Mystery AtlasWhitey Bulger FBI Informant Scandal
The FBI's decades-long use of Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger as a protected informant, exposed in the 1990s, during which his corrupt FBI handler tipped him off to indictments and fed him information used to murder rivals and informants.
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Whitey Bulger FBI Informant Scandal is frequently compared to Robert Hanssen — Both are documented FBI scandals in which the bureau's own operations were subverted from within for decades before detection.
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Whitey Bulger FBI Informant Scandal was operated by Federal Bureau of Investigation — Bulger was run as a protected FBI informant from 1974 until his corrupt handler tipped him to a pending indictment in 1994.