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Hubert Tully

They were looking for Tully, and seemed to have information provided by an Informer.


A Dying Light in Corduba

Set in Rome and Imperial Spain during the spring and summer of AD 73, A Dying Light in Corduba stars Marcus Didius Falco, Informer and Imperial Agent.

Alfonso Gagliano

In the article, former capo Frank Lino, now an informer for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, is quoted as saying Gagliano was introduced to him during a meeting with other mob members in Montreal.

Andrew Bromwich

Dudgale in revenge turned informer: his intelligence, charm and social standing were a marked contrast to earlier informers like Titus Oates so that even Charles II, a sceptic, " began to think there was somewhat in the Plot".

Anthony Accetturo

In an interview with New York Times writer and Mafia historian Selwyn Raab, Accetturo said he would have never even considered turning informer had Corallo still been running the family.

Bärbel Bohley

After the unification of Germany in 1990 she was involved in several court trials because she publicly proclaimed Gregor Gysi to have been a Stasi informer.

Danger Within

Stalag 17 (similar war film involving an informer inside an American POW camp)

Delator

See Owen J. Blum, OFM Peter Damian Letters 31-60 (Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America, 1990), 49 ("being an informer and delator of my brother's crimes")

Dunked in the Deep

In 1948, Time managing editor Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist spy-turned government informer, accused Alger Hiss of being a member of the Communist Party and a spy for the Soviet Union.

Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick

Howard married Mary Butler, daughter of John Butler (or Boteler) and Elizabeth Villiers, and had two sons, Thomas, 2nd Baron Howard of Escrick, who married Elizabeth Mordaunt, daughter of John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough, and William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Escrick, notorious both as a rebel and as an informer and double agent.

Eli Zeira

In 2004, former Mossad Director-General Zvi Zamir accused Zeira of leaking the identity of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian billionaire who served as a Mossad informer.

Eurico Guterres

At this time Guterres changes from pro-independence to pro-Indonesian alliances, becoming an informer for Kopassus and double agent against the Independence movement until he was expelled around 1990.

George Godsalf

Early in July 1581, Payne and Godsalf were arrested in Warwickshire whilst staying on the estate of Lady Petre (widow of John Petre, 18th Baron Petre), through an informer.

Gerry Patrick Hemming

In an interview that he gave to John M. Newman on January 6, 1995, Hemming claimed that the FBI informer was Steve Wilson.

Giuseppe Calò

In July 1991 the Mafia pentito (a mafioso turned informer) Francesco Marino Mannoia claimed that Roberto Calvi – nicknamed "God's banker" because he was in charge of Banco Ambrosiano, in which the Vatican Bank was the main share-holder – had been killed in 1982 because he had lost Mafia funds when the Banco Ambrosiano collapsed.

Joe Fenton

Joseph Fenton (1953–1989), Northern Ireland estate agent, killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army for acting as an informer

John Talbot of Grafton

It was when passing through Smithfield, London, in July 1580, with Mr. and Mrs. Talbot, that Robert Johnson, the Catholic martyr, was recognized by Sledd, the informer.

La Balance

La Balance (US title: The Nark; literal translation : The Informer) is a 1982 French film directed by Bob Swaim and starring Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Tchéky Karyo, Maurice Ronet and Jean-Paul Comart.

Louis Facciolo

His corpse was left in the trunk of his car with a canary stuffed in his mouth because Casso suspected him of being a government informer.

MC Shan

Despite the fact that he focused more on his production career (like Snow's 12 Inches of Snow, which featured "Informer", on which he appeared) he recorded "Da Bridge 2001" for Nas's 2000 compilation called QB's Finest, which also featured Mobb Deep, Cormega, and Nature.

Nevval Boz

On 1 November 1993 she disappeared, and on 4 November (some sources have other dates) her corpse was found on the highway between Istanbul and Ankara, while the bodies of Cem Ersever and another of his close companions, PKK informer İhsan Hakan, were found elsewhere.

Norman Skelhorn

In 1972, Skelhorn gave bank robber Bertie Smalls, Britain's first true supergrass, immunity from prosecution in light of the amounts and detail of his Queen's evidence.

Paolo Borsellino

On 17 July Borsellino went to Rome where he was told by Gaspare Mutolo, a Mafia member turned informer, of two allegedly corrupt officials: Bruno Contrada former head of Palermo Flying Squad, now working for the secret service (SISDE), and anti-Mafia prosecutor Domeninco Signorino.

Paul Gratzik

In Weimar, in 1962, he was an official in the local Free German Youth and decided to collaborate with the Ministry for State Security (MfS or Stasi) as an informer.

Pedro Tongio Liongson

Tipped by an informer, a detachment including US Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Edgar F. Koehler attacked the village of Tinuba six miles north of Tarlac on March 4, 1900.

Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade

The most senior alleged informer in the Belfast IRA was Freddie Scappaticci, who was the head of the IRA's Internal Security Unit from 1980 to 1990.

R.U.S.E.

The game opens in 1945 as General Sheridan liberates Colditz Castle to free an undercover operative, code named Nightingale, who knows the identity of an Axis informer, code named Prometheus.

Rafik Schami

The story "Als der Angstmacher Angst bekam" ("When the Fear-maker became Afraid") in Der Fliegenmelker takes a malicious delight in the downfall of a government informer, a stock figure in Schami's Damascene fiction.

Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry

He also presided over the supergrass trial in 1983 where Kevin McGrady, a former IRA member, gave evidence which led to the conviction of seven out of ten defendants.

Shahawar Matin Siraj

Over a period of several months in 2004 he was recorded by an FBI informer Osama Eldawoody plotting to plant a bomb in the 34th Street – Herald Square station of the New York City Subway.

They attacked the credibility of the prosecution's lead witness, Osama Eldawoody, on grounds that he was paid a total of $100,000 for his work as an informer, $25,000 of which he received during the year he conversed with Siraj.

Social Democratic Party in the GDR

Ibrahim Böhme was not part of the new government as during the coalition talks he had been unmasked as a long-time informer of the Stasi by the news magazine Der Spiegel.

The Accusers

Set in Ancient Rome between Autumn AD 75 and Spring AD 76, The Accusers features Marcus Didius Falco, Informer and Imperial Agent.

The Virginia Informer

In March 2010, The Virginia Informer celebrated its 5th Anniversary in Miller Hall at the Mason School of Business with guests including Congressman Rob Wittman, William and Mary President W. Taylor Reveley III, Miss Virginia USA 2010 Samantha Casey, Members of Williamsburg City Council, senior business executives, College alumni and faculty, and student leaders.

William Oliver

William J. Oliver, 19th century informer and suspected agent provocateur


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