| For the legal organizations and the FBI to actually | | | | incredibly dangerous job. If he were to be caught in |
| make a serious impact on the Mafia, they need to | | | | the act of leaking out information or was the truth |
| know what really goes on in the organization and | | | | discovered, he would immediately executed without |
| have inside information about the Dons, Caporegimes | | | | any remorse. He may even be tortured and |
| and the various other members and their associates. | | | | disfigured by being riddled with bullets. |
| They can always raid drug deals, illegal gambling rings, | | | | Undercover agents continue to be the most |
| etc. and arrest the people involved. However, the | | | | important part of the FBI's fight against the Mafia. A |
| Mafia will just find recruit new ones and bail out the | | | | sting orchestrated by an undercover FBI agent in |
| members arrested. In order to really damage a Mafia | | | | Cleveland netted more than 40 corrupt cops in 1998. |
| Family, they need to get to the top and arrest the | | | | However, most of the undercover work remains a |
| Don, Underboss, Caporegime (if directly involved) and | | | | secret -- the very nature of the work means that |
| his Capos. | | | | undercover agents use assumed names and refuse |
| The best way to do this is to infiltrate the Mafia | | | | to be ever photographed to hide their very |
| Family with undercover agents. An FBI agent working | | | | existence from the public and the media and to not |
| undercover as a mob associate or enforcer is an | | | | arouse any suspicion with the Mafia Family concerned. |