Exercises and False Flag Terror – Tom Secker on The Mind Renewed - Spy Culture

Julian of The Mind Renewed invited me back onto his show to discuss the link between false flag terrorism and training exercises. While this is usually talked about in a very simplistic and historically ignorant way, the method of using a drill or training exercise to cover for a black operation is a real tactic. However its popularity among conspiracy theorists raises the question of whether it is now being used as a means of distracting those who are sceptical of the government accounts of terrorist atrocities. From the 7/7 London bombings to the Anders Breivik massacre to the Boston marathon bombing the emergence of rumours or stories of the attacks coinciding with a training exercise have been seized on as providing proof that the government are (a) lying and (b) secretly behind the attacks. In this conversation we put that idea to the test, recounting some of the history of this tactic being used, the more recent examples that have been interpreted in the same way, and this idea's appearance in numerous state-sponsored films and TV series.(Read more...)

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