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The FBI’s primary target was out of commission, but Gentile was still on the hook: The bureau wanted him to continue informing on others. (Bloomberg)

Exposing Collaborators: why ordinary people inform on others in repressive times - Barbora Hola and Mark Drumbl (University of Leeds, SCHOOL OF LAW EVENT, WEDNESDAY 30 JUNE 2021)

He fled Uzbekistan after he says the country's security service kidnapped and tortured him, to try to force him to act as an informer. (BBC News)

Lawyer Nicola Gobbo noted that she had been intimidated by police to act as an informer after she was caught with drugs as a law student in the 1990s. (Daily Mail)