"A window into Whitey’s brutal life and mind; New biography traces Bulger’s rise, reign, and the reckoning ahead" by Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy | Globe Staff, February 10, 2013
South Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger’s generous view of himself, not as a cunning killer and cynical informer but as a criminal with scruples and a kind of noble romantic, is detailed in a new and comprehensive biography of Boston’s most infamous criminal, to be published this week....
The book, “Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice,” written by the authors of this article (Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy), with editorial support from The Globe, reveals a host of new information about Bulger, from his pursuit of domestic tranquillity in a tangled romantic triangle, to his seeking out a psychiatrist a la Tony Soprano, to his heretofore little-known role as an agent of mayhem during the city’s school desegregation crisis. The book also provides a window into Bulger’s thinking and state of mind as he molders in jail....
And now we see why it was on the front-page of the Boston Globe.
In the book, to be published Monday by W.W. Norton & Co., Bulger comes off as part defiant, part delusional, cloaked in something of a persecution complex. His self-image is noteworthy for its self-regard. Much of it, especially his denial of being an informant, is completely at odds with the public record and appears to undermine his defense strategy of asserting that he had immunity from a federal prosecutor to commit his crimes....
Bulger, as evidenced in his letters, now frames his legal predicament in grandiose, literary terms. While his enemies, including his former criminal confederates, might see him as the embodiment of Gypo Nolan, the treacherous protagonist in Liam O’Flaherty’s classic tale of betrayal “The Informer,” Bulger casts himself as Philip Nolan, the altruistic protagonist in “The Man Without a Country,” Edward Everett Hale’s short story. Nolan, a US Army officer, renounces his citizenship during his trial for treason and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life at sea, cut off from others. Bulger sees his isolation in high-security detention as he awaits trial in similarly epic terms, punishment for someone who knows too much about his government’s dark side....
That's also why they toss patsy-plot terrorists who have been set up into such situations.
At the US penitentiary in Atlanta, Bulger volunteered to take part in a medical experiment testing LSD....
So that is where the CIA tested the stuff for its programed killer program before foisting it on the population after it failed?
Bulger refused to cooperate with the authors of the book....
(Blog editor smiles)
The book also provides a fuller account than previously available of:
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I wanted to put up a love story after all the horror I've posted below, dear readers.
Also see: Immune to Globe's Bulger Coverage
I must admit I haven't been reading the articles for a while.
NEXT DAY UPDATE: Whitey Bulger says Ronald Reagan got it
OTHER UPDATES: Bulger checked for heart issue again
I predict Whitey will die in prison of "natural causes."
