FBI Vault, Francis Salemme, Part 02 (Final): surveillance reports, February to August 1989

Second and final part of the FBI's released Salemme file: 96 pages, nearly all FD-302 physical-surveillance reports of 1989 from a Boston file. Read from the viewer's OCR.

Date: 1989
Kind: case-file
Source: FBI Records: The Vault
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Rights: Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under the Freedom of Information Act. A federal work, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. Redactions are as released by the FBI. Newspaper clippings filed inside FBI files are third-party material and are not covered by this basis.

The Vault viewer shows 96 pages. Almost all are FD-302 surveillance reports and continuation sheets from the Boston file read in the OCR as BS 183B-1528, dated February through August 1989, on physical surveillance of Francis P. Salemme, with a few deleted-page information sheets.

The content is chronological sightings and logs, and the names of others are largely redacted. The OCR is poor, so this page describes the file in general terms only. The file number is given as the OCR reads it.

In 1999 Judge Wolf recorded an informant’s report of June 1989 about Salemme and the shooting of Salemme on June 16, 1989 (91 F. Supp. 2d 141). This part of the Vault file was not read closely enough to connect its entries to those events.

itemFBI Vault, Francis Salemme, Part 01: Boston surveillance reports, 1989 to 1994First part of the FBI's released file on Francis P. Salemme: 100 pages of Boston Division FD-302 reports, most of them 1989 physical surveillance, with later reports that appear to date from 1993 and 1994. Heavily redacted; read from the viewer's OCR.itemUnited States v. Salemme, 91 F. Supp. 2d 141 (D. Mass. 1999)Judge Wolf's memorandum of September 15, 1999 setting out, after long hearings, the FBI's relationship with informants Stephen Flemmi and James Bulger, the 1981 bugging of 98 Prince Street and the 1989 Medford recording. Reversed in part in 2000.