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False Flag is an operation in which the act of intentionally disguising the source of responsibly, and blaming it on a secondary party. This term is mostly used by conspiracy theory promoters in accordance to the government and covert operations. Originally, the phrase, "false flag", was used for the practice of pirate ships flying the colors of other nations to deceive other ships, such as those of merchants, into thinking that they were dealing with friendly people. The pirates would usually show their true colors just before the attack, but the wrong flag would sometimes continue to be flown during the attack, because they would forget to change it, and thus the term "attacking under false flag." But, overtime the term "false flag" came to be applied to any covert operation that put the responsibility of their wrongs on another party. For example, the case with the 1953 Iranian Coup.

In November of 1939, the Russian village of Mainila was attacked by an unknown party. The village was fairly close to the border with Finland, and the launch attack was used as an excuse to break the pact that was made with the Soviet Union for non-aggression with the country and launch an invasion into Finland. This was later known as the 'Winter War'. It was eventually concluded by both British and Russian historians that the shelling of the village was a false flag operation carried out by members of the NKVD.  Throughout the war, false flag operations were continuously executed, but mostly can be considered in the old sense of the word. Another false flag operation, one of the most famous of World War II,  was the raid on the French drydock of St, Nazaire. British commandoes managed to float an explosives-laden old Royal Navy destroyer made to look like a German torpedo boat close enough to the harbor to destroy all key structures in the the port according to the detonator's will. After the war, the United States and Great Britain joined forces and organized false flag operations during the 1953 Iranian Coup.

False flag can be used in instances other than war as well. For example, during a mass school shooting investigation in Parkland, there was talk that the person that shot the school up, David Hogg, was accused of being a "crisis actor" and that the shooting was a staged hoax to undermine gun rights.