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Whitey & the FBI | Part 1: Crossing the line

Agent, mobster forge a pact on old Southie ties

Globe Spotlight Team

  July 19, 1998

Lining up Whitey Bulger as an informant was surely a coup in the FBI’s crusade against the local Mafia. But the arrangement would veer wildly off track.

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