible. All a show. Orchestrated from the Vatican.” “So, Martin Luther was running a false-flag operation for the Pope,” Phil said. “In that case—” But he broke off as he felt Sophia stepping on his toe, under the table. He looked down at her. Having caught his eye, she panned her gaze across the entire scene, asking him to take it all in. Reminding him that this wasn’t Princeton. This was Ameristan.

The Sum of All Fears
by Tom Clancy
Published 2 Jan 1989

What does this agent give us?" the NSA Director asked. "Some very useful material - us and Japan." "But nothing on the Soviet Union?" Jack hesitated before answering, but there was no question of Olson's loyalty. Or his intelligence. "Correct." "And you're saying that you're certain this isn't a false-flag operation? I repeat - certain?" "You know better than that, Ron. What's certain in this business?" "Before I request a couple hundred million dollars' worth of funding, I need something better than this. It's happened before, and we've done it, too - if the other side has something you can't break, get them to change it.

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
by Rick Perlstein
Published 1 Jan 2008

A former junior executive at Haldeman’s old advertising firm, he got together with another Haldeman protégé, Gordon Strachan, to effectuate the demands Nixon was always grunting to sabotage Democrats. (“Now, get a massive mailing in Florida that’s he’s against J. Edgar Hoover, a massive mailing that he’s for busing”; “Put this down: I would say, a postcard mailing to all Democrats in New Hampshire…Write in Ted Kennedy.”) They called such false-flag black operations “ratfucks”—the term of art of right-wing student politics at USC, of which both Chapin and Strachan were alumni—and they hit on Don Segretti, whose campaign for student senate they had worked on, as the man for the job. Chapin arranged for Segretti to meet with Herbert Kalmbach, who finalized a $16,000 salary for him from one of his slush funds.

Engineering Security
by Peter Gutmann

This affected implementations from BEA Systems, Debian, FreeBSD, Microsoft, and Red Hat [392] (although in some cases only via applications on the platforms themselves, for example FreeBSD was affected via the ports collection [393]), individual PKI vendors like Baltimore, and numerous others that quietly fixed things without attracting any public attention (for example IBM’s Lotus Domino server wasn’t fixed until years later). In other words for the first ten years in which these technology platforms were deployed they couldn’t get the single most basic value in a certificate, a simple TRUE/FALSE flag, right. The problem goes back much further than that though, having been reported again and again over the years without anyone fixing it. What had forced the fix in 2002 was that it gained widespread media coverage, forcing the vendors’ hands, except for Apple who left it unfixed for another nine years after that [394] and never fixed it at all for some products [395].