While Northwoods may have been shelved, one American false flag operation definitely did take place in the ‘60s. Kennedy, but he ultimately rejected the idea. Northwoods was proposed to the then US president, John F. ‘Operation Northwoods’ was the name given to a proposed covert campaign by the CIA that would have seen acts of terrorism committed against targets and civilians in the United States that could then be blamed on Cuban operatives as a precursor to an invasion of Cuba and the removal of Fidel Castro. While questions still hang over the Reichstag fire, one planned operation from the early 1960s would definitely have been a false flag had it not been stopped in its tracks. The US refused to admit any involvement in the overthrow of Mosaddegh until 2013. He would stay there until his death in 1967. Protests grew against Mossadegh, egged on by the CIA and MI6, and Mossadegh was eventually fired from his post by the Shah of Iran and placed under house arrest.
This angered the US and the UK, who jointly decided to launch a series of bombing campaigns against mosques and prominent people that they then blamed on communists sympathetic to the government. Mosaddegh had made the mistake of nationalizing Iran’s oil companies.
The aim of the operations carried out in the country was to deliberately undermine the government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.
There, British commandoes managed to float an explosives-laden old Royal Navy destroyer fitted out to look like a German torpedo boat close enough to the harbour to destroy all key structures in the port upon the destroyer’s detonation.Īfter the war, the United States and Great Britain jointly organised false flag operations during the 1953 Iranian Coup. One of the most famous false flag operations of World War II was the raid on the French drydock of St. As a result of the war between the Soviets and the Finns, Finland sided with Nazi Germany in World War II.įalse flag operations carried on throughout the war, but most can be considered to be in the old sense of the word. It was eventually concluded by both British and Russian historians that the shelling of the village was a false flag operation carried out by members of the NKVD – the predecessors to the KGB. The village was close to the border with Finland, and the attack was used as an excuse to break the Soviet Union’s non-aggression pact with the country and launch an invasion into Finland that would later become known as the ‘Winter War’. In November 1939, the Russian village of Mainila was shelled by an unknown party. Of course, it isn’t just the Nazis who stand accused of carrying out false flag operations prior to invasions during the 1930s. The United States and Great Britain jointly organized false flag operations during the 1953 Iranian Coup The sweeping emergency powers Hitler and the Nazi Party grabbed for themselves after the fire are the reason many people think the Reichstag was burned not by a lone communist protesting Germany’s treatment of the working classes (as van de Lubbe himself claimed while in custody), but by the Nazis themselves. This gave Hitler and his propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, the excuse they needed to purge Germany of opposition, especially the communists. A lone communist sympathizer called Marinus van de Lubbe was arrested and charged with setting fire to the German parliament building. One of the most famous incidents considered by many to be a false flag operation is the Reichstag fire, which took place on the night of the 27th of February 1933.