Blowback is spy tradecraft terminology for UNINTENTIONAL spread of disinformation or trained agents back into the original country of origin.
Note: a CIA case officer (the spy) trains or oversees field agents and informants who are not directly employees of the agency.
-Chip
p.s. to Chuck O: B5 rogue telepath Lyta trumps Londo without even sweating, but in a dark alley, I'll take the DS9 Bajoran Major Kira...her earing was made from a downed Cardassian vessel! Who ya gonna call?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Chuck0
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 11:28 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Americans Feeling the Effects of 'Blowback'
>
>
> Michael Pugliese wrote:
> >
> > Not a bad op-ed for someone who used to be a Cold Warrior.
> >
> > Michael Pugliese
> >
> > Thursday, May 4, 2000, Los Angeles Times
> > Americans Feeling the Effects of 'Blowback'
> > Osama bin Laden's network is only one of many
> > unintended consequences of our actions abroad.
> >
> > By CHALMERS JOHNSON
> >
> > Our intelligence agencies--the CIA and its rivals
> > in the Pentagon--have a history of creating neologisms
> > to describe our world that cover up more than they
> > reveal. There have been lofty coinages like
> > "host-nation support," meaning foreign countries pay
> > to base our troops on their soil, and military jargon
> > like "low-intensity warfare" that repackages the most
> > brutal strife in antiseptic language.
>
> Uh, isn't "blowback" just a fancy term for good old-fahsioned
> "revenge?"
>
> Chuck0 "learned about all of this from Babylon 5"
>
> Et tu, Mollari?
>