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We're Watching You, Mr. Halberstam

Agency kept dossier on writer for two decades.

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In his later years, the writer David Halberstam was no one’s idea of a security risk. But it wasn’t so early on: News broke yesterday that the FBI kept a dossier on the Halberstam from the 1960s up until the late 1980s. Halberstam apparently came to the bureau’s attention because of a 1965 letter—now heavily redacted—that cast suspicions on his activities. Halberstam was covering Poland for The New York Times, and had married a Polish actress. The FBI later determined there was “no derogatory information” on Halberstam, and suggested the letter might be the work of an enemy.

Read it at New York City News Service

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