NCND

English Phrase phr en neither confirm nor deny a secret service policy. en w:James Bridle Complicity The New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future 2018 Verso Books 978-1-78663-548-8 165 Often shortened to ‘neither confirm nor deny’, or simply NCND, the Glomar response has subsequently escaped from its CIA handlers, leapt the boundaries of National Security, and metastasised through official and public discourse. en https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3w4nwdwywno w:BBC News In it, the officer insisted he did not depart from NCND and gave a melodramatic account of my "long pauses" as I said I needed the story, before I eventually became cooperative and said I had "seen the light". How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in court in the case of a spy who abused women 2025-07-06 Daniel De Simone 2025-07-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20260319031322/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3w4nwdwywno 19 March 2026