bad-jacket
verbEtymology From bad + jacket; see jacket (“(slang) a police record”).
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To create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc.
- 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.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, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2025:
- 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 1970.2004 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:
- Derived terms
- fashjacket, pedojacket