bad-jacketing

English

Verb

bad-jacketing

1. present participle and gerund of bad-jacket
   • 1999, Mark Anthony Neal, “From Protest to Climax”, in What the music said: Black popular music and Black public culture‎, 1st edition, New York, NY; London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 59:

     Against the Panthers, the bureau used eavesdropping, harassment, the dissemination of misinformation, infiltration, "bad-jacketing," and, in a worst-case scenario, outright murder. [...] Given the black protest movement's propensity to essentialize Black Power and Black Power proponents into rigid racial, ideological, and increasingly gendered constructs, the FBI's practice of bad-jacketing was particularly effective

   • 2019, Aric McBay, “Counterintelligence & Repression” (chapter 9), in Full Spectrum Resistance‎, volume 2, Seven Stories Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, Infiltration and Informers (section 3), pages 75-76:

     [...] this approach can also go horrifyingly wrong very quickly, especially if COINTELPRO agents use bad-jacketing to turn activists against each other.
     The murder of Anna Mae Aquash is a heartbreaking example. [...] Aquash worked with the American Indian Movement for years. Probably because she was so effective, she was targeted for bad-jacketing by infiltrators in AIM.