Burn notice (document)

A burn notice is an official statement issued by an intelligence agency to other agencies. It states that an asset or intelligence source is unreliable for one or more reasons, often fabrication. This is essentially a directive for the recipient to disregard or "burn" all information derived from that individual or group.

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."

Pop culture

 * Burn Notice is an American television series starring Jeffrey Donovan who plays the character Michael Westen, a former covert-operations agent who has been burned.