Klan Buster

January, 1997

He is an impeccable source, a man with personal knowledge of one of the FBI's great buried secrets. He was present during the Freedom Summer of 1964, when J. Edgar Hoover used Greg Scarpa and his Mafia methods to find the bodies of murdered civil rights workers. There are two things I must understand about Scarpa, he begins. "One, in his own curious way, he considered himself to be a true patriot and a loyal American. And two, he ran an interracial crew."You have to remember, at the ti...