In 1971, the FBI office in Media, PA was quietly robbed, with a group of anonymous burglars making off with suitcases full of classified documents. A few weeks later, scandalous revelations of the bureau’s conduct started to surface in The New York Timesand Washington Post, documents showing the FBI campaign of dirty tricks and dissent-stifling that radicals had been warning of for years. Suddenly, there was hard proof…and most of the country was left to wonder where it was coming from.
Now, the burglars are coming forward. After 43 years, they’re immune from prosecution, and one of the journalists involved in the case is publishing a book on the burglary, covering the plan from beginning to end.
via The Verge
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