Deadly Alliance: The Fbi's Secret Partnership With the Mob

by Ranalli, Ralph

• ISBN13: 9780380811939
• ISBN10: 0380811936
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-13
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

<P>It was the brainchild of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover: the Top Echelon Informant Program. Under its protective umbrella, dangerous felons were courted and coddled and given free reign to commit the worst crimes imaginable in exchange for damning insider information about the bosses of organized crime. Dangerous conmen and sociopaths, like South Boston's James "Whitey" Bulger, became Bureau-supported criminals kingpins, indulging in robbery, extortion, even murder under the eyes of the FBI. Only now, forty years after the program was first conceived, is the true story of blood and madness being told and an account made of the bodies left in its wake.<P>A prize-winning Boston journalist, Ralph Ranalli now exposes a shocking history of corruption, terror, and violence born of an unholy collusion between America's top law enforcement agency and some of the worst criminal psychopaths ever to victimize an unwary nation.

Table of Contents

Key Figures	xiii
Foreword	1	(7)
Author's Note	8	(1)
With Impunity	9	(31)
Top Echelon	40	(34)
Dark Alliance	74	(26)
The Bulger Connection	100	(31)
The New Untouchables	131	(25)
Justifiable Homicide	156	(57)
Paying the Devil's Due	213	(51)
Fidelity First, Integrity Last	264	(57)
Coming Undone	321	(28)
Turnabout	349	(39)
Epilogue: Justice in the Balance	388	(20)
Glossary of Key Terms	408	(2)
Partial List of Sources	410	(3)
Select Bibliography	413