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Excuse to do or say something that is not accurate
A pretext (adj.: pretextual) is a false reason for an action given to conceal the true motivation. A person may give a pretext because if others understood
Pretext
Type of social engineering attack
Pretexting, known in the UK as blagging, is a type of social engineering attack that involves a situation, or pretext, created by an attacker in order
Pretexting
Act or event that provokes or is used to justify war
wars". A casus belli intentionally based on inaccurate facts is known as a pretext. This section outlines a number of the more famous and/or controversial
Casus_belli
Psychological manipulation in information security
bank account details. Pretexting, also known in the UK as blagging, is the act of creating and using an invented scenario (the pretext) to engage a targeted
Social_engineering_(security)
English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
Aldous Leonard Huxley (/ˈɔːldəs/ AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books
Aldous_Huxley
2004 book by James Bamford
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies is a 2004 book by journalist James Bamford that takes a highly critical
A_Pretext_for_War
American serial killer (1942–1994)
lure a victim to his home and dupe them into donning handcuffs on the pretext of demonstrating a magic trick. He would then rape and torture his captive
John_Wayne_Gacy
German diplomat (1909–1938)
1938 by a Polish Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, which was used as a pretext for Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass" on 9–10 November 1938. Historians
Ernst_vom_Rath
Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945
for Sudeten Germans from the Czechoslovak government, thus providing a pretext for German military action against Czechoslovakia. In April 1938, Henlein
Adolf_Hitler
President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
charges of Iraqi resistance to U.N access to suspected weapons were the pretext for crises between 1997 and 1998, culminating in intensive U.S. and British
Saddam_Hussein
American whistleblower (born 1983)
permitted temporary leave from his position at the NSA in Hawaii, on the pretext of receiving treatment for his epilepsy. In mid-May, Snowden gave an electronic
Edward_Snowden
Brief detainment by police in the United States
related to drug possession, and uses a minor traffic infringement as a pretext to stop the driver. In the case of Whren, the defense used a "would-have"
Terry_stop
Global conflict from 1914 to 1918
volunteered to join the Russian forces and the Ottoman government used this as a pretext to issue the Tehcir Law (Law on Deportation), which authorised the deportation
World_War_I
Global conflict from 1939 to 1945
saw as the country's right to rule Asia, staged the Mukden incident as a pretext to invade Manchuria and establish the puppet state of Manchukuo. China
World_War_II
Australian WikiLeaks editor (born 1971)
that the Swedish allegations were designed to discredit him and were a pretext for his extradition from Sweden to the United States. Assange breached
Julian_Assange
Country in Southeast Asia
insurgency, the United States used the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident as a pretext for increasing its contribution of military advisers. US forces became
Vietnam
1944 Ailanthus-class net laying ship
to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease in August 1944. Commissioned as HMS Pretext (Z284), she served the United Kingdom until she was returned to United
HMNZS_Endeavour_(1944)
Phase since 2022 of war ongoing since 2014
that Russia knew its "unrealistic demands" would be rejected, giving it a pretext to invade. No countries bordering Russia had joined NATO since 2004. Ukraine
Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)
Russo-Ukrainian_war_(2022–present)
Political philosophy emphasising social ownership of production
Socialism. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674339460. Roosa, John (2006). Pretext for Mass Murder: 30 September Movement and Suharto's Coup d'État in Indonesia
Socialism
Emperor of China (1908–1912) and of Manchukuo (1934–1945)
Railroad company and blamed the warlord Marshal Zhang Xueliang. On this pretext the Kwantung Army began a general offensive with the aim of conquering
Puyi
Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990
November 1962, the British declined to support the operation without a pretext, noting that Lim and the Barisan Sosialis had not broken any laws. The
Lee_Kuan_Yew
Habsburg monarch from 1848 to 1916
Empire Hungarian Revolutionary Army Kingdom of Hungary Russian Empire Pretext April Laws Major battles Pákozd Schwechat Mór Kápolna Battles of Komárom
Franz_Joseph_I
1989 murder of Japanese high school girl
attack in the middle of December, Furuta was beaten by the group, on the pretext that Miyano had stepped on a puddle of her urine, after which he burned
Murder_of_Junko_Furuta
Revolution in Iran from 1978 to 1979
88, not 4000. The claims were believed by many, which gave Khomeini a pretext to reject any further compromise with the government. The Shah was horrified
Iranian_Revolution
American serial killer (1960–1994)
sexually fondling a 13-year-old boy whom he had lured to his home on the pretext of posing nude for photographs. Dahmer's father hired attorney Gerald Boyle
Jeffrey_Dahmer
Subset of artificial intelligence
Misra, Ishan; Maaten, Laurens van der (2020). Self-Supervised Learning of Pretext-Invariant Representations. 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision
Machine_learning
King of the United Kingdom from 1820 to 1830
power with the other. Possibly using the failure of the two peers as a pretext, George immediately reappointed the Perceval administration, with Lord
George_IV
Roman emperor from 117 to 138
Septicius Clarus, was dismissed for the same alleged reason, perhaps a pretext to remove him from office. Hadrian spent the winter of 122/123 at Tarraco
Hadrian
1899–1901 anti-foreign uprising in China
government, at the insistence of war minister Aleksey Kuropatkin, used the pretext of Boxer activity to move some 200,000 troops led by Paul von Rennenkampf
Boxer_Rebellion
2003–2011 conflict in Iraq
2004 that the occupation of Iraq had become "a potent global recruitment pretext" for Mujahideen and that the invasion "galvanised" al-Qaeda and "perversely
Iraq_War
of large numbers of ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities on the "pretext of countering terrorism". In 2019, Sam Brownback, Nathan Sales, and the
Persecution of Uyghurs in China
Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
status), of which Hitler granted only 12. Anthony Gottlieb writes that the pretext was that their paternal grandfather had been the bastard son of a German
Ludwig_Wittgenstein
1927–1949 civil war in China
China and send Marines to guard the seaports. — President Truman Using the pretext of "receiving the Japanese surrender", business interests within the KMT
Chinese_Civil_War
Leader of Francoist Spain from 1939 to 1975
Communist coup d'état as well a pretended state of "social chaos" became pretexts for a coup. Franco himself along with General Emilio Mola had stirred an
Francisco_Franco
President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970
Kandil, without Nasser's authorization, Amer used the Soviet warnings as a pretext to dispatch troops to Sinai on 14 May, and Nasser subsequently demanded
Gamal_Abdel_Nasser
President of the United States from 1913 to 1921
spaces, restrooms, and cafeterias. Many agencies used segregation as a pretext to adopt a whites-only employment policy, claiming they lacked facilities
Woodrow_Wilson
Species of gastropod
Amoria praetexta, common name the pretext volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. The length
Amoria_praetexta
Capital and largest city of Egypt
opera house. The immense debt resulting from Isma'il's projects provided a pretext for increasing European control, which culminated with the British invasion
Cairo
1756 siege during the Seven Years' War
After he became Nawab he began searching for a pretext to drive the company from his lands. The first pretext centered around Kissendass, the son of a high-ranking
Siege_of_Calcutta
Country in Central Asia
violations in Andijan are invented by the enemies of Uzbekistan as a convenient pretext for intervention in the country's internal affairs. Male and female homosexuality
Uzbekistan
Misogynistic online harassment campaign
disaffected voices in an act of continual regeneration, cycling through targets, pretexts, manifestoes, and moralisms". Polygon's Grant said that as of October 2014
Gamergate
President of Belarus since 1994
stayed there overnight on the night of 11–12 April. At night, under the pretext of a bomb threat, unidentified law enforcement personnel attacked and forcibly
Alexander_Lukashenko
President of the United States from 1829 to 1837
nullification: "the tariff was only the pretext, and disunion and southern confederacy the real object. The next pretext will be the negro, or slavery question"
Andrew_Jackson
Indian politician, singer and actor (born 1971)
Tiwari said that that freedom of religion cannot be taken away under the pretext of the right to life. The Supreme Court refused to provide an early hearing
Manoj Tiwari (Delhi politician)
Manoj_Tiwari_(Delhi_politician)
German Nazi leader of the SS (1900–1945)
at the University of Bonn. When Hitler and his army chiefs asked for a pretext for the invasion of Poland in 1939, Himmler, Heydrich, and Heinrich Müller
Heinrich_Himmler
Japanese nation state from 1868 to 1947
materialism caused by Westernized democracy. This provided them with a pretext to promote militarism and weakened the Taishō Democracy. In the infamous
Empire_of_Japan
Hostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews
Alexander II (r. 1855–1881). However, his assassination in 1881 served as a pretext for further repression, such as the May Laws of 1882. Konstantin Pobedonostsev
Antisemitism
1962 proposed U.S. false flag operation against American citizens
National Security Archive on 30 April 2001. Responding to a request for pretexts for military intervention by the Chief of Operations of the Cuba Project
Operation_Northwoods
2023 Canadian political scandal
justifications for waging war in Ukraine, which had been started under a pretext of "denazification", among other stated reasons. Rota resigned as speaker
Yaroslav_Hunka_scandal
1942 film by Michael Curtiz
the Germans. Afterwards, Strasser has Renault close the club on a flimsy pretext. Later, Ilsa confronts Rick in the deserted café; when he refuses to give
Casablanca_(film)
Medieval Anglo-French conflicts, 1337–1453
tension between the kings of France and England over territory; the official pretext was the interruption of the direct male line of the Capetian dynasty.[citation
Hundred_Years'_War
President of Indonesia from 1945 to 1967
Indonesia (98): 30–59. doi:10.5728/indonesia.98.0029. Roosa, John (2006). Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto's Coup d'État
Sukarno
Practice and advocacy of social nudity
as documentaries of the naturist lifestyle. In fact this was largely a pretext to exploit a loophole in censorship laws restricting the exhibition of
Naturism
Theories on 2001 terror attacks in U.S.
multiple acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and blame Cuba, thus providing a pretext for invasion. Time magazine contrasted events which inspired past conspiracy
9/11_conspiracy_theories
German state from 1918 to 1933
political violence that took place during the Reichstag election campaign as a pretext, he ousted the SPD-led coalition government of Prussia in the Prussian
Weimar_Republic
Religious site in Jerusalem
Consciousness, Columbia University Press, 2010 pp. 215–16, n. 22: 'The pretext later invoked for the shootings was that the Palestinians inside the Haram
Temple_Mount
Phoenician city-state
ally Numidia, though initiated by the latter, nonetheless provided the pretext for Rome to declare war. The Third Punic War was a much smaller and shorter
Ancient_Carthage
Corporate information leak investigation
recruited private investigators who used a spying technique known as pretexting. The pretexting involved investigators impersonating HP board members and nine
Hewlett-Packard spying scandal
Hewlett-Packard_spying_scandal
King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1727 to 1760
Celle, both committed adultery. In 1694 the marriage was dissolved on the pretext that Sophia Dorothea had abandoned her husband. She was confined to Ahlden
George_II_of_Great_Britain
British true crime documentary
emotionally manipulated into financially supporting his lavish lifestyle on the pretext he needed the money to escape his "enemies". An Israeli man, born Shimon
The_Tinder_Swindler
Roman politician and general (83–30 BC)
all hopes of finding a peaceful solution gone, Caesar used Antony as a pretext for marching on Rome. As tribune, Antony's person was sacrosanct, so it
Mark_Antony
One of the treaties that ended World War I
public demands to reattach the annexed territory in 1938 and become a pretext for Hitler's annexations of Czechoslovakia and parts of Poland. According
Treaty_of_Versailles
Tenth conflict of the Russo-Turkish wars (1853–1856)
nationalists) accept that the question of the holy places was no more than a pretext for the Crimean War. As conflict emerged over the issue of the holy places
Crimean_War
Political party in Iran
were executed. The Iranian government used the MEK's failed invasion as a pretext for the mass execution of those "who remained steadfast in their support
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
People's_Mojahedin_Organization_of_Iran
American sci-fi TV series (2015–2019)
Heydrich to confirm what Smith has suspected, a conspiracy to create a pretext for war with and extermination of the Japanese. Smith executes Heydrich
The Man in the High Castle (TV series)
The_Man_in_the_High_Castle_(TV_series)
Emperor of Russia from 1894 to 1917
led down into a half-basement room at the back of the Ipatiev house. The pretext for this move was the family's safety, i.e. that anti-Bolshevik forces
Nicholas_II
German state from 1525 to 1947
Prussian government from effective control on 20 July 1932, under the pretext that the latter had lost control of public order in Prussia (during the
Prussia
1791 amendment limiting government restriction of civil liberties
shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed. The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right
First Amendment to the United States Constitution
First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
1960 South African Police killing of protestors
The Sharpeville massacre occurred on 21 March 1960, when police opened fire on a crowd of people who had assembled outside the police station in the township
Sharpeville_massacre
Wooden lattice tower in Gliwice, Poland
Germany staged a false flag attack on the tower in 1939, which was used as a pretext for invading Poland, beginning World War II. The Gliwice Radio Tower is
Gliwice_Radio_Tower
international observers suggested that the espionage claims were a baseless pretext for fulfilling a long-held ambition to reduce the Afghan population and
2025 Afghan deportation from Iran
2025_Afghan_deportation_from_Iran
End of Qing dynasty in China
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, used attacks on Russian settlers as a pretext to send troops into Tannu Uriankhai, and the twenty-seven sumu of the central
1911_Revolution
King of England from 1413 to 1422
such pressure could have been brought to bear. Beneath these immediate pretexts lay an older grievance: the dynastic claim to the French throne first pursued
Henry_V_of_England
Religious subgroup of modern Judaism
either tzedakah or the leader's needs. Occasions in the "court" serve as a pretext for mass gatherings, flaunting the power, wealth and size of each. Weddings
Hasidic_Judaism
Country in North Africa
Tunisian international debt grew unmanageable. This was the reason or pretext for French forces to establish a protectorate in 1881. In 1869, Tunisia
Tunisia
Covert operation designed to deceive
enemy nations or terrorists, thus giving the nation that attacked itself a pretext for domestic repression or foreign military aggression (as well as to engender
False_flag
Criminal and civil cases since 2017
Weinstein invited young actresses or models into a hotel room or office on the pretext of discussing their career, and then he demanded massages or sex. He told
Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases
Harvey_Weinstein_sexual_abuse_cases
German state from 1933 to 1945
March 1936 Hitler used the Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance as a pretext to order the army to march 3,000 troops into the demilitarised zone in
Nazi_Germany
Church in Jerusalem
that future generations would misinterpret this gesture, taking it as a pretext to turn the church into a mosque. Eutychius of Alexandria adds that Umar
Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre
1937–1938 mass murder in China
civilians was conducted with the apparent sanction of the commanders on the pretext that Chinese soldiers had removed their uniforms and were mingling with
Nanjing_Massacre
Group of loosely affiliated 9/11 conspiracy theorists
Motives suggested by the movement include the use of the attacks as a pretext to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to create opportunities to curtail
9/11_truth_movement
Period of escalating tension between Russia and Ukraine
Ukrainian "attack" as a pretext for a further invasion of Ukraine. The Russian government denied any plans to orchestrate a pretext for an invasion. U.S
Prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Prelude_to_the_2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
Malaysian state-owned oil and gas company
Nasim (28 September 2021). "Sudan is turning on former allies under the pretext of fighting corruption". Middle East Monitor. Archived from the original
Petronas
1993 film by Nora Ephron
Annie travels to Seattle on a work assignment arranged by Becky as a pretext to learn more about him. While dropping Victoria off at the airport, Sam
Sleepless_in_Seattle
Machine learning paradigm
learns in two steps. First, the task is solved based on an auxiliary or pretext classification task using pseudo-labels, which help to initialize the model
Self-supervised_learning
Jewish community associated with modern-day Ethiopia
destruction of Axum, regarded as a holy city, the Kebra Nagast uses it a pretext as grounds to persecute the Beta Israel. She's also credited for her assassinations
Beta_Israel
independent candidates, were removed from the candidate lists using other legal pretexts. Smart Voting, a tactical voting strategy created by Navalny and his team
2021 Russian legislative election
2021_Russian_legislative_election
American web portal
subjective biases against men. He claimed his role was eliminated as a pretext and given to a woman recently hired by editor-in-chief Megan Lieberman
Yahoo
Ongoing conflict since 2014
an attempt to provoke the Ukrainian army to retaliate, to give Russia a pretext for invading. Ukraine's president Zelenskyy said that his military would
Russo-Ukrainian_war
King of France from 1643 to 1715
coming-of-age and subsequent coronation deprived them of the Frondeurs' pretext for revolt. The Fronde thus gradually lost steam and ended in 1653, when
Louis_XIV
Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 to 1250
the March of Ancona and the Duchy of Spoleto. Gregory IX used this as pretext for direct military action against the emperor, and called for an unprecedented
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor
Incident which nearly precipitated nuclear warfare
that he was also reprimanded for improper filing of paperwork with the pretext that he had not described the incident in the military diary. He received
1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident
1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident
American author, journalist and documentary producer
member of the newspaper's Board of Contributors. And in 2004 he released A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq. and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies (Doubleday)
James_Bamford
Ottoman prince
release Orhan as a challenger unless the tribute money might've provided a pretext for the siege Constantinople, although preparations for the siege had already
Orhan_Çelebi
Juvenile exploratory play
originates from children using the pretend roles of doctor and patient as a pretext for such an examination. However, whether or not such role-playing is involved
Playing_doctor
Turkic ethnic group
Young Turk's program-the Turkification of Turkey and the elimination of a pretext for Great Power meddling. J.M. Winter, ed. (2003). America and the Armenian
Turkish_people
1830 campaign of the French conquest of Algeria
in 1827, the so-called 'Fan Affair' ('Fly Whisk Incident'), served as a pretext to initiate a blockade against the port of Algiers. After three years of
Invasion_of_Algiers_(1830)
Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1885–1969)
starving populace and flew to Sweden to bring back medical supplies on the pretext of visiting her sister, Crown Princess Louise. She organised two shelters
Princess_Alice_of_Battenberg
Former French territory in North Africa (1830–1962)
also ordered a large-scale attack on Algiers between 1682 and 1683 on the pretext of assisting and rescuing enslaved Christians, usually Europeans taken
French_Algeria
City in Aleppo Governorate, Syria
Between 1954 and 1983, many old neighborhoods were demolished under this pretext for expansion, particularly in the northern areas such as Bab al-Faraj
Aleppo
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