Feeding The Hydra Edit Meaning

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A technique used by intelligence agencies to uproot spies by feeding them phony information, then documenting their response to it. Also used by attorneys, and others, to reveal breaches of confidentiality.

As soon as we began to suspect Vincent was leaking information to the Nazis, we responded by feeding the hydra, and the Nazis responded as you would predict.

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