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In the early months of 1979, Bill Sheperley, a photo specialist out of the FBI's Boston office, was sent into the city's

North End with a simple mission. Get a camera on their target, 98 Prince Street.

It was a typical old neighborhood, so anything we tried to do, we would be picked up pretty

down quick. The North End is our little Italy, the would be picked up pretty darn quick.

The North End is our little Italy, the place to go for a canoli, a plate of fried calumari.

But in 1979, it was not the dressed-up tourist attraction. It is today.

Yeah, well, this area over here, it's different, a lot of the areas, you know.

It's very, very closely knit. Then, it was an isolated and insular place, surrounded by water and cut off from the rest of the

city by six lanes of elevated highway. And it really did look like a slice of the old world,

stuck under the edge of the new world. That's the way we are, Italian people. A place where young men clustered on stoops in the afternoon, and vendors worked the streets. And then, I mean, you know me, I know you, and we get to know each other. I come down and we get acquainted more and more. Yes, I got plenty of good stuff here. What do you want, cucumbers, lettuce, tomato, what kind of a shop is this? What else you want?

I don't understand Italian.

You know, there's a very tight neighborhood.

He was an Italian neighborhood.

Everybody knew everybody.

John Gill was part of that same FBI team, an organized crime strike force.

Gill specialized in listening devices, bugs and wiretaps. You know, I used to play telephone

man. What do you mean by play telephone man? You just go in acting like a telephone man and do

what you had to do. You know, you could go up the poles or go into the boxes

and nobody would pay any attention to you, but not really in the North End. What are all these

Irish guys doing climbing about our walls? The reason that Shepardley and Gill were sent into this neighborhood where they both clearly did not belong

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