Sten incites rebellion on Vulcan by fulfilling the Mig folk story of "one of their own" who will get out, return, and lead them to freedom. Sten: Mercury Corps uses this as a matter of course.Heinlein's The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: Gwen is falsely accused of being one. The State Counsellor novel contains enough of these to make Erast Fandorin swear he'll never take political cases again.
In Komarr, frustrated by the inherently reactionary nature of his job as an Imperial Auditor, Miles briefly ponders the probability of convincing the Emperor to deploy an Auditor Provocateur.In A Civil Campaign: Byerly is an ImpSec agent tasked with observing the politics surrounding Lord Dono's claim to the countship, who chooses to actively encourage the rather extreme shenanigans Dono's rival attempts.Apparently the idea is to create riots which will justify the deployment of a police helicopter gunship with advanced surveillance capabilities. When looking through the diary of a councilwoman who was murdered, the police note a reference to "strangers in the ghetto, stirring up trouble". Implied with the Government Conspiracy behind the titular helicopter. The reason it's the former and not the latter is the troops on the ground had no idea they were just cannon fodder for Palpatine's goals and the Separatist cause was never meant to succeed. Count Dooku is sent to stir up the galaxy against Chancellor Palpatine in order to make it so the latter can justify seizing more power. This is pretty much the point of Attack of the Clones mixed with a False Flag Operation.According to the DVD Commentary this was Truth in Television. Later he admits the guards put him up to it, so they could have an excuse to beat up the protagonist. One of the inmates in the post-war prison in Communist Czechoslovakia suggests they steal a tool from the doctor's office and use it to break out. The film Matewan, about labor unrest and the formation of a miner's union in 1920s West Virginia, had the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency engaged in this activity, through their mole in the union trying to discredit an outside labor organizer and persuading a young miner to plant a bomb to shut down one of the mines.Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs: In the Alternate Timeline Marie Route series, Olivia suffers from Demonic Possession by a Vengeful Ghost bent on destroying the kingdom, leading to her Playing Both Sides as The Chessmaster in multiple conflicts, and being The Corrupter for the Crown Prince Julius, while the public sees Olivia as a kind and generous saint.Before her territory in the ruins is about to be assaulted, she prepares Evil Knockoff hunters to plant inside the enemy squads and sow distrust and infighting amongst the attackers after shes disabled their communications. She was previously Famed in Story as the Tempting Spectre for offering hunters deals to attack other hunters, before The Government changed that myth to something more convenient. Rebuild World: This is the modus operandi of the Artificial Intelligence Tsubaki who is The Remnant of the Old World Precursors.The story of the child getting shot is then spread around as a coverup. This group of special forces is then used in experiments to create chimeras who are let loose after the 5th laboratory arc and expose the whole conspiracy. In the 2003 anime adaptation, a group of special forces had been tasked with starting the Ishbal uprising.This is pretty much the Homunculi's modus operandi: they start wars for the express purpose of drawing the enormous transmutation circle Father needs for his master plan. It was actually Envy, who had posed as an Armestrian soldier and shot the child with the intent of causing the rebellion. In Fullmetal Alchemist, the Ishval uprising is supposedly the result of a soldier accidentally shooting an Ishval boy.