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WITSEC

WITSEC

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作者: Pete Earley 著

出版社: Random House US

出版时间: 2003-04

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780553582437

定价: 69.00

装帧: 平装

开本: 大32开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 438页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>社会文化

For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked incontroversy and mystery as the Federal Witness Protection Program.Now, for the first time, Gerald Shur, the man credited with thecreation of WITSEC, teams with acclaimed investigative journalistPete Earley to tell the inside story of turncoats, crime-fighters,killers, and ordinary human beings caught up in a life-and-deathgame of deception in the name of justice.
  WITSEC
  Inside the Federal Witness ProtectionProgram
  When the government was losing the war on organized crime in theearly 1960s, Gerald Shur, a young attorney in the JusticeDepartment’s Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, urged thedepartment to entice mobsters into breaking their code of silencewith promises of protection and relocation. But as high-ranking mobfigures came into the program, Shur discovered that keeping hiswitnesses alive in the face of death threats involved more thaneradicating old identities and creating new ones. It also meantcutting off families from their pasts and giving new identities towives and children, as well as to mob girlfriends andmistresses.
  It meant getting late-night phone calls from protected witnessesunable to cope with their new lives. It meant arranging funerals,providing financial support, and in one instance even helping amobster’s wife get breast implants. And all too often it meant oddsthat a protected witness would return to what he knewbest–crime.
  In this book Shur gives a you-are-there account of infamouswitnesses, from Joseph Valachi to “Sammy the Bull” Gravano to “FatVinnie” Teresa, of the lengths the program goes to to keep itscharges safe, and of cases that went very wrong and occasionallyeven protected those who went on to kill again.
  He describes the agony endured by innocent people who foundthemselves in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended up in aprogram tailored to criminals. And along with Shur’s war stories,WITSEC draws on the haunting words of one mob wife, who vividlydescribes her life of lies, secrecy, and loss inside theprogram.
  A powerful true story of the inner workings of one of the mosteffective and controversial weapons in the war against organizedcrime and the inner workings of organized crime itself–and morerecently against Colombian drug dealers, outlaw motorcycle gangmembers, white-collar con men, and international terrorists–thisbook takes us into a tense, dangerous twilight world carefullyhidden in plain sight: where the family living next door might notbe who they say they are. . . PETE EARLEY is the author of Family of Spies, The HotHouse, Super Casino, and Circumstantial Evidence,an Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime.

GERALD SHUR, now retired, was the founder and longtime head ofWITSEC. Both live near Washington, D.C.

From the Hardcover edition.
内容简介:
For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked incontroversy and mystery as the Federal Witness Protection Program.Now, for the first time, Gerald Shur, the man credited with thecreation of WITSEC, teams with acclaimed investigative journalistPete Earley to tell the inside story of turncoats, crime-fighters,killers, and ordinary human beings caught up in a life-and-deathgame of deception in the name of justice.
  WITSEC
  Inside the Federal Witness ProtectionProgram
  When the government was losing the war on organized crime in theearly 1960s, Gerald Shur, a young attorney in the JusticeDepartment’s Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, urged thedepartment to entice mobsters into breaking their code of silencewith promises of protection and relocation. But as high-ranking mobfigures came into the program, Shur discovered that keeping hiswitnesses alive in the face of death threats involved more thaneradicating old identities and creating new ones. It also meantcutting off families from their pasts and giving new identities towives and children, as well as to mob girlfriends andmistresses.
  It meant getting late-night phone calls from protected witnessesunable to cope with their new lives. It meant arranging funerals,providing financial support, and in one instance even helping amobster’s wife get breast implants. And all too often it meant oddsthat a protected witness would return to what he knewbest–crime.
  In this book Shur gives a you-are-there account of infamouswitnesses, from Joseph Valachi to “Sammy the Bull” Gravano to “FatVinnie” Teresa, of the lengths the program goes to to keep itscharges safe, and of cases that went very wrong and occasionallyeven protected those who went on to kill again.
  He describes the agony endured by innocent people who foundthemselves in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended up in aprogram tailored to criminals. And along with Shur’s war stories,WITSEC draws on the haunting words of one mob wife, who vividlydescribes her life of lies, secrecy, and loss inside theprogram.
  A powerful true story of the inner workings of one of the mosteffective and controversial weapons in the war against organizedcrime and the inner workings of organized crime itself–and morerecently against Colombian drug dealers, outlaw motorcycle gangmembers, white-collar con men, and international terrorists–thisbook takes us into a tense, dangerous twilight world carefullyhidden in plain sight: where the family living next door might notbe who they say they are. . .
作者简介:
PETE EARLEY is the author of Family of Spies, The HotHouse, Super Casino, and Circumstantial Evidence,an Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime.

GERALD SHUR, now retired, was the founder and longtime head ofWITSEC. Both live near Washington, D.C.

From the Hardcover edition.

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