Bad-jacketing
Bad-jacketingis a term for planting doubt on the authenticity of an individual'sbona fidesor identity. An example would be creating suspicion through spreading false rumors, manufacturing evidence, etc., that falsely portray someone in a community organization as aninformant,or member of law enforcement, or guilty of malfeasance such as skimming organization funds.[1]
Snitch-jacketingis a variant of bad-jacketing that specifically aims to present the target as an informer.[citation needed]
History
[edit]ScholarMark Anthony Nealwrites that theFederal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) underJ. Edgar Hooverused the technique against theBlack Panther Party(BPP) and otherBlack Powerorganizations as part of itsCOINTELPROoperations.[1]Neal writes that this technique was effective in isolating key individuals, forcing them out of the organization, and that its effectiveness was enhanced by the tendency of Black Power activists to divide among "rigid racial, ideological, and increasingly gendered" lines.[1]The practice was notably used by the FBI informants to create a climate of suspicion within the Black Panther Party[2]andAmerican Indian Movement(AIM),[3]which resulted in the murder of a number of AIM activists that had been subjected to bad-jacketing, including Pedro Bissonette,[4]Byron DeSersa[5]andAnna Mae Aquash.[6]
Jo Durden-Smithclaims that this technique was used by U.S. prison guards to undermine targeted prisoners and thus make them vulnerable to manipulation.[7][page needed]
References
[edit]- ^abcNeal 2013,p. 59.
- ^Churchill & Vander Wall 2002,pp. 49–51.
- ^Churchill & Vander Wall 2002,pp. 211–217.
- ^Churchill & Vander Wall 2002,pp. 200–203.
- ^Churchill & Vander Wall 2002,pp. 203–205.
- ^Churchill & Vander Wall 2002,pp. 206–211.
- ^Durden-Smith 1976.
Bibliography
[edit]- Churchill, Ward;Vander Wall, Jim (2002)."Assassinations and Badjacketing".Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement.Cambridge, Massachusetts:South End Press.pp. 49–51, 199–217.ISBN0896086461.OCLC50985124.
- Churchill, Ward(2011)."The Security Industrial Complex".In Best, Steven; Kahn, Richard; Nocella II, Anthony J.; McLaren, Peter (eds.).The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination.Lanham, Maryland:Le xing ton Books.p. 49.ISBN978-0739136997.OCLC798970766.
- Durden-Smith, Jo(1976),Who killed George Jackson?,New York:Alfred A. Knopf:distributed byRandom House,ISBN0394482913,OCLC2034789,0394482913
- Neal, Mark Anthony(2013) [1999].What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture.New York:Routledge.ISBN978-1135204624.OCLC858861411.
- Newton, Michael(2015) [2003].The FBI Encyclopedia.Jefferson, North Carolina:McFarland & Company.p. 318.ISBN978-1476604176.OCLC953847288.
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