False Flags & Agents Provocateurs
The world we inhabit is a dangerous place. From common criminals to hostile regimes, threats and enemies (foreign and domestic) abound. Human history will dispose the prudent man to protect himself, his family, his community, and his nation not only against robbers, murderers, thieves, and thugs, but also against potential invading armies and their spies and fifth columns. Thus, as well as arming ourselves, we also establish sheriff’s and police departments, militias, and military forces. And to provide guidance and early threat warning to these protectors, we establish intelligence agencies and intel units within police and military forces.
Intelligence services have been deemed essential from time immemorial. We read in the Bible (Numbers 13:1-31) that Moses sent 12 spies (one from each Israelite tribe) into Canaan to scout the land and report on its inhabitants. Later we read that Joshua sent spies into Jericho before the Israelites attacked the heavily fortified city (Joshua 2:1). The Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Aztecan, and Mongolian empires all had extensive intelligence networks. Sun Tzu, China’s famed military strategist of the fourth century B.C., wrote in The Art of War of the absolute necessity of reliable spies for victory in battle.
Without sound intelligence, even the most powerful of kingdoms is like the blinded Samson, the Hercules of the Old Testament. In Milton’s Samson Agonistes, the chained strongman bewails his plight:
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