informants

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The Justice Department alleges the group defrauded contributors by secretly paying more than $3 million between 2014 and 2023 to informants inside extremist groups.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Sacha Zala, president of the Swiss Society for History, is "absolutely sure there is nothing relevant about Mengele", but thinks there may be references to a foreign intelligence service or foreign informants.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

The evidence for this scheme consisted mostly of the fact that the law center relied on paid informants for its work, not unlike the FBI.

From Slate • May 1, 2026

F is for “field source,” the SPLC’s term for inside informants it paid to gather intelligence on white-supremacist groups.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Reports from agents and informants like Morrison suggested that several of these desperadoes had knowledge about the murders.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann