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Historically, labor spies, hired to infiltrate, monitor, disrupt, or subvert union activities, have used agent provocateur tactics. Agent provocateur activities raise ethical and legal issues. In common law jurisdictions, the legal concept of entrapment may apply if the main impetus for the crime was the provocateur.
A federal agent (also known as a special agent, federal police officer, or federal operative) is an employee of an agency or branch of the federal government, typically one responsible for investigating organized crime and terrorism, handling matters of domestic or national security, and who practices espionage, such as the FBI, CIA, NSA, or MI5.
A person who commits espionage is called an espionage agent or spy. [1] Any individual or spy ring (a cooperating group of spies), in the service of a government, company, criminal organization, or independent operation, can commit espionage. The practice is clandestine, as it is by definition unwelcome.
Agent Provocateur was established in 1994 after Serena Rees, Corré's wife and co-founder, grew tired of seeing drab undergarments. [4] The couple opened a shop in which they originally sold other designers' pieces.
Robert Poley, or Pooley (fl. 1568– aft. 1602) was an English double agent, government messenger and agent provocateur employed by members of the Privy Council during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; he was described as "the very genius of the Elizabethan underworld". [1]
Provocation, provoke or provoked may refer to: . Provocation (legal), a type of legal defense in court which claims the "victim" provoked the accused's actions Agent provocateur, a (generally political) group that tries to goad a desired response from the group or otherwise disrupt its activity
While the use of informers had become routine on the part of magistrates during the Luddite period, the practice was regarded by a wide section of public opinion as being alien to the spirit of English law, and the exposure in the Leeds Mercury of Oliver’s role, as an agent provocateur, astounded public opinion.
We again offer our own definition of Agent Provocateur below. Please consider accepting this as the base definition. An agent provocateur is a person assigned to provoke the awakening of a new order within a group. This assignment can be either covert or overt and represents predominately the interests of others, outside the group.