Applebaum contends that the explosion of apparent support for Moldovan students and other protesters (10,000 + people showed up when only around a thousand were expected) was at least in part due to the work of agents provocateurs, who also led or pushed the protesters to break into government offices and plant a Romanian flag on the parliament building (Romania is apparently the national bugbear for pro-Russian Moldovans). (epolitics.com)
John Chisholm returns as agent provocateur with this classic: What I would do if I ran a 20th - century law firm in the 21st - century. (remakinglawfirms.com)
There are also geo - political reasons for the recent violence — long - enmity to the West, economic and social unrest, and agent provocateurs in the Muslim world who are trying to destablise the new Arab leadership. (politics.co.uk)