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WASHINGTON -- A House committee issued a scathing indictment of the FBI, concluding Thursday that the bureau shielded from prosecution known killers and other criminals that it used as informants to investigate organized crime in New England.
The report, coming after a two-year probe, also found the FBI attempted to impede the congressional investigation.
"Beginning in the mid-1960s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation began a course of conduct in New England that must be considered one of the greatest failures in the history of federal law enforcement," the House Government Reform Committee report said. "The Justice Department made it very difficult for this Committee to conduct timely and effective oversight."
It went on to say that the panel's investigation makes it clear "that the FBI must improve management of its informant programs to ensure that agents are not corrupted. The committee will examine the current FBI's management, security, and discipline to prevent similar events in the future