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Show Al2_ The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Friday, June 12, 1998 FBIReading Room to Go Online Returning Mir MemberShould Takeit Easy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Public can access files on prominent people under the agency's microscope KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON — Deepinside the forbidding FBI fortress is a small, drab room with fluorescent lights and rowsoftall bookshelves. There's an institutional table, a few chairs and some nondescript landscapes onthewalls. This is where juicy FBIsecrets are stashed. In the FBI Reading Room, you can learn that Lucille Ball registered to vote as a Communist in 1936 at her grandfather's insistence You can read about an FBI investigation of John Lennon when agents learned the musician had contributed $75,000 to a group planningto disrupt the Republican National Convention in 1972. You can bone up on John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde and Baby Face Nelson. You can perusefiles about enduring mysteries: aviator Amelia Earhart’s disappearance, UFOs (one of the most requested) and John Wilkes Booth (was he alive for years after President Lincoln's assassination?). Butthe planto put the files on the Internet may make the Reading Room gothe wayof ‘Old Beulah,” the Packard sedan agents drove to crime scenes in the 1930s. Even now, there are weeks when no one other day with a college-age research assistant, combingfiles for a book heis considering. He’s mum about the specifics of his research but says his topic “deals with an aspect of J. Edgar Hoover's life.”” “There's lots of good stuff in the FBIfiles,” says Lesar, head ofthe small Assassination Archives and Research Center, which focuseschiefly on JFK’s assassination. Lesarsays he hasspenthis legal career devoted to Freedom of Information Act litigation. “I sue the FBI on a very regular basis,” he says, noting that he intervenes on behalf of clients, such as best-selling author Anthony Summers, who wrote a biographyof J. Edgar Hoovercalled Official and Confidential. Historian David Garrow says it’s important to rememberthat just because someone had an FBIfile didn’t mean the bureau was snooping. “The FBI wasn’t investigating 75 percent of the people who havefiles,’ said Garrow, who hasrequested manyfiles during his years of research on Martin Luther King Jr. “The FBI was a vacuum cleaner of clipping operations. And people who that people who the bureau was seriously following have thousands and thousandsofpages. The Reading Roomis open five days a week, but visits are by appointment only and require two days notice. Most requests for files are made from afar, through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The FBI office that handles FOIA requests is huge parture for the FBI, he said. “This is absolutely wonderful,” said Garrow, who has written numerous books about King and thecivil rights movement, including the Pulitzer-Prize-win- — 400 to 600 employees. The bureaugets 12,000 to 13,000 written requests annually for files — many of which aren't among the 278 files in the Reading Room. Linda Kloss, a public information officer for FOIA requests, says it takes at least one to four years to fulfill a request. People can pay for copiesof files, which then are sent throughthe mail. There's one catch — for the FBI to makeoneofits files public, the subject must be deceased. (Unless an individualis seeking his or her own file.) Already, forinstance, there have been 20 requests for any files on Frank Sinatra and Barry Goldwater, according to FBI officials. The most common Reading Room patrons arecollege students, authors, academics and attorneys workingforclients. Jim Lesar, a Washington attorney, was there the wait to jump into the shower. Whoa, say those who have been engineer, was the seventh andfi- there and donethat. “Be carefulthat first night. It's a dangerous time, especially going to the bathroom,” warned as- tronaut Michael Foale, who was wobbly when he returned from the Russian spacestation last fall. “And that hot shower, don’t makeit a long one,” cautioned astronaut David Wolf, whom Thom- ‘Thomas, 46, an Australian-born nal American to live aboard Mir. Discovery arrived for him on June4 andleft with him on Monday, wrapping up NASA’s threeyear shuttle-Mir program, which served as a preludeto the international space station. In an interview Thursday, Thomas said he cannot wait to feel sunshine and walk the beach. wearing of all sorts of exotic dress.” The Nixon White House, in anticipation of a reception, asked Hoover to pore over FBI records for derogatory information on various athletes and sports journalism figures. 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