400 FBI Agents to Handle Demands for File Information, Newspaper Article.

Title

400 FBI Agents to Handle Demands for File Information, Newspaper Article.

Date

1977-03-18

Creator

Anthony Marro See all items with this value

Description

A newspaper article from The New York Times about the FBI assigning 400 agents to help eliminate a backlog of Freedom of Information requests. The agents will have a $6.5 million budget and it will take about 6 months to clear the thousands of requests that the FBI had received, causing the backlog of paperwork.

Primary Subject

1900-1999 See all items with this value

Law See all items with this value

Justice See all items with this value

Additional Subject

Black Panther Party (BPP)

Type

Textual document

Medium

Paper

Format

PDF

HBCU Identifier

mwchcac.ar.2022.faj.IX.4.51

HCAC Identifier

HCAC.JSU.0787

Rights

All rights held by the Margaret Walker Center. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University, 601-979-3935 Attn: Center Director.

Contributing Institution

Jackson State University

Source

Originally published in The New York Times, 18 Mar. 1977, p. A11.

Collection

The Black Panther Party Archives of Frankye Adams-Johnson See all items with this value

Language

English

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