One's an awareness. I will admit that we've been using two terms: agents and proxies. The definitions we've been using are that an agent would be the organized crime group that's doing the work on behalf of consular officials and the Government of India, and proxies are more people within the community who are sometimes recruited and, sometimes, probably being engaged without even knowing it. It's doing a simple task—“Did you see that person?” or “What's the address of the person's residence?”—but without even knowing it. Some could have been coerced into doing it because of threats to their family or to their lives.
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