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Informer

Battus

revealed theft by Mercury; turned to touchstone. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Walsh Classical, 47]

Cenci, Count Francesco

old libertine ravishes his daughter Beatrice. [Br. Lit.: Shelley The Cenci; Magill I, 131]

Chambers, Whittaker

(1901–1961) chief witness in perjury trial of Alger Hiss (1949). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 501]

Dean, John W., III

(1938— ) chief witness and informer against Nixon in the Watergate hearings. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2939]

Judas Iscariot

led armed band to Gethsemane and showed them which one was Jesus. [N.T.: Matthew 26:46–50; Mark 14:42–45; Luke 22:47–48; John 18:1–8]

Morgan le Fay

reveals Lancelot and Guinevere’s affair to Arthur. [Arthurian Legend: Harvey, 559]

Nolan, Gypo

betrays friend to police for subsistence money. [Irish Lit.: The Informer]

Peachum, Mr.

informer and fence for stolen goods. [Br. Lit.: The Beggar’s Opera]

Teresa, Vincent

wrote a book in which he revealed inner workings of the Mafia. [Am. Lit.: My Life in the Mafia]

Valachi, Joe

(1903–1971) New York gangster who revealed the inner operations of the Mafia. [Am. Hist.: Facts (1971), 436]