FALSE FLAG OPERATION (1898): The USS Maine blows up in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, due to spontaneous combustion of a coal bunker that was next to an ammunition magazine.  Two-hundred, sixty of the ship’s crew of 350 are killed.

       NOTES:

• Spanish authorities ordered that all aid be rendered to the injured survivors.
• A false flag operation is a clandestine action usually carried out by a group with an agenda, done in such a way to mislead a population into believing it is being done by someone else.
• In the opinion of history, and of the editors and writers, we are forced to agree on prima facie evidence alone that this is a False Flag incident at least in the military way.

       [restored 5/22/2022] Thanks to Jim Lorenz and Bill Holmes for this entry.