Speculative theory
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Government & Politics · False flags & staged events
Meta-accounts of how often major public-security events are secretly staged to blame a designated actor, versus accounts that treat staged-attribution operations as real but uncommon.
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government agency
Central Intelligence Agency
US foreign intelligence service; appears across many narrative clusters.
program
Cuba pretext planning
concept
False-flag / staged-attribution concept
government agency
FBI
event
Gleiwitz incident
location
Gliwice radio tower
location
Gulf of Tonkin
person
John F. Kennedy
organization
Joint Chiefs of Staff
document
Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba memorandum
person
Lyman Lemnitzer
person
Lyndon B. Johnson
concept
Manufactured provocation concept
organization
National Security Archive
document
National Security Archive Gulf of Tonkin briefing book
organization
North Vietnamese torpedo boat forces
document
Operation Northwoods
person
Robert McNamara
organization
State Department Office of the Historian
organization
The Black Vault
organization
USS Maddox
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