informants

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The island’s internal espionage and counterintelligence apparatus includes some 100,000 officials and informants who spy on the population and monitor every street, workplace and university, García said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 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

What seems more likely is what the Southern Poverty Law Center has said, which is, “We pay informants to do this.”

From Slate • May 4, 2026

U.S. prosecutors carrying out such an initiative could turn to a large pool of potential informants.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

While the detectives were trying to establish a connection between the slayings of Charles Whitehorn and Anna Brown, Comstock passed on tidbits that he collected from his network of informants.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann