A False Flag Fizzles Out...

It seems we currently live in the age of government-staged operations known as ‘false flags’. The name is an old maritime reference for deception on the high seas.. when, for example a pirate ship flying a British flag would sail up to a merchant vessel, and the civilian ship would drop their guard thinking they were being approached and boarded by friendlies, until they realized the deadly deception, too late.

A variant of that is when a government will pull the same basic trick in reverse, and pose as the bad guys – the pirate, or terrorist, and then stage an attack. Witnesses of the event will think actual pirates were behind the attack. Government will pull their pirate mask off in private, and then step out in public as the good guys and declare WAR on the pirates and promise to protect the innocent from any more pirate attacks.

Accusations that this tactic is being utilized over and over by governments, are being made by alert individuals who see through the deception. Those less alert, the majority of people, have a harder time realizing what is going on, and accepting that the government would actually stoop so low as to surreptitiously deceive the public they are sworn to protect and serve. Such people need harder proof this is happening. They need something more tangible than claims and accusations. How about if they had a newspaper in their hands and could hold it, feel it and read a front page article about a proposed false flag attack in the early 1960s by the American government? Would that do it?

Being a longtime paper ephemera collector, I’ve a 1963 copy of a Wilmington, North Carolina daily which reported that exact occurrence – the proposition of a false flag operation named: Operation Northwoods, which never got off the ground, because president John F. Kennedy rejected the idea.

Here is the paper’s front page and the strip article. See what you think.






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