it was revealed days later that donnie brasco was really joseph d. pistone, an undercover agent for the fbi. pistone had spent six years undercover. the order came down shortly after to kill napolitano for having allowed such a breach in mafia security. on august 17, 1981, napolitano was asked to come to the basement of bonanno associate ron filocomo in flatlands, brooklyn, where he was ambushed by filocomo and capo frank lino, both of whom shot him to death. the contract came from santora and joseph massino, on behalf of rastelli.