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Under and Alone [1] [2] is a book written by undercover ATF agent William Queen and published by Random House in 2005 which chronicles his infiltration of the violent outlaw motorcycle gang, the Mongols.
The undercover operative pays the suspect appreciable money for petty tasks, such as counting cash or making deliveries, associated with fictitious criminal activity. As these tasks grow in importance and frequency, the suspect is treated as an "up-and-comer" in a criminal organization .
Reference to the secret police of Nazi Germany, also called the Gestapo. Ghetto Bird US, derogatory, slang for a police helicopter patrolling over ghettos. Glina Polish for clay, widespread and non-derogatory term used for all police officers but specifically for higher-ranking or criminal police personnel. Glowie
To go "undercover" (that is, to go on an undercover operation) is to avoid detection by the object of one's observation, and especially to disguise one's own identity (or use an assumed identity) for the purposes of gaining the trust of an individual or organization in order to learn or confirm confidential information, or to gain the trust of ...
An agent provocateur (French for 'inciting agent') is a person who actively entices another person to commit a crime that would not otherwise have been committed and then reports the person to the authorities.
Private detectives can perform surveillance work on behalf of individuals Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous fictional private investigator. A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, an inquiry agent or informally a private dick is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services.
A second undercover operative met him in the street and claimed to be a Russian intelligence officer named "Irina" who had been deployed to play the role of a GRU officer investigating whether Dmitry had been giving the UK information that had been potentially damaging to Russia. Smith, covertly recorded, told Irina that he needed to speak to ...
Operation Greylord was an investigation conducted jointly by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Chicago Police Department Internal Affairs Division and the Illinois State Police into corruption in the judiciary of Cook County, Illinois (the Chicago jurisdiction).