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The FBI File Heist That Changed History

Snowden’s Ancestors

Eight anti-war protesters wanted to prove J. Edgar Hoover was breaking the law, so they broke into one of his offices.

On March 8, 1971, a group of eight Vietnam War protestors broke into a Federal Bureau of Investigation field office in Media, Pennsylvania and stole hundreds of government documents.

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