bad jacket

See also: bad-jacket

English

Noun

bad jacket (plural bad jackets)

  1. The suspicion created around a person by the process of bad-jacketing.
    • 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[1], South End Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 23 April 2025:
      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.
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