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 an unreliable source of information or has become an unreliable source.
It is defined by the US Department of Defense's Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms as:
- "an official statement by one intelligence agency to other agencies, domestic or foreign, that an individual or group is unreliable for any of a variety of reasons."[1]
[edit] Burned sources
A number of sources that have achieved prominence in public discourse have been the subject of burn notices. For example:
- Ahmed Chalabi [2]
- Curveball (informant) [2]
- Manucher Ghorbanifar 1984 and 1986 [3][4]
[edit] References
- ^ Burn Notice Definition, Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, accessed via Archive.org September 26 2006
- ^ a b Mark Hosenball, Hosenball: Whose Fault Is 'Curveball' Mess?, Newsweek, January 17 2006
- ^ Laura Rozen, They're Back, American Prospect, September 26 2006
- ^ James Bamford, Iran: The Next War, Rolling Stone, July 24 2006
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