False Reports ??

I agree with the previous posters who think he is flushing out rats. He is probably trying to figure out who is leaking info to the media from within the organization. There is a term for this, but I cant think of it at the moment. If you suspect you have a snitch/rat within your organization, you start leaking different bits of false, easily refuted information to the people you suspect, and see which piece of "news" shows up in the media.