informants

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The island’s internal espionage and counterintelligence apparatus includes some 100,000 officials and informants who spy on the population and monitor every street, workplace and university, García said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

Sacha Zala, president of the Swiss Society for History, is "absolutely sure there is nothing relevant about Mengele", but thinks there may be references to a foreign intelligence service or foreign informants.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

The evidence for this scheme consisted mostly of the fact that the law center relied on paid informants for its work, not unlike the FBI.

From Slate • May 1, 2026

“The Department of Justice also knows that these confidential informants helped law enforcement put violent extremists in jail.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Back in Berlin, Bill Harvey's carefully nurtured network of informants continued to reap new intelligence rewards for the Americans.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau