The authorities receiving the report shall keep confidential the relevant information of the informant, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of the informant.

接受举报的机关应当对举报人的相关信息予以保密，保护举报人的合法权益。

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Now that often is shorthand for trying to protect an informant, but at the time nobody really suspected that the agent was going to turn out as Mr. Donaldson.

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