eyewashing

Verb

eyewash (third-person singular simple present eyewashes, present participle eyewashing, simple past and past participle eyewashed)

1. To fool with nonsense or flattery.
2. (intelligence) To keep information secret by sending false information to many people in one's own organization, and correct information to a select few.
   • But others said that eyewashing was a standard security practice that had been in existence for decades.2016 January 31, “‘Eyewash’: How the CIA deceives its own workforce about operations”, in The New York Times

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