provocateur

Fuentes famously spent years harassing Kirk and his Turning Point staff at similar college campus events before Kirk banned the provocateur.

So do Internet provocateurs, represented here by Ann Coulter, pretty much playing herself and proving that it isn’t an act.

Avtandil Imnadze, 85, who was a political prisoner in the Soviet Union, said "the attempt to storm the presidential palace was the work of provocateurs."

In the event of any violence, whether from protesters or agent provocateurs, the president will doubtless seize on it to expand his power.

Human-right groups accuse the government of hiring provocateurs—known locally as goons—to infiltrate protests and discredit demonstrators to justify the violent reaction.