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The phrase "a state agent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an individual who works on behalf of a government or state, often in a law enforcement or regulatory capacity.
Example: "The investigation was led by a state agent who specialized in financial crimes."
Alternatives: "government agent" or "public agent".
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The other deputy was convicted of public records fraud and perjury, and the nurse was convicted of making a false statement to a state agent.
"Being able to attribute it to a state agent is technically difficult but there is some evidence that this is at least tolerated or desired by the state".
After the latest assertions, however, the case shifted to a far more ominous plane — the alleged state killing of a state agent, a conspiracy on foreign soil, a throwback to the Cold War.
In February 1863, a state agent named Henry Perkins wrote the legislature that he had taken the "negroes" who "were captured … in Galveston" to the penitentiary at Huntsville, where they were "now at work for the state".
He called his client's case "very simple", and added: "The British Government knows whether there is a state agent known as Stakeknife and whether Mr Scappaticci is that person.
Sir Hugh Orde, the Northern Ireland chief constable, has been challenged to investigate the role of a state agent in a gang suspected of killing financial adviser Geoff Kerr.
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The less obvious factor in all of this is the Kremlin's view that Assad, as a state agent, is at the very least a known quantity.
Two police officers and a second state agent arrived and helped subdue Mr. Gibson, kneeling on his back.
The allegations over the death of Denis Donaldson were made by an anonymous man, named only as Martin, who claimed he was also a paid state agent in the IRA, to BBC Northern Ireland's Spotlight programme.
One of the main abusers of boys at the home – William McGrath, dubbed "The Beast of Kincora" – was an alleged state agent who had been blackmailed into informing on other extreme Ulster loyalists during the early 1970s.
Footage shows at least one police officer firing a gun several times, though it was unclear if he was a federal or state agent.
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