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In 40 pages of FBI reports on Lewis and more than 900 pages on Patrick that I obtained through open records requests, nothing suggests Lewis was an informant.

THE MURDER CHICAGO DIDN’T WANT TO SOLVEBY MICK DUMKEFEBRUARY 25, 2021PROPUBLICA

The FBI deployed an undercover informant who posed as a member of Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group, and offered to help the suspects obtain explosives and training.

GLOBAL RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM NETWORKS ARE GROWING. THE U.S. IS JUST NOW CATCHING UP.BY SEBASTIAN ROTELLAJANUARY 22, 2021PROPUBLICA

They threatened to arrest him if he didn’t agree to become an informant.

SUPREME COURT RULES FOR MUSLIMS PLACED ON NO-FLY LIST AFTER REFUSING TO BECOME FBI INFORMANTSROBERT BARNESDECEMBER 10, 2020WASHINGTON POST

Those authorities ultimately used an informant to weed out their resistance efforts.

A LESBIAN COUPLE WHO SCATTERED ‘BUTTERFLIES’ TO UNDERMINE THE NAZISKAREN TUCKERDECEMBER 4, 2020WASHINGTON POST

The FBI said it became aware of the activity through social media and also relied on an informant to collect information from within the group.

MILITIA TIED TO PLOT TO KIDNAP GOV. WHITMER WAS REMOVED FROM FACEBOOK IN BOOGALOO PURGETAYLOR HATMAKEROCTOBER 8, 2020TECHCRUNCH

When Aunt Ri heard that Farrar had fled the country, she pushed up her spectacles and looked reflectively at her informant.

RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON

He denied it at once, wanted to know the name of her informant, and finally laughed the whole matter out of her mind.

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To himself, he could give no reason for establishing the identity of the smoking-compartment informant.