informants

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Sacha Zala, president of the Swiss Society for History, is "absolutely sure there is nothing relevant about Mengele", but thinks there may be references to a foreign intelligence service or foreign informants.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

The group paid informants starting in the 1980s, sometimes using fictitious companies to disguise the payments, according to the indictment.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

And so you bet we paid these informants who shared information with us, and guess what we did with it?

From Slate • May 4, 2026

“The Department of Justice also knows that these confidential informants helped law enforcement put violent extremists in jail.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Harvey's agents managed to cultivate informants working inside the East German telecommunications offices, in order to find out which cables were used directly by the Soviet army and secret services.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau