Witsec : Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program

No law enforcement program has been as cloaked in controversy & mystery as the Fed. Witness Protection Prog. (WITSEC). Shur, who created WITSEC, tells the story of turncoats, crime-fighters, killers, & ordinary people caught up in a life-&-death game of deception in the name of justice. In the early 1960s, Shur urged the Justice Dep't. to entice mobsters into breaking their code of silence with promises of protection & relocation. But as big 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 & creating new ones. An account of infamous witnesses, of the lengths the program goes to keep its charges safe, & of cases that went wrong.Ó Photos.Earley, Pete is the author of 'Witsec : Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program', published 2003 under ISBN 9780756767587 and ISBN 075676758X.