Editing Blowback (intelligence) (section)

==Etymology==
Originally, ''blowback'' was [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] internal coinage denoting the unintended, harmful consequences&mdash;to friendly populations and military forces&mdash;when a given weapon is used beyond its purpose as intended by the party supplying it. Examples include anti-Western religious figures (e.g. [[Osama bin Laden]]) who, in due course, attack foe and sponsor; right-wing counter-revolutionaries who sell drugs to their sponsor's civil populace (see [[CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US]]); and [[banana republic]] [[wikt:junta|junta]]s (see [[Salvadoran Civil War]]) who kill American [[reporter]]s or [[nun]]s (e.g. [[Dorothy Kazel]]).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/03/world/4-salvadorans-say-they-killed-us-nuns-on-orders-of-military.html?pagewanted=2|title=4 Salvadorans Say They Killed U.S. Nuns on Orders of Military|author=Larry Rother|work=New York Times|page=2|date=April 3, 1998|access-date=May 15, 2017}}</ref>

In formal print usage, the term ''blowback'' first appeared in the ''Clandestine Service History&mdash;Overthrow of [[Mohammed Mosaddeq|Premier Mossadeq]] of [[Iran]]&mdash;November 1952–August 1953'', the CIA's internal history of the [[1953 Iranian coup d'état]], sponsored by the American and British governments, which was published in March 1954.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/weekinreview/word-for-word-abc-s-coups-oh-what-fine-plot-we-hatched-here-s-what-next-time.html | work=[[The New York Times]] | title=WORD FOR WORD/ABC'S OF COUPS; Oh, What a Fine Plot We Hatched. (And Here's What to Do the Next Time) | first=James | last=Risen | date=18 June 2000}}</ref><ref>[http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cnps/2002/00000024/00000001/art00003 IngentaConnect American Militarism and Blowback: The Costs of Letting the Pentagon Dominate Foreign Policy]</ref> Blowback from this operation would indeed occur with the [[Iranian Revolution]] and the [[Iran hostage crisis]]. Recent accounts of how blowback functioned in the [[War on Terror]] relation to US and UK intelligence and [[National security|defense]] [[propaganda]] and became an important issue in a 21st Century [[mass media|media]] [[Social environment|environment]] are discussed by [[Emma Briant]] in her book ''Propaganda and Counter-terrorism'' which presents first-hand accounts and discussions of deliberate and unintended consequences of blowback, oversight, and impacts for the public.<ref name="new">{{cite book|title=Propaganda and Counter-terrorism: Strategies for Global Change|publisher=Manchester University Press|first=Emma|last=Briant|date=2015|isbn=978-0-7190-9105-6}}</ref><ref name="hij.sagepub.com">{{cite journal|last1=Briant|title=Allies and Audiences Evolving Strategies in Defense and Intelligence Propaganda|journal=The International Journal of Press/Politics|date=April 2015|volume=20|issue=2|pages=145–165|doi=10.1177/1940161214552031|s2cid=145697213 }}</ref>