informants

Then al Qaeda created its own strike force to target the informants.

Assassinations of community leaders both weaken local coordination against ISIS and deter potential informants.

Journalism assumes an immutable truth, that a few more calls, a bit more reporting will tease it out of reluctant informants.

At its height it had about 30,000 employees and an additional 100,000 informants.

It is most commonly applied to informants who want to have the thing both ways.

Sundry gentlemen were willing to undertake the job; so at least local informants assured us.

The stars, his informants, were as communicative on the most trivial as on the most important subjects.

Such is Trithemius' account in his chronicle: we may wonder how closely he had questioned his informants.

As my informants were his countrymen, I could only gather that his qualities were such as Hungarians held in esteem.

It has been presented to us in this complicated fashion because our informants did not know how to speak simply.