informant

Example Sentences

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Relatives say a police informant initially demanded money from them in exchange for not reporting them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

According to the informant, Perez said he was driving with three others in his green Honda Accord when they spotted a pickup truck.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

Paul Hare, a former British ambassador to Cuba and Venezuela, argued that Cuban intelligence underestimated US access to "insider cooperation in Venezuela" -- an informant within Maduro's camp.

From Barron's • Jan. 10, 2026

Earlier this year, MI5 was forced to apologise after the BBC proved it gave false evidence to three courts in a case concerning a neo-Nazi state informant known as Agent X.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

“Hale knows everything,” the informant Morrison had told agents, and there were signs that Morrison might be playing his own duplicitous game.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann