heard
* funny noises on their telephone and some foreign mail was damaged
doesn't
* mean we should start rummaging through agency files and asking if
there
* was a wiretap.
The FBI insists on keeping a file ("but we 'closed' it") on him even
though they should have seen he was not a threat to national security.
Fear, loathing, hysteria, and spying on our reading habits:
The FBI also had their counter-intelligence unit start a "Library
Awareness
Program", which meant they wanted to know everyone who checked out certain
books.
What a bunch of peeping tommy guns!
* "LIBRARY SPY HUNT IS CURBED BY FBI", By Herbert Mitgang, NYT,
11/11/1988
*
* Bowing to pressure from a House subcommittee and continued resistance
from
* librarians, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has set limits on its
* program seeking the help of librarians in "detecting Soviet spies."
*
* Under the Library Awareness Program. which the FBI says has been in
exist-
* ence for years, librarians have been asked to re****t
suspicious-looking
* people who might be Soviet spies, to be alert to which books and
periodi-
* cals such people read or check out and to disclose the names and
informa-
* tion about book borrowers suspected of using libraries for espionage
* purposes or recruiting library users for espionage [what???].
*
* FBI Director William S. Sessions said the bureau would continue to
contact
* public, university and cor****ate libraries in the New York City area
about
* "hostile intelligence service activities at libraries." [fuh-gedda-bo
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