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This article has been tagged since June 2007. An informant (sometimes informer) is someone existing inside a closed system who provides information of that system to a figure or organization who exist outside of that system. Most notably these organizations include law enforcement agencies, but also informants are utilized by others such as social scientists.
Phrased less formally, an Informer or Informant could be a member of an underground organization, a criminal gang or any other group outlawed, perseucted or harassed by the civil or military authorities, who gives the authorities information about the group as a whole and/about other members.
Public attitudes to informers and informants change enormously with different cicumstances. When the group concerned is involved in principled opposition to a tyrannical regime or a forign occupation, an informer within its ranks wbe likely to be considered (at least by those symaphising with its aims) as a despicable traitor. On the other hand, in cases of criminal gangs considered a danger to society, use of informers might be considered socially useful - though even law-enforcement officers making use of an informer might despise him for betraying fellow-criminals. In cases where the role of an organization is debated - for example, the many groups regarding themselves as "freedom fighters" but defined by the authorities as "terrorists" - appreciation of informers within their ranks maigh vary accordingly.
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In Greece and Rome, informers (the Roman delatores) were a key part of the judicial system. They informed the Roman Senate about urgent matters important to the republic and later, the empire. Delator, in Roman history, properly one who gave notice (deferre) to the treasury officials of moneys that had become due to the imperial fisc. ...
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In the Middle Ages, any Christian was put to death through the testimony (delatio) of another Christian would be sentenced to excommunication, according to the Synod of Elvira in circa 306 C.E. The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...
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Political informers An informer in Ireland historically refers to someone who provided a flow of inside information to state security agencies, usually for financial gain and/or immunity from prosecution, while purporting to be a member or sympathiser of the targeted political organization. Informers were widely used by the British Government against the United Irishmen, Fenian Brotherhood, Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Republican Army. The Society of the United Irishmen was a political organisation in eighteenth century Ireland that sought independence from Great Britain. ...
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Labor organization informers Corporations and the detective agencies that sometimes represent them have historically hired labor spies to monitor or control labor organizations and their activities. Such individuals may be professionals or recruits from the workforce. They may be willing accomplices, or may be tricked into informing on their co-workers' unionization efforts. Labor spies may be referred to as spies, operatives, agents, agents provocateurs, saboteurs, infiltrators, informants, spotters, special police, or detectives. ...
Criminal informers Informants are most commonly found in the world of organized crime. By its very nature, organized crime involves many people who are aware of each other's guilt in a variety of illegal activities. Quite frequently, informants will provide information in order to obtain lenient treatment for themselves and provide information over an extended period of time in return for money or for police to overlook their own criminal activities. Quite often someone will become an informant following their arrest. The CIA has been criticized for letting major drug lords out of prison as informants. Informants are regarded as traitors by their former criminal associates, who punish informers with death. Informers are therefore generally protected, either by being segregated in prison or, if they are not incarcerated, relocated and given a new identity. Organized crime or criminal organizations are groups or operations run by criminals, most commonly for the purpose of generating a monetary profit. ...
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In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to ones nation. ...
There has also been much criticism about the witness protection program. Many informers are allowed to enter state and federal witness protection programs after they have given testimony. Once within the shelter of witness protection, these informers often continue with their lives of crime, a lifestyle that casts a large shadow of doubt on the veracity of their testimony. This shows the abuse that witness protection programs can be subjected to. One such notable protected witness was David Clay Lind, a known gang member and reported drug addict who was said to have died of a drug overdose while in witness protection. ...
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The slang term used when defense lawyers make deals with courts and authorities to get a criminal out of jail as an informant is called "pulling a Jeremy" coined after the infamous American informant code named "Jeremy" who disclosed information about the whereabouts of President Noriega during Operation Just Cause, leading to Noriega's capture. They may be allowed to engage in crime, so that the potential informant can blend into the criminal environment without suspicion. Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno (born February 11, 1938) is a Panamanian general, and was the de facto leader and military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989, despite never being the official President of Panama. ...
Combatants United States Panama Commanders General Carl W. Stiner Manuel Noriega Strength 27,684+ 3,000+ Casualties 23 Dead, 324 Wounded 450 Military, 200-4,000 Civilian U.S. Army 7th Infantry Division (light) soldiers prepare to take La Comandancia in the El Chorrillo neighborhood of Panama City, December 1989. ...
Whatever the nature of a group, it is bound to feel strong hostity towards any known informer, regard him or her as threat and inflict punishments ranging from social ostracism tthrough physical abuse to death.
Terms for informants Several slang terms for informants have arisen over the years, most of them pejorative. They include: Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speakers dialect or language. ...
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Famous informants Leroy Barnes, also known as Nicky, was the premier cocaine dealer in 1970s Harlem. ...
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Henry Hill (born June 11, 1943) is a famous former FBI informant whose life was immortalized in the book Wiseguy by crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi. ...
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