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Henri Bint was an agent of the French Sûreté Nationale and later of the Russian Okhrana.

Bint, originally from Alsace, was hired by Pyotr Rachkovsky in 1885 to join the Okhrana after a decade of service with the Sûreté. He frequently used mistresses as a means of gathering information, which on one occasion in La Spezia, Italy, caused friction between the Okhrana and the Italian police. Bint was dismissed by the Okhrana twice (in the words of the CIA, for "indecorous relations with the fair sex"), but both times was re-hired due to the quality of information relating to the Russian nobility he was able to acquire.

His ability to use women as gatherers of intelligence came to an end in 1911 when a colleague, with whom he had shared tactics and mistresses, defected to join Vladimir Burtsev's revolutionary counterintelligence organisation. Bint's own methods were used against him soon after when he was called to Saint Petersburg and left behind his partner, Lea Chauvin. Bint tried to end the relationship but Chauvin refused to leave his apartment and had to be ordered to leave by the police. Chauvin was then contacted by Bint's former colleague, and was persuaded to become an agent of Burtsev's organisation. However Chauvin also visited the chief of the Paris Okhrana, who gave her 500 francs to keep quiet about Bint's throwing her out on the street and, hoping to earn more, also told him about Burtsev and offered the Okhrana her services. Chauvin continued to work as a double agent until the outbreak of World War I, with Bint as her case officer.

A similar plan failed again in 1913 when Bint employed Liubov Burtsev, a Parisian associate of revolutionaries who had been planted by Burtsev. When Julia's allegiances were revealed and she was dismissed she threatened to sue Bint and expose him in the press; however the Paris Okhrana reassured headquarters that she could not have accessed information about the Okhrana, or shared information about Bint apart from that relating to their relationship.

Also in 1913, the Paris Okhrana was officially closed following pressure from socialist and radical deputies in the National Assembly. However its operations continued under the banner of the Agence Bint et Sambain, a private detective agency of which Bint was a proprietor. Bint remained one of the Okhrana's principle investigators in Paris until World War I, during which he was stationed in Switzerland and imprisoned in 1917.