Bad-jacket
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Bad-jacket is a verb meaning (transitive) To create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc.
Meaning
(transitive) To create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc.
Example Sentences
The F.B.I. then launched a COINTELPRO to bad-jacket him as a police informer, which led to Pratt's expulsion from the BPP in August 1970.
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.
Word Forms
- bad-jackets
- bad-jacketing
- bad-jacketed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include scaremonger, smear, disinformation, badmouth, swiftboat, manufacture.
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