Word: dossiers
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Democratic Representative Bella Abzug of New York got the file that the CIA had on her, and found that for 22 years, the agency had been maintaining a dossier on some of her activities as lawyer and politician (TIME, March 17). Similarly, the CIA turned over to former Democratic Representative Charles Porter of Oregon 17 items from his file, including a report on his attendance at a 1968 meeting of the Congress of Racial Equality in Oakland, Calif. Asks Porter: "What the hell does that have to do with the CIA? They're treating me like a security risk...
Since then, Neier has taken that aggressive stance even further. "In the past," he says, "we spent most of our lobbying time trying to stop bad bills." Now there is also active prodding and proposing of new laws: Neier wrote his just-published book Dossier to "help quicken the movement" for legal curbs on both private and Government information gatherers. The chubby young executive director has also developed specialists who push for the rights of such groups as homosexuals, minors and servicemen-sometimes even before they organize in their own behalf...
This dark dossier of threats against the First Amendment by which a newspaper lives and the republic survives is the most significant trend I can find in journalism today...
DiCara's mind--his chief political asset--works quickly to generate a congenial atmosphere in any meeting. One can almost hear the clicking as his mind makes up a new dossier on an acquaintance or hunts for an old one amid stacks of past encounters. Friends of DiCara claim that his mental vault holds the names, addresses and occupations of at least 7000 to 8000 people in the Boston area. "People tell me I know a lot of people," DiCara says. "I suppose it's one of those traits of personality that I know so many people...
...organization of the hard-sell U.S. organization as well as on U.J.A. techniques for fund raising and the uses to which its gifts are put. Stone told as much as he knew, but that was not enough. At one point, Stone said later, his Egyptian interrogator pulled a dossier on the U.J.A. but of a desk drawer and demanded petulantly: "O.K. Let's go through this again, and get it right this time." The Egyptians also inquired about the mood of Israel, but the prisoners had difficulty describing it. They had arrived there only 24 hours earlier, many...