False Flag? Fmr CIA Officer Suggests US Hacked Ukrainian Plane Transponder To Provoke Iran Shootdown

Via ZeroHedge

Philip Giraldi, a former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of the CIA, penned a piece in the American Herald Tribune speculating that the U.S. launched several cyber-attacks, one on an Iranian missile defense system, and another on the transponder of the doomed Ukrainian plane.

Giraldi explains the Iranian missile operator experienced extreme “jamming” and Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752’s transponder was switched off several minutes before the two Russian made Tor missiles were launched.

“The shutdown of the transponder, which would have automatically signaled to the operator and Tor electronics that the plane was civilian, instead automatically indicated that it was hostile. The operator, having been particularly briefed on the possibility of incoming American cruise missiles, then fired,” he said.

Giraldi said the Tor missile system used by Iran is vulnerable to being hacked or “spoofed,” and at the same moment, Flight 752’s transponder was taken offline “to create an aviation accident that would be attributed to the Iranian government.”

The Pentagon has reportedly developed technologies that can trick enemy radars with false and deceptively moving targets, he said.

“The same technology can, of course, be used to alter or even mask the transponder on a civilian airliner in such a fashion as to send false information about identity and location. The United States has the cyber and electronic warfare capability to both jam and alter signals relating to both airliner transponders and to the Iranian air defenses. Israel presumably has the same ability,” Giraldi said.

Iran made the claim Wednesday that “enemy sabotage” cannot be ruled out in the downing of the plane. 

Iranian Brigadier General Ali Abdollahi suggested the U.S. hacked missile defense systems to make it appear Flight 752 was an incoming missile.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani also accused the U.S. of being responsible for the downing of the plane, saying that:

“The root of all sorrows goes back to America… this cannot be a reason for us not to look into all the root causes.”

false flag, Iranian airlinerHe added that:

“One cannot believe that a passenger plane is struck near an international airport while flying in a [commercial] flight channel,” after previously saying that IRGC commanders were not the only ones involved in the plane downing, noting that “There were others, too.”

The Iranian parliament also stated that “we are in powerful confrontation with the criminal U.S. and do not allow a mistake… to pave the ground for misusing the issue by the enemies.”

Giraldi concludes by saying electronic warfare by the U.S. to bring down a civilian jet and blame it on Iran “suggests a premeditated and carefully planned event” to create a false flag for the next world war. 

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10 Comments
Francis Marion
Francis Marion
January 19, 2020 9:42 am

*Speculation* from former spooks = bullshit.

mike
mike
  Francis Marion
January 19, 2020 2:17 pm

Tell us more.
Especially how many planes had miraculously departed from the airport without being shut down, in the hours and days before.

John Galt
John Galt
  Francis Marion
January 20, 2020 4:06 am

Pay attention to the passengers…..

Bob P
Bob P
January 19, 2020 9:48 am

Let’s see, was it gross incompetence on the part of the Iranians or an outrageous planned slaughter on the part of the Americans? Neither would shock me. Won’t matter in the end anyway, because the entire West and its MSM mouthpieces would never publish the truth if it were a false flag and the great majority of the population will believe what they’re told.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
January 19, 2020 10:06 am

Iran screwed the pooch when they did not close down the airport during hostilities. They were asking for a disaster.

BB
BB
  TN Patriot
January 19, 2020 11:23 am

At this point I wouldn’t doubt anything coming out of the CIA . I used to think all rumours about their smuggling drugs into the nation Was a lie until I started doing research and listening to retired FBI agents .Partd of the CIA Have given themselves over to criminal activities.
It’s a damn shame .I once had high regard for them but now I’m just disgusted by all the crime being done by our government.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  BB
January 19, 2020 4:40 pm

This quote is from Uncola’s essay earlier today & it really struck me as quite profound and perfectly describes what has happened in the District of Corruption. Once they got away with killing JFK, there was no place they were afraid to go.

“The criminal cabal has been in control for longer than most people realize. In an article written last year entitled “On Channel Surfing, Circus Acts, and Time Passages”, this blogger pointed out the following regarding an unseen inner circle of power: What Abraham Lincoln foresaw, worried Woodrow Wilson, of which Dwight Eisenhower warned, that killed John F. Kennedy.

That, my friends, is an undeniable trend. And what has changed in the near six-decades since – except more power consolidation, false flags, and the construction of a global panopticon?”

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
January 19, 2020 11:23 am

Dead innocents all due to yet another action by the US government or its Deep State operatives…..100% probable. The ends ALWAYS justify the means in the heads of these folks. Operations Gladdio, Mockingbird…..

22winmag - TBP's top-secret Jew
22winmag - TBP's top-secret Jew
January 19, 2020 11:35 am

The secret history of airplane sabotage.

and expose the shitty courts before it’s too late.

All been done before.

– S.H. Skolnick

John Galt
John Galt
January 20, 2020 4:05 am

Imagine if Trump said he did not know. The media would say he was not in charge, is incompetent, and admin in chaos. The deep state are doing these things leaving trump to deal with it like they have all presidents. But trump doesnt react as expected because he knows their preferred outcome.