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* In one of Daniel Silva's novels about an Israeli spy, the hero is captured by Palestinian terrorists who want to place him at a suicide bombing in France they carry out as a False-Flag Operation framing Israel for a False-Flag Operation, like the odious conspiracy theory Israel was behind 9/11. Sadly, it works at least temporarily all too well.
* In [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''Executive Orders'', China heightens political tensions in Asia by orchestrating an air battle between their air forces and the air forces of Taiwan. It fits this trope, in that the Taiwanese pilots were tricked into opening hostilities when they were caught in the middle of a Chinese "training mission."
** For a more straight-up example, see ''[[Red Storm Rising]]'', when the KGB sets up a bombing of the Politburo to manufacture a ''[[casus belli]]'' as part of their "maskirovka" (Russian for "camouflage" or "concealment").
** The terrorists in ''[[The Sum of All Fears]]'' have several False Flag operations going, first trying to frame the Russians for nuking Denver, and starting a shooting war in East Germany, and when that falls through, blaming the Iranians (who in this case actually had nothing to do with it) for being behind the whole thing.
** Also discussed in ''[[The Bear And The Tiger]]'', when China is preparing to invade Russia. The Chinese Defense Minister suggests that they shoot down a Russian recon plane, and then claim that it had invaded Chinese airspace as a justification for the invasion. Whether that actually happens is not mentioned (but it probably doesn't, as the Russians stop their recon flights in favor of the American UAVs).
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