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  • Executives at Renault are acknowledging that, while the case isn't completely closed, they haven't been able to verify the informer's main charges.

    Fear, Distraction at Renault John Bussey 2011

  • Some are assigned James Bond-style code numbers, which they use instead of their real names when they ring a special informer's hotline.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • In addition, Hegland also discussed how Mohammed al-Tumani had been ensnared by the informer's lies, as I explained in an article in 2007:

    Andy Worthington: Who Are the Two Syrians Released From Guantanamo to Portugal? 2009

  • For 44 days, the FBI searched creeks and thickets all across Neshoba County until an informer's tip led them to an earthen dam where the three men were buried.

    The Ghosts Of Mississippi 2008

  • I went back to the Elephant, learned that Helena had gone shopping, and fell back on an informer's honest standby. writing up my notes.

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

  • Ah! there's no ring to preserve you from the informer's bite.

    Plutus 2000

  • McPherson said he took the informer's battered briefcase, which he claimed was well known at the ANC headquarters, and arranged to have a bomb fitted in it.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • My fine informer's intuition told me that an order had been given to reject any tired lag who called himself Didius Falco.

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

  • The allegations include claims that kickbacks were paid to an anti-corruption unit captain from an informer's fees and that the same captain was present at drug buys.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Reacting to a Johannesburg Afrikaans daily newspaper's report that there was a second list of informer's names in national security branch commissioner Leonard Radu's suitcase when he was killed in a car accident, Carolus said: "We have no knowledge of a second list of names."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

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