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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

BLOWBACK*: may refer to one of the following.

< Best Buddies

>Any negative effect one suffers from one's own weapons, such as the possibility that one's own weapons used in a nuclear war could create fallout that could be blown onto one's own troops or nation.

>Blowback is a term now broadly used in espionage to describe the unintended consequences of covert operations. Because the public generally is unaware of secret operations, the consequences transpire as a surprise, apparently random and without cause, and blowback results.

See also

Manchurian blowback
deniability
Reagan Doctrine
Office of Public Diplomacy
Chalmers Johnson
João Goulart
Mohammed Mossadegh

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