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title: "Agent provocateur"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T15:21:29.284720+00:00"
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instance: "kb-cron"
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=== United States ===
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In the United States, the COINTELPRO of the Federal Bureau of Investigation included FBI agents posing as political activists to disrupt the activities of political groups in the U.S., such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the American Indian Movement, and the Ku Klux Klan.
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The American Civil Liberties Union requested an investigation of Denver Police at the 2008 Democratic National Convention where undercover officers allegedly staged a struggle with uniformed police to be removed from the crowd of protestors, which prompted another uniformed officer to use pepper spray.
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A New York City police officer undercover in a 2013 motorcycle rally was sentenced to two years in prison in 2015 for second-degree assault, coercion, riot and criminal mischief for their participation in the gang assault of a man driving an SUV with his family, which had hit a motorcyclist and continued driving.
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== Internet ==
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The internet has been utilized for information warfare, with many internet trolls acting as agents provocateurs by disseminating certain propaganda. Such tactics are used to further the interests of countries, corporations, and political movements.
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== See also ==
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Astroturfing – Public relations tactic using fake grassroots movements
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Bad-jacketing – Planting doubt on an individual's bona fides or identity
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COINTELPRO – Series of covert and illegal projects by the FBI
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Covert interrogation – Interrogation Techniques
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Denial and deception – Framework in military intelligence theory
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Entrapment – Legal doctrine
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False flag – Covert operation designed to deceive
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Fifth column – Group of people who undermine a larger group from within
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Informant – Person who provides information
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Internet troll – Deliberately making offensive remarks onlinePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
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Outside agitators – American political term of disparagementPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
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Ratfucking – American slang term for political sabotage, especially relating to elections
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Security – Degree of resistance to, or protection from, harm
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Sting operation – Deceptive way to catch a person committing a crime
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Agents provocateurs
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Umbrella man (Minneapolis riots) – Aftermath of local civil unrest following murder of an unarmed black manPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
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Grant Bristow – Canadian spy (born 1958)
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Brandon Darby – American Conservative activist and blogger
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Mark Kennedy (police officer) – British former undercover police officer
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Bob Lambert (undercover police officer) – UK police officer & academic (1952-)
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Terry Norman – American photographer
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== References ==
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Belyaeva et al. (2007) published by OSCE's, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Alternative version
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== External links ==
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The dictionary definition of agent provocateur at Wiktionary |