as in informer
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
the FBI is working closely with informants to find out about the subversive group
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The Weathermen and Panthers held meetings together and exchanged intel about government surveillance and police informants.
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Zayd Ayers Dohrn, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
The Miami Herald has previously reported that Pretel, who ran a company known as Counter Terrorist Unit Federal Academy and helped recruit the Colombian commandos, was an FBI informant.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
According to the warrant affidavit charging Jacobson with two counts of first-degree larceny, Zannelli was alerted to irregularities surrounding the funds by a sergeant who said the lieutenant who would typically be given informant money had not received any funds in November or December.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2026
Lucaville Italy is also developing a psychological thriller based on Dario Argento’s directorial debut The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and a serialized reboot of Palermo Milan, a cross-European action drama following a security detail escorting a key ‘Ndrangheta informant.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2026
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Zayd Ayers Dohrn, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
The Miami Herald has previously reported that Pretel, who ran a company known as Counter Terrorist Unit Federal Academy and helped recruit the Colombian commandos, was an FBI informant.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
According to the warrant affidavit charging Jacobson with two counts of first-degree larceny, Zannelli was alerted to irregularities surrounding the funds by a sergeant who said the lieutenant who would typically be given informant money had not received any funds in November or December.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2026
Lucaville Italy is also developing a psychological thriller based on Dario Argento’s directorial debut The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and a serialized reboot of Palermo Milan, a cross-European action drama following a security detail escorting a key ‘Ndrangheta informant.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2026
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informer
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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The whole family is deeply involved in the revolutionary movement: the oldest son disappears into Siberia, never to be seen or heard of again, while the youngest, eighteen, is jailed together with his father, and executed after his cell is exposed by an informer.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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