1.   One of the witnesses was a paid informant for the FBI.

2.   The police were alerted to the plot by a paid informant.

3.   A Washington Post report that Ramirez was also a paid informant for the U.S. CIA has caused a stir in Colombia.

4.   But he stopped short of an outright denial that Alpirez as an individual may have been a paid informant of the CIA.

5.   Constant, who secretly served as a paid informant for the CIA, entered the United States last Christmas Eve under a tourist visa.

6.   Deutch also pledged to set new standards for selecting station chiefs, who run CIA posts overseas, and for choosing its paid informants.

7.   Fadeley was a paid informant for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

8.   He said the CIA would fully report human-rights abuses by its paid informants, and sever relations with such sources if necessary.

9.   His supplier lives the high life as a paid informant.

10.   In the end experts say what counts is how much the prosecutor relies on the account of the paid informant.