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Informant

An informant is a person who provides privileged information, or (usually damaging) information intended to be intimate, concealed, or secret, about a person or organization to an agency, often a government or law enforcement agency. The term is usually used within the law-enforcement world, where informants are officially known as confidential human…

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Criminal informants

Labor and social movements

Politics

False testimony

Entrapment

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Informant

Nodes87
Edges86
Triples101
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022989
Components1

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Informant

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related to List of notable individuals · 37
Informant → American, Australian, Barnes, Bonanno, Boston Irish, Bulger, Calabrese, Chicago OutfitJames Carey, FBI, Five Families, Flemmi, Gambino, Genovese, Gravano, Hernandez, Inc, Irish, Lucas, Lucchese, MargaritoNicola Gobbo
related to Slang · 28
Informant → African-American, American English, Australian, Brazil, Danish, Denmark, During, French, Front Line, German, Gestapo, Irish, Italian, Mafia, Mani, Maxi Trial, May, Nazi, Northern Irish, Originally
related to False testimony · 12
Informant → Cameron Todd Willingham, Conway, DNA, Eddie, Etan Patz, Jailhouse, Marshall, Some, Stanley Williams, Temujin Kensu, The Innocence Project, Thomas Silverstein
related to Russia and Soviet Union · 10
Informant → In, In Russia, KGB, Officially, Okhrana, Russian, Russian Empire, Russian-derived, Soviet, Soviet Union
related to External links · 5
Informant → Chicago, Informants, Media, Wikimedia Commons Federal, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Criminal informants · 3
Informant → Any, Informants, Law
related to Motivation · 3
Informant → Informants, Law, Many
related to Entrapment · 2
Informant → Paid, Payments
is a · 1
Informant → person who provides privileged information

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Informantis aperson who provides privileged information0.90text
Informantrelated to Criminal informantsInformants0.60section
Informantrelated to Criminal informantsAny0.60section
Informantrelated to Criminal informantsLaw0.60section
Informantrelated to EntrapmentPayments0.60section
Informantrelated to EntrapmentPaid0.60section
Informantrelated to External linksWiktionary-logo-en-v20.60section
Informantrelated to External linksMedia0.60section
Informantrelated to External linksInformants0.60section
Informantrelated to External linksWikimedia Commons Federal0.60section
Informantrelated to External linksChicago0.60section
Informantrelated to False testimonyJailhouse0.60section

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