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"'... evading responsibility for the 'blowback' that America's imperial projects have generated.

'Blowback' is a CIA term first used in March 1954 in a recently [2001] declassified report on the 1953 operation to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran. It is a metaphor for the unintended consequences of the US government’s international activities that have been kept secret from the American people."

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/blowback/