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The ideal informant (INF) was a native and lifelong resident from an old local family, someone without much exposure to the outside world, who spoke regularly and familiarly with community members of all social ranks and occupations, who could remember precisely how all of them talked about their social, domestic, economic, and natural environments, and who would donate ten to twenty hours of free time to transmit all this information.
He defected and became a star informant for the United States.
Another time, I was able to keep an informant only because I was an outsider; she realized she should make allowances for my ignorance.
The story also has the most details from the trial evidence, such as running quotes from Markhasev's jailhouse letters to another inmate, in which he says that he went to kill a drug dealer who wasn't home and then came upon Ennis Cosby fixing a flat tire, and details about how the informant who turned Markhasev in to get a $100,000 National Enquirer reward testified that the defendant told him he'd killed Cosby.
In the Ernest Baughman Collection at the University of New Mexico Library, an informant narrates being told by her grandfather in Tesuque, New Mexico, about La Mano Negra.