Burn notice

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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 or purposes.[1]

[edit] Examples of burn notices

[edit] References

  1. ^ Burn Notice Definition, Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, accessed via dtic.mil April 9, 2008
  2. ^ a b Hosenball, Mark. "Who's Fault id CurveBall Mess?", Newsweek, January 17, 2006. Retrieved on 2008-04-10. "U.S. intel quickly figured the source was a "fabricator," but a so-called burn notice about the source's unreliability was somehow mislaid." 
  3. ^ Laura Rozen, They're Back, American Prospect, September 26, 2006
  4. ^ James Bamford, Iran: The Next War, Rolling Stone, July 24, 2006

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