informants
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A former director at the Southern Poverty Law Center was arrested for allegedly overseeing secret payments to informants from white supremacist groups, federal authorities said Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The Interior Ministry, with an estimated 140,000 state security officials and 500,000 informants, monitors and infiltrates dissident movements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
In that ruling, the top court had said that Muslim men who were placed on the government's no-fly list because they refused to serve as FBI informants could seek to hold federal agents financially liable.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
The island’s internal espionage and counterintelligence apparatus includes some 100,000 officials and informants who spy on the population and monitor every street, workplace and university, García said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
Factories, public enterprises, and neighborhoods have been ordered to produce two tons of toibee, according to Good Friends, a Buddhist charity with informants in North Korea.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
