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the government makes you disappear so you can keep breathing.
means the federal witness protection program that gives cooperating witnesses new identities to shield them from retaliation.
from created by the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, largely to get mob witnesses to actually testify without ending up in a trunk; the U.S. Marshals Service has run it ever since.
total relocatedover 19,000 witnesses and family members since 1971
never lostno protected witness following program rules has been killed
costnew name, job, backstory, sometimes even a new face
tradeoffyou can never legally contact your old life again