European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine dipping into dossiers by Steven Roberts new York times he Federal Bureau of investigation files on Robert a roman Catholic contained summaries of several of his ser the dossier on Eldridge a former Leader of the Black recorded the name of a person who brought Fried Chicken to a political con Gabriel a lawyer in found a picture of the family Bernard in his state police re comparing government files is a popular parlor game for political activists and journalists these and Many of them would agree with Drigans assessment of official investigations the time wasted was in for the files Are no joking the Institute for policy a left Wing research organization in discovered that the Fri had been stealing its trash As part of a massive surveillance operation that involved More than a dozen they operated like a political police said Marcus the institutes about the Only thing worse than having a big Fri b3 flip 1s having a Small or none at in certain the humiliation ranks with being left off Richard Nixon enemies my file was really kind of said Anthony an investigative reporter with new Day and Newsweek before he joined the new York there was not much in a lot of congressmen Are afraid to ask for their crowed whose dossier ran is there afraid they dont have the Freedom of information act adopted in f r j How York tames Drynan in Obi Reading room found summaries of his sermons in personal but most  opened to the Public until the act was amended in since the Fri has received about requests for information the de sense department and the Central intelligence Agency Are also popular under the government agencies can withhold information for several including the Protection of ongoing investigations and the privacy of third critics contend that these exemptions Are often and Marcus one of the lawyers for Cleav said that dozens of pages had been completely blacked except for his clients i have a vision in said of a room full of clerks at the sitting there with Large Black magic just going it strikes me As the height of irony that they Are not giving us information to protect someones while their investigation itself was an incredibly Gross invasion of its a classic Case of according to a the Fri has liberalized its policies since last when attorney general Griffin Bell ordered government agencies to release any information that was not demonstrably but Many applicants Are still not and about 170 requests that could not be resolved by negotiation Are now m the Federal one said the is that Many investigations Center on an not an and re lease of the records could harm the Public Doest have enough appreciation for whats contained in an investigatory the spokesman Many applicants Are astounded at the trivia they find in their Nina a reporter for National Public said that her dossier was full of memorandums reporting her efforts to research a profile of the late Edgar As a taxpayer in said if the Fri spent As much time catching Crooks As they do writ ing they solve the whole Federal crime prob its Nice to be and a putdown can be the source of great Totenberg treasurers a marginal comment by Hoover who called her a Persis tent David a new York report says he is going to Frame an Fri report that Calls him a troublemaker who reaches conclusions without fac Tual if the Fri spent As much time catching Crooks As they do writing they solve the whole Federal crime january who is finds it amusing that the same report which accuses him of inaccuracy describes him As one report in Totenberg file which clearly confuses her with an elderly aunt says that she was born in Poland in some file readers get an eerie feeling when they realize How closely their activities have been Moni Robert found lengthy reports on the annual meetings of state attorneys an aide said that the a former attorney finds it offensive when anyone checks on you when you Haven done Don a professor of political science at the state University of new York at discovered a report that he had been considered for a Job with the i never applied for such a and was never informed that i was under he this was the first i found the worst feeling is to be Emile de a noted film maker and outspoken was insulted when he realized that his Radical career had rated Only perfunctory attention by the i cannot he that someone could do All that Ive done without incurring at least a cursory investigation by a paranoid Lunatic like one coast activist asked for his records and offered to pay toward the Cost of duplicating the since the government charges 10 cents a the applicant expected quite a but the Bureau told him that he was not on he was really the activists i told him they might have made a just to soften the such deprived characters have one Consolation once you ask for your Fri they open one on the stars and stripes Page 13