bad-jacket

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bad-jacketing

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Verb

bad-jacket (third-person singular simple present bad-jackets, present participle bad-jacketing, simple past and past participle bad-jacketed)

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

   Hyponym: snitch-jacket

   • 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:

     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.

   • 2004 December, Kobie Colemon, “3rd Chamber: African American Nationalist Thought and Action”, in The Revolutionary Vol. 1 A Black People's History of Armed Resistance to Racism and Other Forms of Oppression, United States of America: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 79:

     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.

Usage notes

• Associated with law enforcement agencies.

Derived terms

• pedojacket