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informant

[in-fawr-muhnt] / ɪnˈfɔr mənt /


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According to Jones, the informant said Perez was “haunted” by her death and started going to church.

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

Mexico’s financial-intelligence unit froze bank accounts tied to shell companies that funded informant networks and used to pay their lawyers, according to another person familiar with the operation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

What’s more, the informant said that Burt and Hale had “split on the boodle”—the sum of money—obtained from Bigheart.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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