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showed. There had been burglaries
*   and illegal wiretapping on a grand scale.

Even after FISA legislation, with its strict "minimization" requirement,
CISPES & Co. happened.


Sometimes their suspicion of terrorist/foreign agent activity is laughable.

*   "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996, short version
*  
*   It was just before April Fool's day, and Virginia Bernard thought the
*   caller was one of her friends pulling a practical joke. Her husband, an
*   ex-IRS official got on the phone, and after a brief discussion was
*   convinced the man really was an FBI agent.
*  
*   Agent Emmett arrived: The seventy-three-year-old part-time teacher was
*   asked: "why did you subscribe to 'Soviet Life' and why did you write to
*   the Soviet embassy?"
*  
*   "I need to clear this up. It's in the interest of national security."
*  
*   With the invocation of the sacred words "national security," one of
*   the most powerful mantras of the long-lived Cold War, Mrs. Bernard's
*   seventy-nine-year-old husband burst out laughing. At any time, it
*   would have been hard to imaging the connection between his wife and
*   the fearsome world of espionage, the arms race and Check Point Charlie.
*  
*   But the wall had fallen, and Russia had a complete upheaval too. The FBI
*   agent's linkage of his wife to "national security" seemed absurd. The
*   agent, however, did not share George's amused astonishment.
*  
*   "Don't mock me," the couple remembers Emmett warning them.
*  
*   She had subscribed to the magazine for its impressive photography, and
*   had written to the Soviet embassy to thank them for sending an icebreaker
*   to free some whales, as suggested by a television show host.

How foolish of her to put her real name and return address on the le


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