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1. www.msn.com › en-us › newsThe FBI Agent and Informant Behind Fred Hampton’s Murder - MSN

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   J. Edgar Hoover, however, would not be the only FBI director to commend Special Agent Mitchell for a killing in which his informant was a key player. In 1975, Eloise Beard, the sister of Jeff ...

2. theintercept.com › 2024/03/06 › gretchen-whitmerThe FBI’s Double Agent

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   Mar 6, 2024 · When FBI agents feared their informant might reveal the investigation’s flaws, they sought to coerce him into silence, at one point telling him: “A saying we have in my office is, ‘Don’t let the...

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4. fictionhorizon.com › the-true-story-behind-theThe True Story Behind ‘The Informant,’ Explained

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   Dec 12, 2023 · Whitacre initially agreed to act as an informant for the FBI, but it was eventually discovered that during the ongoing investigation, he embezzled millions of dollars. As such, he was also charged and sentenced to Federal prison, being released after serving eight and a half years on good behavior.

5. the-line-up.com › above-suspicionThe Story of the FBI Agent Who Strangled His Informant

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   Dec 7, 2018 · Above Suspicion: The Disturbing Story of the FBI Agent Who Strangled His Informant. After strangling his informant—who was pregnant with his child—Mark Putnam became the first active FBI agent convicted of murder.

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   Did FBI informants ham-fisted to discuss plots to harm elected officials?

   • The gun anecdote is emblematic of the larger sting: The FBI’s informants were ham-fistedly encouraging their targets to discuss plots to harm elected officials. Those efforts reached farcical levels on September 12, 2020, during a meeting and training exercises in Luther.

   The FBI’s Double Agent

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   Did FBI informants take illegal gun?

   • Plunk, the other FBI informant, took the illegal gun instead. The following month, two undercover FBI agents and three FBI informants — Robeson, Chappel, and Plunk — gathered for another training event in Luther, Michigan, with around 26 others, including Croft from Delaware and Fox from Michigan.

   The FBI’s Double Agent

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   Why does the FBI use cooperators and informants?

   • The FBI has used cooperators and informants since its founding. Historically, such people have worked ad hoc for the Bureau to escape legal jeopardy, or for pay or for country, developing evidence that is critical to investigations and prosecutions.

   The FBI's Troubling History With Confidential Informants | TIME

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   Are FBI agents playing fast and loose?

   • Over the decades, some FBI agents developed a pattern of playing fast and loose with these resources, authorizing cooperators and informants to commit crimes or entrap investigative targets. Such indiscretions drew rounds of Congressional and Department of Justice censure restricting the FBI’s use of outside help.

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   Jun 7, 2023 · Agents encourage CHSs to lead double lives, to deceive. A CHS is meant to shield the truth from FBI targets while revealing the truth to FBI agents.

8. www.history.com › news › whitey-bulger-fbi-informantHow Whitey Bulger Manipulated the FBI Into Locking Up His ...

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   Nov 1, 2018 · The notorious gangster was recruited as an FBI informant. It turned it out that corrupt FBI agents were the ones informing him. By: Christopher Klein. Updated: July 25, 2019 | Original:...

9. www.washingtonexaminer.com › news › 2867706Fact-checking spin surrounding the ex-FBI informant arrested ...

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   Feb 22, 2024 · “When he was interviewed by FBI agents in September 2023, Smirnov repeated some of his false claims, changed his story as to other of his claims, and promoted a new false narrative after he...