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They might be using it as cover to gain intel, like how the CIA organized a fake vaccination drive to get Osama bin Laden's family DNA
Seymour Hersh's story about the killing of Osama Bin Laden said that was actually a rushed lie to cover up the fact that Pakistani intelligence had Bin Laden in a safehouse for months before the raid. According to the story, they actually got the DNA from a doctor that was treating Bin Laden, which honestly makes more sense to me.
The reason they had to rush to invent a lie about how they knew he was there was that they had intended to take him to the desert and say he was hit in a drone strike, and that they recovered his DNA afterward. But then they crashed a helicopter during the raid and had to make up a story that preserved the lie and the deal worked out with Pakistani intelligence.
It's a good read: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n10/seymour-m.-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden