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But first, please read 674 | . 675 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # FOIA The Dead 2 | 3 | FOIA The Dead is a "morbid transparency project" that creates automated public records requests for the subjects of newly published obituaries. Because the Freedom of Information Act limits access to certain private information about living people, the project occasionally uncovers records that would have previously been withheld. 4 | 5 | This repository contains the script that fetches obituaries (currently only from the *New York Times*) and creates a record request based on the information those obituaries contain. The resulting requests were previously sent via email to the FBI, but now are delivered via the [Muckrock](https://www.muckrock.com) API. 6 | 7 | This repository also contains the scripts that publish the project's results at [foiathedead.org](https://foiathedead.org). Those HTML pages are generated with Python, based on information stored in a SQLite database that tracks the project's requests through publication. 8 | 9 | FOIA The Dead is a Special Project of the [Freedom of the Press Foundation](https://freedom.press), and written and maintained by [Parker Higgins](https://twitter.com/xor). 10 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /ftd_tweets.py: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | #!/usr/bin/env python3 2 | # Tweets from the FOIA The Dead script. 3 | # Tweets a subset of new requests, and blog post updates with digests. 4 | 5 | import yaml 6 | from twython import Twython 7 | 8 | config = yaml.load(open("config.yaml")) 9 | 10 | twitter_account = config['twitter_account'] 11 | twitter_app_key = config['twitter_app_key'] 12 | twitter_app_secret = config['twitter_app_secret'] 13 | twitter_oauth_token = config['twitter_oauth_token'] 14 | twitter_oauth_token_secret = config['twitter_oauth_token_secret'] 15 | 16 | twitter = Twython(twitter_app_key, twitter_app_secret, twitter_oauth_token, twitter_oauth_token_secret) 17 | 18 | def tweet_request(name,obit_url): 19 | twitter.update_status(status='Just filed a FOIA request for the FBI file of {name}. NY Times obituary: {obit_url}'.format(**locals())) 20 | 21 | def tweet_digest_post(post_title,post_url): 22 | twitter.update_status(status='Blog post: {post_title} {post_url}'.format(**locals())) 23 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /getobits.py: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | #!/usr/bin/env python3 2 | # Grabs the last 10 NYT obits, prepares the text of a FOIA 3 | # request for their FBI files, and sends that request to the FBI. 4 | 5 | import os, requests, json, datetime, sqlite3 6 | import yaml, pdfkit, html 7 | import boto3 8 | from datetime import datetime 9 | from slugify import slugify 10 | 11 | config = yaml.load(open("config.yaml")) 12 | 13 | db = config['db'] 14 | conn = sqlite3.connect(db) 15 | 16 | def edit_name(headline): 17 | name_check = "n" 18 | while name_check == "n": 19 | print("\nOK, you can edit the name. Here's what the headline says:\n".format(**locals())) 20 | print("{headline}\n".format(**locals())) 21 | new_name = input("What's the name? ") 22 | name_check = input("\nRoger that. Does {new_name} look good? (Y/n) ".format(**locals())) 23 | return new_name 24 | 25 | def nyt_api_request(key): 26 | """Query NYT API and return recent obits.""" 27 | api_url = "https://api.nytimes.com/svc/search/v2/articlesearch.json?fq=type_of_material:%28%22Obituary%20%28Obit%29%22%29&sort=newest&fl=headline,web_url,snippet,pub_date&api-key=" + key 28 | 29 | res = requests.get(api_url) 30 | res.raise_for_status() 31 | 32 | api_results = json.loads(res.text) 33 | 34 | return api_results['response']['docs'] 35 | 36 | def get_past_requests(): 37 | """Query db and return two lists: past names and headlines.""" 38 | past_requests_tuples = list(conn.execute( 39 | 'select name,obit_headline from requests order by id desc')) 40 | return map(list, zip(*past_requests_tuples)) 41 | 42 | def process_obit(obit, past_names, past_headlines): 43 | obit_source = "The New York Times" 44 | # May be more sources in the future, for now just NYT. 45 | obit_headline = html.unescape(obit['headline']['main']) 46 | 47 | # This line converts NYT's ISO formatted pub_date 48 | # to a human-readable format. 49 | obit_date = datetime.strftime(datetime.strptime(obit['pub_date'],"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z"),"%B %-d, %Y") 50 | pdf_date = datetime.strftime(datetime.strptime(obit['pub_date'],"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z"),"%Y%m%d") 51 | 52 | # guesses the name of the person by the headline up 53 | # until the comma. 54 | # Brittle, but matches NYT syntax mostly without fail so far. 55 | dead_person = obit_headline.split(",")[0] 56 | 57 | obit_url = obit['web_url'] 58 | 59 | doc_request = "A copy of all documents or FBI files pertaining to {dead_person}, an obituary of whom was published in {obit_source} on {obit_date} under the headline \"{obit_headline}\". Please see attached PDF copy of that obituary, which may also be found at {obit_url}.".format(**locals()) 60 | 61 | print("\nPreparing a fax with the following request:\n") 62 | 63 | print(doc_request) 64 | 65 | if dead_person in past_names: 66 | print("\nBut it looks like you've already sent a request for {dead_person}.".format(**locals())) 67 | elif obit_headline in past_headlines: 68 | print("\nBut it looks like you've already sent a request for the obit \"{obit_headline}\".".format(**locals())) 69 | 70 | should_request = input("\nLook good? (Y)es/(e)dit/(s)kip/(q)uit ") 71 | 72 | if should_request == "" or should_request == "y" or should_request == "Y": 73 | 74 | now_string = str(datetime.utcnow()) 75 | 76 | return [dead_person, doc_request, obit_url, 77 | obit_headline, now_string, pdf_date] 78 | 79 | elif should_request == "e": 80 | new_name = edit_name(obit_headline) 81 | doc_request = "A copy of all documents or FBI files pertaining to {new_name}, an obituary of whom was published in {obit_source} on {obit_date} under the headline \"{obit_headline}\". Please see attached PDF copy of that obituary, which may also be found at {obit_url}.".format(**locals()) 82 | now_string = str(datetime.utcnow()) 83 | return [new_name, doc_request, obit_url, 84 | obit_headline, now_string, pdf_date] 85 | 86 | elif should_request == "s": 87 | return None 88 | 89 | elif should_request == "q": 90 | return "q" 91 | 92 | def send_muckrock(request): 93 | mr_url = config['mr_url'] 94 | mr_token = config['mr_token'] 95 | jurisdiction = config['mr_pk'] 96 | agency = config['mr_agency'] 97 | 98 | req_name = request[0] 99 | req_request = request[1] 100 | req_url = request[2] 101 | req_headline = request[3] 102 | req_time = request[4] 103 | req_date = request[5] 104 | 105 | print("\nHandcrafting a PDF of the obituary of {req_name}.".format(**locals())) 106 | 107 | slug = slugify(req_name) 108 | 109 | req_pdf_filename = slug + "-nyt-obit-" + req_date + ".pdf" 110 | 111 | try: 112 | pdfkit.from_url(req_url, 113 | "pdfs/" + req_pdf_filename, 114 | options={'quiet': '', 'disable-javascript': '', 'no-outline': '', 115 | 'no-images': '', 'page-size': 'letter'}) 116 | except OSError as error: 117 | if "code 1" in str(error): 118 | print("\nAn OSError occurred, but it's probably not a big deal.") 119 | else: 120 | print("\n!!! NOT SENDING a request for {req_name}, due to this error:\n {error}".format(**locals())) 121 | return 122 | 123 | s3 = boto3.resource('s3') 124 | 125 | with open('pdfs/' + req_pdf_filename, 'rb') as f: 126 | s3.meta.client.upload_fileobj(f, "ftd-pdfs", 127 | req_pdf_filename, 128 | ExtraArgs = {'ContentType':'application/pdf'}) 129 | 130 | print("\nUploading PDF to S3 as {req_pdf_filename}.".format(**locals())) 131 | 132 | req_pdf_url = config['s3_root'] + req_pdf_filename 133 | 134 | print("\nSending FOIA request for {req_name} file via Muckrock.".format(**locals())) 135 | 136 | mr_data = json.dumps({ 137 | 'jurisdiction': jurisdiction, 138 | 'agency': agency, 139 | 'title': req_name + ", FBI file", 140 | 'document_request': req_request, 141 | 'attachments': [req_pdf_url]}) 142 | 143 | mr_headers = {'Authorization': 'Token {}'.format(mr_token), 144 | 'content-type': 'application/json'} 145 | 146 | r = requests.post(mr_url + 'foia/', 147 | headers = mr_headers, 148 | data = mr_data) 149 | 150 | response = r.json() 151 | 152 | if response['status'] == 'FOI Request submitted': 153 | conn.execute(""" 154 | insert into requests (name, obit_headline, obit_url, requested_at, slug) 155 | values ('{req_name}', '{req_headline}', '{req_url}', '{req_time}','{slug}') 156 | """.format(**locals())) 157 | 158 | conn.commit() 159 | 160 | def main(): 161 | docs = nyt_api_request(config['nyt_api_key']) 162 | 163 | past_names, past_headlines = get_past_requests() 164 | 165 | to_send = [] 166 | 167 | for obit in docs: 168 | request = process_obit(obit, past_names, past_headlines) 169 | 170 | if request == "q": 171 | break 172 | elif request is not None: 173 | to_send.append(request) 174 | 175 | for request in to_send: 176 | send_muckrock(request) 177 | 178 | conn.close() 179 | 180 | print("\nAll done. Pleasure doing business with you.") 181 | 182 | if __name__ == '__main__': 183 | main() 184 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /publishsite.py: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | #!/usr/bin/env python3 2 | # Publishes static site created by updatesite.py to Amazon S3. 3 | 4 | import boto3, mimetypes, os 5 | 6 | def main(): 7 | s3 = boto3.resource('s3') 8 | 9 | os.chdir('site') 10 | 11 | contents = [os.path.join(root, leaf) for root, folders, files in os.walk(".") for leaf in files] 12 | keys = [leaf.lstrip("./") for leaf in contents] 13 | 14 | for index in range(len(contents)): 15 | mime = mimetypes.guess_type(keys[index]) 16 | 17 | if mime[0]: 18 | print("Uploading " + keys[index]) 19 | s3.meta.client.upload_file(contents[index], 20 | "foiathedead.org", keys[index], ExtraArgs = 21 | {'ContentType':mime[0]}) 22 | 23 | else: 24 | print("Not uploading " + keys[index] + " because it has a nonstandard mimetype.") 25 | 26 | print("All uploaded.") 27 | 28 | if __name__ == "__main__": 29 | main() 30 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /requirements.txt: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | blessings==1.6 2 | boto3==1.7.81 3 | botocore==1.10.81 4 | bpython==0.15 5 | curtsies==0.2.6 6 | docutils==0.14 7 | dominate==2.3.5 8 | feedgen==0.7.0 9 | greenlet==0.4.10 10 | html2text==2018.1.9 11 | jmespath==0.9.3 12 | lxml==4.2.5 13 | Markdown==3.0.1 14 | oauthlib==1.1.1 15 | pdfkit==0.6.1 16 | pkg-resources==0.0.0 17 | pyaml==15.8.2 18 | Pygments==2.1.3 19 | python-dateutil==2.7.3 20 | python-documentcloud==1.1.0 21 | python-slugify==1.2.5 22 | PyYAML==3.11 23 | requests==2.9.1 24 | requests-oauthlib==0.6.1 25 | rfc3987==1.3.8 26 | s3transfer==0.1.13 27 | six==1.10.0 28 | twython==3.3.0 29 | Unidecode==1.0.22 30 | wcwidth==0.1.7 31 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /schema.sql: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | -- Schema for FOIA The Dead requests 2 | 3 | create table requests ( 4 | id integer primary key autoincrement not null, 5 | name text, 6 | obit_headline text, 7 | obit_url text, 8 | requested_at datetime, 9 | documentcloud_id text, 10 | slug text, 11 | short_description text, 12 | long_description text 13 | ); 14 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /site/about.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | FOIA The Dead is a long-term transparency project that uses the [Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)) to request information from the FBI about the recently deceased. 2 | 3 | That law requires certain government agencies to produce records upon a request from the public. One significant exception to that requirement is that, to protect the privacy of individuals, federal agencies may not release information about living people. But after their death, their privacy concerns are diminished, and those records can become available. 4 | 5 | FOIA The Dead was founded to address that transition. When somebody's obituary appears in the _New York Times_, FOIA The Dead sends an automated request to the FBI for their (newly-available) records. In many cases, the FBI responds that it has no files on the individual. But in some cases it does, and can now release those files upon request. When FOIA The Dead receives it, the file gets published for the world to see. 6 | 7 | From October 2017 to July 2022, FOIA The Dead was a special project of the [Freedom of the Press Foundation](https://freedom.press). The Freedom of the Press Foundation has provided institutional support and consulted on the project's development. 8 | 9 | Since March 2017, FOIA The Dead has used MuckRock to submit and track its requests with the FBI. Browse through [MuckRock's FOIA resources](https://www.muckrock.com) or [read about its API](https://www.muckrock.com/api/). 10 | 11 | This project is written and maintained by [Parker Higgins](https://twitter.com/xor). You can [follow it on Twitter](https://twitter.com/foiathedead). Source code is [available on GitHub](https://github.com/thisisparker/ftd/), and most of the site is [available as JSON](https://foiathedead.org/entries.json). Additional thanks to [Elizabeth Yalkut](http://www.elizabethyalkut.com/) for contributing some subject bios. 12 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /site/atom.xml: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | 2 | 3 | https://foiathedead.org 4 | FOIA The Dead 5 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.274897+00:00 6 | 7 | FOIA The Dead 8 | foia@foiathedead.org 9 | 10 | 11 | python-feedgen 12 | FOIA The Dead is a long-term transparency project using the Freedom of Information Act. It releases FBI records on recently deceased public figures. 13 | 14 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/jacqueline-berrien/ 15 | Jacqueline Berrien 16 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.277204+00:00 17 | <p>Jacqueline Berrien chaired the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under President Obama. Her FBI file consists of a background check related to that appointment.</p> 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/concepcion-picciotto/ 22 | Concepcion Picciotto 23 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.277164+00:00 24 | <p>Concepción Picciotto was a peace activist who held a continuous vigil across the street from the White House from 1981 until ten days before her death in 2016. Her FBI file includes documentation of several complaints to the FBI, including self-published pamphlets.</p> 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/fred-thompson/ 29 | Fred Thompson 30 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.277127+00:00 31 | <p>Fred Thompson was an actor, a Tennessee senator from 1994 to 2003, and a 2008 presidential candidate. His FBI file involves investigations of threatening calls and letters received by Thompson's Senate office, and a background check for clearance to classified information as special counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee.</p> 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/robert-parry/ 36 | Robert Parry 37 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.277088+00:00 38 | <p>Robert Parry was an investigative journalist best known for his groundbreaking coverage of the Iran–Contra Affair while at the Associated Press. His short FBI file documents an investigation into a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) chapter he founded at his alma mater.</p> 39 | 40 | <p>The Colby College chapter he led was not apparently successful. According to the FBI report, it attracted only two freshmen, and "none of the three members were particularly enthused about the organization."</p> 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/cathleen-morawetz/ 45 | Cathleen Morawetz 46 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.277051+00:00 47 | <p>Cathleen Morawetz was a mathematician and NYU professor whose research on the motion of fluids and waves was relevant to supersonic aircraft wing design. Her file describes a monthlong visit to the Soviet Union in 1963 as part of an Exchange Agreement, as well as FBI efforts to interview her (and apparently share technical information with her) without alerting her to the identity of a particular Bureau informant.</p> 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/drue-heinz/ 52 | Drue Heinz 53 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.277009+00:00 54 | <p>Drue Heinz was a patron of the arts, publisher of <i>The Paris Review</i>, and—for a brief stretch in 1950—an actress. Her FBI file, which mostly refers to her as Doreen Mary Maher, consists of a background check conducted in 1948, apparently in connection to employment with the Voice of America.</p> 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/fats-domino/ 59 | Fats Domino 60 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276973+00:00 61 | <p>Fats Domino was a pianist, singer, and songwriter who made a name as one of the biggest stars of the early rock-and-roll era. His file consists of a 1965 inquiry into one of his Cadillacs, apparently spotted during an FBI stakeout of a Philadelphia hotel that Martin Luther King was believed to be staying at.</p> 62 | 63 | <p>The document in Domino's file is labeled "SUBJECT: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR." and refers to an earlier <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airtel_(FBI)">airtel</a> from the FBI's Philadelphia office. That earlier message is included below for reference, and describes an "extremely discreet spot check at the Franklin Motor Inn," during which Domino's car was spotted and—it seems—mistakenly connected with King. The original document can be found in context in MLK's <a href="https://archive.org/details/fbi_file_mlk">complete FBI file</a>, which runs to over 16,600 pages. The Philadelphia airtel begins on page 49 of file 32.</p> 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/c-weston-houck/ 68 | C. Weston Houck 69 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276935+00:00 70 | <p>Judge C. Weston Houck presided over a lawsuit brought by Shannon Faulkner against South Carolina's public military college, The Citadel. His ruling in that case ended the Citadel's 152-year-old male-only admissions policy. His FBI file primarily addresses an incident wherein a man upset by that case engaged in behavior that could have been construed as a threat.</p> 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/pat-summitt/ 75 | Pat Summitt 76 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276894+00:00 77 | <p>Pat Summitt was a University of Tennessee coach who is credited for the rise in prominence of women's college basketball. Her FBI file documents a series of letters intended to threaten and possibly extort her, apparently written by an unhinged fan.</p> 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/andrzej-wajda/ 82 | Andrzej Wajda 83 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276854+00:00 84 | <p>Andrzej Wajda was a Polish film and theater director who worked during the height of the Cold War. His FBI file primarily addresses a trip to Los Angeles in 1976 (probably for the Academy Awards, where his <i>The Promised Land</i> was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film) in which one member of his group was a subject of FBI monitoring.</p> 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/harry-wu/ 89 | Harry Wu 90 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276816+00:00 91 | <p>Harry Hongda Wu was an activist and naturalized American citizen who traveled to China repeatedly to document human rights abuses, including the sale of organs, in the prison system there. His file primarily consists of his documenting those abuses.</p> 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/robert-e-allen/ 96 | Robert E. Allen 97 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276777+00:00 98 | <p>Robert Allen was the chief executive and chairman of AT&T for nearly a decade beginning in 1988—a transitional period for the U.S. telecommunications industry. His FBI file consists of background checks conducted during his AT&T leadership, as he was considered for various federal government jobs.</p> 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/mike-davis/ 103 | Mike Davis 104 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276737+00:00 105 | <p>Although he was a notable oil industry magnate and received widespread coverage when he married the Denver Post heiress 40 years his senior (after previously working as her chauffeur), Mike Davis was best known at the time of his death as the "World's Grumpiest Boss," after his 1970s-era office memos banning "levity" and even unsolicited greetings circulated online. His FBI file captures yet another facet of his life, documenting over some 200 pages a dramatic $50,000 Las Vegas extortion attempt of which he was the victim, and which involved Frank Sinatra and a number of famous casinos.</p> 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/edward-daly/ 110 | Edward Daly 111 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276696+00:00 112 | <p>Father Edward Daly was a Roman Catholic bishop from Northern Ireland who achieved prominence for his role at the forefront of the protest march on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." In 1972 he visited New York, where the FBI recorded plans to monitor him and describes an interview the Bureau conducted with him at the Roosevelt Hotel.</p> 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/warren-hinckle/ 117 | Warren Hinckle 118 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276658+00:00 119 | <p>Warren J. Hinckle, III was a well-known columnist and provocateur best known as the editor of Ramparts magazine and a vocal (and at times gonzo) proponent of left politics. His FBI file pertains chiefly to an investigation into an advertisement placed in 1981 seeking to recruit volunteers for an American brigade of the IRA, and also contains excerpts of his writing on Cuba.</p> 120 | 121 | <p>Muckrock has posted <a href="https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/sep/26/fbi-warren-hinckle/">a more extensive look</a> into the contents of Hinckle's FBI file.</p> 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/trinh-thi-ngo/ 126 | Trinh Thi Ngo 127 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276619+00:00 128 | <p>Trinh Thi Ngo broadcast as "Hanoi Hannah" from North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Her show aimed to damage the morale of American troops. Her short FBI file mentions her only in passing, in a report about a similar show that was believed to be recorded within the U.S.—the show hosts claimed to be in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles—and shipped to Vietnam for broadcast there.</p> 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/david-bunnell/ 133 | David Bunnell 134 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276569+00:00 135 | <p>David Bunnell was one of the founding figures of the computer trade publication industry, involved in founding PC Magazine, Macworld and others. Before that, though, he was involved in New Left politics at the University of Nebraska, where as a student in 1968 he served as the president of the Students for a Democratic Society chapter. His FBI file tracks that group's activities during his tenure there.</p> 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/hugh-o-brian/ 140 | Hugh O'Brian 141 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276528+00:00 142 | <p>Hugh O'Brian was an American actor best known for his portrayal of Wyatt Earp during the height of the popularity of Western TV shows. His fame led to an invitation from Nobel Prize winning Dr. Albert Schweitzer to a hospital in Gabon, which inspired O'Brian to start a non-profit foundation for youth leadership. His FBI file consists of correspondence between the Bureau and his foundation, which invited multiple FBI directors to speak at events.</p> 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/elaine-lustig-cohen/ 147 | Elaine Lustig Cohen 148 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276454+00:00 149 | <p>Elaine Lustig Cohen was a painter and graphic designer responsible for the signage on the Seagram's Building, among many other clients. In the late 1960s, the FBI maintained a short file on her—including monitoring her international travel—and her husband, Arthur A. Cohen. The file includes some sensitive personal details about their marriage.</p> 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/nina-ponomareva/ 154 | Nina Ponomareva 155 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276417+00:00 156 | <p>Nina Ponomoreva was an Olympic discus thrower from the Soviet Union. In 1956 she was involved in a minor diplomatic crisis, when she was accused (and found guilty) of shoplifting hats in the United Kingdom. Her short FBI file consists of newspaper reports of that incident and its fallout.</p> 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/sammy-lee/ 161 | Sammy Lee 162 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276377+00:00 163 | <p>Sammy Lee was the first Asian-American man to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States. He subsequently worked as a doctor and coach, and was honored by six U.S. presidents. In 1990, he was appointed to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport, and his FBI file mostly pertains to the background check required for that position.</p> 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/ahmed-h-zewail/ 168 | Ahmed H. Zewail 169 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276338+00:00 170 | <p>Ahmed Zewail was a chemist and Nobel Prize winner who worked in the Obama White House as a science adviser. His file consists of background checks conducted for that position, conducted between 2008 and 2012.</p> 171 | 172 | 173 | 174 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/coca-crystal/ 175 | Coca Crystal 176 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276299+00:00 177 | <p>Coca Crystal was a counterculture activist and TV personality associated with New York City. Her file covers meetings she planned, attended, or led in the early 1970s, including one to protest Nixon's inauguration.</p> 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/gus-savage/ 182 | Gus Savage 183 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276262+00:00 184 | <p>Gus Savage worked as a civil rights activist and spokesman for the Progressive Party before he was elected to Congress to represent the South Side of Chicago. His lengthy FBI file covers that earlier activism, an (unsuccessful) loyalty check during an application for a federal government job, and investigations into threats against him during his time in office.</p> 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/robert-bennett/ 189 | Robert Bennett 190 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276225+00:00 191 | <p>Years before Robert Foster Bennett served as Senator from Utah, he ran a public relations company that counted Howard Hughes as a client and once employed Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt. His FBI file pertains to a $50,000 political donation from Hughes to the Nixon re-election effort — a payment that Bennett coordinated with Gordon Liddy.</p> 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/ben-h-bagdikian/ 196 | Ben H. Bagdikian 197 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276181+00:00 198 | <p>Before reporter Ben Bagdikian covered the Pentagon Papers for the <i>Washington Post</i>, he was the author of a series of critical articles about official secrecy and "loyalty checks" in federal law enforcement. These writings landed him on the bad side of J. Edgar Hoover, which resulted in decades of scrutiny.</p> 199 | 200 | <p>The Bureau subsequently collected and summarized his major writing, including a series of 12 articles on news magazines and their effect on politics. (Those summaries, and the articles they address, are included in this file.)</p> 201 | 202 | <p>But it was his 1961 article about the 37th anniversary of J. Edgar Hoover's appointment as chief that most rankled. Hoover annotated a copy of the article, asking that Bagdikian be removed from all Bureau mailings. He reportedly called the article "utter bunk."</p> 203 | 204 | <p>Bagdikian was likely aware of his reputation within the Bureau, but would have had it confirmed when, in 1975, he filed a Freedom of Information Act request for his own file. That request, and the follow-up communications (including his check for $8.50 and a notarized signature) are also included in this file.</p> 205 | 206 | 207 | 208 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/sam-iacobellis/ 209 | Sam Iacobellis 210 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276143+00:00 211 | <p>Sam Iacobellis is the engineer credited with developing the B-1 bomber, an American stealth long-range aircraft that affected the course of the Cold War. His short file contains a report of contact with an official—possibly one from the USSR—and an FBI decision not to interview him afterward.</p> 212 | 213 | 214 | 215 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/norma-mccorvey/ 216 | Norma McCorvey 217 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276106+00:00 218 | <p>Norma McCorvey was the plaintiff, under the pseudonym Jane Roe, of the landmark 1973 Supreme Court case ruling state anti-abortion laws unconstitutional. Her FBI file is focused on a 1989 incident, days before she was to participate in an abortion rights rally, in which unknown suspects fired a shotgun at her home and car.</p> 219 | 220 | 221 | 222 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/madeleine-sherwood/ 223 | Madeleine Sherwood 224 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276063+00:00 225 | <p>Madeline Sherwood was an actress most notable for her role in the 1960s television series "The Flying Nun." She had previously been married to the playwright Robert Sherwood, whom the FBI believed to be involved with Communism. This file describes an effort to locate her, to interview her, and the decision not to approach her directly.</p> 226 | 227 | 228 | 229 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/jack-t-chick/ 230 | Jack T. Chick 231 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.276000+00:00 232 | <p>Fundamentalist Christian cartoonist Jack Chick wrote to J. Edgar Hoover in 1971 seeking the FBI's help with his bizarre religious comics. His file consists of that letter and Hoover's response declining to participate. A <a href="https://boingboing.net/2017/03/10/funnybooks-and-feebs.html">longer write-up of this file</a> has been published at Boing Boing.</p> 233 | 234 | 235 | 236 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/walter-kohn/ 237 | Walter Kohn 238 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275959+00:00 239 | <p>Nobel laureate Walter Kohn left Austria as a child refugee in 1940, coming to Canada and eventually to the United States to study and teach physics. He was the founding director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara, helped establish a program for Judaic studies at UC San Diego, and taught at Harvard and Carnegie Mellon. His FBI file consists of an extensive background check for a Department of Energy job in the late 1980s.</p> 240 | 241 | 242 | 243 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/hedy-epstein/ 244 | Hedy Epstein 245 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275921+00:00 246 | <p>Hedy Epstein, a Holocaust survivor who served as a translator in the Nuremberg trials before emigrating to the U.S., worked as an activist for various causes over a span of more than five decades. Her FBI file covers those five decades, and the overwhelming majority concerns housing discrimination cases she helped prepare in the 1970s.</p> 247 | 248 | 249 | 250 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/daniel-aaron/ 251 | Daniel Aaron 252 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275883+00:00 253 | <p>Daniel Aaron was a literary critic and historian credited with pioneering the field of "American studies." His short FBI file is chiefly concerned with his contribution to a study on the role of Communism in the United States, announced in 1955.</p> 254 | 255 | 256 | 257 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/joseph-medicine-crow/ 258 | Joseph Medicine Crow 259 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275840+00:00 260 | <p>Joseph Medicine Crow was a widely renowned Native American historian and anthropologist and the last living person to have heard spoken testimony from people at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. His FBI file consists only of a single-page interview he gave to special agents about a friend, a Jeep accident, and an angry mob weilding two-by-fours.</p> 261 | 262 | 263 | 264 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/haskell-wexler/ 265 | Haskell Wexler 266 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275802+00:00 267 | <p>Haskell Wexler was the award-winning filmmaker known for "Medium Cool" (1969) and others. The FBI monitored him before and after his 1976 documentary "Underground," about the radical Weathermen, and attempted to subpoena his raw footage.</p> 268 | 269 | 270 | 271 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/king-bhumibol-aduljadej/ 272 | King Bhumibol Aduljadej 273 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275753+00:00 274 | <p>Bhumibol Aduljadej was king of Thailand for 70 years. In 2000, Thai law enforcement requested the FBI’s help in locating a "disrespectful" online impersonator.</p> 275 | 276 | 277 | 278 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/michael-mariotte/ 279 | Michael Mariotte 280 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275715+00:00 281 | Michael Mariotte was a prominent anti-nuclear activist throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Before that, in 1973, he’d gotten the FBI’s attention as a member of the Youth International Party and a potential protestor at Richard Nixon’s inauguration. 282 | 283 | 284 | 285 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/morley-safer/ 286 | Morley Safer 287 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275675+00:00 288 | Morley Safer was a Canadian journalist who came to prominence offering unvarnished coverage of the Vietnam War. After receiving a viewer complain that Safer’s reporting would be &quot;destructive to morale,&quot; FBI prepared a report but declined to investigate further. 289 | 290 | 291 | 292 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/mark-lane/ 293 | Mark Lane 294 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275635+00:00 295 | <p>Mark Lane was a leading proponent of the theory that the assassination of John F. Kennedy was a conspiracy. His FBI file concerns travel in 1980 to Lebanon, but concedes that he "has been known to the Bureau since the early 1960s."</p> 296 | 297 | 298 | 299 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/bill-campbell/ 300 | Bill Campbell 301 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275598+00:00 302 | <p>Bill Campbell was an executive and advisor for large tech companies such as Apple and Google. His file consists primarily of an FBI interview conducted in 2007 about an options backdating scandal at Apple, where he served on the board.</p> 303 | 304 | 305 | 306 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/william-l-oneill/ 307 | William L. O’Neill 308 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275562+00:00 309 | <p>William O’Neill wrote a dozen books about history and radicalism through the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. His participation in activism was monitored by the FBI — particularly his involvement in an Fair Play for Cuba event, where he served as master of ceremonies.</p> 310 | 311 | 312 | 313 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/boutros-boutros-ghali/ 314 | Boutros Boutros-Ghali 315 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275522+00:00 316 | <p>Boutros Boutros-Ghali served as the U.N. Secretary General in the post-Cold War era after decades as an Egyptian diplomat. His FBI file mostly dates to the beginning of that era, and remains heavily redacted.</p> 317 | 318 | 319 | 320 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/dr-herbert-l-abrams/ 321 | Dr. Herbert L. Abrams 322 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275485+00:00 323 | FOIA The Dead has obtained the FBI file for Dr. Herbert L. Abrams. 324 | 325 | 326 | 327 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/lois-weisberg/ 328 | Lois Weisberg 329 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275448+00:00 330 | FOIA The Dead has obtained the FBI file for Lois Weisberg. 331 | 332 | 333 | 334 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/robert-stigwood/ 335 | Robert Stigwood 336 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275411+00:00 337 | <p>Robert Stigwood was an Australian music and movie producer and executive who achieved international success with acts such as the Bee Gees and Eric Clapton, and films such as "Saturday Night Fever," "Grease," and "Evita." Before his <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/arts/music/robert-stigwood-entrepreneur-of-rock-and-film-is-dead-at-81.html">death in January 2016</a>, he was frequently ranked among the wealthiest people in Britain.</p> 338 | 339 | <p>In May and June of 1991, around the time that <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1993-12-11/entertainment/ca-728_1_director-oliver-stone">Disney aborted plans</a> to fund a film version of "Evita" directed by Oliver Stone, the FBI's legal attaché in Canberra, Australia contacted the Bureau's Los Angeles and central headquarters requesting a criminal check on Stigwood after a request from an unknown party.</p> 340 | 341 | <p>The FBI came up empty-handed after performing the requested search and checking the records of the California Department of Justice, the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Los Angeles Count Sheriff's Department. Information about that request was furnished to the unknown party.</p> 342 | 343 | <p>From to FBI records:</p> 344 | 345 | <blockquote><p>On 5/29/91, [REDACTED] contacted [FBI's Canberra legal attaché] concerning Stigwood.</p> 346 | 347 | <p>He advised that Robert Stigwood ... is under consideration by [REDACTED] to be [REDACTED].</p> 348 | 349 | <p>Stigwood is a relatively well-known Australian movie producer/director who has spent much of his life in the Hollywood California area.</p> 350 | 351 | <p>Lead at Los Angeles, California: Conduct an indices search for any information concerning Stigwood and advise [legal attaché] Canberra for dissemination to [REDACTED]. A prompt reply would be appreciated.</p></blockquote> 352 | 353 | <p>Redacted records of that correspondence make up the entirety of Stigwood's released FBI file and are reproduced below.</p> 354 | 355 | 356 | 357 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/michael-g-oxley/ 358 | Michael G. Oxley 359 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275368+00:00 360 | <p>Representative Mike Oxley, best known for his co-authorship of the anti-fraud law to emerge from the Enron scandal, was one of the <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/John-Gizzi/DEA-FBI-Oxley-Sarbanes/2016/01/05/id/708181/">FBI's staunchest defenders</a> in the halls of Congress throughout his tenure—and especially during the 1990s "Crypto Wars," in which the Bureau <a href="https://partners.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/092597encrypt.html">tried and failed to require law enforcement backdoors in all U.S. encryption software</a>.</p> 361 | 362 | <p>Oxley was one of two former FBI agents to serve in Congress—the other, Rep. Don Edwards, served as chair of the House Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights and <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-don-edwards-20151003-story.html">frequently butted heads with his former employer on policy issues</a>.</p> 363 | 364 | <p>In the years after Oxley's 1971 retirement from the FBI, he remained close with the Bureau's leadership and continued to exchange friendly correspondence. He received letters of thanks from FBI directors each time he defended the agency in the Congressional Record. Today, FOIA The Dead is publishing Oxley's complete FBI file, including the following notable points:</p> 365 | 366 | <ul> 367 | <li><p>In 1971 Oxley received personal commendation from J. Edgar Hoover for his efforts in arresting suspects involved in a bank robbery. According to Roll Call, the <a href="http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/former-rep-mike-oxley-dies">bank robbery involved the Black Panthers</a>.</p> 368 | 369 | <blockquote><p>The high quality of your efforts incident to the investigation and apprehensions of [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] the subjects of a Bank Robbery case, is indeed worthy of commendation.</p> 370 | 371 | <p>In spite of the difficulties you encountered, you skillfully and with great dispatch effected the arrests of these Bureau fugitives without causing insurmountable problems. I am appreciative.</p></blockquote> 372 | </li> 373 | 374 | <li><p>Also in 1971, Oxley received a $200 "incentive award" authorized by Hoover for working with an informant to apprehend one of the suspects in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1971/09/24/archives/city-policeman-wearing-shield-of-slain-partner.html">the killing of NYPD officer Kenneth Nugent</a>. Two of the people charged for that crime were the last people sentenced to death in New York before a State Court <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/08/archives/state-court-ends-death-sentences-appeals-bench-finds-wide.html">ruled the law unconstitutional</a>; their sentences were reduced to 25 years to life.</p></li> 375 | <li><p>A section of the FBI's August 1969 pre-employment background check is representative of the Bureau's concerns in the era:</p> 376 | 377 | <blockquote>[REDACTED], A NON-HIPPIE TYPE INDIVIDUAL RESIDING AT [REDACTED], ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] LIVES WITH HIM AT THIS ADDRESS AND IS SINGLE. ... STATED [REDACTED] IS NOT A HIPPIES [sic]. ALTHOUGH HE WEARS LONG HAIR.</blockquote> 378 | 379 | </li></ul> 380 | 381 | 382 | 383 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/dale-bumpers/ 384 | Dale Bumpers 385 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275330+00:00 386 | FOIA The Dead has obtained the FBI file for Dale Bumpers. 387 | 388 | 389 | 390 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/walter-j-leonard/ 391 | Walter J. Leonard 392 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275292+00:00 393 | <p>Walter Jewell Leonard was best known as the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/education/walter-j-leonard-pioneer-of-affirmative-action-in-harvard-admissions-dies-at-86.html">architect of Harvard's influential affirmative action program</a> beginning in 1969. The admissions policy has been emulated by schools around the country and the world. In 1955, he was investigated by the FBI during an application of his own, to serve as a corrections officer in an Atlanta federal prison.</p> 394 | 395 | <p>The overwhelming majority of Leonard's FBI file is the product of that investigation, which included exhaustive background checks into his education, his Coast Guard service, his employment history, and his finances ("All offices note Appli[cant]'s poor credit rating," p. 17). Unsurprisingly, that history reflects the Jim Crow south in which Leonard was raised, including conflicting and ultimately discredited stories about insubordination and even embezzlement at various jobs.</p> 396 | 397 | <p>One example: he worked as a waiter at the restaurant O'Donnell's Sea Grill from 1950-1, and reportedly was fired for refusing to serve another cashier. Further FBI inquiries showed that Leonard was not at fault for the incident—"his discharge was the result of a misunderstanding and [the office manager of the restaurant] now felt that the applicant was not reprehensible." In the FBI's own words in 1966: "Atlanta file shows that LEONARD was discharged from two jobs in Washington, D.C., and had poor credit rating while there; however, there appears to be some question as to whether he was actually discharged or resigned. There also appears to be some question as to whether these actions by the employers were justified or had a sound basis." (p. 68)</p> 398 | 399 | <p>But the records from after the application are even more illuminating about the work that would eventually win him national recognition. He received the prison job but was terminated seven months later, in October 1955. His file includes excerpts from a letter he wrote to the warden at the time.</p> 400 | 401 | <blockquote><p>LEONARD wrote that in connection with the decision by the Board of Supervisors to terminate his services, he wished to appraise the Warden of some "rumors" and "falsehoods." He mentions allegations made to the effect that he was a "spy" for the Bureau of Prisons and that he was placed at Atlanta to "break down segregation" and push for "integration." The letter notes that "these things are out of proportion to common sense." LEONARD continued, "It has been suggested that I have aired views, contrary to institution practice, along racial lines. If I knew who started this absurd propaganda, I would feel inclined to institute a suit for libel. <strong>Even if I had observed some discrimination, I am intelligent enough to realize I don't have the authority to contradict the administration of this institution."</strong> ...</p> 402 | 403 | <p>"I do not want to think that there was a racial angle to the opinion of my supervisors. I have written the Bureau, I have made no mention of this point; wanting to discuss this with you personally. I am not interested in the personal whims, prejudices, or selfish motives of anyone. My purpose is to <u>do</u> and <u>keep</u> a job.</p></blockquote> 404 | 405 | <p>(pp. 72-3. Emphasis added.)</p> 406 | 407 | <p>Of course, some 15 years later Leonard would go on to have the authority at an institution where he was able to correct discrimination.</p> 408 | 409 | <p>Some records from his file from that era are largely redacted. Context suggests that, in 1956, the FBI contacted Leonard to evaluate his suitability as an informant about the activities of members of the Nation of Islam, due to his position as office manager at "Forrest Arms Hotel, ... where three of the Assistant Ministers of the Atlanta Temple reside ... He has been asked to attend their meetings and although he has not yet attended, he stated he will in the near future." (p. 68)</p> 410 | 411 | <p>The question of his informing seems to be mooted when Leonard lost that job and, in August of 1956, Leonard moved to Chicago, as one of millions of African American participants in the greater sociological phenomenon dubbed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Great_Migration_(African_American)">The Great Migration</a>.</p> 412 | 413 | <p>Finally, in 1979, a review of his file was made in advance of Leonard's <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=32240">presidential appointment by Jimmy Carter</a> to serve on the United States Naval Academy <a href="https://www.usna.edu/PAO/Superintendent/bov.html">Board of Visitors</a>.</p> 414 | 415 | 416 | 417 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/john-trudell/ 418 | John Trudell 419 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275254+00:00 420 | FOIA The Dead has obtained the FBI file for John Trudell. 421 | 422 | 423 | 424 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/marcus-klingberg/ 425 | Marcus Klingberg 426 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275214+00:00 427 | FOIA The Dead has obtained the FBI file for Marcus Klingberg. 428 | 429 | 430 | 431 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/gene-norman/ 432 | Gene Norman 433 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275175+00:00 434 | <h3>Legendary jazz producer investigated for Chicken Dance travel behind Iron Curtain</h3> 435 | 436 | <p>Jazz legend Gene Norman was flagged by the FBI for a pair of 1984 trips to Poland, which was at the time under Cold War era travel restrictions. Norman, born Julian Nabatoff in Brooklyn in 1922, was himself the son of Russian immigrants. He and his travel companions were only able to fly to Poland via Montreal.</p> 437 | 438 | <p>On the Polish trips that garnered FBI attention, he was accompanied by a musician who had recently recorded a Norman-produced hit version of "Dance, Little Bird," more commonly known as "The Chicken Dance." According to FBI records, the trip was at the behest of the Polish state music and entertainment agency Ars Polonia to mark the release of the record in that country.</p> 439 | 440 | <p>That performer's name is redacted in the released FBI files, but context indicates that it was Wisconsin Area Music Industry's Hall of Fame inductee Bob Kames, who <a href="http://archive.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/29539139.html">became known as "The Chicken Dance King" by the time of his death in 2008</a>. This clip of Kames performing the song with his family band in a 1980s Christmas special likely dates a few years after the Polish travel.</p> 441 | 442 | <div style="position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:75.0%"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/qdCk7uzWNhI?rel=0?ecver=2" width="480" height="360" frameborder="0" style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> 443 | 444 | <p>The version they recorded reportedly sold 300,000 copies in Poland. Kames said of its success: "I get 2 cents out from each 35-cent record sold. When they sold 300,000 records, they gave me a gold record. Of course, I can't take the money out of the country."</p> 445 | 446 | 447 | 448 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/willis-carto/ 449 | Willis Carto 450 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275136+00:00 451 | <p>Willis Carto was a far-right activist and Holocaust denier whose work was denounced by groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. Matt Novak at Gizmodo has done <a href="https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/fbi-releases-file-on-willis-carto-neo-nazi-recently-bu-1783195062">an extensive write-up</a> of the contents of Carto's FBI file.</p> 452 | 453 | 454 | 455 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/licio-gelli/ 456 | Licio Gelli 457 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275095+00:00 458 | <p>Licio Gelli was a prominent Italian financier and self-professed fascist who was investigated as the head of a secret society (illegal in his native Italy) and later convicted for bank fraud and a host of other crimes.</p> 459 | 460 | 461 | 462 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/e-virgil-conway/ 463 | E. Virgil Conway 464 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.275048+00:00 465 | <p>Before Virgil Conway was the chairman of New York City MTA, he was a banker—first for the state, and then as chairman and chief executive of Seaman's Bank. At that time, he also served as an SAC Contact to the FBI; his file consists mostly of communications between him and agents in the Bureau and descriptions of events he and other official contacts attended.</p> 466 | 467 | 468 | 469 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/luther-burden/ 470 | Luther Burden 471 | 2019-01-11T20:40:49.274952+00:00 472 | <p>Luther "Ticky" Burden was a <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Ticky-Burden-s-rise-fall-and-rise-3897542.php">professional basketball player</a> with the New York Knicks from 1976-77. In 1981, he was convicted of taking part in a bank robbery. In 1984, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/31/sports/retrial-ordered-for-burden-ex-knick.html">that conviction was overturned</a> when the New York State Supreme Court ruled his home had been illegally searched without a warrant. He later pled guilty to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/03/sports/sports-people-burden-pleads-guilty.html">possession of $400</a> of the stolen money. He <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/sports/basketball/luther-burden-former-knick-who-served-time-for-bank-robbery-dies-at-62.html">died in November 2015</a> in Winston-Salem.</p> 473 | 474 | <p>In July 1980, shortly after his arrest, the FBI wrote to the United States Attorney in Eastern District of New York to report that an Assistant US Attorney had declined to federally prosecute Burden, in favor of local prosecution. 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    Grace Lee Boggs was a human rights advocate whose work spanned the course of seven decades before her death in 2015. In the 1940s she co-founded the Johnson–Forest Tendency, a radical left group associated with Marxist humanism, and in the 1950s she married the Black radical activist James Boggs, and subsequently developed a professional relationship with Malcolm X. Her extensive FBI files cover two investigations: one from 1948-1974, and a separate one from 1953-1975.

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    John Trudell (Santee Dakota) was an activist for Native American rights and artist. His FBI file, which as-provided only goes to to 1975 (i.e., it was likely prompted by the February 1973 stand-off between federal agents and Native activists in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, and the subsequent court trials), summarizes his Navy career during the Vietnam War, and his early work with the American Indian Movement.

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    Lois Weisberg was the first Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the City of Chicago, from 1989 until January 2011. Her FBI file contains notes from an interview about the finances of the Vietnam Veterans Art Group (which has since become the National Veterans Art Museum), which she championed; her recounting of Jaroslav Kořán's visit to Chicago while Mayor of Prague in 1991; and two documents which remain almost entirely redacted.

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    Lois Wheeler Snow was an actress and writer who, through her marriage to journalist Edgar Snow, became a prominent figure in China. Although she visited China frequently between 1970 and 1989, her FBI file consists of a single report of a 1975 visit described in the press.

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    Philip George was a designer responsible for both the celebrated interiors of several prominent Manhattan restaurants and for project managing the construction of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, the site of the 1959 "Kitchen Debate" between Nixon and Kruschev. His FBI file consists of a 1948 background check preceding his work with the Marshall Plan producing a display to promote Americanism, as well as 1963 interviews with FBI agents about his communications with Soviets while in Moscow.

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    Elbert Howard, widely known as "Big Man," was a founder of and spokesman for the Black Panther Party through the late 1960s and early 1970s. The portion of his FBI file covered in this release documents his international travel and public speaking events, focusing on a trip to Japan. Muckrock has published an extensive write-up of these pages.

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    Fred Thompson was an actor, a Tennessee senator from 1994 to 2003, and a 2008 presidential candidate. His FBI file involves investigations of threatening calls and letters received by Thompson's Senate office, and a background check for clearance to classified information as special counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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    Cathleen Morawetz was a mathematician and NYU professor whose research on the motion of fluids and waves was relevant to supersonic aircraft wing design. Her file describes a monthlong visit to the Soviet Union in 1963 as part of an Exchange Agreement, as well as FBI efforts to interview her (and apparently share technical information with her) without alerting her to the identity of a particular Bureau informant.

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Improve usability and consistency of cursor style between image-type 287 | * `input` and others. 288 | */ 289 | 290 | button, 291 | html input[type="button"], /* 1 */ 292 | input[type="reset"], 293 | input[type="submit"] { 294 | -webkit-appearance: button; /* 2 */ 295 | cursor: pointer; /* 3 */ 296 | } 297 | 298 | /** 299 | * Re-set default cursor for disabled elements. 300 | */ 301 | 302 | button[disabled], 303 | html input[disabled] { 304 | cursor: default; 305 | } 306 | 307 | /** 308 | * Remove inner padding and border in Firefox 4+. 309 | */ 310 | 311 | button::-moz-focus-inner, 312 | input::-moz-focus-inner { 313 | border: 0; 314 | padding: 0; 315 | } 316 | 317 | /** 318 | * Address Firefox 4+ setting `line-height` on `input` using `!important` in 319 | * the UA stylesheet. 320 | */ 321 | 322 | input { 323 | line-height: normal; 324 | } 325 | 326 | /** 327 | * It's recommended that you don't attempt to style these elements. 328 | * Firefox's implementation doesn't respect box-sizing, padding, or width. 329 | * 330 | * 1. Address box sizing set to `content-box` in IE 8/9/10. 331 | * 2. Remove excess padding in IE 8/9/10. 332 | */ 333 | 334 | input[type="checkbox"], 335 | input[type="radio"] { 336 | box-sizing: border-box; /* 1 */ 337 | padding: 0; /* 2 */ 338 | } 339 | 340 | /** 341 | * Fix the cursor style for Chrome's increment/decrement buttons. For certain 342 | * `font-size` values of the `input`, it causes the cursor style of the 343 | * decrement button to change from `default` to `text`. 344 | */ 345 | 346 | input[type="number"]::-webkit-inner-spin-button, 347 | input[type="number"]::-webkit-outer-spin-button { 348 | height: auto; 349 | } 350 | 351 | /** 352 | * 1. Address `appearance` set to `searchfield` in Safari and Chrome. 353 | * 2. Address `box-sizing` set to `border-box` in Safari and Chrome. 354 | */ 355 | 356 | input[type="search"] { 357 | -webkit-appearance: textfield; /* 1 */ 358 | box-sizing: content-box; /* 2 */ 359 | } 360 | 361 | /** 362 | * Remove inner padding and search cancel button in Safari and Chrome on OS X. 363 | * Safari (but not Chrome) clips the cancel button when the search input has 364 | * padding (and `textfield` appearance). 365 | */ 366 | 367 | input[type="search"]::-webkit-search-cancel-button, 368 | input[type="search"]::-webkit-search-decoration { 369 | -webkit-appearance: none; 370 | } 371 | 372 | /** 373 | * Define consistent border, margin, and padding. 374 | */ 375 | 376 | fieldset { 377 | border: 1px solid #c0c0c0; 378 | margin: 0 2px; 379 | padding: 0.35em 0.625em 0.75em; 380 | } 381 | 382 | /** 383 | * 1. Correct `color` not being inherited in IE 8/9/10/11. 384 | * 2. Remove padding so people aren't caught out if they zero out fieldsets. 385 | */ 386 | 387 | legend { 388 | border: 0; /* 1 */ 389 | padding: 0; /* 2 */ 390 | } 391 | 392 | /** 393 | * Remove default vertical scrollbar in IE 8/9/10/11. 394 | */ 395 | 396 | textarea { 397 | overflow: auto; 398 | } 399 | 400 | /** 401 | * Don't inherit the `font-weight` (applied by a rule above). 402 | * NOTE: the default cannot safely be changed in Chrome and Safari on OS X. 403 | */ 404 | 405 | optgroup { 406 | font-weight: bold; 407 | } 408 | 409 | /* Tables 410 | ========================================================================== */ 411 | 412 | /** 413 | * Remove most spacing between table cells. 414 | */ 415 | 416 | table { 417 | border-collapse: collapse; 418 | border-spacing: 0; 419 | } 420 | 421 | td, 422 | th { 423 | padding: 0; 424 | } 425 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /site/robots.txt: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | User-agent: * 2 | Disallow: 3 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /site/rss.xml: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | FOIA The Dead 5 | https://foiathedead.org 6 | FOIA The Dead is a long-term transparency project using the Freedom of Information Act. It releases FBI records on recently deceased public figures. 7 | http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 8 | python-feedgen 9 | Fri, 11 Jan 2019 20:40:49 +0000 10 | 11 | Jacqueline Berrien 12 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/jacqueline-berrien/ 13 | <p>Jacqueline Berrien chaired the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under President Obama. Her FBI file consists of a background check related to that appointment.</p> 14 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/jacqueline-berrien/ 15 | 16 | 17 | Concepcion Picciotto 18 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/concepcion-picciotto/ 19 | <p>Concepción Picciotto was a peace activist who held a continuous vigil across the street from the White House from 1981 until ten days before her death in 2016. Her FBI file includes documentation of several complaints to the FBI, including self-published pamphlets.</p> 20 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/concepcion-picciotto/ 21 | 22 | 23 | Fred Thompson 24 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/fred-thompson/ 25 | <p>Fred Thompson was an actor, a Tennessee senator from 1994 to 2003, and a 2008 presidential candidate. His FBI file involves investigations of threatening calls and letters received by Thompson's Senate office, and a background check for clearance to classified information as special counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee.</p> 26 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/fred-thompson/ 27 | 28 | 29 | Robert Parry 30 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/robert-parry/ 31 | <p>Robert Parry was an investigative journalist best known for his groundbreaking coverage of the Iran–Contra Affair while at the Associated Press. His short FBI file documents an investigation into a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) chapter he founded at his alma mater.</p> 32 | 33 | <p>The Colby College chapter he led was not apparently successful. According to the FBI report, it attracted only two freshmen, and "none of the three members were particularly enthused about the organization."</p> 34 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/robert-parry/ 35 | 36 | 37 | Cathleen Morawetz 38 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/cathleen-morawetz/ 39 | <p>Cathleen Morawetz was a mathematician and NYU professor whose research on the motion of fluids and waves was relevant to supersonic aircraft wing design. Her file describes a monthlong visit to the Soviet Union in 1963 as part of an Exchange Agreement, as well as FBI efforts to interview her (and apparently share technical information with her) without alerting her to the identity of a particular Bureau informant.</p> 40 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/cathleen-morawetz/ 41 | 42 | 43 | Drue Heinz 44 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/drue-heinz/ 45 | <p>Drue Heinz was a patron of the arts, publisher of <i>The Paris Review</i>, and—for a brief stretch in 1950—an actress. Her FBI file, which mostly refers to her as Doreen Mary Maher, consists of a background check conducted in 1948, apparently in connection to employment with the Voice of America.</p> 46 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/drue-heinz/ 47 | 48 | 49 | Fats Domino 50 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/fats-domino/ 51 | <p>Fats Domino was a pianist, singer, and songwriter who made a name as one of the biggest stars of the early rock-and-roll era. His file consists of a 1965 inquiry into one of his Cadillacs, apparently spotted during an FBI stakeout of a Philadelphia hotel that Martin Luther King was believed to be staying at.</p> 52 | 53 | <p>The document in Domino's file is labeled "SUBJECT: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR." and refers to an earlier <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airtel_(FBI)">airtel</a> from the FBI's Philadelphia office. That earlier message is included below for reference, and describes an "extremely discreet spot check at the Franklin Motor Inn," during which Domino's car was spotted and—it seems—mistakenly connected with King. The original document can be found in context in MLK's <a href="https://archive.org/details/fbi_file_mlk">complete FBI file</a>, which runs to over 16,600 pages. The Philadelphia airtel begins on page 49 of file 32.</p> 54 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/fats-domino/ 55 | 56 | 57 | C. Weston Houck 58 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/c-weston-houck/ 59 | <p>Judge C. Weston Houck presided over a lawsuit brought by Shannon Faulkner against South Carolina's public military college, The Citadel. His ruling in that case ended the Citadel's 152-year-old male-only admissions policy. His FBI file primarily addresses an incident wherein a man upset by that case engaged in behavior that could have been construed as a threat.</p> 60 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/c-weston-houck/ 61 | 62 | 63 | Pat Summitt 64 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/pat-summitt/ 65 | <p>Pat Summitt was a University of Tennessee coach who is credited for the rise in prominence of women's college basketball. Her FBI file documents a series of letters intended to threaten and possibly extort her, apparently written by an unhinged fan.</p> 66 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/pat-summitt/ 67 | 68 | 69 | Andrzej Wajda 70 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/andrzej-wajda/ 71 | <p>Andrzej Wajda was a Polish film and theater director who worked during the height of the Cold War. His FBI file primarily addresses a trip to Los Angeles in 1976 (probably for the Academy Awards, where his <i>The Promised Land</i> was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film) in which one member of his group was a subject of FBI monitoring.</p> 72 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/andrzej-wajda/ 73 | 74 | 75 | Harry Wu 76 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/harry-wu/ 77 | <p>Harry Hongda Wu was an activist and naturalized American citizen who traveled to China repeatedly to document human rights abuses, including the sale of organs, in the prison system there. His file primarily consists of his documenting those abuses.</p> 78 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/harry-wu/ 79 | 80 | 81 | Robert E. Allen 82 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/robert-e-allen/ 83 | <p>Robert Allen was the chief executive and chairman of AT&T for nearly a decade beginning in 1988—a transitional period for the U.S. telecommunications industry. His FBI file consists of background checks conducted during his AT&T leadership, as he was considered for various federal government jobs.</p> 84 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/robert-e-allen/ 85 | 86 | 87 | Mike Davis 88 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/mike-davis/ 89 | <p>Although he was a notable oil industry magnate and received widespread coverage when he married the Denver Post heiress 40 years his senior (after previously working as her chauffeur), Mike Davis was best known at the time of his death as the "World's Grumpiest Boss," after his 1970s-era office memos banning "levity" and even unsolicited greetings circulated online. His FBI file captures yet another facet of his life, documenting over some 200 pages a dramatic $50,000 Las Vegas extortion attempt of which he was the victim, and which involved Frank Sinatra and a number of famous casinos.</p> 90 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/mike-davis/ 91 | 92 | 93 | Edward Daly 94 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/edward-daly/ 95 | <p>Father Edward Daly was a Roman Catholic bishop from Northern Ireland who achieved prominence for his role at the forefront of the protest march on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." In 1972 he visited New York, where the FBI recorded plans to monitor him and describes an interview the Bureau conducted with him at the Roosevelt Hotel.</p> 96 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/edward-daly/ 97 | 98 | 99 | Warren Hinckle 100 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/warren-hinckle/ 101 | <p>Warren J. Hinckle, III was a well-known columnist and provocateur best known as the editor of Ramparts magazine and a vocal (and at times gonzo) proponent of left politics. His FBI file pertains chiefly to an investigation into an advertisement placed in 1981 seeking to recruit volunteers for an American brigade of the IRA, and also contains excerpts of his writing on Cuba.</p> 102 | 103 | <p>Muckrock has posted <a href="https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/sep/26/fbi-warren-hinckle/">a more extensive look</a> into the contents of Hinckle's FBI file.</p> 104 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/warren-hinckle/ 105 | 106 | 107 | Trinh Thi Ngo 108 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/trinh-thi-ngo/ 109 | <p>Trinh Thi Ngo broadcast as "Hanoi Hannah" from North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Her show aimed to damage the morale of American troops. Her short FBI file mentions her only in passing, in a report about a similar show that was believed to be recorded within the U.S.—the show hosts claimed to be in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles—and shipped to Vietnam for broadcast there.</p> 110 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/trinh-thi-ngo/ 111 | 112 | 113 | David Bunnell 114 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/david-bunnell/ 115 | <p>David Bunnell was one of the founding figures of the computer trade publication industry, involved in founding PC Magazine, Macworld and others. Before that, though, he was involved in New Left politics at the University of Nebraska, where as a student in 1968 he served as the president of the Students for a Democratic Society chapter. His FBI file tracks that group's activities during his tenure there.</p> 116 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/david-bunnell/ 117 | 118 | 119 | Hugh O'Brian 120 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/hugh-o-brian/ 121 | <p>Hugh O'Brian was an American actor best known for his portrayal of Wyatt Earp during the height of the popularity of Western TV shows. His fame led to an invitation from Nobel Prize winning Dr. Albert Schweitzer to a hospital in Gabon, which inspired O'Brian to start a non-profit foundation for youth leadership. His FBI file consists of correspondence between the Bureau and his foundation, which invited multiple FBI directors to speak at events.</p> 122 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/hugh-o-brian/ 123 | 124 | 125 | Elaine Lustig Cohen 126 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/elaine-lustig-cohen/ 127 | <p>Elaine Lustig Cohen was a painter and graphic designer responsible for the signage on the Seagram's Building, among many other clients. In the late 1960s, the FBI maintained a short file on her—including monitoring her international travel—and her husband, Arthur A. Cohen. The file includes some sensitive personal details about their marriage.</p> 128 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/elaine-lustig-cohen/ 129 | 130 | 131 | Nina Ponomareva 132 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/nina-ponomareva/ 133 | <p>Nina Ponomoreva was an Olympic discus thrower from the Soviet Union. In 1956 she was involved in a minor diplomatic crisis, when she was accused (and found guilty) of shoplifting hats in the United Kingdom. Her short FBI file consists of newspaper reports of that incident and its fallout.</p> 134 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/nina-ponomareva/ 135 | 136 | 137 | Sammy Lee 138 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/sammy-lee/ 139 | <p>Sammy Lee was the first Asian-American man to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States. He subsequently worked as a doctor and coach, and was honored by six U.S. presidents. In 1990, he was appointed to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport, and his FBI file mostly pertains to the background check required for that position.</p> 140 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/sammy-lee/ 141 | 142 | 143 | Ahmed H. Zewail 144 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/ahmed-h-zewail/ 145 | <p>Ahmed Zewail was a chemist and Nobel Prize winner who worked in the Obama White House as a science adviser. His file consists of background checks conducted for that position, conducted between 2008 and 2012.</p> 146 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/ahmed-h-zewail/ 147 | 148 | 149 | Coca Crystal 150 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/coca-crystal/ 151 | <p>Coca Crystal was a counterculture activist and TV personality associated with New York City. Her file covers meetings she planned, attended, or led in the early 1970s, including one to protest Nixon's inauguration.</p> 152 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/coca-crystal/ 153 | 154 | 155 | Gus Savage 156 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/gus-savage/ 157 | <p>Gus Savage worked as a civil rights activist and spokesman for the Progressive Party before he was elected to Congress to represent the South Side of Chicago. His lengthy FBI file covers that earlier activism, an (unsuccessful) loyalty check during an application for a federal government job, and investigations into threats against him during his time in office.</p> 158 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/gus-savage/ 159 | 160 | 161 | Robert Bennett 162 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/robert-bennett/ 163 | <p>Years before Robert Foster Bennett served as Senator from Utah, he ran a public relations company that counted Howard Hughes as a client and once employed Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt. His FBI file pertains to a $50,000 political donation from Hughes to the Nixon re-election effort — a payment that Bennett coordinated with Gordon Liddy.</p> 164 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/robert-bennett/ 165 | 166 | 167 | Ben H. Bagdikian 168 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/ben-h-bagdikian/ 169 | <p>Before reporter Ben Bagdikian covered the Pentagon Papers for the <i>Washington Post</i>, he was the author of a series of critical articles about official secrecy and "loyalty checks" in federal law enforcement. These writings landed him on the bad side of J. Edgar Hoover, which resulted in decades of scrutiny.</p> 170 | 171 | <p>The Bureau subsequently collected and summarized his major writing, including a series of 12 articles on news magazines and their effect on politics. (Those summaries, and the articles they address, are included in this file.)</p> 172 | 173 | <p>But it was his 1961 article about the 37th anniversary of J. Edgar Hoover's appointment as chief that most rankled. Hoover annotated a copy of the article, asking that Bagdikian be removed from all Bureau mailings. He reportedly called the article "utter bunk."</p> 174 | 175 | <p>Bagdikian was likely aware of his reputation within the Bureau, but would have had it confirmed when, in 1975, he filed a Freedom of Information Act request for his own file. That request, and the follow-up communications (including his check for $8.50 and a notarized signature) are also included in this file.</p> 176 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/ben-h-bagdikian/ 177 | 178 | 179 | Sam Iacobellis 180 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/sam-iacobellis/ 181 | <p>Sam Iacobellis is the engineer credited with developing the B-1 bomber, an American stealth long-range aircraft that affected the course of the Cold War. His short file contains a report of contact with an official—possibly one from the USSR—and an FBI decision not to interview him afterward.</p> 182 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/sam-iacobellis/ 183 | 184 | 185 | Norma McCorvey 186 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/norma-mccorvey/ 187 | <p>Norma McCorvey was the plaintiff, under the pseudonym Jane Roe, of the landmark 1973 Supreme Court case ruling state anti-abortion laws unconstitutional. Her FBI file is focused on a 1989 incident, days before she was to participate in an abortion rights rally, in which unknown suspects fired a shotgun at her home and car.</p> 188 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/norma-mccorvey/ 189 | 190 | 191 | Madeleine Sherwood 192 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/madeleine-sherwood/ 193 | <p>Madeline Sherwood was an actress most notable for her role in the 1960s television series "The Flying Nun." She had previously been married to the playwright Robert Sherwood, whom the FBI believed to be involved with Communism. This file describes an effort to locate her, to interview her, and the decision not to approach her directly.</p> 194 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/madeleine-sherwood/ 195 | 196 | 197 | Jack T. Chick 198 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/jack-t-chick/ 199 | <p>Fundamentalist Christian cartoonist Jack Chick wrote to J. Edgar Hoover in 1971 seeking the FBI's help with his bizarre religious comics. His file consists of that letter and Hoover's response declining to participate. A <a href="https://boingboing.net/2017/03/10/funnybooks-and-feebs.html">longer write-up of this file</a> has been published at Boing Boing.</p> 200 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/jack-t-chick/ 201 | 202 | 203 | Walter Kohn 204 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/walter-kohn/ 205 | <p>Nobel laureate Walter Kohn left Austria as a child refugee in 1940, coming to Canada and eventually to the United States to study and teach physics. He was the founding director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara, helped establish a program for Judaic studies at UC San Diego, and taught at Harvard and Carnegie Mellon. His FBI file consists of an extensive background check for a Department of Energy job in the late 1980s.</p> 206 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/walter-kohn/ 207 | 208 | 209 | Hedy Epstein 210 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/hedy-epstein/ 211 | <p>Hedy Epstein, a Holocaust survivor who served as a translator in the Nuremberg trials before emigrating to the U.S., worked as an activist for various causes over a span of more than five decades. Her FBI file covers those five decades, and the overwhelming majority concerns housing discrimination cases she helped prepare in the 1970s.</p> 212 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/hedy-epstein/ 213 | 214 | 215 | Daniel Aaron 216 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/daniel-aaron/ 217 | <p>Daniel Aaron was a literary critic and historian credited with pioneering the field of "American studies." His short FBI file is chiefly concerned with his contribution to a study on the role of Communism in the United States, announced in 1955.</p> 218 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/daniel-aaron/ 219 | 220 | 221 | Joseph Medicine Crow 222 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/joseph-medicine-crow/ 223 | <p>Joseph Medicine Crow was a widely renowned Native American historian and anthropologist and the last living person to have heard spoken testimony from people at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. His FBI file consists only of a single-page interview he gave to special agents about a friend, a Jeep accident, and an angry mob weilding two-by-fours.</p> 224 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/joseph-medicine-crow/ 225 | 226 | 227 | Haskell Wexler 228 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/haskell-wexler/ 229 | <p>Haskell Wexler was the award-winning filmmaker known for "Medium Cool" (1969) and others. The FBI monitored him before and after his 1976 documentary "Underground," about the radical Weathermen, and attempted to subpoena his raw footage.</p> 230 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/haskell-wexler/ 231 | 232 | 233 | King Bhumibol Aduljadej 234 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/king-bhumibol-aduljadej/ 235 | <p>Bhumibol Aduljadej was king of Thailand for 70 years. In 2000, Thai law enforcement requested the FBI’s help in locating a "disrespectful" online impersonator.</p> 236 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/king-bhumibol-aduljadej/ 237 | 238 | 239 | Michael Mariotte 240 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/michael-mariotte/ 241 | Michael Mariotte was a prominent anti-nuclear activist throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Before that, in 1973, he’d gotten the FBI’s attention as a member of the Youth International Party and a potential protestor at Richard Nixon’s inauguration. 242 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/michael-mariotte/ 243 | 244 | 245 | Morley Safer 246 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/morley-safer/ 247 | Morley Safer was a Canadian journalist who came to prominence offering unvarnished coverage of the Vietnam War. After receiving a viewer complain that Safer’s reporting would be &quot;destructive to morale,&quot; FBI prepared a report but declined to investigate further. 248 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/morley-safer/ 249 | 250 | 251 | Mark Lane 252 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/mark-lane/ 253 | <p>Mark Lane was a leading proponent of the theory that the assassination of John F. Kennedy was a conspiracy. His FBI file concerns travel in 1980 to Lebanon, but concedes that he "has been known to the Bureau since the early 1960s."</p> 254 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/mark-lane/ 255 | 256 | 257 | Bill Campbell 258 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/bill-campbell/ 259 | <p>Bill Campbell was an executive and advisor for large tech companies such as Apple and Google. His file consists primarily of an FBI interview conducted in 2007 about an options backdating scandal at Apple, where he served on the board.</p> 260 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/bill-campbell/ 261 | 262 | 263 | William L. O’Neill 264 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/william-l-oneill/ 265 | <p>William O’Neill wrote a dozen books about history and radicalism through the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. His participation in activism was monitored by the FBI — particularly his involvement in an Fair Play for Cuba event, where he served as master of ceremonies.</p> 266 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/william-l-oneill/ 267 | 268 | 269 | Boutros Boutros-Ghali 270 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/boutros-boutros-ghali/ 271 | <p>Boutros Boutros-Ghali served as the U.N. Secretary General in the post-Cold War era after decades as an Egyptian diplomat. His FBI file mostly dates to the beginning of that era, and remains heavily redacted.</p> 272 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/boutros-boutros-ghali/ 273 | 274 | 275 | Dr. Herbert L. Abrams 276 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/dr-herbert-l-abrams/ 277 | FOIA The Dead has obtained the FBI file for Dr. Herbert L. Abrams. 278 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/dr-herbert-l-abrams/ 279 | 280 | 281 | Lois Weisberg 282 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/lois-weisberg/ 283 | FOIA The Dead has obtained the FBI file for Lois Weisberg. 284 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/lois-weisberg/ 285 | 286 | 287 | Robert Stigwood 288 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/robert-stigwood/ 289 | <p>Robert Stigwood was an Australian music and movie producer and executive who achieved international success with acts such as the Bee Gees and Eric Clapton, and films such as "Saturday Night Fever," "Grease," and "Evita." Before his <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/arts/music/robert-stigwood-entrepreneur-of-rock-and-film-is-dead-at-81.html">death in January 2016</a>, he was frequently ranked among the wealthiest people in Britain.</p> 290 | 291 | <p>In May and June of 1991, around the time that <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1993-12-11/entertainment/ca-728_1_director-oliver-stone">Disney aborted plans</a> to fund a film version of "Evita" directed by Oliver Stone, the FBI's legal attaché in Canberra, Australia contacted the Bureau's Los Angeles and central headquarters requesting a criminal check on Stigwood after a request from an unknown party.</p> 292 | 293 | <p>The FBI came up empty-handed after performing the requested search and checking the records of the California Department of Justice, the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Los Angeles Count Sheriff's Department. Information about that request was furnished to the unknown party.</p> 294 | 295 | <p>From to FBI records:</p> 296 | 297 | <blockquote><p>On 5/29/91, [REDACTED] contacted [FBI's Canberra legal attaché] concerning Stigwood.</p> 298 | 299 | <p>He advised that Robert Stigwood ... is under consideration by [REDACTED] to be [REDACTED].</p> 300 | 301 | <p>Stigwood is a relatively well-known Australian movie producer/director who has spent much of his life in the Hollywood California area.</p> 302 | 303 | <p>Lead at Los Angeles, California: Conduct an indices search for any information concerning Stigwood and advise [legal attaché] Canberra for dissemination to [REDACTED]. A prompt reply would be appreciated.</p></blockquote> 304 | 305 | <p>Redacted records of that correspondence make up the entirety of Stigwood's released FBI file and are reproduced below.</p> 306 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/robert-stigwood/ 307 | 308 | 309 | Michael G. Oxley 310 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/michael-g-oxley/ 311 | <p>Representative Mike Oxley, best known for his co-authorship of the anti-fraud law to emerge from the Enron scandal, was one of the <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/John-Gizzi/DEA-FBI-Oxley-Sarbanes/2016/01/05/id/708181/">FBI's staunchest defenders</a> in the halls of Congress throughout his tenure—and especially during the 1990s "Crypto Wars," in which the Bureau <a href="https://partners.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/092597encrypt.html">tried and failed to require law enforcement backdoors in all U.S. encryption software</a>.</p> 312 | 313 | <p>Oxley was one of two former FBI agents to serve in Congress—the other, Rep. Don Edwards, served as chair of the House Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights and <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-don-edwards-20151003-story.html">frequently butted heads with his former employer on policy issues</a>.</p> 314 | 315 | <p>In the years after Oxley's 1971 retirement from the FBI, he remained close with the Bureau's leadership and continued to exchange friendly correspondence. He received letters of thanks from FBI directors each time he defended the agency in the Congressional Record. Today, FOIA The Dead is publishing Oxley's complete FBI file, including the following notable points:</p> 316 | 317 | <ul> 318 | <li><p>In 1971 Oxley received personal commendation from J. Edgar Hoover for his efforts in arresting suspects involved in a bank robbery. According to Roll Call, the <a href="http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/former-rep-mike-oxley-dies">bank robbery involved the Black Panthers</a>.</p> 319 | 320 | <blockquote><p>The high quality of your efforts incident to the investigation and apprehensions of [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] the subjects of a Bank Robbery case, is indeed worthy of commendation.</p> 321 | 322 | <p>In spite of the difficulties you encountered, you skillfully and with great dispatch effected the arrests of these Bureau fugitives without causing insurmountable problems. I am appreciative.</p></blockquote> 323 | </li> 324 | 325 | <li><p>Also in 1971, Oxley received a $200 "incentive award" authorized by Hoover for working with an informant to apprehend one of the suspects in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1971/09/24/archives/city-policeman-wearing-shield-of-slain-partner.html">the killing of NYPD officer Kenneth Nugent</a>. Two of the people charged for that crime were the last people sentenced to death in New York before a State Court <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/08/archives/state-court-ends-death-sentences-appeals-bench-finds-wide.html">ruled the law unconstitutional</a>; their sentences were reduced to 25 years to life.</p></li> 326 | <li><p>A section of the FBI's August 1969 pre-employment background check is representative of the Bureau's concerns in the era:</p> 327 | 328 | <blockquote>[REDACTED], A NON-HIPPIE TYPE INDIVIDUAL RESIDING AT [REDACTED], ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] LIVES WITH HIM AT THIS ADDRESS AND IS SINGLE. ... STATED [REDACTED] IS NOT A HIPPIES [sic]. ALTHOUGH HE WEARS LONG HAIR.</blockquote> 329 | 330 | </li></ul> 331 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/michael-g-oxley/ 332 | 333 | 334 | Dale Bumpers 335 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/dale-bumpers/ 336 | FOIA The Dead has obtained the FBI file for Dale Bumpers. 337 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/dale-bumpers/ 338 | 339 | 340 | Walter J. Leonard 341 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/walter-j-leonard/ 342 | <p>Walter Jewell Leonard was best known as the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/education/walter-j-leonard-pioneer-of-affirmative-action-in-harvard-admissions-dies-at-86.html">architect of Harvard's influential affirmative action program</a> beginning in 1969. The admissions policy has been emulated by schools around the country and the world. In 1955, he was investigated by the FBI during an application of his own, to serve as a corrections officer in an Atlanta federal prison.</p> 343 | 344 | <p>The overwhelming majority of Leonard's FBI file is the product of that investigation, which included exhaustive background checks into his education, his Coast Guard service, his employment history, and his finances ("All offices note Appli[cant]'s poor credit rating," p. 17). Unsurprisingly, that history reflects the Jim Crow south in which Leonard was raised, including conflicting and ultimately discredited stories about insubordination and even embezzlement at various jobs.</p> 345 | 346 | <p>One example: he worked as a waiter at the restaurant O'Donnell's Sea Grill from 1950-1, and reportedly was fired for refusing to serve another cashier. Further FBI inquiries showed that Leonard was not at fault for the incident—"his discharge was the result of a misunderstanding and [the office manager of the restaurant] now felt that the applicant was not reprehensible." In the FBI's own words in 1966: "Atlanta file shows that LEONARD was discharged from two jobs in Washington, D.C., and had poor credit rating while there; however, there appears to be some question as to whether he was actually discharged or resigned. There also appears to be some question as to whether these actions by the employers were justified or had a sound basis." (p. 68)</p> 347 | 348 | <p>But the records from after the application are even more illuminating about the work that would eventually win him national recognition. He received the prison job but was terminated seven months later, in October 1955. His file includes excerpts from a letter he wrote to the warden at the time.</p> 349 | 350 | <blockquote><p>LEONARD wrote that in connection with the decision by the Board of Supervisors to terminate his services, he wished to appraise the Warden of some "rumors" and "falsehoods." He mentions allegations made to the effect that he was a "spy" for the Bureau of Prisons and that he was placed at Atlanta to "break down segregation" and push for "integration." The letter notes that "these things are out of proportion to common sense." LEONARD continued, "It has been suggested that I have aired views, contrary to institution practice, along racial lines. If I knew who started this absurd propaganda, I would feel inclined to institute a suit for libel. <strong>Even if I had observed some discrimination, I am intelligent enough to realize I don't have the authority to contradict the administration of this institution."</strong> ...</p> 351 | 352 | <p>"I do not want to think that there was a racial angle to the opinion of my supervisors. I have written the Bureau, I have made no mention of this point; wanting to discuss this with you personally. I am not interested in the personal whims, prejudices, or selfish motives of anyone. My purpose is to <u>do</u> and <u>keep</u> a job.</p></blockquote> 353 | 354 | <p>(pp. 72-3. Emphasis added.)</p> 355 | 356 | <p>Of course, some 15 years later Leonard would go on to have the authority at an institution where he was able to correct discrimination.</p> 357 | 358 | <p>Some records from his file from that era are largely redacted. Context suggests that, in 1956, the FBI contacted Leonard to evaluate his suitability as an informant about the activities of members of the Nation of Islam, due to his position as office manager at "Forrest Arms Hotel, ... where three of the Assistant Ministers of the Atlanta Temple reside ... He has been asked to attend their meetings and although he has not yet attended, he stated he will in the near future." (p. 68)</p> 359 | 360 | <p>The question of his informing seems to be mooted when Leonard lost that job and, in August of 1956, Leonard moved to Chicago, as one of millions of African American participants in the greater sociological phenomenon dubbed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Great_Migration_(African_American)">The Great Migration</a>.</p> 361 | 362 | <p>Finally, in 1979, a review of his file was made in advance of Leonard's <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=32240">presidential appointment by Jimmy Carter</a> to serve on the United States Naval Academy <a href="https://www.usna.edu/PAO/Superintendent/bov.html">Board of Visitors</a>.</p> 363 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/walter-j-leonard/ 364 | 365 | 366 | John Trudell 367 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/john-trudell/ 368 | FOIA The Dead has obtained the FBI file for John Trudell. 369 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/john-trudell/ 370 | 371 | 372 | Marcus Klingberg 373 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/marcus-klingberg/ 374 | FOIA The Dead has obtained the FBI file for Marcus Klingberg. 375 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/marcus-klingberg/ 376 | 377 | 378 | Gene Norman 379 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/gene-norman/ 380 | <h3>Legendary jazz producer investigated for Chicken Dance travel behind Iron Curtain</h3> 381 | 382 | <p>Jazz legend Gene Norman was flagged by the FBI for a pair of 1984 trips to Poland, which was at the time under Cold War era travel restrictions. Norman, born Julian Nabatoff in Brooklyn in 1922, was himself the son of Russian immigrants. He and his travel companions were only able to fly to Poland via Montreal.</p> 383 | 384 | <p>On the Polish trips that garnered FBI attention, he was accompanied by a musician who had recently recorded a Norman-produced hit version of "Dance, Little Bird," more commonly known as "The Chicken Dance." According to FBI records, the trip was at the behest of the Polish state music and entertainment agency Ars Polonia to mark the release of the record in that country.</p> 385 | 386 | <p>That performer's name is redacted in the released FBI files, but context indicates that it was Wisconsin Area Music Industry's Hall of Fame inductee Bob Kames, who <a href="http://archive.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/29539139.html">became known as "The Chicken Dance King" by the time of his death in 2008</a>. This clip of Kames performing the song with his family band in a 1980s Christmas special likely dates a few years after the Polish travel.</p> 387 | 388 | <div style="position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:75.0%"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/qdCk7uzWNhI?rel=0?ecver=2" width="480" height="360" frameborder="0" style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> 389 | 390 | <p>The version they recorded reportedly sold 300,000 copies in Poland. Kames said of its success: "I get 2 cents out from each 35-cent record sold. When they sold 300,000 records, they gave me a gold record. Of course, I can't take the money out of the country."</p> 391 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/gene-norman/ 392 | 393 | 394 | Willis Carto 395 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/willis-carto/ 396 | <p>Willis Carto was a far-right activist and Holocaust denier whose work was denounced by groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. Matt Novak at Gizmodo has done <a href="https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/fbi-releases-file-on-willis-carto-neo-nazi-recently-bu-1783195062">an extensive write-up</a> of the contents of Carto's FBI file.</p> 397 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/willis-carto/ 398 | 399 | 400 | Licio Gelli 401 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/licio-gelli/ 402 | <p>Licio Gelli was a prominent Italian financier and self-professed fascist who was investigated as the head of a secret society (illegal in his native Italy) and later convicted for bank fraud and a host of other crimes.</p> 403 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/licio-gelli/ 404 | 405 | 406 | E. Virgil Conway 407 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/e-virgil-conway/ 408 | <p>Before Virgil Conway was the chairman of New York City MTA, he was a banker—first for the state, and then as chairman and chief executive of Seaman's Bank. At that time, he also served as an SAC Contact to the FBI; his file consists mostly of communications between him and agents in the Bureau and descriptions of events he and other official contacts attended.</p> 409 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/e-virgil-conway/ 410 | 411 | 412 | Luther Burden 413 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/luther-burden/ 414 | <p>Luther "Ticky" Burden was a <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Ticky-Burden-s-rise-fall-and-rise-3897542.php">professional basketball player</a> with the New York Knicks from 1976-77. In 1981, he was convicted of taking part in a bank robbery. In 1984, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/31/sports/retrial-ordered-for-burden-ex-knick.html">that conviction was overturned</a> when the New York State Supreme Court ruled his home had been illegally searched without a warrant. He later pled guilty to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/03/sports/sports-people-burden-pleads-guilty.html">possession of $400</a> of the stolen money. He <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/sports/basketball/luther-burden-former-knick-who-served-time-for-bank-robbery-dies-at-62.html">died in November 2015</a> in Winston-Salem.</p> 415 | 416 | <p>In July 1980, shortly after his arrest, the FBI wrote to the United States Attorney in Eastern District of New York to report that an Assistant US Attorney had declined to federally prosecute Burden, in favor of local prosecution. That letter, which made up the entirety of Burden's released FBI file, is reproduced below.</p> 417 | https://foiathedead.org/posts/luther-burden/ 418 | 419 | 420 | 421 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /updatesite.py: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | #!/usr/bin/env python3 2 | # Creates a set of static HTML documents from source material in 3 | # the FOIA The Dead database. 4 | 5 | import dominate 6 | import html2text 7 | import json 8 | import markdown 9 | import os 10 | import sys 11 | import sqlite3 12 | import time 13 | import urllib 14 | import yaml 15 | from documentcloud import DocumentCloud 16 | from dominate.tags import * 17 | from dominate.util import text 18 | from feedgen.feed import FeedGenerator 19 | 20 | config = yaml.safe_load(open("config.yaml")) 21 | dc = DocumentCloud(config['dc_user'],config['dc_password']) 22 | 23 | home = "https://foiathedead.org" 24 | 25 | def create_boilerplate_html(): 26 | h = dominate.document() 27 | h.title = "FOIA The Dead: a morbid transparency project" 28 | 29 | logo_url = urllib.parse.urljoin(home, "imgs/ftd-logo.png") 30 | 31 | with h.head: 32 | meta(charset="utf-8") 33 | meta( 34 | name="viewport", 35 | content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1") 36 | link( 37 | rel="stylesheet", 38 | href= urllib.parse.urljoin(home, "normalize.css")) 39 | link( 40 | rel="stylesheet", 41 | href= urllib.parse.urljoin(home, "main.css")) 42 | 43 | meta(name="twitter:card", content="summary") 44 | meta(name="twitter:site", content="@FOIAtheDead") 45 | meta(name="twitter:image", content=logo_url) 46 | 47 | meta(property="og:image", content=logo_url) 48 | 49 | h.body.add( 50 | div(id=name) for name in ["header","content","footer"]) 51 | 52 | h.body[0].add(a(img(src=logo_url, id="logo"),href=home)) 53 | 54 | h.body[2].add(div(id="copyright")) 55 | 56 | cc_by_img_url = urllib.parse.urljoin(home, "imgs/cc-by.png") 57 | 58 | with h.body.getElementById('copyright'): 59 | text('Creative Commons License'.format(cc_by_img_url), escape = False) 60 | 61 | return h 62 | 63 | def create_numbered_page(entries): 64 | pagecount = sum([entry['pages'] for entry in entries]) 65 | entrycount = len(entries) 66 | 67 | h = create_boilerplate_html() 68 | 69 | with h.head: 70 | meta( 71 | name="description", 72 | content="A transparency project requesting and releasing the FBI files of notable individuals found in the obituary pages.") 73 | 74 | meta(name="twitter:title", content="FOIA The Dead") 75 | meta( 76 | name="twitter:description", 77 | content="A transparency project requesting and releasing the FBI files of notable individuals found in the obituary pages.") 78 | 79 | meta(property="og:url", content=home) 80 | meta(property="og:title", content=h.title) 81 | meta( 82 | property="og:description", 83 | content="A transparency project requesting and releasing the FBI files of notable individuals found in the obituary pages.") 84 | 85 | link(rel="alternate", type="application/rss+xml", href=urllib.parse.urljoin(home, "rss.xml")) 86 | 87 | comment("Looking to scrape this page? Almost everything is available in entries.json.") 88 | 89 | about_url = urllib.parse.urljoin(home, "about") 90 | 91 | headline = h1( 92 | "FOIA The Dead has released {pagecount:,} pages of FBI records on {entrycount} public figures. ".format(**locals()), 93 | id="headline", __pretty = False) 94 | about_link = a("read more »", href=about_url, 95 | id="about-link") 96 | 97 | h.body[0].add(headline).add(about_link) 98 | 99 | return h 100 | 101 | def create_homepage(entries): 102 | print("Updating homepage.") 103 | 104 | pagegroups = [entries[i:i+12] for i in range(0, len(entries), 12)] 105 | 106 | pagegroup_count = len(pagegroups) 107 | 108 | pagenum = 1 109 | 110 | for group in pagegroups: 111 | h = create_numbered_page(entries) 112 | l = h.body[1].add(ul(id="results-list")) 113 | for entry in group: 114 | post_link = urllib.parse.urljoin( 115 | "posts/", entry['slug']) 116 | if pagenum != 1: 117 | post_link = "../" + post_link 118 | tile = l.add(li(h2(a(entry['name'], href=post_link)))) 119 | obit_link = a( 120 | entry['headline'], href=entry['obit_url']) 121 | 122 | with tile: 123 | if entry['short_desc']: 124 | text(entry['short_desc'], escape = False) 125 | p(a("Read more »", href=post_link)) 126 | p("New York Times obit: ", 127 | __pretty = False).add(obit_link) 128 | 129 | nav = h.body[1].add(div(id="page-nav")) 130 | 131 | pagination = nav.add(ul(id="pagination")) 132 | 133 | page_links = [home] 134 | page_links.extend([urllib.parse.urljoin(home, str(page)) for page in range(2, pagegroup_count + 1)]) 135 | 136 | pagination.add(li(a("«", href=home))) 137 | 138 | for index in range(len(page_links)): 139 | number = index + 1 140 | page = pagination.add(li(a(number, href=page_links[index]))) 141 | if number == pagenum: 142 | with page: 143 | attr(cls="current-page") 144 | 145 | pagination.add(li(a("»", href=page_links[-1]))) 146 | 147 | firstpage = True if pagenum == 1 else False 148 | 149 | if firstpage: 150 | filename = "site/index.html" 151 | else: 152 | os.makedirs("site/{}".format(pagenum), exist_ok=True) 153 | filename = "site/{}/index.html".format(pagenum) 154 | 155 | with open(filename, "w") as f: 156 | f.write(h.render()) 157 | 158 | pagenum += 1 159 | 160 | def populate_posts(entries): 161 | print("Updating posts.") 162 | for entry in entries: 163 | populate_post(entry) 164 | 165 | def populate_post(entry): 166 | h = create_boilerplate_html() 167 | h.title = entry['name'] + ": FOIA The Dead" 168 | 169 | with h.head: 170 | meta(name="twitter:title", content=h.title) 171 | meta( 172 | name="twitter:description", 173 | content=entry['twitter_desc']) 174 | 175 | post_url = urllib.parse.urljoin( 176 | home, "posts/" + entry['slug'] + "/index.html") 177 | 178 | meta(property="og:url", content=post_url) 179 | meta(property="og:title", content=h.title) 180 | meta(property="og:description", content=entry['fb_desc']) 181 | 182 | h.body['class'] = "post-page" 183 | 184 | h.body[0].add(h1(a("FOIA The Dead", href=home))) 185 | h.body[0].add(h2(entry['name'])) 186 | 187 | dc_embed = '
'.format(entry['documentcloud_id'],entry['name']) 188 | 189 | with h.body[1]: 190 | 191 | with div(id="description"): 192 | if entry['long_desc']: 193 | text(entry['long_desc'], escape=False) 194 | elif entry['short_desc']: 195 | text(entry['short_desc'], escape=False) 196 | 197 | obit_link = a(entry['headline'], href=entry['obit_url']) 198 | p("New York Times obit: ", __pretty = False).add(obit_link) 199 | 200 | text(dc_embed, escape=False) 201 | 202 | os.makedirs("site/posts/" + entry['slug'], exist_ok=True) 203 | path = os.path.join("site/posts/", entry['slug'], "index.html") 204 | with open(path, "w") as f: 205 | f.write(h.render()) 206 | 207 | def create_error_page(): 208 | print("Updating error page.") 209 | 210 | h = create_boilerplate_html() 211 | 212 | h.body[0].add(h1(a("FOIA The Dead", href=home))) 213 | 214 | h.body[1].add(h2( 215 | "Sorry, this page is broken :(", id="error-text")) 216 | 217 | with open("site/error.html", "w") as f: 218 | f.write(h.render()) 219 | 220 | def create_about_page(): 221 | print("Updating about page.") 222 | 223 | h = create_boilerplate_html() 224 | 225 | h.title = "About FOIA The Dead" 226 | 227 | with h.head: 228 | meta(name="twitter:title", content=h.title) 229 | meta( 230 | name="twitter:description", 231 | content="FOIA The Dead is a long-term transparency project using the Freedom of Information Act. It releases FBI records on recently deceased public figures.") 232 | 233 | about_url = urllib.parse.urljoin(home, "about/") 234 | 235 | meta(property="og:url", content=about_url) 236 | meta(property="og:title", content=h.title) 237 | meta( 238 | property="og:description", 239 | content="FOIA The Dead is a long-term transparency project using the Freedom of Information Act. It releases FBI records on recently deceased public figures.") 240 | 241 | h.body['class'] = "about-page" 242 | 243 | h.body[0].add(h1(a("FOIA The Dead", href=home))) 244 | h.body[0].add(h2("About this project")) 245 | 246 | with open("site/about.md","r") as f: 247 | about_text = f.read() 248 | 249 | about_html = markdown.markdown(about_text) 250 | 251 | with h.body[1]: 252 | text(about_html, escape=False) 253 | 254 | with open("site/about/index.html", "w") as f: 255 | f.write(h.render()) 256 | 257 | def create_feeds(entries): 258 | print("Updating feeds.") 259 | 260 | fg = FeedGenerator() 261 | fg.title('FOIA The Dead') 262 | fg.author(name='FOIA The Dead', email='foia@foiathedead.org') 263 | fg.link(href=home, rel='alternate') 264 | fg.id(home) 265 | fg.description("FOIA The Dead is a long-term transparency project using the Freedom of Information Act. It releases FBI records on recently deceased public figures.") 266 | 267 | for entry in reversed(entries): 268 | fe = fg.add_entry() 269 | fe.title(entry['name']) 270 | fe.link(href=urllib.parse.urljoin(home, "posts/" + entry['slug'] + "/")) 271 | fe.guid(urllib.parse.urljoin(home, "posts/" + entry['slug'] + "/"), permalink=True) 272 | if entry['long_desc']: 273 | fe.content(entry['long_desc']) 274 | elif entry['short_desc']: 275 | fe.content(entry['short_desc']) 276 | else: 277 | fe.content("FOIA The Dead has obtained the FBI file for {}.".format(entry['name'])) 278 | 279 | fg.atom_file('site/atom.xml', pretty=True) 280 | fg.rss_file('site/rss.xml', pretty=True) 281 | 282 | def create_entries_list(cursor): 283 | if not os.path.exists("site/entries.json"): 284 | with open("site/entries.json","w") as f: 285 | json.dump([],f) 286 | 287 | with open("site/entries.json", "r") as f: 288 | entries = json.load(f) 289 | 290 | db_entries = [] 291 | 292 | for values in cursor.execute('select name, slug, obit_headline, obit_url, documentcloud_id, short_description, long_description from requests where documentcloud_id is not null order by id desc'): 293 | keys = ['name', 'slug', 'headline', 'obit_url', 294 | 'documentcloud_id', 'short_desc', 'long_desc'] 295 | db_entry = dict(zip(keys,values)) 296 | 297 | if db_entry['name'] not in ( 298 | [entry['name'] for entry in entries]): 299 | entries.insert(0, add_new_entry(db_entry)) 300 | 301 | with open("site/entries.json", "w") as f: 302 | json.dump(entries, f, indent=4, sort_keys=True) 303 | 304 | return entries 305 | 306 | def add_new_entry(entry): 307 | entry['documentcloud_url'] = urllib.parse.urljoin( 308 | "https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/", 309 | entry['documentcloud_id']) 310 | 311 | entry['pages'] = get_pagecount(entry['documentcloud_id']) 312 | 313 | html_parser = html2text.HTML2Text(bodywidth=0) 314 | html_parser.ignore_links = True 315 | 316 | if entry['short_desc']: 317 | entry['twitter_desc'] = html_parser.handle( 318 | entry['short_desc']).strip() 319 | else: 320 | entry['twitter_desc'] = "FBI file and information about {}.".format(entry['name']) 321 | 322 | entry['fb_desc'] = entry['twitter_desc'] 323 | 324 | return entry 325 | 326 | def get_pagecount(doc): 327 | print("Fetching pagecount for {}.".format(doc)) 328 | time.sleep(1) 329 | return dc.documents.get(doc).pages 330 | 331 | def main(hp=True, about=True, posts=False, error=False): 332 | db = config['db'] 333 | conn = sqlite3.connect(db) 334 | c = conn.cursor() 335 | 336 | entries = create_entries_list(c) 337 | 338 | if len(sys.argv) < 2: 339 | print("""By default this program will just update the list of entries tracked by the site. To update actual pages, add any of the following flags: 340 | --home 341 | --feeds 342 | --about 343 | --posts 344 | --error""") 345 | 346 | if "--home" in sys.argv: 347 | create_homepage(entries) 348 | 349 | if "--feeds" in sys.argv: 350 | create_feeds(entries) 351 | 352 | if "--about" in sys.argv: 353 | create_about_page() 354 | 355 | if "--posts" in sys.argv: 356 | populate_posts(entries) 357 | 358 | if "--error" in sys.argv: 359 | create_error_page() 360 | 361 | if __name__ == '__main__': 362 | main() 363 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------