Blowback (intelligence)
Unintended consequence of covert operations, typically involving rogue terrorist groups / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Blowback is the unintended consequences and unwanted side-effects of a covert operation. To the civilians suffering the blowback of covert operations, the effect typically manifests itself as "random" acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause; because the public—in whose name the intelligence agency acted—are unaware of the effected secret attacks that provoked revenge (counter-attack) against them.[1]
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