eyewashing

CIA Employees Are Pretty Positive Their Bosses Aren't Purposefully Feeding Them Bad Information

Andy Cush · 02/01/16 11:00AM

The Washington Post reported today that the CIA deliberately misinforms its own employees about operations—a practice known as “eyewashing”—so that the juiciest intel can be kept more secretly by those who truly need to know it. In interviews, some CIA officials acknowledged the practice as common, while others were like, what, no, that’s definitely never happened to me.