informer

Example Sentences

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But an informer in the police department was leaking information to the Gestapo.

From Literature

US forces found Maduro because of inside informers, the stepfather said.

From Barron's

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

The dreaded Stasi, the German secret police, had agents and informers everywhere.

From Literature

There is something about a healthy personality that feels repelled by a snoop, a snitch, a stool pigeon, an informer.

From Salon