I agree with PB as Pistone embellious some of his claims. Agent Pistone did go through a hell of a lot more then Garcia did and Garcia was not around mobsters that were in their prime or as sharp as they use to be. Joe had to be extremely careful around the Bonanno's. Massino did not suspect Brasco as a rat, he was jealous of the fact that Donnie was proposed for membership before his brother-in-law Salvatore Vitale.
Oh, absolutely. You can't discount what Pistone accomplished just because he's an egotist and tends to overstate things.
As far as Garcia, he fooled
ONE GUY. A desperate old man who, for all of his faults, would have seen right through that fat fuck if he was twenty years younger. He gets a lot of shit because of what happened when he got older, but the truth is, Greg was VERY guarded when he was younger. Garcia wouldn't have gotten within ten feet of him.
And like him or not, Pistone had half of Mulberry Street fooled. So there's no comparison between the two agents.
