Word: provocateur
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...witness, Signor Zaniboni's secretary, Signor Carlo Quaglia, who betrayed him to the police, insinuated during the testimony certain remarks about Tito Zaniboni's private life. "Spy! Agent provocateur!" cried Signor Zaniboni, "you lured me on! I swear by all I hold sacred, by my little girl, that you yourself begged the honor of firing a second shot at Mussolini. ... I thought you were a spy till then. Then I believed you! . . . Pig! You shall not attack my morals or my honor or the name of any woman dear...
...dead were Italian, and all the living knew that Italy might intervene under her new treaty with Albania (TIME, Dec. 13) for vengeance. Through the crooked, cobbled, time-stained streets Fear stalked last week, with the numbing rumor that he who fired the first shot was an Italian agent provocateur. Why not? A few more such incidents, and Il Duce can mature his reputed scheme to seize Albania under pretext of "intervention to maintain Albanian sovereignty...
...French police, calmly industrious, continued to investigate. They discovered documents which appeared to brand Colonel Garibaldi as an agent provocateur employed by the Italian Secret Service. His role has been to pose as an anti-Fascist and thus keep his employers informed of what plots were going forward among the Italian and Spanish foes of Dictators Benito Mussolini and Primo de Rivera...
...Michigan state criminal syndicalism law. The prosecution contended that Foster was a member of an organization (the Trade Union Educational League, a subsidiary of the Communist Party) which advocated violence in overthrowing the Government of the United States. The star witness of the prosecution was "K-97," an agent provocateur in the employ of the Burns Detective Agency, who attended the convention as a delegate and turned informer on the defendants. The defense, conducted by Frank P. Walsh, former joint chairman with ex-President Taft of the War Labor Board, attempted to prove that the defendant's advocacy...