Activists broke into an FBI office and stole every file they could find.
Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks, the Pentagon Papers—it seems like Americans get a chance to peek behind the surveillance curtain only when somebody commits a crime. That precedent was arguably set on the evening of March 8, 1971, during the “fight of the century” between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali, when activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole every file they could find. As the activists sorted through documents to mail to journalists, even they were shocked to find that more than half were dedicated to spying on activists and undermining draft resistance…
