Burn notice

"Kill notice" redirects here. For the public advertisement of someone's death, see Death notice.
For the TV series of the same name, see Burn Notice.

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 several reasons, often fabrication, and must be officially disavowed.[1] This is essentially a directive for the recipient to disregard or "burn" all information derived from that individual or group.[2]

  1. ^ Burn Notice Definition Archived 2008-06-10 at the Wayback Machine, Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms Archived 2016-10-10 at the Wayback Machine, accessed via dtic.mil April 9, 2008
  2. ^ West, Nigel (2006). Historical dictionary of international intelligence. Vol. 4. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-8108-5578-6.