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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Informant_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Informant (disambiguation)">Informant (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Informer" and "Stool pigeon" redirect here. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Informer_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Informer (disambiguation)">Informer (disambiguation)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stool_pigeon_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Stool pigeon (disambiguation)">Stool pigeon (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Confidential Informant" redirects here. For the film, see <a href="/wiki/Confidential_Informant_(film)" title="Confidential Informant (film)">Confidential Informant (film)</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Payment_to_an_informant.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Payment_to_an_informant.jpg/240px-Payment_to_an_informant.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Payment_to_an_informant.jpg/360px-Payment_to_an_informant.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Payment_to_an_informant.jpg/480px-Payment_to_an_informant.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1400" data-file-height="930" /></a><figcaption>A representative from the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" title="United States Department of State">U.S. State Department</a> congratulates and offers a partial payment to a fully disguised informant whose information led to the neutralization of a <a href="/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_Philippines" title="Terrorism in the Philippines">terrorist in the Philippines</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Two_page_totally_confidential,_direct_and_immediate_letter_from_the_Minister_of_Finance_to_the_Minister_of_Foreign_Affairs_about_creating_a_foreign_information_network_for_controlling_smuggling.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Two_page_totally_confidential%2C_direct_and_immediate_letter_from_the_Minister_of_Finance_to_the_Minister_of_Foreign_Affairs_about_creating_a_foreign_information_network_for_controlling_smuggling.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="140" class="mw-file-element" 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/60px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/80px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Look up <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/informant" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:informant"> informant </a></b></i> or <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stool_pigeon" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:stool pigeon"> stool pigeon</a></b></i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.</div></div> </div> <p>An <b>informant</b> (also called an <b>informer</b> or, as a <a href="/wiki/Slang" title="Slang">slang</a> term, a "<b>snitch</b>", "<b>rat</b>", "<b>canary</b>", "<b>stool pigeon</b>", "<b>stoolie</b>" or "<b>grass</b>", among other terms)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <b>confidential human sources</b> (<b>CHS</b>), or <b>criminal informants</b> (<b>CI</b>). It can also refer pejoratively to someone who supplies information without the consent of the involved parties.<sup id="cite_ref-lying_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lying-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The term is commonly used in politics, industry, entertainment, and academia.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, a confidential informant or "CI" is "any individual who provides useful and credible information to a <a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement_agency" title="Law enforcement agency">law enforcement agency</a> 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".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criminal_informants">Criminal informants</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Informant&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Criminal informants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Informants are extremely common in every-day police work, including homicide and narcotics investigations. Any citizen who provides crime-related information to law enforcement by definition is an informant.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Law enforcement and intelligence agencies may face criticism regarding their conduct towards informants. Informants may be shown leniency for their own crimes in exchange for information, or simply turn out to be dishonest in their information, resulting in the time and money spent acquiring them being wasted. </p><p>Informants are often regarded as <a href="/wiki/Traitors" class="mw-redirect" title="Traitors">traitors</a> by their former criminal associates. Whatever the nature of a group, it is likely to feel strong hostility toward any known informers, regard them as threats and inflict punishments ranging from social ostracism through physical abuse and/or death. Informers are therefore generally protected, either by being segregated while in <a href="/wiki/Prison" title="Prison">prison</a> or, if they are not incarcerated, relocated under a new identity. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Informant_motivation">Informant motivation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Informant&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Informant motivation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Program_Aids_-_CHS_Assessing.pdf" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Program_Aids_-_CHS_Assessing.pdf/page1-220px-Program_Aids_-_CHS_Assessing.pdf.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="285" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Program_Aids_-_CHS_Assessing.pdf/page1-330px-Program_Aids_-_CHS_Assessing.pdf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Program_Aids_-_CHS_Assessing.pdf/page1-440px-Program_Aids_-_CHS_Assessing.pdf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1458" data-file-height="1887" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBI</a> <a href="/wiki/Anchorage,_Alaska" title="Anchorage, Alaska">Anchorage</a> aid for assessing confidential human sources</figcaption></figure> <p>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 affect the accuracy or veracity of information provided. </p><p>Law enforcement officers, prosecutors, defense lawyers, judges and others should be aware of possible motivations so that they can properly approach, assess and verify informants' information. </p><p>Generally, informants' motivations can be broken down into self-interest, self-preservation and conscience. </p><p>A list of possible motivations includes: </p> <ul><li>Self-Interest: <ul><li>Financial reward.<sup id="cite_ref-Lyman,_D._2010._p264_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lyman,_D._2010._p264-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Pre-trial release from custody.</li> <li>Withdrawal or dismissal of criminal charges.</li> <li>Reduction of sentence.</li> <li>Choice of location to serve sentence.</li> <li>Elimination of rivals or unwanted criminal associates.</li> <li>Elimination of competitors engaged in criminal activities.</li> <li>Diversion of suspicion from their own criminal activities.</li> <li>Revenge.<sup id="cite_ref-Lyman,_D._2010._p264_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lyman,_D._2010._p264-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Desire to become a spy.</li></ul></li> <li>Self-Preservation: <ul><li>Fear of harm from others.</li> <li>Threat of arrest or charges.</li> <li>Threat of incarceration.</li> <li>Desire for witness protection program.</li></ul></li> <li>Conscience: <ul><li>Desire to leave criminal past.</li> <li>Guilty conscience.</li> <li>Redemption.</li> <li>Mutual respect.</li> <li>Genuine desire to assist law enforcement and society.<sup id="cite_ref-Van_Allen_Criminal_Investigation_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Van_Allen_Criminal_Investigation-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Labor_and_social_movements">Labor and social movements</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Informant&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Labor and social movements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Corporations and the detective agencies that sometimes represent them have historically hired <a href="/wiki/Labor_spies" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor spies">labor spies</a> to monitor or control labor organizations and their activities.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Paid informants have often been used by authorities within politically and socially oriented movements to weaken, destabilize and ultimately break them.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Informant&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Confidential_Human_Source_Policy_Guide_(redacted).pdf" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Confidential_Human_Source_Policy_Guide_%28redacted%29.pdf/page1-220px-Confidential_Human_Source_Policy_Guide_%28redacted%29.pdf.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="285" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Confidential_Human_Source_Policy_Guide_%28redacted%29.pdf/page1-330px-Confidential_Human_Source_Policy_Guide_%28redacted%29.pdf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Confidential_Human_Source_Policy_Guide_%28redacted%29.pdf/page1-440px-Confidential_Human_Source_Policy_Guide_%28redacted%29.pdf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1458" data-file-height="1887" /></a><figcaption>A redacted version of the FBI policy manual concerning the use of informants</figcaption></figure> <p>Informers alert authorities regarding government officials that are corrupt. Officials may be taking <a href="/wiki/Bribery" title="Bribery">bribes</a> or be participants in a <a href="/wiki/Money_trail" class="mw-redirect" title="Money trail">money loop</a> also called a <a href="/wiki/Kickback_(bribery)" title="Kickback (bribery)">kickback</a>. Informers in some countries receive a percentage of all money recovered by their government.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">ancient Roman</a> historian <a href="/wiki/Lactantius" title="Lactantius">Lactantius</a> described a judiciary case which involved the prosecution of a woman suspected to have advised another woman not to marry <a href="/wiki/Maximinus_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Maximinus II">Maximinus II</a>: "Neither indeed was there any accuser, until a certain <a href="/wiki/Jews_in_the_Roman_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Jews in the Roman Empire">Jew</a>, one charged with other offences, was induced, through hope of pardon, to give false evidence against the innocent. The equitable and vigilant magistrate conducted him out of the city under a guard, lest the populace should have stoned him... The Jew was ordered to the torture till he should speak as he had been instructed... The innocent were condemned to die.... Nor was the promise of pardon made good to the feigned adulterer, for he was fixed to a gibbet, and then he disclosed the whole secret contrivance; and with his last breath he protested to all the beholders that the women died innocent."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Criminal informant schemes have been used as cover for politically motivated intelligence offensives.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Jailhouse_informants">Jailhouse informants</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Informant&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Jailhouse informants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jailhouse informants, who report <a href="/wiki/Hearsay" title="Hearsay">hearsay</a> (admissions against penal interest) which they claim to have heard while the accused is in <a href="/wiki/Remand_(detention)" class="mw-redirect" title="Remand (detention)">pretrial detention</a>, usually in exchange for sentence reductions or other inducements, have been the focus of particular controversy.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some examples of their use are in connection with <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Williams" title="Stanley Williams">Stanley Williams</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Cameron_Todd_Willingham" title="Cameron Todd Willingham">Cameron Todd Willingham</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-chicagotribune_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chicagotribune-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Silverstein" title="Thomas Silverstein">Thomas Silverstein</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Marshall_%22Eddie%22_Conway" class="mw-redirect" title="Marshall "Eddie" Conway">Marshall "Eddie" Conway</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-James96_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-James96-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a suspect in the disappearance of <a href="/wiki/Etan_Patz" class="mw-redirect" title="Etan Patz">Etan Patz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ABCNews_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABCNews-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Innocence_Project" title="Innocence Project">Innocence Project</a> has stated that 15% of all wrongful convictions later exonerated because of <a href="/wiki/DNA" title="DNA">DNA</a> results were accompanied by <a href="/wiki/False_testimony" class="mw-redirect" title="False testimony">false testimony</a> by jailhouse informants. 50% of <a href="/wiki/Murder" title="Murder">murder</a> convictions exonerated by DNA were accompanied by false testimony by jailhouse informants.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Terminology_and_slang">Terminology and slang</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Informant&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Terminology and slang"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Narc (Narcotics)" redirects here. For another usage of the phrase "narc", see <a href="/wiki/Drug_addict" class="mw-redirect" title="Drug addict">Drug addict</a>.</div> <p><a href="/wiki/Slang" title="Slang">Slang</a> terms for informants include: </p> <ul><li>blabbermouth<sup id="cite_ref-Thesaurus.com_synonyms_for_snitch_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thesaurus.com_synonyms_for_snitch-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>cheese eater<sup id="cite_ref-rat_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rat-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>canary – derives from the fact that canaries sing, and "singing" is underworld or street slang for providing information or talking to the police.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>dog – <a href="/wiki/Australian_English" title="Australian English">Australian</a> term. May also refer to <a href="/wiki/Police_forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Police forces">police forces</a> who specialize in surveillance, or police generally.</li> <li>ear – someone who overhears something and tells the authorities.</li> <li>fink – this may refer to the <a href="/wiki/Pinkerton_National_Detective_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Pinkerton National Detective Agency">Pinkertons</a> who were used as <a href="/wiki/Plainclothes_law_enforcement" class="mw-redirect" title="Plainclothes law enforcement">plain-clothes</a> <a href="/wiki/Detective" title="Detective">detectives</a> and <a href="/wiki/Strike-breakers" class="mw-redirect" title="Strike-breakers">strike-breakers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>grass<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <a href="/wiki/Supergrass_(informer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Supergrass (informer)">supergrass</a><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – <a href="/wiki/Rhyming_slang" title="Rhyming slang">rhyming slang</a> for "grasshopper", meaning "copper" or "shopper",<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> having additional associations with the popular song <i><a href="/wiki/Whispering_Grass" title="Whispering Grass">Whispering Grass</a></i> and the phrase "snake in the grass".<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>narc – a member of a specialist anti-narcotic <a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement" title="Law enforcement">law enforcement</a> agency or <a href="/wiki/Police_intelligence" title="Police intelligence">police intelligence</a> force.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>nark – this may have come from the <a href="/wiki/Romani_language" title="Romani language">Romani</a> term <i>nak</i> for "nose" or the <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> term <i>narquois</i>, which means "cunning", "deceitful", and/or "criminal".<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>nose<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pentito" title="Pentito">pentito</a> – <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a> term meaning "one who repents". Originally and most frequently used in reference to <a href="/wiki/Organized_crime_in_Italy" title="Organized crime in Italy">Mafia</a> informants,<sup id="cite_ref-Nicaso-Danesi_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nicaso-Danesi-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it has also been used to refer to informants for <a href="/wiki/Terrorism_in_Italy" title="Terrorism in Italy">Italian paramilitary and terrorist organizations</a><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (such as the <a href="/wiki/Brigate_Rosse" class="mw-redirect" title="Brigate Rosse">Red Brigades</a><sup id="cite_ref-Drake_2021_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Drake_2021-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Prima_Linea" title="Prima Linea">Front Line</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-Drake_2021_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Drake_2021-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and people who delivered confidential informations to the authorities during the "<a href="/wiki/Maxi_Trial" title="Maxi Trial">Maxi Trial</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Mani_pulite" title="Mani pulite">Mani pulite</a>" nationwide judiciary investigations.<sup id="cite_ref-Nicaso-Danesi_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nicaso-Danesi-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>pursuivant <i>(archaic)</i><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>rat<sup id="cite_ref-rat_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rat-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – informing is commonly referred to as "ratting" in <a href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">American English</a>.</li> <li>snitch<sup id="cite_ref-snitch_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-snitch-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – informing is commonly referred to as "snitching", term originally used within the <a href="/wiki/African_Americans" title="African Americans">African-American community</a> and more recently associated with <a href="/wiki/Hip_hop_music" title="Hip hop music">hip hop music</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hardcore_hip_hop" title="Hardcore hip hop">hardcore rap</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Trap_music" title="Trap music">trap</a>, alongside their <a href="/wiki/List_of_hip_hop_genres" title="List of hip hop genres">derivative subgenres</a> and <a href="/wiki/Subculture" title="Subculture">subcultures</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>snout<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>spotter<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>squealer<sup id="cite_ref-snitch_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-snitch-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stikker" class="extiw" title="da:Stikker">stikker</a> – <a href="/wiki/Danish_language" title="Danish language">Danish</a> term meaning "stabber", mainly used in relation to <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. During and after the <a href="/wiki/Nazi_occupation_of_Denmark" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi occupation of Denmark">Nazi occupation of Denmark</a> (1940–1945), the word has been used specifically to indicate the Danish whistleblowers, agents, and spies which informed the German secret police, the <a href="/wiki/Gestapo" title="Gestapo">Gestapo</a>, in order to undermine the <a href="/wiki/Danish_resistance_movement" title="Danish resistance movement">Danish resistance movement</a>.</li> <li>stool pigeon or stoolie<sup id="cite_ref-Informer_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Informer-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>tell tale or tell-tale<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>tattle-tale</li> <li>tittle-tattle<sup id="cite_ref-Informer_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Informer-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tout" title="Tout">tout</a> – <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Languages of Northern Ireland">Northern Irish</a> term for an informant, often one who informed on the activities of <a href="/wiki/Outline_of_the_Troubles#Paramilitaries" title="Outline of the Troubles">Irish paramilitary organizations</a> during "<a href="/wiki/The_Troubles" title="The Troubles">the Troubles</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>trick<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turncoat" title="Turncoat">turncoat</a><sup id="cite_ref-Thesaurus.com_synonyms_for_snitch_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thesaurus.com_synonyms_for_snitch-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>weasel<sup id="cite_ref-Thesaurus.com_synonyms_for_snitch_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thesaurus.com_synonyms_for_snitch-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>X9 - A slang term in <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>, possibly inspired by the comic strip <a href="/wiki/Secret_Agent_X-9" title="Secret Agent X-9">Secret Agent X-9</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-abril_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abril-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The term "stool pigeon" originates from the antiquated practice of tying a <a href="/wiki/Passenger_pigeon" title="Passenger pigeon">passenger pigeon</a> to a stool. The bird would flap its wings in a futile attempt to escape. The sound of the wings flapping would attract other pigeons to the stool where a large number of birds could be easily killed or captured.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_notable_individuals">List of notable individuals</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Informant&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: List of notable individuals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Allen" title="Tim Allen">Tim Allen</a>, actor, who was arrested with cocaine and provided the names of other dealers in exchange for a sentence of three to seven years rather than a possible life imprisonment</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicky_Barnes" title="Nicky Barnes">Nicky Barnes</a>, head of <a href="/wiki/The_Council_(drug_syndicate)" title="The Council (drug syndicate)">The Council</a>, which he would later testify against</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitey_Bulger" title="Whitey Bulger">Whitey Bulger</a>, Boston Irish mob boss</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Calabrese" title="Nicholas Calabrese">Nicholas Calabrese</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Made_man" title="Made man">made man</a> who testified against the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Outfit" title="Chicago Outfit">Chicago Outfit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Carey_(Fenian)" title="James Carey (Fenian)">James Carey</a>, Irish terrorist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Flemmi" class="mw-redirect" title="Steve Flemmi">Steve Flemmi</a>, Whitey Bulger's partner-in-crime</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinaloa_Cartel#Arrests_and_seizures" title="Sinaloa Cartel">Flores twins Pedro and Margarito</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicola_Gobbo" title="Nicola Gobbo">Nicola Gobbo</a>, former Australian barrister who provided information on her own clients<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sammy_Gravano" title="Sammy Gravano">Sammy Gravano</a>, former <a href="/wiki/Underboss" title="Underboss">underboss</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Gambino_crime_family" title="Gambino crime family">Gambino crime family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6ix9ine" title="6ix9ine">Daniel Hernandez</a> a.k.a. Tekashi 6ix9ine, American rapper, who <a href="/wiki/Trial_of_the_Nine_Trey_Gangsters" title="Trial of the Nine Trey Gangsters">testified</a> against <a href="/wiki/Nine_Trey_Gangsters" title="Nine Trey Gangsters">Nine Trey Gangsters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Hill" title="Henry Hill">Henry Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lucchese_crime_family" title="Lucchese crime family">Lucchese crime family</a> associate</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Lucas_(drug_dealer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Frank Lucas (drug dealer)">Frank Lucas</a>, New York City drug dealer turned informant</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Massino" title="Joseph Massino">Joseph Massino</a>, the first boss of one of the <a href="/wiki/Five_Families" title="Five Families">Five Families</a> in New York City to <a href="/wiki/Turn_state%27s_evidence" title="Turn state's evidence">turn state's evidence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, author of <a href="/wiki/Orwell%27s_list" title="Orwell's list">Orwell's list</a><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abe_Reles" title="Abe Reles">Abe Reles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Murder,_Inc." title="Murder, Inc.">Murder, Inc.</a> hit man</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freddie_Scappaticci" title="Freddie Scappaticci">Freddie Scappaticci</a>, member of the <a href="/wiki/Provisional_IRA" class="mw-redirect" title="Provisional IRA">Provisional IRA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Valachi" title="Joseph Valachi">Joseph Valachi</a>, soldier of the <a href="/wiki/Genovese_crime_family" title="Genovese crime family">Genovese crime family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salvatore_Vitale" title="Salvatore Vitale">Salvatore Vitale</a>, former underboss of the <a href="/wiki/Bonanno_crime_family" title="Bonanno crime family">Bonanno crime family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Wershe_Jr." title="Richard Wershe Jr.">Richard Wershe Jr.</a> (commonly known as "White Boy Rick"), the youngest FBI informant ever at age 14</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="By_country">By country</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Informant&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: By country"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Russia_and_Soviet_Union">Russia and Soviet Union</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Informant&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Russia and Soviet Union"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A system of informants existed in the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a> and was later adopted by the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, such people were known as <i>osvedomitel</i> or <i>donoschik</i>, and secretly cooperated with law enforcement agencies, such as the <a href="/wiki/Secret_police" title="Secret police">secret-police</a> force <a href="/wiki/Okhrana" title="Okhrana">Okhrana</a> and later the Soviet <a href="/wiki/Militsiya" title="Militsiya">militsiya</a> or <a href="/wiki/KGB" title="KGB">KGB</a>. Officially, those informants were referred to as "secret coworker" (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">секретный сотрудник</span>, <i>sekretny sotrudnik</i>) and often were referred by the Russian-derived <a href="/wiki/Portmanteau" class="mw-redirect" title="Portmanteau">portmanteau</a> <i>seksot</i>. In some KGB documents has also been used the designation "source of operational information" (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">источник оперативной информации</span>, <i>istochnik operativnoi informatsii</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Germany">Germany</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Informant&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Germany"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Unofficial_collaborator" title="Unofficial collaborator">Unofficial collaborator</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poland">Poland</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Informant&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Poland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajny_wsp%C3%B3%C5%82pracownik" class="extiw" title="pl:Tajny współpracownik">pl:Tajny współpracownik</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Venezuela">Venezuela</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Informant&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Venezuela"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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The decade saw the multiplication of <a href="/wiki/Far-left_politics" title="Far-left politics">far-left</a> <a href="/wiki/Terrorism_in_Italy" title="Terrorism in Italy">extra-parliamentary organizations</a>, the presence of a <a href="/wiki/Militant" title="Militant">militant</a> <a href="/wiki/Far-right_politics_in_Italy" class="mw-redirect" title="Far-right politics in Italy">far right movement</a>, and an upsurge in the use of <a href="/wiki/Political_violence" title="Political violence">politically motivated violence</a> and state repressive measures. [...] The early 1980s were characterized by the appearance of the first <i><a href="/wiki/Pentito" title="Pentito">pentiti</a></i> (justice collaborators), waves of arrests and trials, and the incarceration of several hundreds of radical left activists, many of whom were sentenced to very long terms (22 years and over). 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