Bad-jacket
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc. transitive
"Stokely Carmichael’s neutralization took a rather different form. Utilizing the services of Peter Cardoza, an infiltrator who had worked his way into a position as the SNCC leader’s bodyguard, the Bureau applied a "bad jacket," deliberately creating the false appearance that Carmichael was himself an operative."
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More examples"Stokely Carmichael’s neutralization took a rather different form. Utilizing the services of Peter Cardoza, an infiltrator who had worked his way into a position as the SNCC leader’s bodyguard, the Bureau applied a "bad jacket," deliberately creating the false appearance that Carmichael was himself an operative."
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