- Eddie Walsh
Eddie Walsh (born 1924) is a former Boston police official who, along with FBI agent
Dennis Condon and U.S. House SpeakerJohn William McCormack , helped John "Zip" Connolly become an agent for theFederal Bureau of Investigation who would later be the "handler" of mobster James "Whitey" Bulger during the 1970s and 80s.In 1998, Walsh made a controversial statement during an interview with journalist
Mike Barnicle in which he stated former hitman turned government informantJohn Martorano "..practically used black people in Roxbury for target practice”" in reference to the gangland slayings of several witnesses in the area during the late 1960s. However, Walsh's remarks caused the U.S. District Attorney to criticize Walsh claiming his statement to be “madness”. Barnicle, who has had a long history of fabricating and exaggerating stories, offered his resignation as a columnist for theBoston Globe soon after.External links
* [http://whiteyworld.com/Eddie%20Walsh.htm WhiteyWorld.com - Eddie Walsh]
*PDFlink| [http://lmtonline.com/news/archive/081198/pagea6.pdf John Martorano, a crime wave, now FBI trophy] |301 KiB by Mike Barnicle
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