Editing Ferdinand Marcos (section)

===Plaza Miranda bombing===
{{Excerpt|Plaza Miranda bombing}}
Unnamed former Communist Party officials alleged that "the Communist party leadership planned – and three operatives carried out – the [[Plaza Miranda bombing|Plaza Miranda attack]] in an attempt to provoke government repression and push the country towards revolution". Communist leader [[Jose Maria Sison]] had calculated that Marcos could be provoked into cracking down on his opponents, thereby driving political activists into the underground, the anonymous former officials said. Recruits were urgently needed, they said, to make use of a large influx of weapons and financial aid that China had agreed to provide."<ref name="washingtonpost.com">{{cite news|title=Ex-Communists Party Behind Manila Bombing|url=https://washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/08/04/ex-communists-party-behind-manila-bombing/b987c165-4f26-4609-aeb5-cd05134c0cec/|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 4, 1989|access-date=April 15, 2020|archive-date=July 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731050505/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/08/04/ex-communists-party-behind-manila-bombing/b987c165-4f26-4609-aeb5-cd05134c0cec/|url-status=live}}</ref> Sison denied these claims.<ref>{{cite web |last=Distor |first=Emere |title=The Left and Democratisation in the Philippines |url=http://cpcabrisbane.org/Kasama/2003/V17n2/Quimpo.htm |access-date=October 27, 2007 |archive-date=October 31, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031051141/http://cpcabrisbane.org/Kasama/2003/V17n2/Quimpo.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> The CPP never offered official confirmation of its culpability. Marcos and his allies claimed that Benigno Aquino Jr. was part of the plot, denied by Sison.<ref>{{Cite news |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/777194/joma-sison-cpp-ninoy-have-no-role-in-plaza-miranda-bombing |title=Joma Sison: CPP, Ninoy have no role in Plaza Miranda bombing |last=Gonzales |first=Yuji Vincent |access-date=January 31, 2018 |archive-date=February 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201075438/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/777194/joma-sison-cpp-ninoy-have-no-role-in-plaza-miranda-bombing |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Richard Nixon with the Marcos family.png|thumb|[[Richard Nixon]] with the Marcos family in 1969]]

Some historians claim Marcos was responsible for the Plaza Miranda bombing as he is known to have used [[false flag]] operations as a pretext for martial law.<ref name="Donnely&Hassman1987">{{Cite book |url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=RmMCmvYBQtMC|page=280}} |title=International Handbook of Human Rights |last1=Donnelly |first1=Jack |last2=Howard-Hassmann |first2=Rhoda E. | author2-link = Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann |date=1987 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9780313247880 |pages=280–281 |access-date=January 31, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107163431/https://books.google.com/books?id=RmMCmvYBQtMC&pg=PA280 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=3_0TBwAAQBAJ|page=1225}} |title=World Terrorism: An Encyclopedia of Political Violence from Ancient Times to the Post-9/11 Era: An Encyclopedia of Political Violence from Ancient Times to the Post-9/11 Era |last=Ciment |first=James |date=March 10, 2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781317451518 |access-date=January 31, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107163430/https://books.google.com/books?id=3_0TBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT1225#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live}}</ref> US intelligence documents declassified in the 1990s contained evidence implicating Marcos, provided by a CIA mole within the Philippine Army.<ref name="Blitz2000">{{Cite book|url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=n2rdOhMdCDEC|page=94}}|title=The Contested State: American Foreign Policy and Regime Change in the Philippines|last=Blitz|first=Amy|date=2000|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780847699346|pages=106–112|access-date=January 31, 2018|archive-date=November 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107163430/https://books.google.com/books?id=n2rdOhMdCDEC&pg=PA94|url-status=live}}</ref>

Another false flag attack took place with the attempted assassination of Defense Minister [[Juan Ponce Enrile]] in 1972. [[Richard Nixon|President Nixon]] approved Marcos's subsequent martial law initiative.<ref name="Blitz2000" />