Quotes / False Flag Operation

"When we leave our card, we shall have to provide the authorities with a scapegoat. In this case, I'm relying on the British character. We British will always give the Germans, the Russians, the Japanese, or even the Egyptians the benefit of the doubt, but never the Irish. So, throughout this exercise, if we use our accents judiciously, the IRA will get the credit, and the blame."

— Hyde, The League of Gentlemen

Joachim: They're requesting communications, sir.

Khan Noonien Singh: Let them eat static.

Joachim: They're still running with shields down.

Khan: Of course. We are one big, happy fleet.

— Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

A Cyber Bully: I am board, What should I do today? (Police siren sounds) OH NO! IT'S THE POLICE! AND THEY MUST HAVE FOUND OUT THAT I FALSE FLAG (Innocent user names)'s YouTube video and giving them a community guideline strike.
GoAnimate Police: HANDS UP, YOU ARE UNDER ARREST FOR FALSE FLAGGING (Innocent user name)'s VIDEO AND GIVING THEM A COMMUNITY GUIDELINE STRIKE!
A Cyber Bully: But I had to flag those videos.
GoAnimate Police: Enough lying, Hands behind your back (places the handcuffs on the cyber-bully) Get into my police car now!
* They sent them into a station wagon police car*
* Scene changes to prison*
GoAnimate Police: THIS IS YOUR CELL, YOU WILL STAY IN PRISON FOR 10 YEARS!
* They lock the cyber-bully behind bars!*
* The parents arrive*
A father of the cyber-bully: (Insert bad user's name), I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU GOT ARRESTED FOR FALSE FLAGGING SOMEBODY'S VIDEO AND GIVING THEM A COMMUNITY GUIDELINE STRIKE! WHAT VIDEO DID YOU FLAG?!?
A Cyber Bully: I false flagged (Innocent user's name)'s video and gave them a community guideline strike!
A mother of the Cyber Bully: THAT'S NOT OKAY TO FALSE FLAG! THAT IS WHY YOU ARE STAYING HERE IN PRISON FOR 10 YEARS!

— GoAnimate

Vonsky: You ask us to enter into conspiracy with the greatest criminals in Russian history?

Levin: Yes, how can we?

Federov: By knowing this: we have never committed a single one of the violent acts attributed to us by the Ministry. Yes, we left the government laboratories en mass because we did not like certain orders we had been given, the path our rulers demanded technological innovation travel down. But we have never committed a single act of violent. Not a single one. The emotion bombs, the malfunctions - the Ministry itself has done it all. Remember, if you want to control someone, first protect them. And if you will protect someone, you need something to protect them from.

—Android Karenina

Captain Rowd: Luca Blight needed a sacrifice to achieve his ambitions. The Royal Highland Youth Brigade was massacred by the State. This will be enough to whip the people up into a frenzy! So what do you think, little girl? Aren't those City-State monsters just horrible?

Nanami: Th... that's... If I thought that Riou and Jowy had been killed by the State... I could never have forgiven them, but... I didn't know...

Captain Rowd: Exactly. But if it's not found out, a lie becomes the truth. Prince Luca needs to stir up the people to achieve his plans. And I have big plans too.

— Suikoden II

"He is a man seemingly without a conscience, for whom the ends always justify the means, and it is he who suggests that their target should not be an enemy of the country but rather the country itself."

—V, V for Vendetta

Toby Esterhase: Listen, George, I know Polyakov works for Moscow Center. Of course I do, we all know. But come on, think how many other operations we've run this way. We've bought Polyakov, right? He's a Moscow hood, but he's also our Joe. Now, he's got to pretend to his own people that he's spying on us, so we've got to give him one or two goodies now and again... Chickenfeed, so he can send them home and Moscow Center clap him on the back and tell him he's a big man. It happens all the time. Come on, George. You know the game.''

George Smiley: The only problem arises when it turns out you've been handing Polyakov the crown jewels and getting Russian chickenfeed in return.''

— Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which illustrates how this concept works, and how it can be used against its operators.

Mura: (as red alert klaxons go off) Intrepid is raising shields! They're arming torpedoes.
Seven of Nine: They're ordering us to surrender.
Shaw: Surrender?! Why?!
Riker: Don't you get it?! We're being framed for what just happened by the Changelings masquerading as officers aboard that ship.

— Star Trek: Picard, "Imposters"

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