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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 report 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 corporate l