155Ī confidential informant differs from two other categories of sources. Finally, we provide our analysis and recommendations based on those findings, our surveys and interviews, and the results of more than 40 FBI Inspection Division audits of field office Criminal Informant Programs.Īccording to the Confidential Informant Guidelines, a confidential informant or 'CI' is 'any individual who provides useful and credible information to a Justice Law Enforcement Agency (JLEA) regarding felonious criminal activities and from whom the JLEA expects or intends to obtain additional useful and credible information regarding such activities in the future.' 154 The Guidelines do not apply to the use of confidential informants in foreign intelligence or foreign counterintelligence investigations or to informants operating outside the United States in connection with extraterritorial criminal investigations (unless the informant is likely to be called to testify in a domestic case). We then describe the results of our compliance review of informant files in 12 FBI field offices. We also describe the requirements of the Confidential Informant Guidelines and the May 2002 revisions to the Guidelines. In this chapter we discuss the role of confidential informants in FBI investigations and the rewards and risks associated with their operation. Regarding the Use of Confidential Informants

Chapter Three: The Attorney General's Guidelines

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