Word: fitzpatrick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exclusive interview with Time, FBI director Louis Freeh insisted that his bureau took pains to ensure that Fitzpatrick did not push Shabazz into a crime. Throughout the seven-month investigation, he says, Fitzpatrick's FBI handlers were overseen by bureau supervisors and the U.S. Attorney's office, whose reports were sent East for further review. Freeh said he was ``aware'' of the investigation though he ``did not review all the details.'' Nevertheless, ``I'm satisfied that we were well within...
...chief evidence against Shabazz, who has pleaded not guilty, is a statement she signed for FBI agents and a stack of 20 audiotapes of conversations between her and Fitzpatrick. There is also a 50- min. videotape that Fitzpatrick made at a Minneapolis-area motel room where he had set up a hidden camera. But the Minneapolis Star Tribune, quoting an unnamed federal official close to the case, says that on the videotape Fitzpatrick does most of the talking, encouraging Shabazz to go ahead with the plot while she objects that innocent people might be killed or that Farrakhan supporters might...
Whether he's a valuable informer or an agent provocateur, Fitzpatrick has a way of popping up wherever a fuse is burning. As a teenager at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, where Shabazz was also a student, Fitzpatrick, the son of an Irish union organizer and a Jewish businesswoman, joined the radical Jewish Defense League. He was convicted in the 1977 bombing of a Soviet bookstore in Manhattan. Soon after, Fitzpatrick turned government informer. According to court documents he was paid about $10,000 by the FBI to inform on two members of a j.d.l. splinter group...
...Fitzpatrick then disappeared into the federal witness-protection program, which moved him to a Minneapolis suburb under the name Michael Summers. In the 1980s he drifted back and forth between New York and Minneapolis before settling there again four years ago. Chris Gunderson was a member of a local anarchist collective when Fitzpatrick became a regular at the group's bookstore. ``He was a pretty muscular guy with a physically intimidating presence,'' says Gunderson, who remembers Fitzpatrick trying to draw members into drug dealing and militant actions involving ``Molotov cocktails or guns or bombs.'' Fitzpatrick sold a shotgun...
Some friends of Shabazz's--a onetime Princeton student and a single mother who has worked as a waitress and a telemarketer--say that last year, after getting back in touch with Fitzpatrick, she moved to Minneapolis in September expecting to marry him. Depending on how her case goes--the trial is set for March--she could be living soon in a prison cell. Depending on how his drug case goes, so could he. Then again, if she goes to jail, perhaps he won't. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi/ New York, Wendy Cole/Minneapolis and Elaine Shannon/Washington