Burn notice (document)
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A burn notice is an official statement issued by one intelligence agency to other agencies. It states that an individual or a group is unreliable for one or more reasons.[1] This is essentially a directive for the recipient to disregard or "burn" all information derived from that individual or group.[2]
[edit] Examples
- Ahmed Chalabi [3]
- Curveball [4][5]
- Manucher Ghorbanifar 1984 and 1986 [6][7][8]
[edit] Pop culture
- Burn Notice is an American television series starring Jeffrey Donovan who plays the character Michael Westen, a former covert-operations agent who has been burned.
- In Archer (TV series) season 1, episode 9: Job Offer, Titular character Sterling Archer is burned by his mother Malory, the head of ISIS.
[edit] References
- ^ Burn Notice Definition, Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, accessed via dtic.mil April 9, 2008
- ^ West, Nigel (2006). Historical dictionary of international intelligence. 4. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 41. ISBN 081085578X, ISBN 9780810855786. http://books.google.com/books?id=1-Sc_FtXhJoC&pg=PT70.
- ^ Mahle, Melissa Boyle (2004). Denial and deception: an insider's view of the CIA from Iran-contra to 9/11. Nation Books. p. 27. ISBN 1560256494, ISBN 9781560256496. http://books.google.com/books?id=NZxHmWxPPncC&pg=PA27.
- ^ "Curveball: 'I Am Not To Blame' for U.S. War in Iraq". ABC News. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=4512173&page=1. Retrieved 2008-06-27. "The CIA has since issued an official "burn notice" formally retracting more than 100 intelligence reports based on his information."
- ^ Hosenball, Mark (January 17, 2006). "Who's Fault is CurveBall Mess?". Newsweek. "U.S. intel quickly figured the source was a "fabricator," but a so-called burn notice about the source's unreliability was somehow mislaid."
- ^ "They're Back". American Prospect. September 26, 2006. http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=12059. Retrieved 2008-06-27. "Given this associate's acknowledged recent history as a conduit for information from Ghorbanifar, who is the subject of two CIA “burn notices” warning its employees not to deal with him, I wondered if it was a non-governmental person or congressional staffer calling him now."
- ^ Bamford, James (July 24, 2006). "Iran: The Next War". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/10962352/iran_the_next_war/print. Retrieved 2008-06-27. "The CIA considered Ghorbanifar a dangerous con man and had issued a "burn notice" recommending that no U.S. agency have any dealings with him."
- ^ "Niger Yellowcake and The Man Who Forged Too Much". uruknet.info. http://www.uruknet.info/?p=13977. Retrieved 2008-06-27. "The CIA issued a "burn notice" (or "Fabricator Notice") on Ghorbanifar in ..."
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