- Burn notice
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. [ [http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict/data/b/00812.html Burn Notice Definition] , [http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict/ "Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms"] , accessed via dtic.milApril 9 2008 ]Examples
*Curveball [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Curveball: 'I Am Not To Blame' for U.S. War in Iraq |url=http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=4512173&page=1 |quote=The CIA has since issued an official "burn notice" formally retracting more than 100 intelligence reports based on his information. |publisher=
ABC News |date= |accessdate=2008-06-27 ] cite news |first=Mark |last=Hosenball |authorlink=Mark Hosenball |coauthors= |title=Who's Fault is CurveBall Mess? |url=|quote=U.S. intel quickly figured the source was a "fabricator," but a so-called burn notice about the source's unreliability was somehow mislaid. |publisher=Newsweek |date=January 17 2006 |accessdate=2008-04-10 ]
*Manucher Ghorbanifar 1984 and 1986 [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=They're Back |url=http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=12059 |quote=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. |publisher=American Prospect |date=September 26 2006 |accessdate=2008-06-27 ] [cite news |first=James |last=Bamford |authorlink=James Bamford|coauthors= |title=Iran: The Next War |url=http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/10962352/iran_the_next_war/print |quote=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. |publisher=Rolling Stone |date=July 24 2006 |accessdate=2008-06-27 ] [cite web |url=http://www.uruknet.info/?p=13977 |title=Niger Yellowcake and The Man Who Forged Too Much |accessdate=2008-06-27 |quote=The CIA issued a "burn notice" (or "Fabricator Notice") on Ghorbanifar in ... |publisher=uruknet.info
accessdate=2008-06-27 |]References
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