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Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agent's Search for Hope and Justice
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Chapter 21 Summary: “Goat Eyes and Whitey”
In early 2006, Bob Hilland travels to a former Soviet republic to lead polygraph examinations after a political assassination. John Edward warns him that he will get a confession but that the environment will be oppressive and monitored, advising him to leave as soon as he gets the truth. After one subject refuses to cooperate, security brings in a young champion athlete. He fails the polygraph and quietly tells Hilland that the president’s son set up the assassination and that his family was threatened. An FBI colleague leaks this information, and that night, officials drive Hilland to a mountaintop; he expects that he will be killed, but instead, he is taken to a restaurant where a general serves him a ceremonial goat’s eye. Hilland eats it and leaves the country the next day, never learning the fate of the witnesses.
Soon after, he is asked to help find fugitive mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger. At a meeting, Edward senses a corrupt agent tied to the case. Reading Bulger’s personal items, he states that the target is a powerful man named James, aided by a dirty FBI agent already in prison. He warns that a high-level official in Washington does not want Bulger caught.
