At most, someone knew Japan was going to attack and allowed it to happen in order to pull us into war. That's not technically a false flag, not from Japan's perspective.
Japan didn't attack Pearl Harbor at the behest of the CIA.
People who say that probably think of Pearl Harbor as a 20th century 9/11. It was not. It was a huge military operation involving many ships, soldiers, and planes to take out a significant amount of the US Pacific fleet at the time, not some wanton terrorist attack by 20 Al Quaeda nutjobs hijacking civilian aircraft to attack civilian targets. Much easier for someone like the CIA to sleeper agent the second one than the first, when they didn't even exist.
At most, someone knew Japan was going to attack and allowed it to happen in order to pull us into war. That's not technically a false flag, not from Japan's perspective.
Japan didn't attack Pearl Harbor at the behest of the CIA.
People who say that probably think of Pearl Harbor as a 20th century 9/11. It was not. It was a huge military operation involving many ships, soldiers, and planes to take out a significant amount of the US Pacific fleet at the time, not some wanton terrorist attack by 20 Al Quaeda nutjobs hijacking civilian aircraft to attack civilian targets. Much easier for someone like the CIA to sleeper agent the second one than the first, when they didn't even exist.
Which one didn't exist - Al Qaeda or CIA? If you are referring to the CIA, it's earliest predecessor did exist.
It went like this: COI, OSS, SSU, CIG, then the CIA.
The CIO was established on 11 July 1941, just under 5 months before Pearl Harbor.
https://www.cia.gov/legacy/cia-history/