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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 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 libraries in the New York City area about
*   "hostile intelligence service activities at libraries." [fuh-gedda-boutit]

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