He'll get there! It's just confusing without giving the situation some context first.

"It was a trap. I know we were all ambushed, but the Earl's plans for the Jordan mission were much more-- Specific." A breath as he leans forward slightly, earnest. "They lured us through a Gate to the North American Branch, then used Alma and Kanda to try and awake the Fourteenth."

Thus partly why he was imprisoned. Not for suppressing the Fourteenth, but to help suppress the Fourteenth through warding and, as Allen would later find out, having the Apocryphos unite with him.