{"id":79735,"date":"2016-09-19T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=79735"},"modified":"2016-09-16T19:23:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T18:23:31","slug":"false-flag-terror-has-succeeded-consistently-against-audiences-around-the-world-for-millennia-to-compel-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/09\/false-flag-terror-has-succeeded-consistently-against-audiences-around-the-world-for-millennia-to-compel-war\/","title":{"rendered":"False Flag Terror \u201cHas Succeeded Consistently against Audiences around the World, for Millennia, to Compel War\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Presidents, Prime Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Spooks, Soldiers and Police ADMIT to False Flag Terror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_79736\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/false-flag-pic-painting.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79736\" class=\"wp-image-79736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/false-flag-pic-painting.jpg\" alt=\"Painting by Anthony Freda\" width=\"700\" height=\"890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/false-flag-pic-painting.jpg 531w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/false-flag-pic-painting-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-79736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painting by Anthony Freda<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>12 Sep 2016 &#8211; <\/em>In the following instances, officials in the government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed an attack) <em>admit <\/em>to it, either orally, in writing, or through photographs or videos:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Japanese troops set off a small explosion on a train track in 1931, and falsely blamed it on China in order to justify an invasion of Manchuria. This is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mukden_Incident\" >known as<\/a> the \u201cMukden Incident\u201d or the \u201cManchurian Incident\u201d. The Tokyo International Military Tribunal <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=rHainkH7pdEC&amp;pg=PA321&amp;dq=%22Several+of+the+participators+in+the+plan,+including+Hashimoto,+have+on+various+occasions+admitted+their+part+in+the+plot+and+have+stated+that+the+object%22&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=NrOtVLiQGsm6ogT49oCQAg&amp;ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=%22Several%20of%20the%20participators%20in%20the%20plan%2C%20including%20Hashimoto%2C%20have%20on%20various%20occasions%20admitted%20their%20part%20in%20the%20plot%20and%20have%20stated%20that%20the%20object%22&amp;f=false\" >found<\/a>: \u201cSeveral of the participators in the plan, including Hashimoto [a high-ranking Japanese army officer], <em>have on various occasions <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=rHainkH7pdEC&amp;pg=PA321&amp;dq=%22Several+of+the+participators+in+the+plan,+including+Hashimoto,+have+on+various+occasions+admitted+their+part+in+the+plot+and+have+stated+that+the+object%22&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=NrOtVLiQGsm6ogT49oCQAg&amp;ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=%22Several%20of%20the%20participators%20in%20the%20plan%2C%20including%20Hashimoto%2C%20have%20on%20various%20occasions%20admitted%20their%20part%20in%20the%20plot%20and%20have%20stated%20that%20the%20object%22&amp;f=false\" >admitted<\/a> their part in the plot and have stated that the object of the \u2018Incident\u2019 was to afford an excuse for the occupation of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army \u2026.\u201d And see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/imtfe.law.virginia.edu\/collections\/morgan\/2\/5\/newspaper-article-titled-ex-jap-army-leader-tells-mukden-plot\" >this<\/a>, this and this.<\/p>\n<p>(2) A major with the Nazi SS <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gleiwitz_incident\" >admitted<\/a> at the Nuremberg trials that \u2013 under orders from the chief of the Gestapo \u2013 he and some other Nazi operatives faked attacks on their own people and resources which they blamed on the Poles, to justify the invasion of Poland.<\/p>\n<p>(3) The minutes of the high command of the Italian government \u2013 subsequently approved by Mussolini himself \u2013 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-hollow-legions-Mussolinis-1940-1941\/dp\/B0006CKCQE\" >admitted<\/a> that violence on the Greek-Albanian border was carried out by Italians and falsely blamed on the Greeks, as an excuse for Italy\u2019s 1940 invasion of Greece.<\/p>\n<p>(4) Nazi general Franz Halder also testified at the Nuremberg trials that Nazi leader Hermann Goering <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring#Possible_responsibility_for_the_Reichstag_fire\" >admitted<\/a> to setting fire to the German parliament building in *1933, and then falsely blaming the communists for the arson.<\/p>\n<p>(5) Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shelling_of_Mainila\" >admitted<\/a> in writing that the Soviet Union\u2019s Red Army shelled the Russian village of Mainila in 1939 \u2013 while blaming the attack on Finland \u2013 as a basis for launching the \u201cWinter War\u201d against Finland. Russian president Boris Yeltsin <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shelling_of_Mainila\" >agreed<\/a> that Russia had been the aggressor in the Winter War.<\/p>\n<p>(6) The Russian Parliament, current Russian president Putin and former Soviet leader Gorbachev all <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2010\/nov\/26\/russian-parliament-guilt-katyn-massacre\" >admit<\/a> that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered his secret police to execute 22,000 Polish army officers and civilians in 1940, and then falsely blamed it on the Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>(7) The British government <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2010\/09\/19\/mi6-attacked-jewish-refugee-ships-after-wwii.html\" >admits<\/a> that \u2013 between 1946 and 1948 \u2013 it bombed 5 ships carrying Jews attempting to flee the Holocaust to seek safety in Palestine, set up a fake group called \u201cDefenders of Arab Palestine\u201d, and then had the psuedo-group falsely claim responsibility for the bombings (and see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/incoming\/article2731426.ece\" >this<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/uk-news\/38520\/operation-embarrass-you-bet-britains-secret-war-jews\" >this<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-11378601\" >this<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>(8) Israel <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/Ext\/Comp\/ArticleLayout\/CdaArticlePrintPreview\/1,2506,L-3065838,00.html#n\" >admits<\/a> that in 1954, an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind \u201cevidence\u201d implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/SHR\/5-1\/text\/beinin.html\" >this<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/History\/lavon.html\" >this<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Army does not believe this is an isolated incident. For example, the U.S. Army\u2019s School of Advanced Military Studies <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2001\/sep\/10\/20010910-025319-6906r\/\" >said<\/a> of Mossad (Israel\u2019s intelligence service):<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRuthless and cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and <u>make it look like a Palestinian\/Arab act<\/u>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(9) The CIA <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/library\/world\/mideast\/041600iran-cia-index.html\" >admits<\/a> that it hired Iranians in the 1950\u2032s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>(10) The Turkish Prime Minister <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=SdubdhMwM1YC&amp;pg=PA8&amp;lpg=PA8&amp;dq=the+riots+were+purportedly+in+response+to+a+september+5+1955+greek+bombing+attack+on+the+turkish+consulate&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=O7OKEmcJrF&amp;sig=y4vdM7vHk8Z8g1jH4gXDHTXw400&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=z2lKVIuEII3wgwTZ04HICA&amp;ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=the%20riots%20were%20purportedly%20in%20response%20to%20a%20september%205%201955%20greek%20bombing%20attack%20on%20the%20turkish%20consulate&amp;f=false\" >admitted<\/a> that the Turkish government carried out the 1955 bombing on a Turkish consulate in Greece \u2013 also damaging the nearby birthplace of the founder of modern Turkey \u2013 and blamed it on Greece, for the purpose of inciting and justifying anti-Greek violence.<\/p>\n<p>(11) The British Prime Minister <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/07\/57-years-ago-u-s-britain-approved-use-islamic-extremists-topple-syrian-government.html\" >admitted<\/a> to his defense secretary that he and American president Dwight Eisenhower approved a plan in 1957 to carry out attacks in Syria and blame it on the Syrian government as a way to effect regime change.<\/p>\n<p>(12) The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,3604,462976,00.html\" >former head of Italian counterintelligence<\/a> admit that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strategy_of_tension\" >NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s through the 1980s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people\u2019s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051130003012\/http:\/www.isn.ethz.ch\/php\/documents\/collection_gladio\/synopsis.htm\" >\u201cYou had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security\u201d<\/a> \u2026 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/video.search.yahoo.com\/yhs\/search;_ylt=AwrTca_5q89UIAwAVlsnnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTB0MzkwOG5yBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1lIUzAwNF8x?p=bbc+gladio&amp;hspart=mozilla&amp;hsimp=yhs-001\" >so that \u201ca state of emergency could be declared, so people would willingly trade part of their freedom for the security\u201d<\/a> (and see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/articles\/GAN412A.html\" >this<\/a>) (Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred). And watch <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/video.search.yahoo.com\/yhs\/search;_ylt=AwrTca_5q89UIAwAVlsnnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTB0MzkwOG5yBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1lIUzAwNF8x?p=bbc+gladio&amp;hspart=mozilla&amp;hsimp=yhs-001\" >this BBC special<\/a>. They also allegedly carried out terror attacks in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Gladio\" >France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK<\/a>, and other countries.<\/p>\n<p>The CIA also stressed to the head of the Italian program that Italy needed to use the program to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/video.search.yahoo.com\/yhs\/search;_ylt=AwrTca_5q89UIAwAVlsnnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTB0MzkwOG5yBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1lIUzAwNF8x?p=bbc+gladio&amp;hspart=mozilla&amp;hsimp=yhs-001\" >control <em>internal<\/em> uprisings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>False flag attacks carried out pursuant to this program include \u2013 by way of example only:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051130122600\/http:\/www.isn.ethz.ch\/php\/documents\/collection_gladio\/chronology.htm\" >murder of the Turkish Prime Minister<\/a> (1960)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051130122600\/http:\/www.isn.ethz.ch\/php\/documents\/collection_gladio\/chronology.htm\" >Bombings in Portugal<\/a> (1966)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051130122600\/http:\/www.isn.ethz.ch\/php\/documents\/collection_gladio\/chronology.htm\" >Piazza Fontana massacre in Italy<\/a> (1969)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051130122600\/http:\/www.isn.ethz.ch\/php\/documents\/collection_gladio\/chronology.htm\" >Terror attacks in Turkey<\/a> (1971)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051130122600\/http:\/www.isn.ethz.ch\/php\/documents\/collection_gladio\/chronology.htm\" >Peteano bombing in Italy<\/a> (1972)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051130122600\/http:\/www.isn.ethz.ch\/php\/documents\/collection_gladio\/chronology.htm\" >Shootings in Brescia, Italy and a bombing on an Italian train<\/a> (1974)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051130122600\/http:\/www.isn.ethz.ch\/php\/documents\/collection_gladio\/chronology.htm\" >Shootings in Istanbul, Turkey<\/a> (1977)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051130122600\/http:\/www.isn.ethz.ch\/php\/documents\/collection_gladio\/chronology.htm\" >Atocha massacre in Madrid, Spain<\/a> (1977)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051130122600\/http:\/www.isn.ethz.ch\/php\/documents\/collection_gladio\/chronology.htm\" >abduction and murder of the Italian Prime Minister<\/a> (1978) (and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/1581425\/US-envoy-admits-role-in-Aldo-Moro-killing.html\" >see this<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051130122600\/http:\/www.isn.ethz.ch\/php\/documents\/collection_gladio\/chronology.htm\" >bombing of the Bologna railway station in Italy<\/a> (1980)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051130122600\/http:\/www.isn.ethz.ch\/php\/documents\/collection_gladio\/chronology.htm\" >Shooting and killing 28 shoppers in Brabant county, Belgium <\/a>(1985)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(13) In 1960, American Senator George Smathers <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\/2012\/aug\/17\/john-f-kennedy-fidel-castro\" >suggested<\/a> that the U.S. launch \u201ca false attack made on Guantanamo Bay which would give us the excuse of actually fomenting a fight which would then give us the excuse to go in and [overthrow Castro]\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>(14) Official State Department documents show that, in 1961, the head of the Joint Chiefs and other high-level officials <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2010\/02\/nine-months-before-operation-northwoods-government-leaders-suggested-false-flag-terror-in-the-dominican-republic.html\" >discussed<\/a> blowing up a consulate in the Dominican Republic in order to justify an invasion of that country. The plans were not carried out, but they were all discussed as serious proposals.<\/p>\n<p>(15) As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents show that in 1962, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to <strong><em>blow up AMERICAN airplanes<\/em><\/strong> (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to <strong><em>commit terrorist acts on American soil<\/em><\/strong>, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the following <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/story?id=92662&amp;page=1\" >ABC news report<\/a>; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/%7Ensarchiv\/news\/20010430\/northwoods.pdf\" >the official documents<\/a>; and watch <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IygchZRJVXM\" >this interview <\/a>with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC\u2019s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.<\/p>\n<p>(16) In 1963, the U.S. Department of Defense wrote a paper <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Northwoods#Related_Operation_Mongoose_proposals\" >promoting<\/a> attacks on nations within the Organization of American States \u2013 such as Trinidad-Tobago or Jamaica \u2013 and then falsely blaming them on Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>(17) The U.S. Department of Defense also <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Northwoods#Related_Operation_Mongoose_proposals\" >suggested<\/a> covertly paying a person in the Castro government to attack the United States: \u201cThe only area remaining for consideration then would be to bribe one of Castro\u2019s subordinate commanders to initiate an attack on Guantanamo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(18) A U.S. Congressional committee <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligence.senate.gov\/churchcommittee.html\" >admitted<\/a> that \u2013 as part of its \u201cCointelpro\u201d campaign \u2013 the FBI had used <em>many<\/em> provocateurs in the 1950s through 1970s to carry out violent acts and falsely blame them on political activists.<\/p>\n<p>(19) A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sabri_Yirmibe%C5%9Fo%C4%9Flu\" >top<\/a> Turkish general <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/default.aspx?pageid=438&amp;n=turkey-burned-mosque-during-cyprus-war-gen-says-2010-09-24\" >admitted<\/a> that Turkish forces burned down a mosque on Cyprus in the 1970s and blamed it on their enemy. He <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayszaman.com\/tz-web\/news-222544-100-retired-general-confesses-to-burning-mosque-to-fire-up-public.html\" >explained<\/a>: \u201cIn Special War, certain <em>acts of sabotage are staged and blamed on the enemy<\/em> to increase public resistance. We did this on Cyprus; we even burnt down a mosque.\u201d In response to the surprised correspondent\u2019s incredulous look the general said, \u201cI am giving an example\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>(20) A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nsarchive.gwu.edu\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB222\/\" >declassified<\/a> 1973 CIA document <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nsarchive.gwu.edu\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB222\/top10.pdf\" >reveals<\/a> a program to train foreign police and troops on how to make booby traps, pretending that they were training them on how to <em>investigate<\/em> terrorist acts:<\/p>\n<p>The Agency maintains liaison in varying degrees with foreign police\/security organizations through its field stations \u2026.<\/p>\n<p>[CIA provides training sessions as follows:]<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Providing trainees with <strong>basic knowledge in the uses of commercial and military demolitions and incendiaries<\/strong> as they may be applied in terrorism and industrial sabotage operations.<\/li>\n<li>Introducing the trainees to <strong>commercially available materials and home laboratory techniques<\/strong>, likely to he used in the manufacture of explosives and incendiaries by terrorists or saboteurs.<\/li>\n<li>Familiarizing the trainees with the concept of <strong>target analysis and operational planning<\/strong> that a saboteur or terrorist must employ.<\/li>\n<li>Introducing the trainees to booby trapping devices and techniques giving<strong> practical experience<\/strong> with both manufactured and improvised devices <strong>through actual fabrication<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>The program provides the trainees with <strong>ample opportunity to develop basic familiarity and use proficiently through handling, preparing and applying the various explosive charges, incendiary agents, terrorist devices and sabotage techniques<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>(21) The German government <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Celle_Hole\" >admitted<\/a> (and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=de&amp;u=http:\/\/www.ndr.de\/kultur\/geschichte\/chronologie\/cellerloch102.html&amp;prev=\/search%3Fq%3Dhttp:\/\/www.ndr.de\/kultur\/geschichte\/cellerloch102.html%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DymV%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26channel%3Dsb\" >see this<\/a>) that, in 1978, the German secret service detonated a bomb in the outer wall of a prison and planted \u201cescape tools\u201d on a prisoner \u2013 a member of the Red Army Faction \u2013 which the secret service wished to frame the bombing on.<\/p>\n<p>(22) A Mossad agent <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Way-Deception-Victor-Ostrovsky-ebook\/dp\/B002RL9NL2\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1422773938&amp;sr=1-1\" >admits<\/a> that, in 1984, Mossad planted a radio transmitter in Gaddaffi\u2019s compound in Tripoli, Libya which broadcast fake terrorist transmissions recorded by Mossad, in order to frame Gaddaffi as a terrorist supporter. Ronald Reagan bombed Libya immediately thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>(23) The South African Truth and Reconciliation Council <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov.za\/trc\/decisions%5C2001\/ac21233.htm\" >found<\/a> that, in 1989, the Civil Cooperation Bureau (a covert branch of the South African Defense Force) approached an explosives expert and asked him \u201cto participate in an operation aimed at discrediting the ANC [the African National Congress] by bombing the police vehicle of the investigating officer into the murder incident\u201d, thus framing the ANC for the bombing.<\/p>\n<p>(24) An Algerian diplomat and several officers in the Algerian army <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100223012552\/http:\/www.encyclopedia.com\/doc\/1P1-68004301.html\" >admit<\/a> that, in the 1990s, the Algerian army frequently massacred Algerian civilians and then blamed Islamic militants for the killings (and see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2om_F2uaCxA&amp;feature=player_embedded\" >this video<\/a>; and Agence France-Presse, 9\/27\/2002, French Court Dismisses Algerian Defamation Suit Against Author).<\/p>\n<p>(25) In 1993, a bomb in Northern Ireland killed 9 civilians. Official documents from the Royal Ulster Constabulary (i.e. the British government) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/shankill-road-bombing-mi5-ignored-ira-tip-off-that-could-have-prevent-belfast-atrocity-investigation-a6833541.html\" >show<\/a> that the mastermind of the bombing was a British agent, and that the bombing was designed to inflame sectarian tensions. And see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/2002\/jul\/06\/northernireland.politics\" >this<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.highbeam.com\/doc\/1P2-9989807.html\" >this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(26) The United States Army\u2019s 1994 publication <em>Special Forces Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces<\/em> \u2013 updated in 2004 \u2013 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/wiki\/US_Special_Forces_Foreign_Internal_Defense_Tactics_Techniques_and_Procedures_for_Special_Forces,_FM_31.20-3,_2003\" >recommends<\/a> employing terrorists and using false flag operations to destabilize leftist regimes in Latin America. False flag terrorist attacks were carried out in Latin America and other regions as part of the CIA\u2019s \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dirty_War_%28disambiguation%29\" >Dirty Wars<\/a>\u201c. And <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dirty_War#False_flag_actions_by_SIDE_agents\" >see this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(27) Similarly, a CIA \u201cpsychological operations\u201d manual prepared by a CIA contractor for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/03\/02\/playing-chicken-with-nuclear-war\/\" >noted<\/a> the value of assassinating someone on your own side to create a \u201cmartyr\u201d for the cause. The manual was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychological_Operations_in_Guerrilla_Warfare#Political_reaction\" >authenticated<\/a> by the U.S. government. The manual received so much publicity from Associated Press, Washington Post and other news coverage that \u2013 during the 1984 presidential debate \u2013 President Reagan was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.debates.org\/index.php?page=october-21-1984-debate-transcript\" >confronted<\/a> with the following question on national television:<\/p>\n<p>At this moment, we are confronted with the extraordinary story of a CIA guerrilla manual for the anti-Sandinista contras whom we are backing, which advocates not only assassinations of Sandinistas but the <strong>hiring of criminals to assassinate the guerrillas we are supporting in order to create martyrs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(28) A Rwandan government inquiry <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2010\/jan\/12\/rwanda-hutu-president-plane-inquiry\" >admitted<\/a>\u00a0 that the 1994 shootdown and murder of the Rwandan president, who was from the <em>Hutu<\/em> tribe \u2013 a murder blamed by the Hutus on the rival <em>Tutsi<\/em> tribe, and which led to the massacre of more than 800,000 Tutsis by Hutus \u2013 was committed by <em>Hutu<\/em> soldiers and falsely blamed on the Tutis.<\/p>\n<p>(29) An Indonesian government fact-finding team investigated violent riots which occurred in 1998, and determined that \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/world\/indonesia\/indonesia-1998.htm\" >elements of the military had been involved in the riots, some of which were deliberately provoked<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>(30) Senior Russian Senior military and intelligence officers <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060209100406\/http:\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2004\/01\/13\/wrus13.xml\" >admit<\/a> that the KGB blew up Russian apartment buildings in 1999 and falsely blamed it on Chechens, in order to justify an invasion of Chechnya (and see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080413195430\/http:\/www.sais-jhu.edu\/programs\/res\/papers\/Satter_edited_final.pdf\" >this report<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_Apartment_Bombings\" >this discussion<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>(31) As reported by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/17\/international\/europe\/17mace.html?th=&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;position=\" >New York Times<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/3674533.stm\" >BBC<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.highbeam.com\/doc\/1P1-94026683.html\" >Associated Press<\/a>, Macedonian officials admit that in 2001, the government murdered 7 innocent immigrants in cold blood and pretended that they were Al Qaeda soldiers attempting to assassinate Macedonian police, in order to join the \u201cwar on terror\u201d. luring foreign migrants into the country, executing them in a staged gun battle, and then claiming they were a unit backed by Al Qaeda intent on attacking Western embassies\u201d. Macedonian authorities had lured the immigrants into the country, and then \u2013 after killing them \u2013 posed the victims with planted evidence \u2013 \u201cbags of uniforms and semiautomatic weapons at their side\u201d \u2013 to show Western diplomats.<\/p>\n<p>(32) At the July 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy, black-clad thugs were <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2001\/jul\/23\/globalisation.davidpallister\" >videotaped<\/a> getting out of police cars, and were <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2001\/jul\/23\/globalisation.davidpallister\" >seen<\/a> by an Italian MP carrying \u201ciron bars inside the police station\u201d. Subsequently, senior police officials in Genoa subsequently <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030207160903\/http:\/www.fair.org\/activism\/genoa-update.html\" >admitted<\/a> that police planted two Molotov cocktails and faked the stabbing of a police officer at the G8 Summit, in order to justify a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2010\/may\/19\/g8-italian-police-sentenced\" >violent crackdown<\/a> against protesters.<\/p>\n<p>(33) The U.S. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2012\/10\/5-hours-after-the-911-attacks-donald-rumsfeld-said-my-interest-is-to-hit-saddam-he-also-said-go-massive-sweep-it-all-up-things-related-and-not-and-at-2.html\" >falsely blamed Iraq<\/a> for playing a role in the 9\/11 attacks \u2013 as shown by a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/02\/newly-released-memos-of-donald-rumsfeld-prove-knowing-iraq-war.html\" >memo from the defense secretary<\/a> \u2013 as one of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2012\/10\/5-hours-after-the-911-attacks-donald-rumsfeld-said-my-interest-is-to-hit-saddam-he-also-said-go-massive-sweep-it-all-up-things-related-and-not-and-at-2.html\" >main justifications<\/a> for launching the Iraq war.<\/p>\n<p>Even after the 9\/11 Commission <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5223932\/ns\/us_news-security\/t\/panel-sees-no-link-between-iraq-al-qaida\/#.UIde6fWUxqI\" >admitted<\/a> that there was no connection, Dick Cheney <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/06\/18\/cheney.iraq.al.qaeda\/\" >said<\/a> that the evidence is \u201coverwhelming\u201d that al Qaeda had a relationship with Saddam Hussein\u2019s regime, that Cheney \u201cprobably\u201d had information unavailable to the Commission, and that the media was not \u2018doing their homework\u2019 in reporting such ties. Top U.S. government officials now <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/03\/top-republican-leaders-say-iraq-war-was-really-for-oil.html\" >admit<\/a> that the Iraq war was really launched for oil \u2026 not 9\/11 or weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Despite previous \u201clone wolf\u201d claims, many U.S. government officials now <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2012\/09\/government-officials-say-911-was-state-sponsored-terrorism-but-disagree-about-which-nation-was-behind-attacks.html\" >say<\/a> that 9\/11 was state-sponsored terror; but Iraq was <em>not<\/em> the state which backed the hijackers. (Many U.S. officials have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/patriotsquestion911.com\" >alleged<\/a> that 9\/11 was a false flag operation by rogue elements of the U.S. government; but such a claim is beyond the scope of this discussion. The key point is that the U.S. falsely blamed it on Iraq, when it <em>knew<\/em> Iraq had nothing to do with it.).<\/p>\n<p>(Additionally, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2016\/03\/u-s-government-blames-911-iran-fines-iran-10-5b-iran-refuses-pay.html\" >same judge who has shielded the Saudis<\/a> for any liability for funding 9\/11 has awarded a default judgment against Iran for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2016\/03\/u-s-government-blames-911-iran-fines-iran-10-5b-iran-refuses-pay.html\" >$10.5 billion for carrying out 9\/11<\/a> \u2026 even though no one seriously believes that Iran had any part in 9\/11.)<\/p>\n<p>(34) Although the FBI now admits that the 2001 anthrax attacks were carried out by one or more U.S. government scientists, a senior FBI official says that the FBI was actually <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/us_world\/2008\/08\/02\/2008-08-02_fbi_was_told_to_blame_anthrax_scare_on_a.html\" ><em>told<\/em> to blame the Anthrax attacks on Al Qaeda by White House officials<\/a> (remember what the anthrax letters <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MnYI3_FRbbQ\/SJLfMP7mkrI\/AAAAAAAAA94\/irML20mNYDA\/s400\/anthrax.jpg\" >looked like<\/a>). Government officials also confirm that the white House <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/12\/22\/national\/22INQU.html?pagewanted=all\" >tried to link the anthrax to Iraq<\/a> as a justification for regime change in that country. And <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/10\/anthrax-dark-winter.html\" >see this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(35) According to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.highbeam.com\/doc\/1P2-406202.html\" >Washington Post<\/a>, Indonesian police admit that the Indonesian military killed American teachers in Papua in 2002 and blamed the murders on a Papuan separatist group in order to get that group listed as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>(36) The well-respected former Indonesian president also <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/National\/Possible-police-role-in-2002-Bali-attack\/2005\/10\/12\/1128796591857.html\" >admits<\/a> that the government probably had a role in the Bali bombings.<\/p>\n<p>(37) Police outside of a 2003 European Union summit in Greece were filmed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/3136382.stm\" >planting Molotov cocktails on a peaceful protester<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(38) Former Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/publication\/fighting-the-new-terrorism-2\/\" >suggested<\/a> in 2005 that the US should go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having \u201cour intelligence agencies create a <strong>false terrorist organization<\/strong>. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps, and fundraising operations. It could <strong>launch<\/strong> <strong>fake terrorist operations<\/strong> and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within al-Qaeda\u2019s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others\u2019 identities and to question the validity of communications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(39) Similarly, in 2005, Professor John Arquilla of the Naval Postgraduate School \u2013 a renowned US defense analyst credited with developing the concept of \u2018netwar\u2019 \u2013 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2005\/01\/24\/the-coming-wars\" >called for<\/a> western intelligence services to<strong> create new \u201cpseudo gang\u201d terrorist groups<\/strong>, as a way of undermining \u201creal\u201d terror networks. According to Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh, Arquilla\u2019s \u2018pseudo-gang\u2019 strategy was, Hersh reported, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2005\/01\/24\/the-coming-wars\" >already being implemented<\/a> by the Pentagon:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder Rumsfeld\u2019s new approach, I was told, US military operatives would be permitted to pose abroad as corrupt foreign businessmen seeking to buy contraband items that could be used in nuclear-weapons systems. In some cases, according to the Pentagon advisers, <strong>local citizens could be recruited and asked to join up with guerrillas or terrorists<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The new rules will enable the Special Forces community to set up what it calls \u2018action teams\u2019 in the target countries overseas which can be used to find and eliminate terrorist organizations. <strong>\u2018Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador?\u2019 the former high-level intelligence official asked me, referring to the military-led gangs that committed atrocities in the early nineteen-eighties. \u2018We founded them and we financed them,\u2019 he said. \u2018The objective now is to recruit locals in any area we want. And we aren\u2019t going to tell Congress about it.\u2019 A former military officer, who has knowledge of the Pentagon\u2019s commando capabilities, said, \u2018We\u2019re going to be riding with the bad boys.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(40) United Press International <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Business_News\/Security-Industry\/2005\/06\/03\/UPI-hears\/UPI-64911117829623\/\" >reported<\/a> in June 2005:<\/p>\n<p>U.S. intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem to have had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come off a production line without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as U.S. authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of the illegitimacy of the resistance.<\/p>\n<p>(41) In 2005, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.liveleak.com\/80281E\/ll_a_s\/2015\/Nov\/21\/LiveLeak-dot-com-750_1448148049-Li3LUXT_1448148058.jpg?d5e8cc8eccfb6039332f41f6249e92b06c91b4db65f5e99818bdd29f4e4cd9d011ce&amp;ec_rate=230\" >British soldiers<\/a> dressed as Arabs were caught by Iraqi police after a shootout against the police. The soldiers apparently <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/iraqi-mp-accuses-british-forces-in-basra-of-terrorism\/983\" >possessed explosives<\/a>, and were <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/09\/19\/AR2005091900572.html\" >accused<\/a> of attempting to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/socialistworker.co.uk\/art\/7249\/Why+Basra+is+in+revolt+against+occupation\" >set off bombs<\/a>. While none of the soldiers admitted that they were carrying out attacks, British soldiers and a column of British tanks stormed the jail they were held in, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/world\/british-tanks-in-smash-and-grab-raid-1-1096576\" >broke down a wall of the jail, and busted them out<\/a>. The extreme measures used to free the soldiers \u2013 rather than have them face questions and potentially stand trial \u2013 could be considered an admission.<\/p>\n<p>(42) Undercover Israeli soldiers <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2012\/05\/operation-glass-houses-idf-agent-provocateurs-admit-to-throwing-stones-at-the-idf-in-bilin\/\" >admitted<\/a> in 2005 to throwing stones at other Israeli soldiers so they could blame it on Palestinians, as an excuse to crack down on peaceful protests by the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>(43) Quebec police <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gAfzUOx53Rg\" >admitted<\/a> that, in 2007, thugs carrying rocks to a peaceful protest were actually undercover Quebec police officers (and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/quebec-police-admit-they-went-undercover-at-montebello-protest-1.656171\" >see this<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>(44) A 2008 US Army special operations field manual <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@NafeezAhmed\/why-google-made-the-nsa-2a80584c9c1\" >recommends<\/a> that the U.S. military use surrogate non-state groups such as \u201cparamilitary forces, individuals, businesses, foreign political organizations, resistant or insurgent organizations, expatriates, <strong>transnational terrorism adversaries, disillusioned transnational terrorism members<\/strong>, black marketers, and other social or political \u2018undesirables.\u2019\u201d The manual specifically acknowledged that U.S. special operations can involve both counterterrorism and \u201cTerrorism\u201d (as well as \u201ctransnational criminal activities, including narco-trafficking, illicit arms-dealing, and illegal financial transactions.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>(45) The former Italian <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francesco_Cossiga\" >Prime Minister, President, and head of Secret Services<\/a> (Francesco Cossiga) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=it&amp;u=http:\/\/rassegna.governo.it\/testo.asp%3Fd%3D32976406&amp;prev=search\" >advised<\/a> the 2008 minister in charge of the police, on how to deal with protests from teachers and students:<\/p>\n<p>He should do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior \u2026 infiltrate the movement with agents provocateurs inclined to do anything \u2026. And after that, with the strength of the gained population consent, \u2026 beat them for blood and beat for blood also those teachers that incite them. Especially the teachers. Not the elderly, of course, but the girl teachers yes.<\/p>\n<p>(46)\u00a0 An undercover officer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2011\/nov\/13\/undercover-policeman-admits-spying-danish-activists\" >admitted<\/a> that he infiltrated environmental, leftwing and anti-fascist groups in 22 countries. Germany\u2019s federal police chief <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2011\/jan\/26\/mark-kennedy-german-bundestag\" >admitted<\/a> that \u2013 while the undercover officer worked for the German police \u2013 he acted illegally during a G8 protest in Germany in 2007 and committed arson by setting fire during a subsequent demonstration in Berlin. The undercover officer spent many years <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2011\/jan\/26\/mark-kennedy-german-bundestag\" >living with<\/a> violent \u201cBlack Bloc\u201d anarchists.<\/p>\n<p>(47) Denver police <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2008\/11\/06\/undercover-cops-were-among-the-unruly-at-dnc\/\" >admitted<\/a> that uniformed officers deployed in 2008 to an area where alleged \u201canarchists\u201d had planned to wreak havoc outside the Democratic National Convention ended up getting into a melee with two undercover policemen. The uniformed officers didn\u2019t know the undercover officers were cops.<\/p>\n<p>(48) At the G20 protests in London in 2009, a British member of parliament <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2009\/may\/10\/g20-policing-agent-provacateurs\" >saw<\/a> plain clothes police officers attempting to incite the crowd to violence.<\/p>\n<p>(49)\u00a0 The oversight agency for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/g20-report-clears-rcmp-but-raises-questions-over-kettling-1.1150680\" >admitted<\/a> that \u2013 at the G20 protests in Toronto in 2010 \u2013 undercover police officers were arrested with a group of protesters.\u00a0 Videos and photos (see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-toronto-g20-riot-fraud-undercover-police-engaged-in-purposeful-provocation\/19928\" >this<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TbLU9tdDwxo\" >this<\/a>, for example) show that violent protesters wore very similar boots and other gear as the police, and carried police batons.\u00a0\u00a0 The Globe and Mail <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/toronto\/undercover-officers-knew-of-plans-for-downtown-mayhem-during-g20\/article555130\/?page=all\" >reports<\/a> that the undercover officers planned the targets for violent attack, and the police failed to stop the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>(50) Egyptian politicians <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2011\/01\/prominent-former-egyptian-mp-and-presidential-candidate-the-looting-of-the-cairo-museum-was-carried-out-by-government-employees.html\" >admitted<\/a> (and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2011\/02\/washington-post-confirms-that-egyptian-looters-were-agents-provocateur.html\" >see this<\/a>) that government employees looted priceless museum artifacts 2011 to try to discredit the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>(51) Austin police <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/Undercover-Austin-police-officers-aided-Houston-3841846.php\" >admit<\/a> that 3 officers infiltrated the Occupy protests in that city. Prosecutors <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/Undercover-Austin-police-officers-aided-Houston-3841846.php\" >admit<\/a> that one of the undercover officers purchased and constructed illegal \u201clock boxes\u201d which ended up getting many protesters arrested.<\/p>\n<p>(52) In 2011, a Colombian colonel <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-14149676\" >admitted<\/a> that he and his soldiers had lured 57 innocent civilians and killed them \u2013 after dressing many of them in uniforms \u2013 as part of a scheme to claim that Columbia was eradicating left-wing terrorists. And <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2012\/jun\/14\/world\/la-fg-colombia-false-positives-20120614\" >see this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(53) Rioters who discredited the peaceful protests against the swearing in of the Mexican president in 2012 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=es&amp;u=http:\/\/www.proceso.com.mx\/%3Fp%3D326818&amp;prev=search\" >admitted<\/a> that they were paid 300 pesos each to destroy everything in their path. According to Wikipedia, photos also <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agent_provocateur#Mexico\" >show<\/a> the vandals waiting in groups behind police lines prior to the violence.<\/p>\n<p>(54) A Colombian army colonel has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-14149676\" >admitted<\/a> that his unit murdered 57 civilians, then dressed them in uniforms and claimed they were rebels killed in combat.<\/p>\n<p>(55) On November 20, 2014, Mexican agent provocateurs were transported by army vehicles to participate in the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping protests, as was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/aristeguinoticias.com\/2111\/mexico\/identifican-en-redes-a-encapuchados-antes-de-la-marcha-en-df\/\" >shown<\/a> by videos and pictures distributed via social networks.<\/p>\n<p>(56) The highly-respected writer for the Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says that the head of Saudi intelligence \u2013 Prince Bandar \u2013 recently <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/newsbysector\/energy\/oilandgas\/10266957\/Saudis-offer-Russia-secret-oil-deal-if-it-drops-Syria.html\" >admitted<\/a> that the Saudi government controls \u201cChechen\u201d terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>(57) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/12\/syrian-chemical-weapons-attack-false-flag-turkey-isis.html\" >Two members of the Turkish parliament<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/04\/nato-member-conducts-false-flag-terror-try-whip-war.html\" >high-level American sources<\/a> and others admitted that the Turkish government \u2013 a NATO country \u2013 carried out the chemical weapons attacks in Syria and falsely blamed them on the Syrian government; and high-ranking Turkish government <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/04\/nato-member-conducts-false-flag-terror-try-whip-war.html\" >admitted<\/a> on tape plans to carry out attacks and blame it on the Syrian government.<\/p>\n<p>(58) The Ukrainian security chief <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/03\/former-ukranian-security-chief-alleges-new-government-behind-sniper-attacks.html\" >admits<\/a> that the sniper attacks which started the Ukrainian coup were carried out in order to frame others. Ukrainian officials <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/02\/kiev-snipers-everyone-agrees-fired-sides.html\" >admit<\/a> that the Ukrainian snipers fired on both sides, to create maximum chaos.<\/p>\n<p>(59) Burmese government officials <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2015\/10\/myanmar-secret-agents-playing-dirty-tricks-151027085402365.html\" >admitted<\/a> that Burma (renamed Myanmar) used false flag attacks against Muslim and Buddhist groups within the country to stir up hatred between the two groups, to prevent democracy from spreading.<\/p>\n<p>(60) Israeli police were again <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/correspondent.afp.com\/those-disguised-arabs\" >filmed<\/a> in 2015 dressing up as Arabs and throwing stones, then turning over Palestinian protesters to Israeli soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>(61) Britain\u2019s spy agency has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/02\/nsa-engaged-internet-false-flag-attacks.html\" >admitted<\/a> (and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/02\/false-flags-honey-traps.html\" >see this<\/a>) that it carries out \u201cdigital false flag\u201d attacks on targets, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/07\/spy-agencies-dirty-trick-powers-revealed-snowden.html\" >framing people<\/a> by writing offensive or unlawful material \u2026 and blaming it on the target.<\/p>\n<p>(62) U.S. soldiers have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SODTI_C1q_Q\" >admitted<\/a> that if they kill innocent Iraqis and Afghanis, they then \u201cdrop\u201d automatic weapons near their body so they can <em>pretend<\/em> they were militants<\/p>\n<p>(63) Similarly, police frame innocent people for crimes they didn\u2019t commit. The practice is so well-known that the New York Times <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1981\/03\/11\/movies\/tv-the-killing-of-randy-webster.html\" >noted<\/a> in 1981:<\/p>\n<p>In police jargon, a throwdown is a weapon planted on a victim.<\/p>\n<p>Newsweek <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/las-dirty-war-gangs-168188\" >reported<\/a> in 1999:<\/p>\n<p>Perez, himself a former [Los Angeles Police Department] cop, was caught stealing eight pounds of cocaine from police evidence lockers. After pleading guilty in September, he bargained for a lighter sentence by telling an appalling story of attempted murder and a <strong>\u201cthrowdown\u201d\u2013police slang for a weapon planted by cops to make a shooting legally justifiable<\/strong>. Perez said he and his partner, Officer Nino Durden, shot an unarmed 18th Street Gang member named Javier Ovando, then <strong>planted a semiautomatic rifle on the unconscious suspect and claimed that Ovando had tried to shoot them<\/strong> during a stakeout.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Community_Resources_Against_Street_Hoodlums#Rampart_Division_CRASH_scandal\" >notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>As part of his plea bargain, P\u00e9rez implicated scores of officers from the Rampart Division\u2019s anti-gang unit, describing <strong>routinely<\/strong> beating gang members,<strong> planting evidence on suspects, falsifying reports and covering up unprovoked shootings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>(As a side note \u2013 and while not technically false flag attacks \u2013 police have been busted <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/03\/police-frame-innocent-people.html\" >framing innocent people in many other ways<\/a>, as well.)<\/p>\n<p>(64) A former U.S. intelligence officer recently <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/03\/steele-every-single-terrorist-attack-u-s-false-flag-egged-intelligence-services.html\" >alleged<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Most terrorists are false flag terrorists or are created by our own security services.<\/p>\n<p>(65) The head and special agent in charge of the FBI\u2019s Los Angeles office <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YZ2VpfUqRoo&amp;feature=player_embedded\" >said<\/a> that most terror attacks are committed by the CIA and FBI as false flags. Similarly, the director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan \u2013 Lt. General William Odom <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hammernews.com\/odomspeech.htm\" >said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In \u201878-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism \u2013 in every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation.<\/p>\n<p>(audio <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hammernews.com\/odom.ram\" >here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>(66) The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jd-maddox-27b36abb\" >Director<\/a> of Analytics at the interagency Global Engagement Center housed at the U.S. Department of State, also an adjunct professor at George Mason University, where he teaches the graduate course National Security Challenges in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology, a former branch chief in the CIA\u2019s Counterterrorism Center, and an intelligence advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security (J.D. Maddox) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/journals.gmu.edu\/NandC\/article\/download\/601\/1170\" >notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Provocation is one of the most basic, but confounding, aspects of warfare.\u00a0 <strong>Despite its sometimes obvious use, it has succeeded consistently against audiences around the world, for millennia,\u00a0 to\u00a0 compel\u00a0 war<\/strong>.\u00a0 A\u00a0 well-constructed\u00a0 provocation\u00a0 narrative\u00a0 mutes\u00a0 even\u00a0 the \u00a0most vocal opposition.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 culmination\u00a0 of\u00a0 a strategic\u00a0 provocation\u00a0 operation\u00a0 invariably\u00a0 reflects\u00a0 a\u00a0 narrative\u00a0 of\u00a0 victimhood:\u00a0 <em>we\u00a0 are\u00a0 the <\/em><br \/>\n<em>victims of the enemy\u2019s unforgivable atrocities<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>In the case of strategic provocation the deaths of an aggressor\u2019s own personnel are a core tactic of the provocation.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>The persistent use of strategic provocation over centuries \u2013 and its apparent importance to war planners \u2013 begs the question of its likely use by the US and other states in the near term.<\/p>\n<p>(67) Leaders throughout history have acknowledged the \u201cbenefits\u201d of of false flags to justify their political agenda:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Terrorism is the best political weapon<\/strong> for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death\u201d.<br \/>\n\u2013 Adolph Hitler<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy of course the people don\u2019t want war \u2026 But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship \u2026 Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to <strong>tell them they are being attacked<\/strong>, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Hermann Goering, Nazi leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe easiest way to gain control of a population is to <strong>carry out<\/strong> acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened\u201d.<br \/>\n\u2013 Josef Stalin<\/p>\n<p>Postscript: The media <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/01\/propaganda.html\" >plays along<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/02\/u-s-reporters-always-pro-war.html\" >as well<\/a>. For example, in 2012, NBC News\u2019 chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engel, was kidnapped in Syria. NBC News said that Engel and his reporting team had been abducted by forces affiliated with the Syrian government. He reported that they only escaped when some anti-Syrian government rebels killed some of the pro-government kidnappers.<\/p>\n<p>However, NBC subsequently <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/new-details-2012-kidnapping-nbc-news-team-syria-n342356\" >admitted<\/a> that this was false. It turns out that they were really kidnapped by people associated with the U.S. backed rebels <em>fighting<\/em> the Syrian government \u2026 who wore the clothes of, faked the accent of, scrawled the slogans of, and otherwise <em>falsely impersonated<\/em> the mannerisms of people associated with the Syrian government. In reality, the group that kidnapped Engel and his crew were <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2015\/04\/16\/nbcs-conduct-richard-engel-kidnapping-serious-brian-williams-scandal\/\" >affiliated with the U.S.-supported Free Syrian Army<\/a>, and NBC <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2015\/04\/16\/nbcs-conduct-richard-engel-kidnapping-serious-brian-williams-scandal\/\" >should have known that it was blaming the wrong party<\/a>. See the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/16\/business\/media\/nbc-news-alters-account-of-correspondents-kidnapping-in-syria.html?_r=0\" >New York Times<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/how-nbc-knowingly-let-syria-rebels-false-war-propaganda-stand-years\/\" >the Nation\u2019s<\/a> reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, sometimes atrocities or warmongering are falsely blamed on the enemy as a justification for war \u2026 when <em>no such event ever occurred<\/em>. This is sort of like false flag terror \u2026 without the terror.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The NSA <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www2.gwu.edu\/%7Ensarchiv\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB132\/press20051201.htm\" >admits<\/a> that it <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080203204207\/http:\/rawstory.com\/news\/afp\/Report_reveals_Vietnam_War_hoaxes_f_01082008.html\" >lied<\/a> about what really happened in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident\" >Gulf of Tonkin incident<\/a> in 1964 \u2026 manipulating data to make it look like North Vietnamese boats fired on a U.S. ship so as to create a false justification for the Vietnam war<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the central lies used to justify the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq after Iraq invaded Kuwait was the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nayirah_%28testimony%29\" >false statement<\/a> by a young Kuwaiti girl that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2002\/0906\/p25s02-cogn.html\" >Iraqis murdered Kuwaiti babies<\/a> in hospitals. Her statement was arranged by a Congressman who knew that she was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S. \u2013 who was desperately trying to lobby the U.S. to enter the war \u2013 but the Congressman <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1992\/01\/15\/opinion\/deception-on-capitol-hill.html\" >hid that fact from the public and from Congress<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Another central lie used to justify the Gulf War was the statement that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040628010553\/http:\/foi.missouri.edu\/polinfoprop\/nocasusbelli.html\" >a quarter of a million Iraqi troops were massed on the border with Saudi Arabia<\/a> (see also<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2003\/03\/15\/Worldandnation\/US_satellites_won_t_b.shtml\" > this article<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0808\/12308.html\" >reported<\/a> that the White House ordered the CIA to forge and backdate a document falsely linking Iraq with Muslim terrorists and 9\/11 \u2026 and that the CIA complied with those instructions and in fact created the forgery, which was then used to justify war against Iraq. And see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2008\/Suskind_Bush_ordered_fake_letter_linking_0805.html\" >this<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/12\/u-s-pressured-czech-government-falsely-claim-911-hijacker-met-iraqi.html\" >this<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Time magazine <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/columnist\/karon\/article\/0,9565,463779,00.html\" >points out<\/a> that the claim by President Bush that Iraq was attempting to buy \u201cyellow cake\u201d Uranium from Niger:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>had been checked out \u2014 and debunked \u2014 by U.S. intelligence a year before the President repeated it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2009\/11\/everyone-knew-that-iraq-didnt-have-wmds.html\" >Everyone knew<\/a> that Iraq didn\u2019t have weapons of mass destruction. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2012\/10\/5-hours-after-the-911-attacks-donald-rumsfeld-said-my-interest-is-to-hit-saddam-he-also-said-go-massive-sweep-it-all-up-things-related-and-not-and-at-2.html\" >More<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/12\/doesnt-mainstream-media-discuss-torture-issue.html\" >entire torture program was geared towards obtaining false confessions<\/a> linking Iraq and 9\/11<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>CIA agents and documents <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Merlin\" >admit<\/a> that the agency gave Iran plans for building nuclear weapons \u2026 so it could <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/02\/u-s-israel-busted-lying-irans-nuclear-program.html\" >frame Iran for trying to build the bomb<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The \u201chumanitarian\u201d wars in Syria, Libya and Yugoslavia were all justified by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2016\/03\/hillary-clinton-big-warmonger-bush-cheney.html\" >exaggerated reports<\/a> that the leaders of those countries were committing atrocities against their people. And <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=10734384\" >see this<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2016\/09\/false-flags-3.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 washingtonsblog.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 Sep 2016 &#8211; In the following instances, officials in the government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed an attack) admit to it, either orally, in writing, or through photographs or videos:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-militarism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}