>>55499475It wasn't, in fact it's the smoking gun
He thought the codename was Ikaku, to the point where his hint was "i___u"
The actual codename is Ikkaku, which is a totally different word, meaning he either heard about it a long time ago or his source only vaguely remembered what it was (due to no longer working at gamefreak). He also clearly had no idea project 'ikaku' was Kalos.