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He's taking the Ben Kenobi approach to the truth, it's all true from a certain point of view, and he's letting out important bits that don't serve his purpose.

An Uchiha did summon the Kyubi, and that would've been Madara himself.
Things just didn't go as planned, courtesy of the Fourth.

Madara had been stirring up disloyalty amongst the Uchiha's, long before they were "segregated" (although I would like to note that considering their size in the village, it would not be strange for the Uchiha Clan to live clustered together and away from others. If, I'm not mistaken the Hyuga's do the exact same thing, with the branch family living clustered around the main family's compound), hence why Itachi was assigned to find out more about what was going on and who was behind it, most likely this is what lead him to kill his best friend, and thus gain the mangekyo (sp?).

Unfortunately, while doing his investigative work, Itachi went over to the Dark Side as well. His main purpose of putting a stop to Madara might've still been true. But loyalty to his village was out the window as well, what he did to Sasuke, all his unmentioned crimes.. Itachi was definitely no longer batting for the angels.

I think that Madara doesn't differ that much from Orochimaru. Peace is boring. Only conflict can lead to new and interesting developments and a proper challenge to ascend to new heights. And just like Orochimaru pretended to Jiraiya's face that he was his friend, so probably did Madara do the same with the First.

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Something that I did notice in looking back at the Itachi-Sasuke fight, after going through some of the older Shippuuden episodes.

If, you look at the Shippuuden episodes where Sasuke's memories of Itachi play a role. Then you'd see that Itachi flicks/taps his fingers against Sasuke's forehead. This is usually where he's beckons Sasuke to come to him, and Sasuke rushing in, looking for a hug, only for him to be disappointed as Itachi subsequently brushes him off.

Now, I'm not quite certain which Manga chapters those are, but if they're a faithful transcriptions, then it becomes rather interesting to note.

That at the end of the Sasuke-Itachi fight, when we're expecting Itachi to rip Sasuke's eyes out, he instead tapped him on the forehead again. We all assumed this was simply due to exhaustion, no longer having his full sight etc. Now Madara claimed that Itachi used a physical touch to transfer the Amaterasu technique into Sasuke, thus suggesting that Itachi's tap was when this occurred.

It makes me wonder though, this type of technique transfer is anything but common from what we've seen thus far. And the Third was known to be a master of all the techniques in Konoha, except for those requiring a Kekkei Genkai, could this have been some type of medical jitsu taught to Itachi by the Third for his mission.

Did he prep Sasuke to be his back-up, in case he were to fail in his mission/go astray, so that at least someone would be able to stop Madara?

It would be a perfect cover story in a sense.
Madara: So why didn't you kill the brat?
Itachi: Because I intend to use him to achieve Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
Madara: Fair enough.

It might have been figured that only a Uchiha could fully defeat an Uchiha. But with having to kill off the traitorous Uchiha's (for Konoha) as well as the innocent ones (to prove his worth to Madara), that meant there wouldn't be any left as a back-up if he were to fail.

Except for Sasuke, whom he could spare, because of the supposed need for his eyes.
Also something to consider.

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