English Dictionary

false flag

名詞

(nautical) 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.

日本語の意味

（帆船時代における作戦）攻撃側の船が敵の旗を掲げ、敵に紛れて近づき、奇襲を仕掛けるための策略 / 敵の旗を偽装することで、相手を欺く行為

During the age of sail, the privateer executed a false flag to slip alongside the merchantman before revealing its guns.

帆船時代、私掠船は敵の旗を掲げる偽旗作戦で商船に密かに接近し、近距離で砲を向けた。

意味（1）

(nautical) 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.

意味（2）

(espionage, military, politics) A diversionary or propaganda tactic of deceiving an adversary into thinking that an operation was carried out by another party.

Using what the bureau calls a False Flag operation, F.B.I. agents posing as Russian intelligence officers contacted Mr. Pitts in August 1995, long after it believed he had ceased his spying activities, and feigned interest in reactivating him as a means of confirming his spying activities and determining how much information he may have provided to Moscow.

false flags （ plural ）