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An even more dramatic instance of the way a fictive identity
can get fixed , even in a personality that chooses it, involved another
FBI agent, Pa t Livingston . As "Pat Salamone," he posed as a hustler
interested in dealing in pornography in the Miami area. The re–
quirements of the role were heavy. Six months passed before the
suspicious Mafia men who were the operation's targets were con–
vinced of "Salamone's" and his partner's "legitimacy." Anthony M .
DeStefano, a journalist who followed the case , writes:
For nearly three years , the pair acted their roles, eating in ex–
pensive restaurants , jetting coast to coast for sex-film conven–
tions , palling around with mobsters and picking up women . . ..
Mr . Livingston came to know his targets not only as suspects but
also as ordinary men with conventional hopes and concerns for
their families and their business ventures.
In 1981 , the "Miporn" (or Miami pornography) investigation
ended with the indictment of 45 persons for conspiring to ship
pornographic books and films around the country . But even dur–
ing the euphoria of success, Mr. Livingston couldn't relinquish
"Pat Salamone." He continued to visit his old bars, bookmakers
and various hangers-on he had come to know, even though most
by then knew he was an FBI agent, says Miami lawyer William
Brown , a friend of Mr. Livingston . "He maintained a bank ac–
count of Pat Salamone , a driver's license, and was making out he
was very happy to be known as Pat Salamone," Mr. Brown says .
After this case was completed, Livingston returned to his home
office in Lexington, Kentucky, where he took another undercover
assignment, using the name and identity of "Pat Salamone." Not
long after, he was arrested for shoplifting, and identified himself as
Pat Salamone . Eventually , he was fired by the FBI.
The greatest terrorist of modern times was certainly Joseph
Stalin . In the first volume of his biography of Stalin,
Stalin As Revolu–
tionary,
Robert C. Tucker gives a stunning example of how a
neurotic character structure developed in Stalin, how it influenced
his career as a revolutionary, and how it profoundly affected the
whole of Russian society following Stalin's consolidation of his power
after the death of Lenin . Moreover, in a recent essay, "A Stalin
Biographer's Memoir," Tucker has written a personal account of
how he came to understand Stalin's neuroses as - in my phrase–
that of fictive personality.
Tucker was a member of the diplomatic corps from 1945 to
