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[–] 18656352? ago 

I used to have some material a long time ago regarding this, and it was more detailed than I can summarize here, but here are a few good tips.

There are basically two types of infiltrators, if we're talking law enforcement. Either they are actually law enforcement officers acting under cover, or they are informants. Usually the informant is someone that has got caught up in the legal system, and is now making a deal with the government to rat on people in exchange for leniency. Strategies and tactics for unmasking them will likely be different, and some advice I will give you will apply more towards one than the other.

One of the easiest things you can do is to get them to bring you to where they claim to live. Agents typically have nearly empty houses. They don't actually live there, it's just a safe house. You'll notice a surprising lack of living items. Check the medicine cabinet; people who really live in a place will fairly quickly fill it up with all kinds of junk. If you look in their bathroom and you didn't even see toothpaste or shampoo/soap, you know the person doesn't actually use the place for daily hygiene, and hence they are an agent. But even then, there should be lots and lots of stuff there, not just the bare essentials.

Another thing you can do is meet their family. If you request to actually meet their family, and they are hesitant, it's almost a sure-fire sign they are agents. The FBI isn't going to go through the trouble of hiring a bunch of fake actors to pretend to be the person's family, so they're just going to refuse, or have a convenient story about them living somewhere else, or being dead, or potentially even admitting to being adopted (this is because they're trying to get ahead of you, to explain why the people they're telling you are their family look nothing like them). In this day and age, you might even be able to get by with simply social-media stuff, but I wouldn't announce to them beforehand what you're doing if you go this route.

Another good one is the job. An undercover law enforcement officer's job is doing what they are doing, and hence they have no other day job to actually go to (this might not be the case with an informant, however). A refusal to let you visit them on the job should be treated with even more suspicion than not being able to meet the family. Anyone who claims to be independently wealthy and doesn't need a job should also be suspect, as well as people inbetween jobs. If they say they're looking for work, offer to help them get a job, see what they do.

These are the major tells, but there is also a lot of other things that should give a person away. People who insist on access to things like membership lists are probably the most obvious. Contrary to what many would think, advocating violence isn't something agents do .Though an informant wanting to quickly get out of being around you might want to do this, a law enforcement officer is going to want to ride out their assignment as long as possible. This has been known for awhile; FBI agents making up shit about their targets, simply to inflate their danger level, in order to keep them from having to do real work.

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[–] 18657024? ago 

If you request to actually meet their family, and they are hesitant, it's almost a sure-fire sign they are agents.

Yeah, nah. Even if this was nothing but a D&D group I'd tell you to fuck off if you asked to meet my family.

Asking that is a sign that YOU are the infiltrator.

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[–] 18656359? ago 

Contrary to what many would think, advocating violence isn't something agents do

They might pay you to saw off some shotguns, though.