Goes back a lot further than the 1960s, all the way back to the founding of the United States. For a pre-60s example, you might also be interested to learn about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
Comment on YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba
brownsugga@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s what they were up to as early as the 1960s. By the late 90s they learned not to leave a paper trail.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 day ago
brownsugga@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Neither of those things were false flag attacks
bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 day ago
Oops, sorry, you’re right, I got confused about what thread I was in. I’m not a bot I’m just a dumb autistic gay furry
brownsugga@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Say less, put on your collar and get over here <3
Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
thats a lot to fit on the name tag, but it also assumes we think a bot would be to embarrassed to claim that. I trust claude, but if you are grok, you need to get out and stop imitating the majority of users here.
Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Israel did the same thing to us in the 1960s to goad us into a war with Egypt en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
brownsugga@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That was not a false flag attack
Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
how so?
brownsugga@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
At no point was Israel or the US pretending to be a country they weren’t, ie using a “false flag”
“False flag” operations intend for the blame or legal consequence of the operation to be placed on the the people/country that the perpetrator is pretending to be so in the case of Northwoods, Cuba