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informant

[in-fawr-muhnt] / ɪnˈfɔr mənt /


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Inside, they thought they saw members of a gang called TMC, the informant said Perez told him.

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

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

An intelligence team spoke with rivals of the Treviños, men who revealed what they knew about the brothers’ informant networks and inner circle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

It was someone whom the agents knew all too well: Kelsie Morrison, their undercover informant who had supposedly been working with the agents to identify the third man.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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