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“The last few years have been an insurmountable wall for me. It was not easy to inform against my colleagues.”

It could not be pleasant, either, to realize one had made an enemy of a rogue like Setma, and to wonder how soon and in what way that rogue might inform against one.

The play charts his journey from charismatic professor with radical inclinations, hosting a fundraiser at his Berkeley home for the Spanish Civil War relief effort, to leader of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory, a position that forces him to cut ties with his communist past and inform against an old chum flirting with espionage.

Perhaps this was because everyone who wanted to come forward had already seen the posters and called, Zuroff says, or perhaps there are simply too few Nazis left to inform against.

Agents in Bulger’s orbit repeatedly tipped the gangster off about criminals who came to the FBI to inform against him; this practice continued, even after those would-be informants began turning up dead.