Can Catholics participate in a regime or administration that lies to protect its people?

An [article in Slate](https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/noble-lies-covid-fauci-cdc-masks.html) describe "Noble Lies" as: > When experts or agencies deliver information to the public that they consider possibly or definitively false to further a larger, often well-meaning agenda, they are telling what is called a noble lie. This would seem to bad at odds with Catholic [moral principles against lying](https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09469a.htm) But I can't see which category of lie "noble lies" fall into. I'd assume a noble like is not a joke (even the president would tell you that), and it's not a white lie (it's a big lie, repeated ad nauseam), and it's definitely not funny. Neither is it an accidental falsehood, it's just a falsehood. It is incorrect and deliberate. But, if it were wrong and one worked for an administration that told these kinds of lies, what level of formal cooperation would one have with these lies? Should someone merely resign or be a whistleblower?