agent provocateur

"I experienced at first hand a rather pathetic attempt by an agent provocateur to put me in a great deal of trouble," he said.

Jester, troubadour, agent provocateur, Serge Gainsbourg rhymed his way through life in a fog of Gitanes smoke, making music of every genre.

But the defense lawyers in the Proud Boys’ trial — while clearly disturbed by the number of informants in the group — have largely dismissed the notion that the F.B.I. wielded anyone as an agent provocateur.

Appearing on Carlson's show on December 6, Blake notes, McBride "proceeded to highlight one specific supposed agent provocateur, who stood out because he was wearing red face paint."

That was a problem for a lawyer who was actually an opponent or “agent provocateur,” according to a summary of the investigation.