informant
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According to Jones, the informant said Perez was “haunted” by her death and started going to church.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
Paul Hare, a former British ambassador to Cuba and Venezuela, argued that Cuban intelligence underestimated US access to "insider cooperation in Venezuela" -- an informant within Maduro's camp.
From Barron's • Jan. 10, 2026
Unlike McDonald, he didn’t buy into the outlaw code and was an FBI informant for at least two decades.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
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 • Dec. 9, 2025
When one of his agents was questioning a seedy local attorney—who, according to an informant, was trying to “strangle” the government’s probe—the attorney betrayed a shocking knowledge of the inner workings of the case.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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