I guess you can think of them as fat rich bastards. They hoard all the info for themselves and when it's convenient or works for them they use it.

Which would explain the Shedinja incident. They already knew about the Shedinja or at least saw something was going down and decided to wait until it became their problem to do something.

[How could someone that study pokemon, not notice the odd migraction pattern right before the Shedinja came about.]