1.3.0 American False-Flag Attacks

There are dozens of examples of the use of false-flag attacks carried out by the United States government. They can be categorized into three types:

1. Full False-Flag Attacks - the attacks are planned and carried out by insiders, the real threat is virtually non-existent.
2. Facilitated Attacks - the attacks are carried out by a real enemy, but are allowed to happen or helped to succeed.
3. Fabricated Attacks - the attacks are not carried out at all, but are reported to have happened, and are blamed on a selected enemy.

The three largest wars of the 20th century that the United States were involved in were World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War. Their involvement in all three of them followed an event of one of these kinds.

Sinking of RMS Lusitania, 1915

In 1915, President Woodrow Wilson and his backers were keen to get the United States involved in World War I, but the American people did not want to involve themselves in European affairs. And so it was arranged that the luxury cruise liner, RMS Lusitania, would travel to Europe and into German-controlled waters, in the hope that it would be torpedoed and that that would cause a "wave of indignation" among the American people that would result in them accepting the United States declaration of war against Germany. Appalled by the despicable act by the Germans of destroying the cruiser, the American people soon demanded the United States enter World War I.

Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941

On 7th December 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor came as a complete surprise to most Americans. But President Roosevelt knew about the attacks as much as two weeks in advance. On the day before the attacks, he received a message intercepted by the U.S. Navy. Sent from Tokyo to the Japanese embassy in Washington, the message was encrypted in the top-level Japanese "purple code." But that was no problem. The Americans had cracked the code long before that. It was imperative that the president see the message right away because it revealed that the Japanese, under the heavy pressure of Western economic sanctions, were terminating relations with the United States. Roosevelt read the thirteen-part transmission, looked up and announced, "This means war." He then did a very strange thing for a president in his situation: nothing.

The Japanese secret declaration of war never reached the people who needed to hear it the most - Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander in chief of the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the unit's commanding general, Walter Short. Pearl Harbor, it was common military knowledge, was where the Japanese would strike. If they struck. At dawn the next morning a Japanese squadron bombed Pearl Harbor and the surprise attack was just that, a complete surprise. At least to Kimmel and Short and the 2,575 American servicemen who died.

The president and the military chiefs in Washington spent that night in the White House, waiting for the Pearl Harbor Attacks to take place and their chance to enter America into World War II.

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 1964

The American commitment to the war against Vietnam, which killed over 50,000 U.S. military personnel, and probably over 2 million Vietnamese civilians, was cemented by an incident that appears to involve more fiction than fact.

In the Gulf of Tonkin incident, North Vietnamese torpedo boats supposedly attacked the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin, off Vietnam, in a pair of assaults on August 2 and 4 of 1964. It was the basis for the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which committed major American forces to the war in Vietnam. The resolution passed the House of Representatives unanimously, and passed in the Senate with only two dissenting votes.

In retrospect it is clear that the alleged attack was little more than a transparent pretext for war, delivered in a one-two punch. First, media descriptions of the August 2nd attack as an "unprovoked attack" against a U.S. destroyer on "routine patrol" hid the fact that the Maddox was providing support for South Vietnamese military operations against the North. Second, the alleged August 4th attack appears to be a fabrication, official accounts attributing the "error" to confusion.

The American public now supported war with Vietnam, and President Johnson was able to increased military budgets and personnel in Vietnam, in a war that lasted until 1975.

A more recent example of a fabricated false-flag attack would be the fabricated "Kuwaiti incubator baby hoax", which resonated with the American public and they subsequently supported United States involvement in the Persian Gulf War (1991).

Perhaps the most chilling example of American false-flag terrorism is to be found in the pages of the Northwoods Document, declassified in 1998. Operation Northwoods was a plan drafted in 1962 by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and presented to President Kennedy, in which false-flag terrorist attacks would be carried out and blamed on Cuba, in order to gain public support for an invasion of that country. Kennedy rejected the plan.

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