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agent provocateur
(redirected from Agents provocateur)

   Also found in: Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.03 sec.
See: catalyst, conspirer


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Its announced intent is to help federal authorities enforce existing laws, and its approach of reporting illegal activity to authorities is more akin to neighborhood watches, though there is the danger that agents provocateurs could attempt acts of violence for the purpose of discrediting the group.
Though often dismissed as an erratic flibbertigibbet, Jean Cocteau was one of the twentieth century's great agents provocateurs.
They hinted that the perpetrators were agents provocateurs paid by the police.
 
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