informers

It will also introduce extra powers for investigators, and a special protected status for informers.

Asked what the purpose of "disappearing" informers was, Mr Adams said he "couldn't say" but it was "totally wrong".

There will be extra powers for investigators, and a special, protected status for informers.

We had to operate carefully, because the country is riddled with informers and secret police who spy on their own people for the ruling military junta.

Drawing on his use of brutality in Kenya, he uses torture to cultivate informers, who were then often executed by the IRA.