Burn notice (document)

Examples

• Ahmed Chalabi
• Curveball—"The CIA has since issued an official 'burn notice' formally retracting more than 100 intelligence reports based on his information."
• Manucher Ghorbanifar—1984 and 1986. "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."
• Ali Abdel Saoud Mohamed, who was recruited by the CIA and immediately revealed himself to be a double agent. "The CIA issued a burn notice to U.S. and allied intelligence services that Mohamed was not to be trusted."

  In popular culture

• Burn Notice is an American television series which starred Jeffrey Donovan as the character Michael Westen, a former covert-operations agent who has been burned.