John Morris was the head of the FBI's Boston organized crime squad in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He supervised agent John Connolly and oversaw the cultivation of Whitey Bulger and Stephen Flemmi as informants, and he took part in numerous crimes, including keeping Bulger out of a 1979 indictment for fixing horse races, warning him about an investigation in 1988, and taking $7,000 in payoffs from him. Later, fearing prosecution for his association with Connolly's crimes, he anonymously divulged Connolly and Bulger's relationship to the Boston Globe. He retired from the FBI in 1995, and he moved to Florida.