Agent provocateur
An agent provocateur (French for "provoking or inciting agent") is a person who incites another person to commit an illegal or rash act or who falsely implicates them in partaking in an illegal act, so as to ruin the reputation or cause legal action against the target or a group he belongs to.
In some cases, the person provoked may be able to prove entrapment, whereby a law enforcement agent induces a person to commit a criminal offense that the person would have otherwise been unlikely or unwilling to commit, using this as a defense against criminal iiability. However, in a sting operation, a deceptive operation designed to catch a person committing a crime, the deception is often not considered to have risen to the level of entrapment.
Agent provocateurs have notably been used during demonstrations or other public gatherings, such as by anti-union agent provocateurs.
See also
Claimed examples
- Anti-Defamation League
- COINTELPRO
- Combat 18
- Greensboro massacre
- Hate crime: Fake hate crimes and fake anti-Semitism
- Matthew F. Hale
- National Socialist Underground
- Ray Hill
- Searchlight
- SPLC: Private intelligence gathering, infiltration, and reliance on by government agencies
- Stasi
- The Base
External links
- America’s Emerging Totalitarian Left Is Routing “Liberal Democracy.” Where Is Trump? - Including links on leftists criticizing methods such as stated entrapment when used against Blacks and Muslims, but criticizing that not even more extreme methods than those already used are used against Whites.
