Who Burned Michael Weston?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.