false flag

Noun

 * 1)  A ruse, in the days of sail, in which an attacking ship would fly the colours of its enemy until close enough to open fire.
 * 2)  A diversionary or propaganda tactic of deceiving an adversary into thinking that an operation was carried out by another party.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: bandera falsa
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 徦旗戰術
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: lavastettu hyökkäys
 * French:, opération sous fausse bannière, opération sous faux pavillon
 * Georgian:
 * German: falsche Flagge
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 偽旗作戦
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Swedish: falsk flagg, falsk flagga
 * Turkish: sahte bayrak
 * Ukrainian:

Verb

 * 1) To target with a false flag ruse.