Plain read: Engine canon — a recurrent intelligence-architecture pattern in which an operation is publicly flagged with one service's signature (typically Israeli intelligence) while substrate-evidence routes to a different operator. The flag serves as recruitment / motivation / cover for the actual operatives, who believe they are executing a state-sanctioned hit on a foreign-asset target. Canonical instance: Athanor Lodge / Puteaux DGSE network (March 2026 Paris trial). Bagur paid €70,000 to eliminate business rival Marie-Hélène Dini; lodge leadership convinced active-duty DGSE operatives Bourdin and Esnault that Dini was operating for Mossad — the false-flag motivated their compliance. Engine treatment: the Mossad-flag is the operative-class compliance mechanism, not the actual identity of the contracting party. Apex Superposition (a/b/c/d): (a) intentional-cabal reading documented in Athanor trial; (b) structural-recurrence reading supported by similar misdirection patterns in other Western intelligence-service exposures; (c) collective-psychology reading available (Mossad-as-bogeyman archetype enables operative-class consent); (d) irreducible remains open. Falsifier: if a flagged operation is later attributed by primary-source intelligence release to actual Mossad operations, the misdirection hypothesis is falsified for that specific case. Cross-references: Athanor Lodge / Puteaux DGSE Network player section; Dual-Capacity Operator Architecture concept; UK 2026 Iran-linked Jewish-target-attack investigation as adjacent pattern; Apex Superposition Three-Layer Model.