https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_civil_rights_workers'_murders
The above cite does NOT mention that the Mob was recruited to find out where the bodies were:
In the summer of 1964, according to Schiro and other sources, FBI field agents in Mississippi [8] recruited Scarpa to come to Mississippi to help them find missing civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner. The FBI was convinced the three men had been murdered, but could not find their graves. The agents thought that Scarpa, using illegal interrogation techniques not available to agents, might succeed at gaining this information from suspects. Once Scarpa arrived in Mississippi, local FBI agents allegedly provided him with a gun and money to pay for information. Scarpa and an FBI agent allegedly pistol-whipped and kidnapped Lawrence Byrd, a TV salesman and secret Klansman, from his store in Laurel and took him to Camp Shelby, a local Army base. At Shelby, Scarpa severely beat Byrd and stuck a gun barrel down his throat. The terrified Byrd finally revealed to Scarpa the location of the civil rights workers' graves.[2][9]
The FBI has never officially confirmed the Scarpa story. In addition, the story contradicts evidence from investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell and Illinois high school teacher Barry Bradford, who claimed that Mississippi highway patrolman Maynard King provided the grave locations to FBI agent Joseph Sullivan after obtaining the information from an anonymous third party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Scarpa#Mississippi_civil_rights_workersThe action of the mob was not torture, for even the mob know torture does not work when you want information (it works great if you want a confession, for you do not need the confession to be true or not). What the mobster threatened to do was kill the informer and after making that threat holding the suspect till he told them where the bodies were AND the bodies were found (The FBI helped picked the suspect, one that did NOT do the actual killing but just helped bury the bodies). The threat of death was made to make sure the suspect had no hope of ever getting out of the situation without talking (in normal situation this is done by threatening to hold someone in jail forever). The FBI had no grounds to hold the suspect, so they just had the mobster kidnap the suspect and interrogate him for hours at a time. The FBI was thus in a position that if he ever told everyone the FBI could say they did not do it. Notice the key was interrogation without the use of torture but with the promise that he would be released if he told the truth, but he would stay in jail forever (or be killed) if he did not tell the truth. The FBI hired the mob to do this so they hands could be clean (and that no agent could be identified by the suspect if he ever told local law enforcement).
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