Once you are away, you may tell anybody you are away.

You cannot tell them where you are.

You cannot communicate easily through the Internet.

All you can do now is one of them.

This is Gerald Shore.

He's given thousands of people new names,

told them where they would live and warned them.

They could never go back home.

And they have a sheet with the rules.

She'd have, you know, 8 by 10 piece of paper.

And they sign that piece of paper that they will abide by the rules.

And the rules are, you know, we don't want to go through the list.

But essentially it's, I will be a good person and live a normal life.

Above all else, keep your head down.

You have to get a new job and a new place to live in a new city,

with a new social security number and no credit history.

If you meet someone you like, you can never tell them who you are

or where you're really from.

You can't bring them home to your parents.

All of these rules were the invention of one man, Gerald Shore.

The father of the Witness Protection Program.

Back in the 1960s, he was working for the Department of Justice

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