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agent provocateur

person who commits or who acts to entice another person to commit an illegal or rash act
Class type of: spy Q392752
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Summary

agent provocateur is an activity[1].

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: spy[2]
  • Significant event: Operation Trust[3], COINTELPRO[4], 2004 Republican National Convention protest activity[5], 2008 Democratic National Convention[6]
  • Facet of: strategy of tension[7]
  • Described by source: Nordisk familjebok[8], Otto's encyclopedia[9]
  • Has characteristic: operational cover[10]
  • Different from: Prowokator[11]
  • Uses: entrapment[12]
  • Significant person: Eugène François Vidocq[13], Jacob Zhitomirsky[14], Yevno Azef[15], Roman Malinovsky[16], Dmitry Bogrov[17], Hermann Goedsche[18]
  • Significant place: Russian Empire[19]

Related Entities

Eugène François Vidocq Russian Empire

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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    Significant person → Eugène François Vidocq, Jacob Zhitomirsky, Yevno Azef +3
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