CIA Foils Underwear Bomb

[Peter Lemkin]

But on a more 'serious' note....[and likely the reason d'etre for this entire false-flag and agent provocateur combo op], all sorts of high-level types in the USA are using it as a call for GREATER restrictions and greater searches/surveillance/eavesdropping/preemptive countermeasures on everyone, everywhere!.....Achtung! [Oh, and lest I forget, there is a bill on such searches/surveillance/eavesdropping/preemptive countermeasures on everyone, everywhere that just happens to be up for renewal in Congress in the next few days.....coincidence, I'm sure:pinkelephant:

I stand corrected....

"According to CIA Officer Nelson Brickham, "false flag" recruitments are when CIA case officers pose as (say) Soviet intelligence officers and, using legitimate Soviet cipher systems and methodology, recruit (say) Chinese diplomats, who believe they are working for the Russians, although they are actually working for the CIA. The CIA case officers then use the unsuspecting Chinese agents to create all manner of mischief. (The Phoenix Program, p 102)

The Wikipedia definition is incorrect, as many Wikipedia definitions are: false flags are not necessarily designed to fool the public, they are designed to fool a foreign intelligence service or its agents.

And not all operations designed to fool the public, or a foreign intelligence service or its agents, are false flag operations.

The underwear bomber could only have been part of a false flag operation if he thought he was working for an intelligence service other than the CIA. But he knew he was working for the CIA.

The underwear bomber was a penetration agent. It was not a false flag operation.

If the 19 9-11 bombers had been hired by MOSSAD agents pretending to be Al Qaeda agents, 9-11 would have been a false flag operation designed to fool the public. Of course, bin Laden would have to have been a CIA agent as well, as would any other Al Qaeda official who claimed credit for 9-11." -Douglas Valentine