informer
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There is something about a healthy personality that feels repelled by a snoop, a snitch, a stool pigeon, an informer.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2025
Others claimed she was an informer, but this was dismissed after an official investigation by the Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2024
He had lived across the street from DeLorean’s home in San Diego County and had turned informer in hopes of leniency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
Moreland's daughter, Shauna, said she wanted to know why, if her mother was an informer, the state had not intervened to save her.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2024
Mor- mont had been an informer, reporting to her enemies in Weste- ros, yet he had given her good counsel too.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
US forces found Maduro because of inside informers, the stepfather said.
From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026
It was, Mr. Corera writes, a “dead-end job,” but it offered access to documents that revealed the organization’s dark secrets, such as its labyrinth of informers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
It will also introduce extra powers for investigators, and a special protected status for informers.
From BBC ● May 19, 2025
And as in any prison, the wardens select “trusties” among the prisoners for rewards and to serve as informers.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2023
Following HERO'S arrest, they had stopped recruiting Soviet informers under orders from James Jesus Angleton, the secretive and paranoid CIA chief of counterintelligence.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
