informant
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The informant excused himself to head upstairs to retrieve the money, a signal for Haitian police commandos to storm in.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
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
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
It was unwritten law in China, so my informant told me, that when one man saved another’s life he became responsible for that life to the end of its existence.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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