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Justice Department Apparently Abandons Effort to Review Jack Anderson's Papers

The Federal Bureau of Investigation appears to have quietly given up pursuing the archives of Jack Anderson, the well-known Washington muckraker.

In a November 30 letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee -- a response to a series of questions that committee members issued after a hearing last May -- the Department of Justice said that "at this time the FBI is not seeking to reclaim any documents" from the archive, which is now held at George Washington University.

Anderson, who died in 2005, investigated, hassled, wrote about, and sparred with government agents and officials throughout his career. One of his many nemeses was J. Edgar Hoover himself.

The news from the Justice Department was in keeping with the journalist's legacy, said friends and family members. ...
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