Webster Griffin Tarpley 9/11 synthetic terror 9-11 myth of the century cover-up false flag invisible government gladio Webster Griffin Tarpley is a historian, author, lecturer, and critic of US foreign and domestic policy. He maintains that the events of 9/11 were engineered by the military industrial complex. He envisions a model of false flag terror operated by a rogue network of independent operatives in the privatized military intelligence sector and corporate media.