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** False flagging of this sort happened (or was suspected to happen) all the time in those days. The infamous Protocols of Zion was in fact written by a Tsarist secret service agent to discredit revolutionary groups as working for an "international Jewish conspiracy." This has been proven repeatedly, but it keeps resurfacing nonetheless.
*** The American variation is "[http://www.manuampim.com/lynch_hoax1.html Willie Lynch Speech]".
* Subverted in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
* In the [[Frederick Forsyth]] novel ''The Fourth Protocol'', a Soviet spy pretends to work for South Africa to get a British official to reveal secrets. The British official was a staunch anti-Communist who felt that South Africa needed to know information to help fight the USSR and that South Africa was being denied information because of their "minor" problems with oppressing blacks. So he tells the spy classified information to help South Africa fight Soviet influence. Ironic, huh?
** Not to mention the Russian plot in the book to detonate a nuclear bomb near a US Air Force base, to cause the election of an anti-nuclear, pro-Soviet government (Labour at that time were anti-nuclear. While not pro-Soviet, they had quite a few fellow travelers attempting to influence them from within. In the novel a faction of these are thus waiting in the wings to take control and remove the US nuclear missiles from the UK, eliminating this threat to the Soviet Union).
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* ''Mockingjay'', the final book of ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' trilogy, describes a bomb attack on children from {{spoiler|the Capitol}} using a plane with {{spoiler|the Capitol}}'s emblem. Katniss recognizes the attack as a strategy developed by {{spoiler|Gale and District 13}}.
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* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' did this in one of its most celebrated episodes, "In the Pale Moonlight". Sisko puts aside his principles to get the Romulans to join the war against the Dominion. First a holographic recording is faked to make it appear that the Dominion were intending to attack the Romulans, and when this falls through, the Romulan ambassador is assassinated, his shuttle bombed, to make it appear that the Dominion didn't want the truth to be discovered. It is learned that this was the plan all along, Garak knowing the recording would not pass inspection... unless the flaws could be explained as being due to the explosion.
** In another (two-part) episode, a Starfleet admiral brings down Earth's power grid and blames it on Changeling sabotage, so that the Federation will declare martial law (which he thinks is necessary to prepare for a Dominion invasion).
** The Founders of the Dominion also employ this trope by using shapeshifter infiltrators to manipulate the Klingon invasion of Cardassia, not to mention the the withdrawal of the Klingon Empire from the Khitomer Accords, and the Second Federation-Klingon War that results, all in order to weaken the Alpha Quadrant powers for a Dominion invasion
** Also used by the main cast in a captured Jem'Hadar warship to take out a White facility.
** ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' did this one when the Romulans used a ship with a holographic display to fake various species around human space to try and get them fighting each other. Brilliantly unsuccessfully, as it turns out, as the joint effort to find and defeat the ship forms the basis for the Federation and Starfleet.
* In ''[[V (TV series)|V]]'', the Visitors use a staged terrorist attack against a Visitor-run chemical processing plant as grounds to institute martial law throughout most of the world. ''V'' being loosely based on the rise of fascism in pre-[[WWII]] Germany, this incident was inspired by the Reichstag fire of 1933, supposedly set by Nazi operatives posing as Communists.
** Also in ''[[V (TV series)|V]]'' the Visitors claim a conspiracy by Earth scientists is the reason they must take control, to keep order.
* A group of English football (soccer) fans pull one of these to incite a riot with a rival group of fans in ''[[Life On Mars]]''.
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]'', the [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Civilization]]'', your Probe Teams can perform various acts of terrorism at your opponents - and with an
* In ''[[Master of Orion]]'' framing another empire is an option for ''very'' successful spy missions. Or just about any spy mission if you're playing the Darloks.
* And in ''Birth of the Federation''. After a successful espionage/sabotage op, you can either leave no trace, or plant evidence incriminating another faction. It's a lot easier for the Cardassians and Romulans to do this than the Federation though.
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