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Indeed, there is nothing quite like the society anywhere in the U.S. Much of the group's success is due to the careful selection process. Former fellows and distinguished scholars all over the world nominate their most talented students. Each candidate's dossier is examined by two senior fellows. The finalists are flown in for unnerving interviews during which senior fellows look for lively minds and the ability to communicate ideas. The easiest field to choose from, senior fellows agree, is physics, a discipline in which talent is evident early. The most difficult is the humanities...
...Miami. Says an FBI memo of April 21, 1972: "Subject's activities being closely followed, and any information developed indicating violation of federal laws will be immediately furnished to pertinent agencies in an effort to neutralize any disruptive activities of the subject." The bureau even stuffed into its dossier lyrics from Lennon's antiwar songs...
...close the Barbie case in 1971, Beate Klarsfeld launched an international protest campaign that eventually turned up information on the missing SS man's whereabouts in Latin America. Largely on the basis of new evidence from the Klarsfelds, Lyon Magistrate Christian Riss decided to reopen the Barbie dossier in February 1982. This was necessary because his 1947 and 1954 convictions had lapsed as a result of France's 20-year statute of limitations on war crimes. Last November, Riss officially indicted the one time Gestapo captain for "crimes against humanity," giving the Mitterrand government legal ground for going...
More details are bound to come to light when the trial begins next year. Because of the statute of limitations much of the evidence presented previously will be inadmissible this time in court. But prosecutors have compiled a full dossier for his new trial. He will probably be charged with rounding up and shooting railway employees in Oullins, outside of Lyon, and organizing a police raid in which 86 Jews were arrested. The most poignant case against him centers on the deportation of 41 Jewish orphans, aged 3 to 13, from the village of Izieux to the Auschwitz death camp...
...governmental agencies at home and abroad. At its height, the espionage system, called "Operation Snow White" by Hubbard, included up to 5,000 covert agents who were placed in government offices, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as in private organizations critical of Scientology. Hubbard even assembled a dossier on President Richard Nixon and individuals ranging from U.S. Senators to members of the Rockefeller family...