or mainstream media tell the public regarding the underhanded behavior of the latest Middle Eastern country designated to have democracy imposed on it by bombing. After all, the US and Israel are both proven and accomplished propagandists, deceivers and instigators of illegal wars. When last has Iran invaded another country? It's been a good few hundred years since Iran started a war when it was not attacked first (i.e Saddam's attempted invasion of Iran, supported and encouraged by the USA which cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iranians). Who in recent history has started several murderous wars and invasions on false pretexts and invaded weaker countries unable to defend themselves? Hint, it wasn't Iran.
The historical record shows the Israelis are not averse to using false flag terror to accomplish their goals, as the recent article in the publication Foreign Policy explains. According to FP, internal reports and sources within the US gov't admit privately that Israel uses false flag techniques to pin the blame for terrorist style attacks against Iran on the CIA:
False Flag
Buried deep in the archives of America's intelligence services are a series of memos, written during the last years of President George W. Bush's administration, that describe how Israeli Mossad officers recruited operatives belonging to the terrorist group Jundallah by passing themselves off as American agents. According to two U.S. intelligence officials, the Israelis, flush with American dollars and toting U.S. passports, posed as CIA officers in recruiting Jundallah operatives -- what is commonly referred to as a "false flag" operation.
The memos, as described by the sources, one of whom has read them and another who is intimately familiar with the case, investigated and debunked reports from 2007 and 2008 accusing the CIA, at the direction of the White House, of covertly supporting Jundallah -- a Pakistan-based Sunni extremist organization. Jundallah, according to the U.S. government and published reports, is responsible for assassinating Iranian government officials and killing Iranian women and children.
But while the memos show that the United States had barred even the most incidental contact with Jundallah, according to both intelligence officers, the same was not true for Israel's Mossad. The memos also detail CIA field reports saying that Israel's recruiting activities occurred under the nose of U.S. intelligence officers, most notably in London, the capital of one of Israel's ostensible allies, where Mossad officers posing as CIA operatives met with Jundallah officials.
The officials did not know whether the Israeli program to recruit and use Jundallah is ongoing. Nevertheless, they were stunned by the brazenness of the Mossad's efforts.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/13/false_flag?page=0,0
This use of false flag techniques by Israel is not new. In the
Lavon Affair way back in 1954 Israeli agents attempted to firebomb US and British owned properties in Egypt to make it look like Arab terrorists were responsible.
Of course, the USA living in a glass house is not really in a position to throw any stones when it comes to the use of false flag terror techniques and intentionally creating incidents to make a designated enemy look bad while it secretly accomplishes the USA's own objectives.
"We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth." -
US newspaper columnist Sydney Schanberg reflecting on how easily the US government's lies and propaganda about a non existent 2nd Gulf of Tonkin attack on a US destroyer could be used to hoodwink Americans into supporting the USA's involvement in the Vietnam war.
See below how it was finally admitted that the US and Britain conspired (not a conspiracy theory this time, a conspiracy fact) to overthrow the democratically elected government in Iran when the Iranian PM threatened to put a dent in the profits of the British owned and controlled Iranian oil industry. Part of the CIA/MI6 plot known as Operation Ajax involved the use of false flag terror tactics.
A 'great venture': overthrowing the government of Iran
by Mark Curtis From Lobster 30
This is a slightly abridged version of part of chapter four of Mark Curtis's book The Ambiguities of Power: British Foreign Policy since 1945 (Zed Press, 1995).
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In August 1953 a coup overthrew Iran's nationalist government of Mohammed Musaddiq and installed the Shah in power. The Shah subsequently used widespread repression and torture in a dictatorship that lasted until the 1979 Islamic revolution. The 1953 coup is conventionally regarded primarily as a CIA operation, yet the planning record reveals not only that Britain was the prime mover in the initial project to overthrow the government but also that British resources contributed significantly to the eventual success of the operation. Two first-hand accounts of the Anglo-American sponsorship of the coup - by the MI6 and CIA officers primarily responsible for it - are useful in reconstructing events. (1) Many of the secret planning documents that reveal the British role have been removed from public access and some of them remain closed until the next century - for reasons of 'national security'. Nevertheless, a fairly clear picture still emerges. Churchill later told the CIA officer responsible for the operation that he 'would have loved nothing better than to have served under your command in this great venture'. (2)
In the 1950s the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) - later renamed British Petroleum - which was managed from London and owned by the British government and British private citizens, controlled Iran's main source of income: oil. According to one British official, the AIOC 'has become in effect an imperium in imperio in Persia'. Iranian nationalists objected to the fact that the AIOC not only made revenues from Iranian oil 'greatly in excess of the revenues of the Persian government but [it] dominates the whole economic life of Persia, and therefore impairs her independence'. (3) The AIOC was recognised as 'a great foreign organisation controlling Persia's economic life and destiny'. The British oil business fared well from this state of affairs; the AIOC made £170 million in profits in 1950 alone. (4)
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When the coup scenario finally began, huge demonstrations proceeded in the streets of Tehran, funded by CIA and MI6 money, $1 million dollars of which was in a safe in the US embassy (57) and £1.5 million which had been delivered by Britain to its agents in Iran, according to the MI6 officer responsible for delivering it. (58)
According to then CIA officer Richard Cottam, 'that mob that came into north Tehran and was decisive in the overthrow was a mercenary mob. It had no ideology. That mob was paid for by American dollars.' (59) One key aspect of the plot was to portray the demonstrating mobs as supporters of the Communist Party - Tudeh - in order to provide a suitable pretext for the coup and the assumption of control by the Shah. Cottam observes that agents working on behalf of the British 'saw the opportunity and sent the people we had under our control into the streets to act as if they were Tudeh. They were more than just provocateurs, they were shock troops, who acted as if they were Tudeh people throwing rocks at mosques and priests'. (60) 'The purpose', Brian Lapping explains, 'was to frighten the majority of Iranians into believing that a victory for Mussadeq would be a victory for the Tudeh, the Soviet Union and irreligion'. (61)
http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/l30iran.htm
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