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Mid 1960s when j. edgar hoover created the informant program. bulger's partner had been a top informant long before bulger was. and in the '60s, there was a gangster named joe barboza, who cooperated with the government. he was sort of a precursor to bulger in some ways. he took the stand in a capital murder case and fingered four innocent people for a crime they didn't commit. and the government knew it. it was known all the way up to j. edgar hoover. this became the dirty secret of that jurisdiction for many generations after that. we wouldn't know about that until the '90s when bulger went ...