informant
Example Sentences
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Earlier this year, MI5 was forced to apologise after the BBC proved it gave false evidence to three courts in a case concerning a neo-Nazi state informant known as Agent X.
From BBC
Mexico’s financial-intelligence unit froze bank accounts tied to shell companies that funded informant networks and used to pay their lawyers, according to another person familiar with the operation.
Yusuf, the legal guardian to some of the Maga girls and whose name has also been changed to protect his identity, believes such kidnappings could not have happened without informants in the community.
From BBC
The informant also sent Sánchez a video of a Cessna landing on a rudimentary airstrip near the mine.
From Los Angeles Times
The bartender, a Russian informant, missed that second part.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
