"Panel broadens probe into use of FBI informants"

....was the title of an article that appeared June 6, 2001, in the Boston Globe, written by Ralph Ranalli.
Here are some excerpts:
"A congressional probe into why a local man was wrongfully imprisoned is quickly mushrooming into a full-blown investigation of the FBI's use and abuse of organized crime informants, particularly in Boston, over the last 40 years..."

"In a clear sign that House Government Reform Committee chairman Dan Burton intends to conduct an extensive probe of the agency's informant programs, the Indiana Republican issued a sweeping document request to the US Justice Department demanding FBI records on agents, informants, and policies dating to the late 1950s.

Click here to see the full press release by The Committee on Government Reform
"Committee Requests Documents from US Department of Justice
Regarding FBI Informant Practices"

"When we initiated this investigation, we had no idea how broad the scope of this scandal was," committee spokesman Mark Corallo said. "The more we have uncovered, the more we have realized that we have an obligation to get to the bottom of this." ....we intend to go the distance."

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