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🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Joe Pistone always wanted to be an FBI agent. After a stint in naval intelligence, he started as a Special Agent. His background eventually led him to become Donnie Brasco, one of the longest and most successful undercover operations in law enforcement history. Just weeks away from being inducted into the Bonnano crime family as a ‘made guy’, the FBI shut it down.
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0:00.0 | It's kind of like being divorced in a sense, right? |
0:15.7 | And having your parents or having your ex and your kids move to a completely different |
0:20.1 | location, you see them very rarely. |
0:21.6 | I have basically what it is. |
0:25.0 | You leave your gun in badge and your credentials into your office. |
0:29.6 | The only thing you're out there with is your fake ID. |
0:33.6 | That's the only thing you're out there with. |
0:36.5 | The only contact with your agency is with your contact agent and maybe your supervisor. |
0:45.2 | That's your contact. |
0:50.4 | My family lived across the country when I started the operation in New York. |
1:03.0 | When you say across the country, we talk in West Coast then? |
1:05.8 | Yeah, they got the operation started in New York and they were out West. |
1:11.3 | I mean, for our listeners, just think about that. |
1:14.9 | Think about the dedication and the sacrifice it takes that you're leaving. |
1:18.7 | You've got three kids, you've got your wife and you're leaving them. |
1:22.8 | You're not leaving them on another part, you know, you're working in New York City and |
1:26.1 | they're across the river in Jersey, kind of on the other side of the fricking country. |
1:30.0 | I mean, you got birthdays, you got family events, you got all the things that we all enjoy |
1:34.3 | doing. |
1:35.3 | I missed everything. |
1:36.3 | Yeah, you can't do a thing. |
1:38.5 | I'll tell you a story. |
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