FBI seeking muckraking columnist Jack Anderson's papers

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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0419anderson-papers0419.html

Nick Timiraos
Los Angeles Times
Apr. 19, 2006 12:00 AM


WASHINGTON - Jack Anderson turned up plenty of government secrets during his half-century career as an investigative reporter, and his family hoped to make his papers available to the public after his death last December, but the government wants to see and possibly confiscate them first.

The FBI believes that the columnist's files may contain national-security secrets, including documents that would aid in the prosecution of two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, who have been charged with disclosing classified information.

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Mark Feldstein, a journalism professor at George Washington University and Anderson's biographer, said he felt "intimidated" after two FBI agents showed up at his house.

"It smacks of a Gestapo state," said Feldstein, who spent 20 years as an investigative reporter and producer for ABC, NBC and CNN.

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