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Abdulkareem Khadr

Others of the Khadr family in Canada include his sister Zaynab Khadr and her daughter, his older brothers Abdullah, Abdurahman, who worked as an undercover informant for the CIA in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and in Bosnia before returning to Canada; and Omar Khadr, the last to arrive.

Almighty Black P. Stone Nation

The FBI investigation into Jeff Fort and his El Rukns gang for terrorism was featured in an episode of the The FBI Files entitled "Terror For Sale", such as the gang's purchase of a LAW Rocket (actually a dummy rocket) from an undercover agent posing as an arms dealer.

Archie Comics in popular culture

In the 1985 feature film Police Academy 2, Officer Mahoney goes undercover to infiltrate a gang that is taking over their city.

Art Porter, Jr.

Soon after this, Porter signed with Verve Forecast Records and PolyGram and produced several albums, beginning in the summer of 1992 with Pocket City, followed by Straight to the Point, Undercover, and finally Lay Your Hands On Me.

Arthur Derounian

Florence Mendheim - for a similar but less well-known undercover investigation of the Friends of the New Germany and the German American Bund.

Belmont Tunnel / Toluca Substation and Yard

in the movie Reservoir Dogs as a location where Freddy Newandyke was preparing to go undercover as Mr. Orange.

Bloomingdale Insane Asylum

In 1872, the New York journalist, Julius Chambers, conducted an undercover investigation of the institution by having himself committed with the help of his senior editor and some of his friends.

California State Route 36

On the TV show Lost, during a flashback scene in the episode "Further Instructions," John Locke picks up a hitchhiker who happens to be an undercover police officer on State Route 36.

Capital punishment in Gibraltar

The hangings were carried out by British hangman Albert Pierrepoint, who had travelled undercover to Gibraltar to carry out the executions.

Carmine Agnello

Undercover New York Police Department (NYPD) officers had set up a phony scrap metal business in Willets Point, Queens.

Colm Murphy

He questioned evidence surrounding emails from US undercover agent David Rupert while overturning the judgment on Murphy.

Crimson Viper

Crimson Viper made her debut appearance in the 2008 Street Fighter IV as an American double agent posing as a S.I.N. worker but actually a CIA agent undercover.

Dancing Turtle Group

The company's first production, an undercover documentary called Forgotten Bird of Paradise, was awarded the Best Documentary prize at the 2011 Dam Short Film Festival in the United States.

DeLorean Motor Company

The key element of evidence for the prosecution was a videotape showing DeLorean discussing the drugs deal with undercover FBI agents Benedict (Ben) Tisa and West, although DeLorean's attorney Howard Weitzman successfully demonstrated to the court that he was coerced into participation in the deal by the agents who initially approached him as legitimate investors.

Drug Wars: The Camarena Story

Fact-based story of undercover DEA agent Enrique Camarena (Bauer) who, while stationed in Guadalajara, uncovered a massive marijuana operation in Northern Mexico that led to his death and a remarkable investigation of corruption within the Mexican government.

Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon

One night, an undercover officer named Lin Li (Etsuko Shihomi) follows Chou and infiltrates his drug factory, but she is shot and captured by his henchmen.

Honour Among Thieves

Scott Bradley, a Yale Law professor, who has been working undercover tracking Kopec through Paris, is assigned by the CIA to work with her to recover the document before 4 July.

Isabel Gillies

Prior to her role on SVU, Gillies appeared in "Bad Girl," an episode of the original Law & Order series, playing a young woman who murders an undercover police officer and then undergoes a religious conversion during her trial and is born again.

Jan Wong

In 2006, Wong attracted attention by imitating the work of Barbara Ehrenreich and going undercover as a cleaning lady in wealthy Toronto homes.

Jay Dobyns

Dobyns' exploits as an undercover agent are also memorialized in the novels, "Angels of Death", by Julian Sher and William Marsden, and "Running with the Devil, by Kerrie Droban.

Jeff Bleckner

His most recent project is the pilot for Conspiracy, a potential series for the 2007-08 season, starring Lisa Sheridan as a Washington, D.C. attorney attempting to undercover the secrets of a pharmaceutical company she successfully defended.

Jorge Navarro Suárez

In 2010, Navarro was captured in an undercover video for ABC News during an event of the Council of United States Legislators in Louisville, Kentucky.

Karim Bourti

French journalist Mohamed Sifaoui used his renewal of a childhood acquaintanceship with Bourti as his path to a three month undercover investigation into militant jihadism in France, entitled, "Mes Freres Assassins".

Kerttu Nuorteva

Nuorteva's undercover mission was to work as a trainee cosmetician in a beauty salon in Helsinki.

Kings of South Beach

After an intense undercover investigation, Paciello was arrested on racketeering and murder charges and went on to testify against known members and associates of the Colombo and Bonanno crime families.

Lon Oden

Assisted by Ranger and undercover agent Ernest St. Leon, the Rangers set up surveillance on a mine where the thieves were expected to strike, based on inside information gained by St. Leon.

Lucy Johnston

She has conducted undercover investigations for the newspaper, including one in 2001 where she took a job as a care assistant in Lynde House, a nursing home owned by Westminster Health Care, which was headed by Chai Patel.

Marc Reisner

Game Wars: The Undercover Pursuit of Wildlife Poachers (1992).

Marcelo Ebrard

The city's chief of police, Marcelo Ebrard, and the Federal Secretary of Public Safety, Ramón Huerta, were both accused of not organizing a timely rescue effort when three undercover federal police officers were lynched by a mob in one of the capital's most impoverished suburbs in Tláhuac on November 23, 2004.

Marie Carré

The memoir claimed that he was an undercover agent of the Soviet Union ordered to infiltrate the Catholic Church by becoming a priest and to put forth modernist ideas through a teaching position that would undermine the main teachings of the Church during the Second Vatican Council in subtle ways, by turn of phrase methods.

Martial Law 2: Undercover

Martial Law 2: Undercover (also known as Karate Cop and Martial Law II) is a 1991 martial arts film written by Richard Brandes and Jiles Fitzgerald, produced by Steve Cohen, directed by Kurt Anderson and stars Jeff Wincott, Cynthia Rothrock, Paul Johansson, L. Charles Taylor, Sherrie Rose, and Billy Drago.

Nancy Drew: Warnings at Waverly Academy

Nancy Drew goes undercover as a transfer student named "Becca Sawyer" at the Waverly Academy for Girls, an exclusive boarding school in upstate New York.

Operation Julie

In May 1976, the undercover police moved into a farmhouse in Bronwydd overlooking Kemp's cottage.

Oregon National Primate Research Center

A second, four-month, undercover investigation was conducted in 2007 by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

Peter and Donna Thomas

In 2001, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History featured their work in a show titled "Art Undercover," and in 2010 in a show titled "It’s in the Pulp: The Art of Papermaking in Santa Cruz".

Pirates: The Key of Dreams

The plot sees players, in the role of a navy captain, sent undercover in the Caribbean to retrieve an artifact known as "The Key of Dreams" from notorious pirate Blackbeard.

Quickflight

Quickflight toured through the Mid-West and West Coast of the U.S. and parts of Canada, at several outdoor festivals, playing with a variety of Christian artists who included Steve Taylor, Rez Band, Kerry Livgren, Sheila Walsh, Undercover and Larry Norman.

Roy Nielsen

Operation Derby initially focused on black propaganda directed towards German soldiers, but they also issued the undercover magazine Fritt Land, and distributed the bi-weekly magazine Håndslag (produced in Sweden) and the monthly magazine Det frie Norge (from the Norwegian government in London).

Sahila Chadha

She also played cameos in Aunty No1 (1998), and the Shahrukh Khan starrer One 2 Ka 4 (2001), where she played an undercover cop.

Santa Cruz massacre

The massacre was witnessed by two American journalists—Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn (who were also attacked)—and caught on videotape by Max Stahl, who was filming undercover for Yorkshire Television.

Soldier of Fortune, Inc.

David Eigenberg - Nick Delvecchio (former DEA Special Operations GS-13; undercover operations, escape artist)

Ten Tall Men

After capturing an important Rif prisoner in an undercover operation, Sergeant Mike Kincaid is imprisoned himself after striking a Lieutenant (Stephan Bekassy) who beats a French woman (Mari Blanchard) with his riding crop after she prefers Kincaid's company to his.

The Lawless Nineties

Set in the 1890s, undercover federal agents John Tipton (John Wayne) and Bridger (Lane Chandler) heads for Crocket City Wyoming to supervise the vote on whether to join the Union.

The Stardroppers

The Stardroppers is about an undercover United Nations agent investigating a new fad, "stardropping", whereby physics-violating equipment is used to listen to sounds believed to be alien or paranormal signals.

The Undercover Economist

The Undercover Economist (ISBN 0-19-518977-9) (ISBN 0345494016) is a book by Tim Harford published in 2005 by Little, Brown.

Wheelman

The protagonist, Milo Burik (a digitized Vin Diesel), is an undercover agent whose assignment is to work along with a gang in Barcelona planning the biggest heist of their career.

Wild Goose Café

In 2009 a donation of £125,000 was made by Dawn Gibbins after she worked 'undercover' at the Goose as part of the The Secret Millionaire television program.

Wild Rebels

The film starred Steve Alaimo as Rod Tillman, a stock car driver that goes undercover as the wheel man for a motorcycle gang.

Zoe Telford

Telford has appeared in several series, including as Eva Braun in Hitler: The Rise of Evil, as Anna Klein in Criminal Justice, as Marianne Swift, a freelance Daily Mail journalist in The Thick of It, as an undercover police officer in Ashes to Ashes, as Sarah, a doctor and Dr. Watson's romantic interest, in Sherlock.


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