How the FBI’s Mad Dash To Wiretap the Mob at a Montauk Hotel Nearly 50 Years Ago Helped Modernize Today’s Agency
In 1979, the FBI’s Brooklyn-Queens office received a blockbuster tip that launched one of its most ambitious, maddening, and thrilling electronic surveillance operations.
FBI agents Ed Guevara and Steve Carbone made their names working the 1978 Lufthansa heist at John F. Kennedy International Airport and the 1978-79 Boston College point-shaving scandal. Lewis Schiliro earned his stripes cornering Sicilian heroin traffickers in the 1980s Pizza Connection case and overseeing major counterterrorism investigations like the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
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