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Tracking Terkel?

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on Nov 16, 2009 8:40PM

Gapers Block points us in the direction of this story, showing that famed Chicago writer Studs Terkel was tracked by the FBI for most of his life under suspicion of being a Communist. You can check out all 99 pages here [PDF].

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