17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Responding to msg by ogd@selway.umt.edu (ozymandias G desiderata) on Mon, 03 Oct 11:49 AM
On the same note, do any of you have any humorous / chilling stories about what you found out when you got your file?
The best I heard is that of a fairly noteworthy 60s radical who asked for his FBI file and was completely demoralized to learn that his FOIA request was the first and only item in his brand new file. No one there cared about him until then -- or so he was told. Since then I have heard that this was a technique used by the LEAs to blow people away and discourage them from getting their real files. Quite illegal, to be sure, but well within approved procedures of the time. Probably still done. John