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'''Plausible deniability''' is the term given to the creation of loose and informal chains of command in government which allow controversial instructions given by high-ranking officials to be denied if they become public.
A Senate committee, the [[Church Committee]] in 1974-1975 conducted an investigation of the intelligence agencies. In the course of the investigation, it was revealed that the [[CIA]], going back to the Kennedy administration, had plotted the assassination of a number of foreign rulers, including Cuba's Fidel Castro. But the president himself, who clearly was in favor of such actions, was not to be directly involved, so that he could deny knowledge of it. This was given the term '''plausible denial'''.<sup id="fn_1_back">[[#fn_1|1]]</sup>
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