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For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked in

controversy and mystery as the Federal Witness Protection Program.

Now, for the first time, Gerald Shur, the man credited with the

creation of WITSEC, teams with acclaimed investigative journalist

Pete Earley to tell the inside story of turncoats, crime-fighters,

killers, and ordinary human beings caught up in a life-and-death

game of deception in the name of justice.

WITSEC

Inside the Federal Witness Protection

Program

When the government was losing the war on organized crime in the

early 1960s, Gerald Shur, a young attorney in the Justice

Department’s Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, urged the

department to entice mobsters into breaking their code of silence

with promises of protection and relocation. But as high-ranking mob

figures came into the program, Shur discovered that keeping his

witnesses alive in the face of death threats involved more than

eradicating old identities and creating new ones. It also meant

cutting off families from their pasts and giving new identities to

wives and children, as well as to mob girlfriends and

mistresses.

It meant getting late-night phone calls from protected witnesses

unable to cope with their new lives. It meant arranging funerals,

providing financial support, and in one instance even helping a

mobster’s wife get breast implants. And all too often it meant odds

that a protected witness would return to what he knew

best–crime.

In this book Shur gives a you-are-there account of infamous

witnesses, from Joseph Valachi to “Sammy the Bull” Gravano to “Fat

Vinnie” Teresa, of the lengths the program goes to to keep its

charges safe, and of cases that went very wrong and occasionally

even protected those who went on to kill again.

He describes the agony endured by innocent people who found

themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended up in a

program tailored to criminals. And along with Shur’s war stories,

WITSEC draws on the haunting words of one mob wife, who vividly

describes her life of lies, secrecy, and loss inside the

program.

A powerful true story of the inner workings of one of the most

effective and controversial weapons in the war against organized

crime and the inner workings of organized crime itself–and more

recently against Colombian drug dealers, outlaw motorcycle gang

members, white-collar con men, and international terrorists–this

book takes us into a tense, dangerous twilight world carefully

hidden in plain sight: where the family living next door might not

be who they say they are. . .

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PETE EARLEY is the author of Family of Spies, The Hot

House, Super Casino, and Circumstantial Evidence,

an Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime.

GERALD SHUR, now retired, was the founder and longtime head of

WITSEC. Both live near Washington, D.C.

From the Hardcover edition.

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书籍介绍

For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked in controversy and mystery as the Federal Witness Protection Program. Now, for the first time, Gerald Shur, the man credited with the creation of WITSEC, teams with acclaimed investigative journalist Pete Earley to tell the inside story of turncoats, crime-fighters, killers, and ordinary human beings caught up in a life-and-death game of deception in the name of justice.

WITSEC

Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program

When the government was losing the war on organized crime in the early 1960s, Gerald Shur, a young attorney in the Justice Department’s Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, urged the department to entice mobsters into breaking their code of silence with promises of protection and relocation. But as high-ranking mob figures came into the program, Shur discovered that keeping his witnesses alive in the face of death threats involved more than eradicating old identities and creating new ones. It also meant cutting off families from their pasts and giving new identities to wives and children, as well as to mob girlfriends and mistresses.

It meant getting late-night phone calls from protected witnesses unable to cope with their new lives. It meant arranging funerals, providing financial support, and in one instance even helping a mobster’s wife get breast implants. And all too often it meant odds that a protected witness would return to what he knew best–crime.

In this book Shur gives a you-are-there account of infamous witnesses, from Joseph Valachi to “Sammy the Bull” Gravano to “Fat Vinnie” Teresa, of the lengths the program goes to to keep its charges safe, and of cases that went very wrong and occasionally even protected those who went on to kill again.

He describes the agony endured by innocent people who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended up in a program tailored to criminals. And along with Shur’s war stories, WITSEC draws on the haunting words of one mob wife, who vividly describes her life of lies, secrecy, and loss inside the program.

A powerful true story of the inner workings of one of the most effective and controversial weapons in the war against organized crime and the inner workings of organized crime itself–and more recently against Colombian drug dealers, outlaw motorcycle gang members, white-collar con men, and international terrorists–this book takes us into a tense, dangerous twilight world carefully hidden in plain sight: where the family living next door might not be who they say they are. . .