What these autocrats — first, Hafez al-Assad and then his son Bashar — value is conformity, docility and ultimately treachery; there are informers informing on informers informing on informers.
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For regular informers, it has paid salaries and transportation costs.
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Police said that their "informers" got hold of the images.
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Reuters couldn't independently confirm every detail of the informers' accounts.
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Sometimes their relationships with informers were coercive, but other times
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The job offered considerable opportunity to meet potential Mafia informers.
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Rohingya informers, who may have leaked details of the Aug.
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The KGB infiltrated the church, turning many hierarchs into its informers.
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Securitate officers and informers, excerpts from her original field notes from
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I realized the page isn't mine, it belongs to the informers.
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You don't know who are the informers, who are the agents.
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About half of the listed informers never provided any significant information.
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A few informers began looting houses of those that had left.
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Her actions were irresponsible and endangered the lives of informers she outed.
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They use both electronic surveillance and networks of informers across the region.
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Informers would follow me every day, every time I left the house.
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This mass surveillance was carried out via a huge network of civilian informers.
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It also led to a re-evaluation of rules for dealing with informers.
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They used informers to tape sermons and collected attendance lists at Muslim student groups.
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The protesters don't know the allegiances of the hospital staff, and worry about informers.
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Professors say the use of student informers is creating a climate of fear in classrooms.
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These are poets, mountaineers, scientists, romantics, nationalist blowhards, police informers, communist spies and forlorn lovers.
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Yet social workers, trained in child protection, do not want to be seen as informers.
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Some were detained far from combat, based on information gleaned from informers and prison interrogations.
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Those who have gone to the authorities on their own have often been stigmatized as informers.
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During the 10-month investigation, Mr. Mateen was interviewed twice, and the F.B.I. used confidential informers.
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He was one of around 20 people rounded up as China eviscerated a network of informers.
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Italian magistrates say fear of unrelenting prison conditions is key to persuading mafiosi to become informers.
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Some reports suggest the FBI is running short of cash to pay its networks of secret informers.
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Some students were reluctant to speak publicly, citing fear of government informers; others trenchantly supported the crackdown.
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Four people were framed by the FBI in order to protect murderous gangsters working as FBI informers.
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He assures me the attackers didn't gain access to his personal information or that of his informers.
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It is a place where suspicion is rife, informers are everywhere, and daily life is painfully hard.
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"Magazines were seen as the popular informers and interpreters of this ever-changing contemporary world," Ronald writes.
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Schools have fired dissident teachers, recruited students to act as classroom informers and banned some Western textbooks.
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A clear sign that the security services are again in the market for informers came in 2016 when Life, a Russian news service that is often used by the F.S.B. as a conduit for leaks, revealed that retired informers would receive state pensions in return for their service.
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Chinese informers might be Taiwanese gangsters on the hustle in southern China, or Taiwanese businessmen looking for favours.
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He said for villagers, both the police and the Maoists are predators, and them merely resources or informers.
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To eliminate their winged informers and to avoid prosecution, poachers therefore lace an animal corpse with the drug.
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Use of jailhouse informers is constitutional, as long as the informer happens to hear the defendant talk, unprompted.
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He gathers actionable intelligence from a group of informers inside the very networks he is trying to bust.
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People survive in totalitarian regimes by becoming informers, and those regimes were often tipped off by double agents.
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Television documentaries and news and magazine articles linked him to murders of informers and bombings that killed scores.
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The gruesome public display of the bodies in east Mosul appeared to be a warning against other potential informers.
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After the war, the group began policing its own country, acting as informers and enforcers for the Islamic regime.
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It said investigators kept cases open too long and used boilerplate language to justify the use of confidential informers.
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Iraqi intelligence had tested using informers in the successful operation to retake another Islamic State stronghold, Falluja, in June 2016.
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Undercover agents must belong to the state's security groups, a requirement not met by some of the informers, lawyers say.
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In the aftermath of the 2011 uprising, vendors were often used by police to attack protesters or acted as informers.
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It eventually emerged that paid informers of the intelligence service helped hide the group's leaders and build up its network.
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Look, I&aposm a civil libertarian that goes back to the antiwar movement when informers were put in the antiwar movement.
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She and others in Sacco's operation were arrested after two FBI informers provided information to local authorities about the illegal operation.
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Amr Khalil, an artist whom Regeni befriended in Cairo, said the Italian was aware that police regularly used informers in Egypt.
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In interviews with Reuters, nine Iraqi and Kurdish military officials, informers and their relatives detailed how their battle for Mosul unfolded.
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Thanks to the work of first responders in partnership with "first informers" -- local television and radio broadcasters -- millions were safely evacuated.
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"They're suspicious, scared, in case any of the civilian population are informers – they're keeping their distance a bit now," she said.
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The creation of the militia, a move which has evoked memories of Soviet-era informers, had deepened people's fears, he said.
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The public prosecutor's office and information ministry did not respond to requests for comment, though one state prosecutor defended the informers.
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They invited the rural people to turn into snitches, to turn into informers, to infiltrate popular organizations, to infiltrate the guerrillas.
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Currently that includes informers' reports to the Bureau of Investigation (predecessor of the F.B.I.) during the Red Scare of 1917-20.
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When Mr. Flemmi's girlfriend, Debra Davis, once overheard that they were F.B.I. informers, the mobsters decided that she had to die.
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In the most heavily targeted slums, neighbors are wary of talking to each other, unsure who among them are police informers.
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He dispatched a spy to monitor the Bolsheviks' use of the telegraph and paid informers for all gossip, true or false.
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City investigators also concluded that Mr. Ponte's head of internal affairs had been eavesdropping on investigators' phone calls with confidential informers.
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" Xinyang Normal University in central China calls on student informers to report anything teachers say that "endangers national security" or "national unity.
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The vendors were not completely risk-free: In the past few years, some members have served as police informers, say security officials.
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As it turns out, FBI reports—which were based on insights from confidential informers during that period—were central to our research.
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They evaded the mine field that informers from the factory had told them about and avoided the 30 guards and their dogs.
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A name appearance on the list of informers does not necessarily mean the person aided repression or harmed others, Mr. Dervishi said.
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By tracing informers, on either side of the border, Mr Reyna has tracked down a "kid, in a washeteria" over in Juarez.
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The proliferation of student informers has raised concerns among scholars and students, who see the practice as another attempt to stifle classroom debate.
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Its cast is an appealing mix of strong female informers and allies and ostensibly good guys who aren't all they appear to be.
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The trial also revealed a number of missteps by the police, who had been given warnings by Mr. Dutroux's mother, informers and others.
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But the Supreme Court said informers can't elicit information from someone who already has a lawyer—that would too closely resemble an interrogation.
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They may require local knowledge—as in the case of informers, who provide information elites cannot access on their own—or specialized skills.
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The book follows a teenage slave named Cora, who flees a Georgia plantation and tries to evade bounty hunters, informers and lynch mobs.
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Critics and legal experts say the informers are used as pro-government snitches to spread fear, weakening Venezuela's democracy and flawed justice system.
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Over the years, agents and informers kept track of Mr. Mesches's day-to-day activities, reporting to headquarters on matters large and small.
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There were contacts going on by people identified as informers and informants, people who provided information began much, much earlier than July 31st.
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For more than 1,500 high-profile individuals, however, Squire fills out their entries with information gleaned from sources like the SPLC, informers, and leaks.
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Students must apply to serve as informers, and many schools accept only party members or those who can demonstrate they hold "correct" political views.
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Anyone found violating this resolution will have to pay a fine of Rs 2,100 ($30), while informers would be rewarded with Rs 200 ($3).
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At the heart of the scandal is a database the Orange County Sheriff's Office uses to track the placement of informers in the jail.
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Cracks were showing, but the mammoth apparatus of Communism seemed secure for a long time with its legions of soldiers, secret police and informers.
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He said that his conclusions are supported not only by the receipts but by interviews with informers in Syria over a 16-month period.
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Informers suggested that the jihadists had taken Captain Sudani to Qaim, an Iraqi town controlled by the Islamic State and beyond the government's reach.
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Doctors and teachers would also have been required to become informers: letting the authorities know of people presumed to be in this country illegally.
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The FCC must allow America's first informers to begin building the next generation of television and the next generation of the nation's emergency alert system.
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Informers are perhaps the most common kind of collaborator, but they are notorious chameleons, making it virtually impossible to pin down their affiliations at all.
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Since the violent protests against Maduro in early 2014, there have been at least 20 cases involving the anonymous informers, according to a Reuters tally.
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In addition to the mass detentions, the authorities have intensified the use of informers and expanded police surveillance, even installing cameras in some people's homes.
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Mr. Ji's group, the Jinan Old Ji Anti-Counterfeit Rights Defense Work Studio, has a network of about 20 informers who report suspected fake products.
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The lists are compiled by local officials using information supplied by the police and by informers, and include people who have surrendered to the authorities.
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The emperor counseled moderation — punishment maybe, but no informers, no roundups — in part, it seems, because he wasn't exactly sure what Christians were guilty of.
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In November, 14 men from central Sinai were kidnapped and interrogated by the Islamic State over accusations that they had been informers for Egyptian security.
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Iraqi and Kurdish intelligence agencies had recruited informers inside Mosul, from ex-soldiers and army officers to taxi drivers, who would face instant execution if caught.
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At some schools, student informers are required to submit reports about their teachers to campus branches of the Communist Party, according to advertisements for the positions.
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He joined Poland&aposs resistance fighters, the Home Army, and took part in sabotage actions like blowing up German army transports and executions of Nazi informers.
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The agency then builds an intimate system of surveillance and a network of local informers who can point to any sign of suspicious or unusual activity.
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The United States Marshals Service does not release progress reports on the convicts-turned-informers like Mr. Barnes whom it safeguards in its witness protection program.
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Known in Russian as stukachi — literally, "knockers" — a Soviet term of uncertain etymology, informers basically serve as spies for the Russian state at home and abroad.
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Rohingya Muslims, hundreds of thousands of whom remain in Rakhine, have been caught between both sides, with some reported killed by the group as suspected informers.
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He rejected the idea that the rise of informers is hurting classroom debate and said that for too long, Chinese universities have ignored the views of students.
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But anecdotal evidence suggests sporadic resistance in the form of assassinations of ISIS members, met with savage reprisals against those deemed to be spies, informers and deserters.
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Egypt's security apparatus is vast, including the regular police and an array of intelligence agencies with unknown budgets employing hundreds of thousands of uniformed officers and informers.
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In Indian states such as Kashmir, Jharkhand, Assam, Odisha and Chhattisgarh, children were being forcibly recruited by opposition groups as informers or trained to fight, it noted.
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The first is an assessment, in which agents use basic techniques like conducting interviews, talking to confidential informers, using physical surveillance and checking databases and public records.
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The F.B.I. kept its investigation of him open for twenty-nine years, enlisting as informers everyone from his publishers to his landlady to (however unwittingly) his mother.
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The need to protect intelligence sources — which might include intercepted communications or human informers — also contributed to the government's reluctance to reveal its evidence, the official said.
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During his too-short career he made over 22008 movies, the last one being 2911's The Informers, where he starred alongside Billy Bob Thornton and Winona Ryder.
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Wim had long boasted that he maintained paid informers in the police department; if this were true, it posed a risk for anyone who might turn on him.
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A parade of former associates testified against him in a two-month trial, telling of the killing of rival hoodlums and others who had been identified as informers.
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Over the last several months the government has accused the insurgents of instigating a campaign of terror against village chiefs and killing government informers, disrupting government information networks.
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Police informers reported that Mr. Persico had lured Mr. Gallo to the bar on the pretext that he intended to switch sides once again and rejoin the Gallos.
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As Iraqi army commanders and U.S. advisers were preparing the ground offensive, intelligence officers were recruiting informers, building alliances with the region's Sunni tribes and infiltrating Baghdadi's inner circle.
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Successive governments introduced waves of anti-Mafia laws, allowing the state to seize mob assets, keep imprisoned mafiosi incommunicado and far from Sicily, and develop protection programs for informers.
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Distinguishable often by the explosives they carry, or pointed out by informers in their midst, the SDF at the checkpoint we visit say they found 30 the day before.
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In a statement to a Kashmiri news agency, a commander with Abu Ismail's militant group paid tribute to his death and warned informers to stop "damaging the freedom movement."
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Yet many find the idea distasteful, particularly in European countries where past use of state informers created a climate of fear and destroyed trust among colleagues, family members and friends.
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His reports are based on his covert photos and videos, along with documents from local journalists, civil servants and other informers that he analyzes at his home office, he said.
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In recent months, dozens of people have been seized from buses and boats, while suspected informers have been detained in villages, according to local officials, the rebels and media reports.
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The papers include a handwritten agreement, signed "Lech Walesa, Bolek," to cooperate with the state security service, as well as a payment register and testimony from Communist informers concerning Mr. Walesa.
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Built with help from the C.I.A., the unit recruited a huge roster of informers, stationed detectives around the world and built a corps of analysts who stayed current on national intelligence.
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Now, armed with new revelations from the database and its fallout, defense lawyers have begun to unravel other cases in which jailhouse informers may have been used illegally against their clients.
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Using a combination of satellite imagery, electronic intercepts and informers' tips, analysts have tracked Islamic State operatives storing huge amounts of cash in bank vaults, private residences and other hiding places.
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Lawmakers heard testimony on Monday from Mary Rose Aquino, who said her parents were police informers and were killed by corrupt officers who took drugs for themselves and feared being identified.
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In the early 2000s, neo-Nazi terrorists killed nine immigrants over seven years, even as paid informers of the intelligence agency helped hide the group's leaders and build up its network.
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All urged the ensemble not to sugarcoat history: There were accomplishments among the groups, but there were also lows like infighting, sexism and the damage wrought by informers and agents provocateurs.
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Many of these abuses occur behind the closed doors of a prosecutor's office, in the secrecy of grand jury rooms and in the corridors where secret deals are made with informers.
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Ankang University in northwest China said in an online notice that student informers should formally report professors who spread superstition, cults and pornography, "promote Western political values," and criticize the party's tenets.
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Once he got to DC, though, the same operative continued to harass him, telling him he could not escape no matter where he lived, and that the Chinese government had informers everywhere.
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According to that report, airline employees and other informers had an incentive to search more travellers' bags, since they received payment whenever their actions resulted in DEA seizures of cash or contraband.
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The other victims included a Brooklyn man gunned down mistakenly because he had the same name as a rival of Mr. Casso's; a Luchese gangster; two Gambino soldiers; and two F.B.I. informers.
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Yet the raid that killed Mr Baghdadi took place just a few kilometres from the Turkish border, in a part of Syria crawling with Turkish informers and dotted with Turkish army posts.
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The United Nations has tried to understand what life is like under Islamic State in cities like Mosul, and has been in touch with informers inside the city since Islamic State arrived.
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She is in charge of vetting newcomers to the ranch, turning away anyone who has been in jail, because she fears they could have been released on the condition they become informers.
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The Stasi, infamous for spying on the most mundane aspects of East Germans' lives, relied on massive networks of informers and on bureaucrats picking through letters and listening in on phone calls.
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"People are more willing to discuss the ambiguities surrounding those individuals who were acting as informers," said Ned Richardson-Little, a historian at the University of Erfurt, in the former East Germany.
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In one dismal development, the Gin Acts spurred enterprising citizens to snitch on illegal distillers—a lucrative but hazardous pursuit, with some informers being chased and beaten to death by angry crowds.
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Then there were informers who betrayed Jewish acquaintances and people who worked willingly for such bodies as the General Inspectorate of Race and in Italy's seldom-mentioned concentration camp at Fossoli near Modena.
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Wang Ting-yu, a DPP legislator who sits on the parliament's foreign affairs and defence committees, says that China's intelligence services gather information about Taiwan from "between 10,000 and 100,000" agents and informers.
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"Cooperating patriots," or anonymous informers, have during Maduro's nearly three years in power taken an increasingly important role in providing information that leads to arrests of government foes, a Reuters review has found.
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"These victories would not have occurred if it weren't for the cooperation of civilians with the security forces," Abadi told a press conference in Baghdad, confirming the role of informers inside the city.
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The interrogator, Lt. Pisthiwan Salahi, said Mr. Mohemin was not only an Islamic State soldier but also a member of an elite suicide squad known as the Seekers of Martyrdom, according to informers.
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Aleppo family says goodbye on Twitter I visited Hama repeatedly in the early 1990s: It was an eerie place crawling with informers where, unlike elsewhere in Syria, people were hesitant to speak with outsiders.
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Haro and other lawyers who have represented defendants in these cases say the use of anonymous informers is illegal because Venezuelan law stipulates that denunciations must be accompanied by full identification of the accuser.
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The rebels have increasingly turned to kidnapping, seizing dozens of people in recent months from buses and boats, while suspected informers have been detained in villages, according to officials, the rebels and media reports.
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Some students take an expansive view of their mandate, keeping an eye not only on what professors say in class, but on their private lives, including tastes in books and movies, informers said in interviews.
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"They have checkpoints for stop and search, and if you are a regular visitor they know you," said a second herder, adding that ISWA has spies everywhere, including informers who alert them to military attacks.
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Percival is a dissolute loon who gets about 50 percent too much screen time, and he's more a help than a hindrance in Broughton's mission to recover a secret list of informers embedded within East Germany.
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It remained the most effective and most feared intelligence-gathering organization in the world with more than 400,000 officers inside the Soviet Union and another 200,21988 border guards, not to mention an enormous network of informers.
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With over 90,000 full time employees, and a vast number of unofficial informers (estimates suggest as many as one informer for every 6.5 civilians), the Stasi collected a dizzying amount of data on the GDR's population.
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The witnesses were a former federal prosecutor, Stuart R. GraBois, who spent a significant part of his career pursuing Mr. Ramos, as well as two jailhouse informers who had recounted conversations they had with Mr. Ramos.
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All those records had now been burned: Even before the controversy began, Goffman felt as though their ritual incineration was the only way she could protect her friend-informers from police scrutiny after her book was published.
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Mr. Bout had been arrested in Bangkok after an elaborate government sting operation that relied on informers who posed as representatives of a terrorist group who wanted to buy arms to kill American pilots stationed in Colombia.
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In this country of 20 million, the feared secret police, the Securitate, maintained a network of around 100,000 informers in the years before the Ceausescus fell, according to Florian Banu, a researcher at the secret police archives.
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My sources and documents that I&aposll be able to make public tomorrow will show that there were contacts going on by people identified as informers, informants, people who provided information begin much, much earlier than July 31st.
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The New York City Correction Department's top internal affairs official, who was demoted last week amid accusations that he eavesdropped on telephone conversations between city investigators and their jailhouse informers on Rikers Island, was quietly fired this week.
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After the family emigrated to the United States a few weeks later, French informers helped the German embassy locate and remove paintings Rosenberg had hidden at the house and in a bank vault in the nearby town of Libourne.
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The emphasis today, he said, is on finding informers who might have real inside information about terrorist groups like the Islamic State as well as peaceful foreign groups that promote democracy, which the Kremlin views as a dangerous threat.
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Appointed imperial legate to Bithynia, in what is now northern Turkey, Pliny was taken aback by how many Christians were there and decided to round them all up, relying on secret informers, and eradicate them or make them recant.
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As the survivors, all young adults, dodge the Gestapo and sidle past Jewish informers like the infamous Stella Goldschlag, these scripted sections, though engagingly acted and atmospherically filmed, play like mere teasers for epic tales of courage and ingenuity.
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According to underworld informers, the murder was initiated by Carlo Gambino, who was Mr. Anastasia's underboss, and sanctioned by Mr. Profaci and other Mafia bosses who feared that Mr. Anastasia was trying to become the nation's dominant mob leader.
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Antiques When Communist regimes in Europe were unraveling in 1989, collaborators and dissidents alike began destroying vital historical material, from statues of dictators to family snapshots of government informers to manuals that exaggerated the quality of East German car engines.
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If such statements exist, in the form of a tape or a transcript or an FBI interview report — three routine investigative tools the FBI uses when managing informers — then it would be a huge omission that likely violated FBI rules.
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In media interviews, some Rohingya refugees have criticized ARSA for bringing more misery upon them, and say they are feared because they are reported to have killed Rohingya seen as informers or those with close ties to the Myanmar regime.
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He said that once a group had been associated with murder or other forms of violence, it would become much easier to place wiretaps on them, and place informers in their midst, which the F.B.I. has found relatively easy to do.
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But it seems as if Marx — who in the 21970th century complained about being followed by Prussian spies when he lived in London, or by British informers who closely watched his door with "more than a doubtful look" — cannot escape monitoring.
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Judge Haight had also raised concerns about an August report by the Police Department's inspector general, which found that investigators kept cases open too long and used boilerplate language devoid of specific facts in justifying their use of confidential informers.
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The use of student informers has surged under Mr. Xi, China's most powerful leader in decades, with hundreds of universities now employing the practice, according to interviews with more than two dozen professors and students, as well as a review of public records.
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In recent months there had been reports of killings of local administrators, government informers and village chiefs in the Rakhine region, leading to speculation the insurgents were adopting brutal tactics to stop information on their activities from leaking to the security forces.
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On occasion, this discomfort has been crudely sexualized; when Goffman was an undergraduate, professors in her department asked her advisers if she was sleeping with her informers, and that insinuation makes regular appearances in anonymous posts about her on sociology message boards.
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Renfro was an adult, playing a supporting role in the dark ensemble drama The Informers, and Altschul was again the first AD. When the two clapped eyes on each other for the first time in a decade, what Altschul saw shocked him.
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And in 2007, in a case unrelated to the scandal over informers, Murray was cited for misconduct by a California appeals court, which identified multiple instances when Murray misstated the law and used improper tactics at the murder trial of Thai Ba Tran.
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Yet even when those thousands of sheets of paper have spilled their secrets, even when the allegations and accusations of the K.G.B.'s network of agents and informers are known, the picture of the man at their center will not be complete.
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This evidence that we have now, these new e-mails showing that the people who became the informers and informants, college professors and ambassadors and opposition researchers for Hillary Clinton, were making contacts with the Trump administration long before there was a predicated investigation.
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He describes Calvin's efforts to turn Geneva into a godly city, enforced through routine censorship, regular home visits by the clergy, a thick network of informers and the strict regulation of everything from women's shoes to the names allowed for children and even pets.
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Though as a police state China no doubt has reams of information from officials, spies and informers, the rulers probably hear what they want to hear, that most Hong Kongers are content with their relative prosperity and freedom and will eventually reject rabble-rousers.
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The secret police—the KGB in Soviet Socialist Republics, the Stasi in East Germany, and other security agencies in similar countries—and their vast networks of collaborators and informers (numbering more than 280,000 in East Germany alone) spied on citizens and tattled on family, neighbors, and friends.
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Flanked by Stephen Kohn, a leading American advocate who secured a $104 million financial reward for a UBS whistleblower in 2012 under a U.S. bounty programme for informers, Wilkinson said other informants were too afraid to speak up for fear of losing their jobs and livelihoods.
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And the rest are likely to have come from the FBI itself, which clearly dispatched informers, agents and other operatives to gather evidence to bulk up the uncorroborated Steele dossier, so agents could get a FISA warrant in October 2016 to spy on Page, the Trump campaign adviser.
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Victims of the mainly Roman Catholic I.R.A. included British soldiers, Northern Ireland police officers and Loyalist terrorist opponents, but also many civilian members of the mainly pro-British Protestant majority in Northern Ireland and numerous Catholic civilians who opposed the I.R.A. or were accused of being informers or collaborators.
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" To some, this sounded like a call for Sharia, and after informers reported him to the police the governor's office sent him a warning: "In the course of monitoring the religious activities and the religious institutions of the region, I hereby inform you that several violations have been reported.
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But the arrest of Reality Leigh Winner, an intelligence contractor accused of leaking a classified report about Russian meddling in the 2016 election, has raised concerns about the measures taken by news organizations to protect confidential informers, with some reporters worrying about a chilling effect on potential sources.
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"These gangs are riddled with informers and when they go to move the stuff they are very often caught and at risk of very substantial sentences," he said, highlighting the fact that drug possession convictions can carry penalties including minimum 10-year sentences and fines in excess of 13,000 euros ($14,700).
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One source, who has a network of informers in the area, said 300 to 400 Rohingya who had been hiding at Ah Htet Nan Yar were now in the forest or attempting a perilous, days-long journey by foot in the monsoon rain toward the River Naf separating Myanmar and Bangladesh.
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The report — by the Office of the Inspector General for the New York Police Department, an oversight agency created in 2013 — said that the department's Intelligence Bureau regularly let deadlines pass before asking to extend investigations into political activity, and often failed to explain the roles of undercover officers and confidential informers, as required.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob GoodlatteRobert (Bob) William GoodlatteImmigrant advocacy groups shouldn't be opposing Trump's raids Top Republican releases full transcript of Bruce Ohr interview It's time for Congress to pass an anti-cruelty statute MORE (R-Va.) made similar comments, suggesting the FBI may have withheld exculpatory evidence it had gathered from its informers.
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Collaborators may be low- or mid-level perpetrators; suppliers, like the warehouse in Jedwabne, Poland, which provided the kerosene local residents used in 1941 to burn a barn containing 1,500 Jews, or Ford and General Motors, which funded a Brazilian security outfit that interrogated and tortured leftists; attendants (cooks, secretaries, and other supporting staff); or spies and informers.
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Background tracking is how Facebook's creepy ads function (it prefers to call such behaviorally targeted ads 'relevant') — and how they have functioned for years Yet it's only in recent months that it's offered users a glimpse into this network of online informers — by providing limited information about the entities that are passing tracking data to Facebook, as well as some limited controls.
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Katarina Barley, the country's justice minister, joined teachers' organizations on Thursday in decrying the measure as an attempt by the AfD to limit democracy in the classroom and intimidate teachers, citing parallels between the party's efforts and those of the Stasi, the secret police in the former East Germany, who turned millions of citizens into informers on their neighbors, teachers, friends, co-workers and even family members.
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