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Black ops missions often fit into the [[plausible deniability]] category, in which there is no claim of responsibility for the action, and/or a [[false flag]] operation is used to give the appearance that another actor was responsible, or – most often – black operations involve extensive arrangements so as to be able to hide the fact that the black operation ever occurred. Black [[military operations]], or [[paramilitary]] operations, can be used by various [[secret services]] to achieve or attempt to achieve an unusually sensitive goal. The methods used in black operations are also used in [[unconventional warfare]]. Depending on the precise situation in a given case, and the level of [[authoritarianism]] of the national government or other responsible party, some tasks will be conducted as black operations, while there are usually other activities that can be admitted openly. Black operations may include such things as [[assassination]], [[sabotage]], [[extortion]], spying on allied countries or one's own citizens, [[kidnapping]], supporting [[resistance movements]], [[torture]], use of [[fraud]] to obtain funds, use of [[child soldiers]], [[human experimentation]], trafficking in [[contraband]] items, [[false flag]] bombing, etc. |
Black ops missions often fit into the [[plausible deniability]] bvhjgjgjhgjhggjgjhghjghjg category, in which there is no claim of responsibility for the action, and/or a [[false flag]] operation is used to give the appearance that another actor was responsible, or – most often – black operations involve extensive arrangements so as to be able to hide the fact that the black operation ever occurred. Black [[military operations]], or [[paramilitary]] operations, can be used by various [[secret services]] to achieve or attempt to achieve an unusually sensitive goal. The methods used in black operations are also used in [[unconventional warfare]]. Depending on the precise situation in a given case, and the level of [[authoritarianism]] of the national government or other responsible party, some tasks will be conducted as black operations, while there are usually other activities that can be admitted openly. Black operations may include such things as [[assassination]], [[sabotage]], [[extortion]], spying on allied countries or one's own citizens, [[kidnapping]], supporting [[resistance movements]], [[torture]], use of [[fraud]] to obtain funds, use of [[child soldiers]], [[human experimentation]], trafficking in [[contraband]] items, [[false flag]] bombing, etc. |
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In business any high-risk assignment, proposed and funded by the employee using his own time on company equipment with the manager's consent and understanding that the company owns the results, is also referred to as a black operation,{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}} because no entries exist for said project in the company's task planning or scheduling. If the project fails, then the employee pays the price of their failure. If the project succeeds, the employee is compensated and even, sometimes rewarded for initiative. |
In business any high-risk assignment, proposed and funded by the employee using his own time on company equipment with the manager's consent and understanding that the company owns the results, is also referred to as a black operation,{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}} because no entries exist for said project in the company's task planning or scheduling. If the project fails, then the employee pays the price of their failure. If the project succeeds, the employee is compensated and even, sometimes rewarded for initiative. |
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Template:Globalize/US A black operation or black op is a covert operation typically involving activities that are highly clandestine and often outside of standard military protocol or even against the law.[citation needed] A key factor in making an operation "black" is that it is carried out with great secrecy; in many cases no official records of the operation are kept.[citation needed]
Origins
Black ops missions often fit into the plausible deniability bvhjgjgjhgjhggjgjhghjghjg category, in which there is no claim of responsibility for the action, and/or a false flag operation is used to give the appearance that another actor was responsible, or – most often – black operations involve extensive arrangements so as to be able to hide the fact that the black operation ever occurred. Black military operations, or paramilitary operations, can be used by various secret services to achieve or attempt to achieve an unusually sensitive goal. The methods used in black operations are also used in unconventional warfare. Depending on the precise situation in a given case, and the level of authoritarianism of the national government or other responsible party, some tasks will be conducted as black operations, while there are usually other activities that can be admitted openly. Black operations may include such things as assassination, sabotage, extortion, spying on allied countries or one's own citizens, kidnapping, supporting resistance movements, torture, use of fraud to obtain funds, use of child soldiers, human experimentation, trafficking in contraband items, false flag bombing, etc.
In business any high-risk assignment, proposed and funded by the employee using his own time on company equipment with the manager's consent and understanding that the company owns the results, is also referred to as a black operation,[citation needed] because no entries exist for said project in the company's task planning or scheduling. If the project fails, then the employee pays the price of their failure. If the project succeeds, the employee is compensated and even, sometimes rewarded for initiative.
Media assertions of possible examples in recent American history
- In 2007, United States president George W. Bush authorized the CIA to undertake "black operations" in Iran in order to promote regime change as well as to sabotage Iran's nuclear program.[1][2]
- General Stanley McChrystal authorized "black" operations to find and kill senior terrorist and insurgent figures in Iraq during the Iraq War.[3][4]
- In 2007 the Central Intelligence Agency declassified secret records detailing illegal domestic surveillance, assassination plots, kidnapping, infiltration and other "black" operations undertaken by the CIA from the 1950s to the early 1970s. CIA Director General Michael Hayden explained the release of the documents, saying that the documents provided a "glimpse of a very different time and a very different agency".[5]