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Posted by PeterLucas on September 1, 2007, 5:28 pm
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laughing. At any time, it
* would have been hard to imaging the connection between his wife and
* the fearsome world of espionage, the arms race and Check Point Charlie.
*
* But the wall had fallen, and Russia had a complete upheaval too. The FBI
* agent's linkage of his wife to "national security" seemed absurd. The
* agent, however, did not share George's amused astonishment.
*
* "Don't mock me," the couple remembers Emmett warning them.
*
* She had subscribed to the magazine for its impressive photography, and
* had written to the Soviet embassy to thank them for sending an icebreaker
* to free some whales, as suggested by a television show host.
How foolish of her to put her real name and return address on the letter.
* "Teen Sues FBI, Wants FBI File Purged", 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 no
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