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Article: Secret FBI papers attribute info to art thief, not Flemmi.
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- The Boston Herald
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- January 15, 1998
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Secret FBI documents made public yesterday appear to contradict assertions that gangster Stephen Flemmi saved the lives of two top former prosecutors and that infamous art thief Miles Connor may have provided some of the information instead.
In a 1980 FBI report, former Special Agent John Connolly wrote a memo to his superiors justifying the continued use of Flemmi as an informant in part because of "invaluable information" including Mafia plans to murder then U.S. attorney Paul Markham and Suffolk County District Attorney Garrett Byrne.
"Certain (Mafia) members were seriously considering murdering then-Suffolk County District Attorney Garrett Byrne and ...