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Q & A With Bulger Biographer
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of WBUR-FM (Boston's NPR news station)
Posted: June 5th, 2012
http://www.wbur.org/2012/05/30/dick-lehr
Dick Lehr is the co-author of the book Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devils Deal. First published in 2001, the book has undergone a number of revisions as the story of Bulger and the FBI has unfolded. Its latest revision has been published this month. Lehr and his co-author Gerry ONeill are former reporters for the Boston Globe, whose ... report in September 1988 on the tale of the two Bulger brothers first raised the issue in public of Bulgers special relationship to the FBI. Dick Lehr: [Whitey Bulger] goes down into history as one of the 20th centurys most notorious gangsters. He did something no other gangster that we know of has ever done and thats compromise the FBI, bring it to its knees, not just in a single case, but as a way of life. He had sold everybody a story that would explain why someone might see him and [FBI agent John] Connolly. And that was that Connolly was their source, that it was one-way, and that Connolly was a corrupted agent, which was true, but it didnt tell the whole story. But it did become Whiteys cover. So if anybody ever saw him with Connolly and asked, Hey what are you doing with that FBI guy? Whitey could say, Hey, thats my guy hes my rat. Throughout a lifetime hes strategically always been able to anticipate and plant seeds in the event something happens down the road and hes already a step ahead in terms of everyone, strategy and analysis.
Note: To go much deeper into this bizarre story of FBI strangeness, read the interview in the Boston Globe at this link. And for additional reliable information on intense corruption in intelligence agencies, click here.