FBI agents Ed Guevara and Steve Carbone made their names working the 1978 Lufthansa heist at John F. Kennedy International Airport and the 1978-79 Boston College point-shaving scandal. Lewis Schiliro earned his stripes cornering Sicilian heroin traffickers in the 1980s Pizza Connection case and overseeing major counterterrorism investigations like the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
The Mafia Commission Trial of 1986 and the eventual conviction of John Gotti in 1992 are the outcomes of a generation of agents who helped propel the FBI away from J. Edgar Hoover’s Machiavellian tenure and toward a modern and sophisticated investigative agency that found its footing in organized crime and terrorism cases.
But the techniques in the FBI’s toolbox didn’t evolve without its growing pains.
Street agents like Mssrs. Carbone and Schiliro populated the bureau’s 50-plus field offices during a “special time” in the bureau’s 117-year history.
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