I've got my letters! I can't wait to either find out they know nothing/don't care and be sort of disappointed, or find out they know way more than I thought and be freaked out.
Sure, go ahead, make a request to get your FBI file. Easy for you to say, Brendan. A few years back, at the urging of a real kick-ass friend with whom I did lots of ACT UP and Queer Nation stunts years back, I did submit my FOIA request to the FBI. The FBI sent me the same type of confirmation letter that Brendan got, further explaining that because I had lived in so many cities, I should expect the agency to take several months to review its files and issue its response. Alas, two weeks letter I received that response. There was no FBI file on me. Nada. Zip. Geez Louise, here I thought all my activism was so effective. I mean, what about the outing campaign against Sen. Mark Hatfield? The excoriation of then-Gov. Bill Clinton’s abysmal gay and AIDS records when he was running for President in ’92? The zap of the Portland FDA office? No one in the J. Edgar Hoover Building cared a whit. Talk about bursting my inflated activist ego. Best of luck to you, Brendan, for determining if they do indeed have a Kiley dossier. I guess I won’t be invited to the Slog Happy to compare notes.
@ 5. I don't think I'll feel too disappointed if they don't have anything—the FBI works in mysterious ways. But I'll be curious to see what (if anything) the aggregate requests turn up.
Surely, having event permits in my name for a huge marijuana-smoking festival in downtown Seattle, and running a pot initiative campaign, has got to produce a federal file, right?
@5 I do know someone who has requested his file twice, several years apart. The first time they had nothing on him. The second, there was just one item in his file: the letter he sent them requesting his file the first time.
I've requested mine twice--nothing there either time. I was ever-so-slightly insulted.
I've got my confirmation letters. The site told me to be sure to submit to both the national office and to the regional offices of any cities that might be of interest, but those cities both sent letters saying they've forwarded the request on to the national. So I guess we'll see.
I expect to see just a single sheet of paper saying "we don't understand how this subject hasn't accidentally killed himself yet".
@17 I used to enjoy lighting other things on fire, but after a couple of decades of steady drinking, I'm beginning to join you in "falling down," so self-immolation can't be far behind.
I think I may have triggered their attention in 2009, when I sent a book I was helping publish: Exoneration (about the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg trial) to Atty. Gen. Holder's office in D.C.
I followed instructions from the AG's office on how to get a book "on his desk" and was told it had to get screened for hazardous material but that if it wasn't hazardous it would get "on his desk". HOWEVER, I got a letter back From The Head of CounterTerrorism at the FBI... It didn't say the book got to Holder's desk, it just "assured" me that all was investigated in the case blah blah blah, which had nothing to do with sending the book to Holder.
I sent a letter back asking what the FBI had to do with my sending a book to AG Holder and to assure me that the book got where it was sent to, but never got another response.
They are still so paranoid about the Rosenbergs that it's likely I've now got a file. I'll send at least one of these to see.
Got a letter back from the Seattle office, saying they forwarded it on to headquarters, haven't heard back from the three other field offices.
On 2/21 got a letter from the home office acknowledging receipt and stating they were looking. That letter gave me a FOIPA Request Number and provided an online link to check status. As of this morning they were still searching.
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I'm sending in my letters.
I've requested mine twice--nothing there either time. I was ever-so-slightly insulted.
I expect to see just a single sheet of paper saying "we don't understand how this subject hasn't accidentally killed himself yet".
Can't wait to see what it says.
I'm listed under "X"...have it stashed in Carlsbad Caverns somewhere. Wouldn't want to see it...
Don't start kids, that stuff creeps up on you!
I followed instructions from the AG's office on how to get a book "on his desk" and was told it had to get screened for hazardous material but that if it wasn't hazardous it would get "on his desk". HOWEVER, I got a letter back From The Head of CounterTerrorism at the FBI... It didn't say the book got to Holder's desk, it just "assured" me that all was investigated in the case blah blah blah, which had nothing to do with sending the book to Holder.
I sent a letter back asking what the FBI had to do with my sending a book to AG Holder and to assure me that the book got where it was sent to, but never got another response.
They are still so paranoid about the Rosenbergs that it's likely I've now got a file. I'll send at least one of these to see.
Do *your* homework, smart guy.
On 2/21 got a letter from the home office acknowledging receipt and stating they were looking. That letter gave me a FOIPA Request Number and provided an online link to check status. As of this morning they were still searching.
Fill this out: http://www.fbi.gov/foia/u.s.-department-…
Then print it, sign it and scan it.
Then fill out this sample request letter: http://www.fbi.gov/foia/sample-fbi-foia-…
Then e-mail the letter to foiparequest@ic.fbi.gov with the scanned certification of identity attached.
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