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The Washington Post Magazine reports that "protected witnesses sometimes to strange things with their new identities. The U.S. Marshalls Service tells no tales, but others do... There are lots of great stories in the witness protection program - tragic stories, comic stories, tragicomic stories. But the United States Marshalls Service, which runs the program, prefers that they remain untold stories. WITSEC is a secret program. Very secret. Sometimes ludicrously secret."
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Threepenny Review examines the Federal Witness Protection Program (also called the Witness Security Program); finds the program allows the protected witnesses to avoid debts and to avoid punishment for their own crimes, Winter 1989.
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