Deadly Alliance: The FBI's Secret Partnership with the Mob

by Ralph Ranalli

A prize-winning journalist presents the true account of corruption, fear, and violence that was born from a shocking alliance between the FBI and some of the most brutal criminals that wreaked havoc on an unsuspecting nation.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380811936
• ISBN13: 9780380811939
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: HarperTorch
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Required Reading!

In this case we see how a covert operation can be carried out and its participants dispensed with when the job is done. The government is shredding Flemmi's family apart, turning relatives against one another. It seems plausible a number of players now prevalent in the Bulger case are in fact long term plants held in abeyance until the time is right, such as with Martorano and Weeks.An acquaintance who has been totally destroyed since Bulger fled in 1995 has been approached by individuals claiming family ties to the upper tiers of local and national FBI managementwhile having been misled by the Justice Management Division of the Department of Justice. These approaches usually involve intimidation or extortion with the deliverers claiming FBI affiliation in the Merrimack Valley region of northern Massachusetts which includes a regional FBI office outside of the Boston office.Has the Defense Investigative Service and FBI teamed up to squeeze a child of Bulger or a close friend of Bulger's to keep Bulger away?Are Whitey Bulger and Flemmi's names being smeared to bringclosure to their roles in a covert operation?

A must read for criminal justice enthusiasts!

One might wonder what programs the government is currently operating that we will be shocked to learn of in the future.I know a person, 'M', who believes they are linked to the Bulger case but this information was kept from them by state and state authorized personnel in Massachusetts. M was abandoned into state care and bounced around among abusive and neglectful foster homes until landing at the New England Home for Wanderers in Boston. While in state care M was introduced to a foster family.M was well treated and loved this family but they were limited in the help they would give. In the early 90s, M wrote an autobiography detailing experiences in state child care,good and bad, with names and places changed to protect those involved while portraying the essence of the experience.While in state child care, a medical issue that might relate to leukemia symptoms was noticed but the foster family and state-approved authorities refused more involved investigative procedures, while taking photos.In 1995, Bulger fled and M's medical records began disappearing when requested for.M was maneuvered into what may have been a secure worksite staffed with government employees posing as normal employees of a Fortune 500 company in Massachusetts.This small group of employees took every opportunity to ridicule, harass, poke fun at M. At different times, each employee claimed to represent a different Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate as they harassed M. One person claimed to support Harshbarger, another Malone, a third Cellucci, and so on.While M was working employees in this building were calling M's home on a daily basis, where a neighbor claiming to work construction but in fact drove a telephone truck was situated across the hall from an individual who " does accounting for the government". At one time workmen were seen laying cable from one unit to the other across the hall, as if a monitoring station for M.As pressure was induced at work and from anonymous harassing callers and even what M considered close friends, his doctor, a man in his 30s, suddenly resigned the field of medicine as M suspected he was trying to have M involuntarily committed.Another doctor involved had association with the family of a Justice Dept employee. A few years after Bulger fled, M was approached in the guise of a coworker who newly befriended M. This coworker in the ensuing 2 years claimed to be watching M at the gym, know M's video rentals, know M's financial transactions, and to be obsessed with such things as how much M left for tips at restaurants and what M's home is like. A few years after severing the relationship, M learned that the video store M frequented was owned by a Governor Paul Cellucci supporter and that one of the workers there had ties to law enforcement. Whenever M's coworker introduced M to a new restaurant and M went there by themself, the coworker responded angrily.Whenever M raised the Bulger case to the coworker, this coworker got very angry and h

Very good read and history!

I know of an individual i'll call 'PS111'. PS111 was raised in state child care in Massachusetts.One boy raised with PS111 for a while later was setup and possibly became an informant for the Massachusetts state police. This 'friend' later sold a car after this case erupted to PS111 rigged to explode and disappeared in a mode very similar to one used by H Paul Rico in this case.Over the years since Bulger has disappeared there is indication of police harassment of PS111 in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. It has been speculated PS111 was raised in state child care, is the son of Bulger or perhaps one of Bulger's victims and this was kept by state officials. In 1995 it may have been leaked out about PS111's background and PS111 made to suffer for a background of which they knew not. Mass. Atty General Tom Reilly in addition to Scott Harshbarger and Paul Cellucci were all said to support Bulger.

Some questions

~This case raises many many issues. One is whether informants should be used completely confidentially. In a criminal case you have the right not to incriminate yourself and you are apprised of this right by the police. With informants, however, you can be incriminating yourself, even jokingly, and never know it because the informant does not have to inform you that your dialogue will be forwarded to their handlers. What is to stop an informant from making stuff up about a target, all the while~~ the target has no idea nor means to refute the assertions of the informant?Does the FBI send in informants who themselves set up innocents to appear as the informants responsible for a bust? I know one man, "Bill", who worked at a company in which a former employee was busted by the FBI for a computer theft ring in Chelmsford,Mass and was befriended by another man who claimed to be "new". After Bill left, this 'friend' kept in touch and after a year of friendship divulged that they~~ were not new to the company following the FBI bust. After the bust,it appeared as if Bill was being set up to appear as the informant by this 'friend', who may have been the true informant for the FBI. This whole thing might be an example of an innocent being set up by the FBI to protect its informants.~

Loose ends

Recently the Boston papers announced that John Connelly's case will probably not be heard in 2002-- 7 years after Whitey fled.There is one individual with a link to Rocco Solimeno's business partner who has had nothing but a continuous succession of bad experiences, many suspicious, in the employment sector in Massachusetts and New Hampshire since this case broke.The former business partner of Solimeno was allied to Sullivan and Cogliano (personnel placement)the same offices where former governor Cellucci held his transition team meeting.When the Bulger case imploded, this individual,introduced to Solimeno's partner as a young child ignorant of Solimeno, this person became the focal point of blame in the increasing finger pointing in the Bulger case. It was as if the person had some hidden past kept from that person but known to insiders and when this unravelled that individual, now an adult, became a target for vengeance.This person knew nothing about Solimeno and had been introduced into this circle by state authorities.