CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS
Long before Islamic terrorists thought to “hijack” commercial aircraft in the United States, FBI agents were trained to collect intelligence and conduct investigations using Confidential Informants and/or Cooperating Witnesses. To be considered “fully successful,” FBI agents are typically told they need to recruit, develop, and/or operate at least one Confidential Informant and/or Cooperating Witness because they are considered essential tools for combating crime and collecting intelligence.
While Confidential Informants can be hard to develop, tough to monitor and even more difficult to control, most senior law enforcement personnel will agree a “good” Confidential Informant can short-circuit any investigation—allowing authorities to make an arrest sometimes only hours after a crime has been committed. Aside from identifying a suspect, a Confidential Informant can also locate witnesses and recover property.
But operating a Confidential Informant and/or Cooperating Witness can be a daunting task, since many live troubled lives, are addicted to alcohol and/or drugs, and/or over time experience frequent “adversarial” contact with police. And not properly monitored, controlled, and/or corroborated—left unchecked—a Confidential Informant and/or Cooperating Witness can fabricate evidence and/or make a false statement leaving some academics to question their use, particularly if promised money or a light jail sentence.
Considered an expert working with Confidential Informants and Cooperating Witnesses, Mr. WEDICK has testified many times for the government and over the years his assistance has been sought not only by field agents, but by executives at FBIHQ seeking to improve “intelligence” collection in the United States. If you think you and/or your client might benefit from someone with his credentials—someone intimately familiar with the FBI using Confidential Informants and/or Cooperating Witnesses—he suggests you make contact with him so that you can discuss your case. Likewise, if you suspect your client was “entrapped” because a Confidential Informant and/or Cooperating Witness “suggested” and/or “proposed” material aspects of a charged criminal conspiracy and/or, maybe, a case agent violated Justice Department Guidelines concerning the FBI’s use of a Confidential Informant, he suggests you make contact with him and/or send a brief email detailing your request and he’ll get back to you as soon as he can.
