Burn Notice

In the field of secret services, documents and notices are referred to as burn notice in which the unreliability of an agent or intelligence service employee is reported. This information can come from external intelligence services as well as from employees of your own service. There are many reasons for a Burn Notice , including: a. the overflow of an agent. According to the notification, the employee can no longer be used and is considered burned . All information from this source should also be destroyed ( burned ), this procedure is also the reason for the naming of the note.

There is an American TV series called Burn Notice , the protagonist of which receives such a notice at the beginning of the series and tries to determine the source.

Examples

• Rafid Ahmed Alwan , classified as an unreliable informant after a burn notice .
• Manucher Ghorbanifar , Iranian arms dealer and middleman in the Iran-Contra affair , classified as unreliable due to a burn notice from the CIA .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Burn Notice Definition. (No longer available online.) Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, archived from the original on June 10, 2008 ; Retrieved January 1, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Nigel West (2006), Historical dictionary of international intelligence
3. ↑ Iraq was source's name revealed (BBC, Nov. 2, 2007)
4. ^ Weapon of the mass disinformation FAZ from February 22, 2008
5. ↑ CIA used Burn Notice, press report ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.