bad-jackets
bad-jackets is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bad-jacket.
Meaning of bad-jacket
Verb
bad-jacket (third-person singular simple present bad-jackets, present participle bad-jacketing, simple past and past participle bad-jacketed)
- To create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc.
- 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...1990, Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall, chapter 5, in The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States, South End Press, →ISBN, archived from the...
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