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	Blowback (intelligence) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blowback is a term now broadly used in espionage to describe the unintended consequences of covert operations.
		In its strictest terms, blowback was originally informational only and referred to consequences that resulted when an intelligence agency participated in foreign media manipulation, which was then reported by domestic news sources in other countries as accepted facts.
		Critics of the Reagan Doctrine argued that blowback was unavoidable, and that, through the doctrine, the United States was inflaming wars in the Third World.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blowback_(intelligence) (418 words)

	BLOWBACK - Files - 9/11 and Blowback
		Blowback is defined as the unintended consequences of an intelligence operation.
		Washington, DC was the stage for a clear cut case of blowback in 1976 when on September 21, a bomb ripped open a car on Sheridan Circle, killing two of the passengers, former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his assistant Ronni Moffitt who was working for the think tank Institute for Policy Studies.
		The FBI investigation uncovered a trail that led directly to the head of the secret police in Chile (DINA), General Manuel Contreras, and discovered that among the agents who perpetrated this terrorist crime were Cuban veterans of the CIA war on Cuba.
	www.blowbacknet.com /info_files_911.html (636 words)

	Iraq War Vets Detail Calamitous Torture Blowback
		Intelligence dried up and Camp Anaconda, his base of operations, became "Mortarville" as it was mortar-shelled day and night.
		The soured relations with the Iraqis resulted in walk-in intelligence sources dropping from 105 to 110 a day to 2 to 3, and soon to zero.
		Intelligence reports on U.S. torture were sent up the military chain to Washington.
	www.rense.com /general68/blowback.htm (789 words)

	Blowback - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Blowback is "a term invented by the Central Intelligence Agency to describe the unintended consequences of policies kept secret from the American people.
		Blowback is also the mess that lands on a shooter when firing a gun into someone at close range.
		The role of the INC in generating unreliable 'intelligence' on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD -- meaning nuclear, chemical and biological weapons) has been mentioned in passing in the media since the occupation started to go sour.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Blowback (792 words)

	Blowback - Global Policy Forum - WTC: The Crisis
		"Blowback" is a CIA term first used in March 1954 in a recently declassified report on the 1953 operation to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran.
		An inevitable consequence of big "blowback" events like this one is that, the causes having been largely kept from American eyes (if not Islamic or Latin American ones), people cannot make the necessary connections for an explanation.
		In what might seem a radical change, we could even hire intelligence analysts at the CIA who can read the languages of the countries they are assigned to and have actually visited the places they write about (neither of these conditions is even slightly usual at the present time).
	www.globalpolicy.org /wtc/analysis/0928blowback.htm (1747 words)

	TomPaine.com - Archives - BLOWBACK: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
		The American press has recently started to use the term "blowback." Central Intelligence Agency officials coined it for internal use in the wake of decisions by the Carter and Reagan administrations to plunge the agency deep into the civil war in Afghanistan.
		In this context, "blowback" came to mean the unintended consequences of American policies kept secret from the American people.
		World politics in the twenty-first century will in all likelihood be driven primarily by blowback from the second half of the twentieth century -- that is, from the unintended consequences of the Cold War and the crucial American decision to maintain a Cold War posture in a post-Cold War world.
	www.tompaine.com /Archive/scontent/3032.html (1584 words)

	On Power: The Independent Institute \| U. S. Foreign Policy \| Blowback
		In foreign affairs, one manifestation of the law of unintended consequences is known as “blowback.” In his book by that title, Chalmers Johnson wrote, “The term ‘blowback,’ which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use,.
		Blowback occurs when a foreign recipient of U.S. government largess and prestige acts against his former patron’s wishes or directly attacks American interests.
		Blowback can also result from foreign hatred of the United States generated by its numerous interventions into the affairs of other nations.
	www.onpower.org /foreign_blowback.html (1494 words)

	The Consequences Of Our Actions Abroad: Americans Feeling the Effects of 'Blowback'
		The American media recently started to use the term "blowback." Central Intelligence Agency officials coined it for internal use in the wake of decisions by the Carter and Reagan administrations to plunge the agency deep into the civil war in Afghanistan.
		It wasn't long before the CIA was secretly arming every moujahedeen volunteer in sight, without considering who they were or what their politics might be--all in the name of ensuring that the Soviet Union had its own Vietnam-like experience.
		In this context, "blowback" came to be shorthand for the unintended consequences of U.S. policies kept secret from the American people.
	www.commondreams.org /views/050400-103.htm (732 words)

	Oil Empire: 9/11 Dictionary : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		blowback: an intelligence term for attacks by assets who were former allies but are now enemies.
		The "blowback" paradigm of 9/11 assumes that the attacks were revenge by Islamic fundamentalists previously supported by the CIA during the war in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union.
		The primary pretext used to enable creation of the DHS is the false claim that the various federal police and intelligence services were unable to properly communicate with each other before 9/11, and therefore consolidating many of these functions into a new, super surveillance agency will be able to prevent a repeat of the attacks.
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2005/07/1717342.php (7205 words)

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		In this context, "blowback" came to be shorthand for the unintended consequences of American policies kept secret from the American people.
		In fact, to CIA officials and an increasing number of American international relations pundits, "blowback" has become a term of art acknowledging that the unconstrained, often illegal, invariably secret acts of the "last remaining superpower" in other people's countries can result in retaliation against innocent American citizens.
		World politics in the 21st century will in all likelihood be driven primarily by blowback from the second half of the twentieth century-that is, from the unintended consequences of the Cold War and the crucial American decision to maintain a Cold War posture in a post-Cold War world.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /TT/TT-120800-2.htm (3557 words)

	TomDispatch - Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson on the CIA and a blowback world
		The term "blowback" first appeared in a classified CIA post-action report on the overthrow of the Iranian government in 1953, carried out in the interests of British Petroleum.
		"Blowback" does not refer simply to reactions to historical events but more specifically to reactions to operations carried out by the U.S. government that are kept secret from the American public and from most of their representatives in Congress.
		Chalmers Johnson's latest books are Blowback (Metropolitan, 2000) and The Sorrows of Empire (Metropolitan, 2004), the first two volumes in a trilogy on American imperial policies.
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=1984 (4782 words)

	CIA and a Blowback World by Tom Engelhardt and Chalmers Johnson
		Johnson is the author of the prophetic book Blowback, written before 9/11, and more recently The Sorrows of Empire, which explores our military reach in the world.
		There is a direct line between the attacks on September 11, 2001 – the most significant instance of blowback in the history of the CIA –; and the events of 1979.
		Steve Coll's book is a classic study of blowback and is a better, fuller reconstruction of this history than the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (the "9/11 Commission Report" published by Norton in July).
	www.lewrockwell.com /engelhardt/engelhardt17.html (4598 words)

	Understanding 9/11: Incompetence, Blowback, Perle Harbor or Reichstag Fire?
		Professor Ward Churchill, under attack from right wingers for promoting the “blowback” theory and pointing out that some 9/11 victims may have been involved in imperialism, claims that implying 9/11 was an inside job is racist, since it implies Arabs incapable of responding to US foreign policies.
		Bojinka was probably merely blowback -- but whether it was more than this or not, it clearly shows that the US "intelligence community" knew about the threat of a 9/11 type event years before it happened.
		The "standdown" of the US Air Force that morning makes blowback an inadequate explanation, since "blowback" does not explain why fighter planes were not sent up to intercept the hijacked airplanes until it was too late.
	www.oilempire.us /understanding.html (6429 words)

	Blowback Blowback The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
		The term "blowback," which officials of the Central Intelligence Agency first invented for their own internal use, is starting to circulate among students of international relations.
		Blowback from this led to a Marxist guerrilla insurgency in the 1980s and so to CIA- and Pentagon-supported genocide against Mayan peasants.
		In the spring of 1999, a report on the Guatemalan civil war from the U.N.-sponsored Commission for Historical Clarification made clear that "the American training of the officer corps in counterinsurgency techniques" was a "key factor" in the "genocide....
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Blowback_CJohnson/Blowback_BCJ.html (4693 words)

	BLOWBACK
		Blowback is the fullest and most authoritative account ever written of America's collaboration with Nazis after World War II, and of the long-range effect this has had on the nation's domestic and foreign policy.
		Perhaps and more significantly, Blowback reveals the approved (though usually extralegal) immigration of ex-Nazis and collaborators into the United States itself, and the significant impact this has had on American society.
		Authoritative, shocking, controversial, Blowback opens for the public scrutiny a chapter of our recent history that remains essential to the understanding of our world, but that many would prefer to keep shut.
	israelvisit.co.il /PerkinsBooks/blowback.htm (449 words)

	CRG -- "OSAMAGATE"
		Pakistan's military and intelligence apparatus (controlled by the CIA) essentially "served as a catalyst for the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of six new Muslim republics in Central Asia." 4
		Throughout the 1990s, the Pakistan Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) was used by the CIA as a go-between -- to channel weapons and Mujahideen mercenaries to the Bosnian Muslim Army in the civil war in Yugoslavia.
		It was alleged that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had full knowledge of the operation and that the CIA believed that some of the 400 had been detached for future terrorist operations in Western Europe.
	www.globalresearch.ca /articles/CHO110A.html (3703 words)

	Peaceworks Monitor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The term blowback was invented by the Central Intelligence Agency to describe the unintended negative consequences of a “successful” operation.
		Despite the agency's secrecy, the term blowback has leaked into the public lexicon and is rapidly emerging as a popular term for explaining the consequences of American foreign policy.
		Furthermore, bombing Afghanistan is producing another form of blowback by inflaming anti-American hatred among Muslims who had not previously supported the radical fundamentalist jihad against the West.
	peaceworks.missouri.org /monitor/2001/novdec/blowback.html (1188 words)

	Gary Leupp: Meet Mr. Blowback, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
		Blowback, among the most vicious of former US clients now at odds with their one-time paymasters.
		Soon a deputy intelligence officer in Jalalabad was telling the press that Hekmatyar was trying to organize a force of former Taliban soldiers, Pakistanis and Pashtuns to destabilize the new government.
		It was conducted by the intelligence agency that had created him (by the Americans who know him best), rather than by the coalition military forces sent to topple the Taliban and destroy al-Qaeda.
	www.counterpunch.org /leupp02142003.html (1816 words)

	World Press Review - Osama Bin Laden United States Policy Middle East Terrorism
		The Central Intelligence Agency uses a curious word when terrorists strike at the United States: “blowback.” That occurs when U.S. foreign policy enrages its opponents so much that they strike back at the U.S. heartland with devastating violence.
		It was directed by Islamic terrorists aggrieved by America’s support for Israel and emboldened by their former close ties to the CIA, which had funded them in the early 1980s to undermine the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
		Johnson also warned that the conditions for blowback were being laid by America’s Middle East policy, citing in particular the longstanding sanctions against Iraq, which have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children.
	www.worldpress.org /1101terrorism_blowback.htm (969 words)

	Deep Black Covert
		While the state rarely makes public its criminality or keeps tabulations on the number of illegal acts it has committed, it is clear from both a historical and contemporary perspective that state organized crime is neither new nor rare.
		It is typical for covert operators to work with well-established criminal undergrounds and for the government sponsoring the covert operation to at the very least tolerate and often abet the criminal activities of its organized crime allies.
		Such escapades allegedly began during World War II when the underworld figures in control of the New York docks were contracted by navy intelligence officials in order to ensure that German submarines or foreign agents did not infiltrate the area.
	members.aol.com /RtPriceTag/Blowback.html (5883 words)

	CALIFORNIA YANKEE: Blowback on the Press
		The CIA did not name her, but several news organizations reported that the official was Mary McCarthy, whose most recent position at the Agency was in the office of the inspector general.
		Administration critics claim the White House selectively uses intelligence to support its policies, and administration supporters complain about a rash of leaks from unelected bureaucrats at the CIA determined to undermine those policies.
		On October 1, 2004, with Goss less than a week into the job, the Washington Post ran an article noting the concerns of intelligence professionals that Goss was bringing with him to the Agency four of his top staffers from the House Intelligence Committee.
	cayankee.blogs.com /cayankee/2006/05/blowback_on_the.html (2456 words)

	Wake Up, Americans!
		The impoverishment and humiliation of huge populations from Indonesia to South Korea was itself blowback enough, even if the blowback for the time being spared ordinary Americans.
		It's clear that actions taken by our leaders have led to this horrible blowback situation of common people becoming victims in a war we didn't realize had been going on for decades.
		One of the first things we must do to protect against further blowback is to regain our democracy, to make sure that this crisis is not used as the excuse to destroy or limit essential civil liberties.
	www.hermes-press.com /blowback.htm (2438 words)

	AlterNet: War on Iraq: Blowback from Iraq: Global and Growing
		While the CIA originally conceived of blowback as limited to the unintended consequences of U.S. policy on Americans, it has long enjoyed a wider application.
		The full extent to which the policies of the Bush administration are producing blowback outside the Western world is less well known.
		As the Thai case demonstrates, blowback is seldom limited to a single event or action.
	www.alternet.org /waroniraq/20794 (1473 words)

	Britain now faces its own blowback \| Guardian daily comment \| Guardian Unlimited
		While there can be no justification for horrific killings of this kind, they need to be understood against the ferment of the last decade radicalising Muslim youth of Pakistani origin living in Europe.
		Most significantly, this was "with the full knowledge and complicity of the British and American intelligence agencies".
		During an interview on Fox TV this summer, the former US federal prosecutor John Loftus reported that British intelligence had used the al-Muhajiroun group in London to recruit Islamist militants with British passports for the war against the Serbs in Kosovo.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,,1566916,00.html (1080 words)

	Risk of 'Blowbacks' in Iraq by Leon Hadar
		In the spy business, "blowback" is a term used to describe unintended negative consequences of actions taken by intelligence agencies to advance national interests.
		The phrase was allegedly coined by spooks at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to refer to an agent, an operative or an operation that turned on its creator.
		In any case, only few analysts had foreseen that the anti-communist jihadists that were allied with the Americans during the Cold War would turn on their promoters and form the most violent anti-American force in the world today.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig6/hadar1.html (423 words)

	Blowback
		Evidently impressed by all those late-night commercials, US intelligence officials are reportedly looking to recruit psychics to to bolster their investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
		This time, intelligence officials are reportedly asking the psychics to predict future attacks and the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.
		The disclosures are known to come from French intelligence which is keen to reveal the ambiguous role of the CIA, and to restrain Washington from extending the war to Iraq and elsewhere.
	blowback.blogspot.com /2001_11_01_blowback_archive.html (13228 words)

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