FALSE FLAG OPERATION (1898): Under orders from de facto Commander-in-Chief McKinley (a resident of the Federal enclave of Ohio), Captain Charles D. Sigsbee, commander of the USS Maine, drops anchor in the harbor of Havana, Cuba.

       NOTES:

• 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.