Glomar response

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A response by a US government agency (etc) that it can "neither confirm nor deny" the existence of (secret) information which has been asked for.
    — Another legal basis for a "Glomar response" frequently available to the CIA is the provision in the current Executive Order 12356 allowing an agency to "... refuse to confirm or deny the existence or nonexistence of requested information ..."

词形变化

Glomar responses plural

词源

So named because it was used in response to a request for records about the Glomar Explorer submarine-retrieval ship.
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