Meaning of bad-jacket | Babel Free

Definitions

To create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc.

transitive

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.”

“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.”

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