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The federal government has significantly expanded undercover operations in recent years, with officers from at least 40 agencies posing as business people, welfare recipients, political protesters and even doctors or ministers to ferret out wrongdoing, records and interviews show.

At the Supreme Court, small teams of undercover officers dress as students at large demonstrations outside the courthouse and join the protests to look for suspicious activity, according to officials familiar with the practice.

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Read a book with an undercover agent...

link to catalog: no angel by Jay Dobyns
link to catalog: American Radical by tamer elnoury
link to catalog: Geiger by Gustaf Skordeman
link to firekeeper's daughter by angeline boulley
link to the catalog: The cover wife by Dan Fesperman
link to catalog: Donnie Brasco by Joesph D. Pistone

Watch a movie with an undercover agent...

link to the movie training day in the catalog
link to the movie reservoir dogs in the catalog
link to kindergarten cop in the catalog
link to the movie white heat in the catalog
link to the movie the fast and the furious in the catalog
link to the movie departed in the catalog

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