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NYT, 11/12/89
*   
*   Todd Patterson, 17, became the object of an FBI investigation when he
*   wrote to foreign governments as part of a sixth-grade project. He says
*   he is interested in a Foreign Service career and worries about the
*   effect the FBI files might have on his chances of obtaining security
*   clearances. [snip]
*   
*   The Pattersons said that they began hearing interference on their
*   telephone, including voices, after the visit by the FBI agent and that
*   about 50 pieces of mail Todd received from foreign governments from 1983
*   to 1988 showed signs of tampering.
*   
*   But a Justice Department lawyer told the court, "Just because they 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 


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