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 unreliable for one or more reasons. This is essentially a directive for the recipient to disregard or "burn" all information derived from that individual or group.
Burn Notice is an American television series created by Matt Nix. The series title refers to the burn notices issued by intelligence agencies, according to the narration during the opening credits, the burned spy has no prior work history, no money, no support network — in essence, no identity. The television series uses first-person narrative (including frequent voice-overs providing exposition) from the viewpoint of covert-operations agent Michael Westen, played by Jeffrey Donovan. The voice-over commentary is in the form of tips for fledgling agents as if for a training or orientation film.
Main Article Archer (TV series)
In Season 1, Episode 9: Job Offer, Titular character Sterling Archer is burned by his mother Malory, the head of ISIS.
Intelligence agency
An intelligence agency is a governmental agency that is devoted to information gathering for purposes of national security and defence. Means of information gathering may include espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public...
to other agencies. It states that an individual or a group is unreliable for one or more reasons. This is essentially a directive for the recipient to disregard or "burn" all information derived from that individual or group.
Examples
- Ahmed ChalabiAhmed ChalabiAhmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi is an Iraqi politician. He was interim oil minister in Iraq in April-May 2005 and December-January 2006 and deputy prime minister from May 2005 until May 2006. Chalabi failed to win a seat in parliament in the December 2005 elections, and when the new Iraqi cabinet was...
- CurveballCurveball (informant)Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi , known by the Central Intelligence Agency cryptonym "Curveball", is an Iraqi citizen who defected from Iraq in 1999, claiming that he had worked as a chemical engineer at a plant that manufactured mobile biological weapon laboratories as part of an Iraqi weapons of mass...
- Manucher GhorbanifarManucher GhorbanifarManucher Ghorbanifar is an expatriate Iranian arms dealer. He is best known as a middleman in the Iran-Contra Affair during the Ronald Reagan presidency. He re-emerged in American politics during the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq during the first term of President George W...
1984 and 1986
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Main Article Burn Notice (TV Show)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...
Burn Notice is an American television series created by Matt Nix. The series title refers to the burn notices issued by intelligence agencies, according to the narration during the opening credits, the burned spy has no prior work history, no money, no support network — in essence, no identity. The television series uses first-person narrative (including frequent voice-overs providing exposition) from the viewpoint of covert-operations agent Michael Westen, played by Jeffrey Donovan. The voice-over commentary is in the form of tips for fledgling agents as if for a training or orientation film.
Main Article Archer (TV series)
Archer (TV series)
Archer is an American animated television series created by Adam Reed for the FX network. A preview of the series aired on September 17, 2009. The first season premiered on January 14, 2010. The show carries a TV-MA-LSV rating....
In Season 1, Episode 9: Job Offer, Titular character Sterling Archer is burned by his mother Malory, the head of ISIS.