til·Today I LearnedbyFlying Squid TIL the Monkees had an FBI FileCan't get more subversive than The Monkees.https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/inside-the-fbi-dossier-on-the-monkees/Open linkView original on lemmy.world88Comments5
VitaMan lemmy.world4Hide 4 repliesI think it's safe to say they had a file on anyone who was even moderately famous.20
iintelati replyprogramming.dev3Hide 3 repliesAny citizen can probably FOIA a request for their own file3
yyiliu replyinformis.land2Hide 2 repliesSurely if they haven't started a file yet, they'd start one after that: "what's this guy hiding?"4
PPons_Aelius replykbin.social1Hide 1 replyOpen a file with the info from the FOIA request: Name. DOB. SSN. and nothing else. Send this to person. Thus forfilling the FOIA request. Then start investigating the person...4
I think it's safe to say they had a file on anyone who was even moderately famous.
Any citizen can probably FOIA a request for their own file
Surely if they haven't started a file yet, they'd start one after that: "what's this guy hiding?"
Open a file with the info from the FOIA request:
Name. DOB. SSN. and nothing else.
Send this to person.
Thus forfilling the FOIA request.
Then start investigating the person...
Fulfilling?