Who Burned Michael Weston?
I have been following the show Burn Notice very closely since it's inception, but one thing has been bothering me. Who burned Michael?
I was always under the impression that a burn notice was the way in which a spy was fired, so naturally, I had assumed it was CIA sponsored.
In the most recent season(s), the team has been chasing a man named Anson Fullerton, who is supposedly "rebuilding the organization that burned Michael."
Now, that was where I became confused. I can understand if he was the person, working for the CIA, who was in charge of the burning of Michael, but what was this "organization" they were talking about, if it wasn't the CIA?
If the CIA wasn't the organization that burned Michael, who was it?
Best Answer
Anson Fullerton was a psychologist in the employ of the CIA. He was also the mastermind of a rogue network of operatives involved in various illicit activities. Anson wanted Michael to join his network so he used his own access, as well as the access of the operatives in his network, to plant false evidence implicating Michael in a number of illegal activities. So, in the technical sense, it was the CIA that burned him, but it was Anson's organization that caused him to be burned.
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Who put the Burn Notice on Michael?
The person who actually issued the Burn Notice was NSA agent Phillip Cowen. If you watch the towards the end of season one Micheal figures this out and he sets up a meeting with him. While he doesn't say much before he is executed, he does tell Micheal that,"This is much bigger than me or you.Does Jesse find out Michael burned him?
At the same time Barrett arrives in Miami, Jesse learns it was Michael who burned him. Michael goes ahead with the meeting, unsure of Jesse's willingness to come to his aid.How did Michael get Jesse burned?
Eventually, Jesse was burned due to a D.O.D. office breach perpetrated by Michael with the FBI holding Jesse responsible for the theft of his files. After being cut off from government support and targeted by an old enemy, Jesse seeks out Michael to help him solve his problem.Is Burn Notice based on a true story?
' Nix created Burn Notice without input from Terry; the characters in Burn Notice are purely fictional.\u201d (According to one Amazon.com review for Terry's book, The Setup: Memoirs of a NSA Black Operation, the author claims the NSA is capable of mind-control.)Fiona Decision 'Burns' Weston in 'Notice' Finale
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Answer 2
While the other answer talks about one of the masterminds behind it, I feel that the spirit of the question asks for the person who actually put out the notice. The person who actually issued the Burn Notice was NSA agent Phillip Cowen. If you watch the towards the end of season one Micheal figures this out and he sets up a meeting with him. While he doesn't say much before he is executed, he does tell Micheal that,"This is much bigger than me or you. Bigger than all of us" Hinting that he is part of the organization that we learn about later in the show.
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