Plausible deniability
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Plausible deniability is a term coined by the CIA in the early 1960s to describe the withholding of information from senior officials in order to protect them from repercussions in the event that illegal or unpopular activities by the CIA became public knowledge.
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See also
- At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
- Black op
- Buck passing
- Church Committee
- Deniable encryption
- Equivocation
- Extraordinary rendition
- Leaderless resistance
- Lone wolf (terrorism)
- Operation PBSUCCESS
- Opposition research
- Willful blindness
- Willful violation
- Working Towards the Führer
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