'to director: surveillance and inf ormant contacts to date have been negative'
uc a joseph d . piston utilizing the name 'donnie brasco'. . . --an fbi computer prints out a "yellow sheet" of his prior arrests fo r b urgl ary -- " a.k .a. don th e j ewe ler ".  --in the jewelry district, a hasidic jew tutors donnie, who looks at a diamond through a loupe. . . donnie surveys a small apartment with a realtor. donnie opens a bank account. . .
'. this would be accomplished by uca frequenting locations listed below and attempting to engage in conversation and do business with said fences'
,new york office requests an extension of six months due to.
i got you another six months. i told them it takes time.
same budget. look, joe, not that i don't see any movement, but--do you see any movement? i got my neck out on this.
do me a favor. just get one bastard. donnie reads from the file.
one other thing. you know how it is with the ' b ' . they saw some of the surveillance pictures.
they want you to shave the mo ust ache . .
you're still in the fbi. that's the rules. cut to:
benjamin ruggiero. a.k.a. 'lefty,' 'lefty guns,' 'lefty two guns.' a couple of bullshit cases, never did time.
it means you're in, kid.
 . . in light of the above contacts, we request an additional six months. . .
 . . i got an agent down in florid a, fred c alvin--i go t my finger in the dike and he's got his thumb up his ass. a million bucks in it and calvin's got nothing.
joe--
we've been through this. to get a raise you gotta go up to supervisor grade.
gs-14 is supervisors. that's the rules.
now what the hell's this about porno tapes?
forty grand for porno tapes?
oh, that makes me feel much better. you don't watch it, you're gonna be back in the buckets listening to the bulgarians all day. flash cut to:
he has to do some not-so-nice things, sir. he's not undercover in the camp fire girls.
how'm'i gonna explain that to washington?
there's no procedures for this.
you guys said no to the guns. i don't see why it's coming up now.
what does joe say?
what do you mean--you lost him?
everything in this operation was a judgement call, sir. and we relied on his judgement. he was the one in the field.
fred calvin.
don't talk to me like you're talking to them, joe.
joe.
you really think we could get trafficante? donnie gets up. turns.
there was never any moment when i thought joe or the operation was out of control, sir. cut to:
you think joe went over to the other side?
ask him the fuck yourself.
joe's a seducer. he seduced them.