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The WITSEC program was formally established under Title V of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, which states that the United States Attorney General may provide for the relocation and protection of a witness or potential witness of the federal government or a state government in an official proceeding concerning organized crime or other serious offenses.
The United States Marshals Service (USMS) is a federal law enforcement agency in the United States.The Marshals Service serves as the enforcement and security arm of the U.S. federal judiciary, and it is an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and operates under the direction of the U.S. Attorney General.
The United States established a formal program of witness protection, run by the U.S. Marshals Service, under the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970. Before that, witness protection had been instituted under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 to protect people testifying against members of the Ku Klux Klan.
The U.S. Marshals Service suffered a security breach, with sensitive data taken from one of its systems just over a week ago.
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Pages in category "People who entered the United States Federal Witness Protection Program" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .