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Informants, and especially criminal informants, can be motivated by many reasons. Many informants are not themselves aware of all of their reasons for providing information, but nonetheless do so. Many informants provide information while under stress, duress, emotion and other life factors that can
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regarding felonious criminal activities and from whom the agency expects or intends to obtain additional useful and credible information regarding such activities in the future".
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1085:"The Weakest Link: The Dire Consequences of a Weak Link in the Informant Handling and Covert Operations Chain-of-Command" by M Levine.
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1734:"The failed amnesty of the 'years of lead' in Italy: Continuity and transformations between (de)politicization and punitiveness"
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1206:"Private detective agencies and labour discipline in the United States, 1855–1946" by RP Weiss.
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37:"Confidential Informant" redirects here. For the film, see
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1732:Rossi, Federica (April 2021). Treiber, Kyle (ed.).
1321:Mills, Steve; Possley, Maurice (December 9, 2004).
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2092:"End of 'touts' in Northern Ireland"
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1251:"On the Deaths of the Persecutors"
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1463:. Thesaurus.com. September 2023.
1352:. Project Posner. Archived from
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2112:"The murky world of informers"
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32:Stool pigeon (disambiguation)
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1976:Natapoff, Alexandra (2009).
1883:"Dozier, James Lee (1931– )"
1266:Crime, Law and Social Change
1210:, 2009. Cambridge Univ Press
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1881:Sullivan, Colleen (2011).
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1836:Drake, Richard (2021) .
1693:Rowman & Littlefield
1375:James, Joy, ed. (2007).
1182:Allen, Bill Van (2011).
1152:Palmiotto, J., Micheal.
418:term. May also refer to
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239:Threat of incarceration.
936:pl:Tajny współpracownik
925:Unofficial collaborator
844:Russia and Soviet Union
691:, Boston Irish mob boss
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361:Marshall "Eddie" Conway
353:Cameron Todd Willingham
225:Desire to become a spy.
1279:scc.lexum.umontreal.ca
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761:Lucchese crime family
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1168:Lyman, D., Micheal.
977:Covert interrogation
827:Bonanno crime family
779:in New York City to
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561:derivative subgenres
335:Jailhouse informants
163:Informant motivation
1602:. Clarendon Press.
1544:. Waterside Press.
1477:Wilmer, HA (1965).
992:Hollywood blacklist
890:секретный сотрудник
805:Freddie Scappaticci
752:Nine Trey Gangsters
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1540:Devlin, A (1995).
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1702:978-1-4422-2227-4
1637:by A Devlin. 1996
1392:978-0-8223-3923-6
1193:978-0-13-800011-0
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