Got some spare time? How about a little light reading via the Freedom of Information Act?

Fausto

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Reading Room Index Compiled as of 6/20/2001

All kinds of interesting stuff here...

Alcatraz Escape -- 1,757 pages
Ali, Noble Drew (see Moorish Science Temple of America)
Amerasia -- 12,853 pages
a. Headquarters -- 7,175 pages
b. New York -- 5,678 pages
America First Committee -- 2,939 pages
American Friends Service Committee -- 3,498 pages
American Indian Movement -- 17,722 pages
American POWs/MIAs in Southeast Asia -- 6,944 pages
Ananda Marga -- 1,510 pages
Anglin, John and Clarence (see Alcatraz Escape)
Animal Mutilation Project -- 128 pages
Aryan Brotherhood -- 141 pages
Atlanta Child Murders (ATKID) -- 2,825 pages
Atlanta FBI Field Office -- Hostage Situation -- 269 pages
Baby Face Nelson -- 224 pages
Baker, Josephine -- 359 pages
Ball, Lucille -- 142 pages
Barker, Arthur -- 252 pages
Barker, Fred -- 16 pages
Barker, Herman -- 190 pages
Barker, Lloyd -- 11 pages
Barker, Kate "Ma" -- 6 pages
Barker/Karpis Gang -- 76,159 pages
a. Hamm Kidnapping -- 5,249 pages
b. Edward Bremer Kidnapping -- 70,910 pages
Barker-Karpis Gang (summary) -- 57 pages
Barnes, George "Machine Gun Kelly" -- 8,748 pages
Barnes, George "Machine Gun Kelly" (summary) -- 14 pages
Barrow, Clyde (see Bonnie and Clyde)
Black, Hugo -- 156 pages
Black Legion -- 964 pages
Black Panther Party-Winston Salem, NC --2,895 pages
Blunt, Anthony -- 37 pages
Bonnie and Clyde (summary) -- 3 pages
(Additional 461 pages, mainly newspaper articles, most of which illegible.)
Bonus March -- 232 pages
Booth, John Wilkes -- 184 pages
Bowtie (Profumo Matter) -- 2,423 pages
Brecht, Bertolt -- 369 pages
Bundy, Theodore Robert -- 257 pages

etc...
 

Fausto

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Originally posted by: Lucky
pheww! Just got done with everything A-M. Now onto N-Z.
Damn you read slowly. Your momma drop you on your head when you were little, or what? :p

 

dolph

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definitely interesting, but totally sucks that it's all scanned in stuff, some of which is hand-written, and not very easy to read
 

Fausto

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definitely interesting, but totally sucks that it's all scanned in stuff, some of which is hand-written, and not very easy to read

Some of those scans could best be classified as "atrocious"

Bitch, bitch, bitch. Is that all you ingrates ever do? :p
 

KC5AV

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Originally posted by: Fausto1
definitely interesting, but totally sucks that it's all scanned in stuff, some of which is hand-written, and not very easy to read

Some of those scans could best be classified as "atrocious"

Bitch, bitch, bitch. Is that all you ingrates ever do? :p

Is that a bad thing?
 

Fausto

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Originally posted by: KC5AV
Originally posted by: Fausto1
definitely interesting, but totally sucks that it's all scanned in stuff, some of which is hand-written, and not very easy to read

Some of those scans could best be classified as "atrocious"

Bitch, bitch, bitch. Is that all you ingrates ever do? :p

Is that a bad thing?
Gah!! Another one!!

 

jjessico

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Try and read some of those Roswell documents. The scans are nearly solid black. Woohooo, scans of black fuzz!!!

Jason
 

rahvin

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Originally posted by: jjessico
Try and read some of those Roswell documents. The scans are nearly solid black. Woohooo, scans of black fuzz!!!

Jason

It's the alien blood, spilled all over the pages.
 

Kaervak

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Originally posted by: rahvin
Originally posted by: jjessico
Try and read some of those Roswell documents. The scans are nearly solid black. Woohooo, scans of black fuzz!!!

Jason

It's the alien blood, spilled all over the pages.

Yeah sorry about that. The little son of a bit..... I mean yeah, what the hell's up with that. :D
 

Tom

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"Just the usual McCarthy crap. Nothing to see here. "

Maybe he heard she was "head Red", instead of a redhead ?


 

jjessico

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Lots of investigation wasted on "suspected ties with the Communists" in those files.

Holy smokes.

Jason
 

NTB

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Originally posted by: jjessico
Lots of investigation wasted on "suspected ties with the Communists" in those files.

Holy smokes.

Jason

It looks like a lot of those documents are from around the same time as the McCarthy commie hunts, so that doesn't surprise me. Everybody (except McCarthy himself, of course, & maybe the President) seemed to be looked upon as a communist back then.

Nate