Studies of actual "False Flag" operations?
December 20, 2012 10:20 AM Subscribe
Are there any good historical/scholarly studies of false flag operations? Not so much chroinicles of a specific single event, but more about how common they've actually been throughout history, how effective they tend to be, how they are eventually disclosed (whether on purpose or not), etc. They seem to be the core of a lot of conspiracy theories ("9/11 was an inside job", "Oswald was a tool of the CIA", and so on), and I'm curious about how prevalent the real thing is.
"Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II" by William Blum might be a good starting point, though it's much broader than your question and would only list US-involved false flag operations.
posted by tapir-whorf at 4:08 PM on December 20, 2012
posted by tapir-whorf at 4:08 PM on December 20, 2012
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It's not exactly what you're asking for, but it covers several cases.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 12:51 PM on December 20, 2012