Documents on FBI's surveillance of Kerry stolen
Historian: 'Odds are in favor' of political motive in theft
Sunday, March 28, 2004 Posted: 0306 GMT (1106 HKT)
(CNN) -- FBI documents detailing government surveillance of John Kerry in the early 1970s have been stolen from the home of a historian in a suburb of San Francisco, California.
Gerald Nicosia, who spent more than a decade collecting the information, told CNN in a telephone interview that three of 14 boxes of documents plus a number of loose folders -- hundreds of pages -- were stolen Thursday afternoon.
"It was a very clean burglary. They didn't break any glass. They didn't take anything like cameras sitting by. It was a very professional job," Nicosia said.
"Was it a thrill-seeker who wanted a piece of history? It could be," Nicosia said. "You'd think there was a very strong political motivation for taking those files. The odds are in favor of that."
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/West/03/27/kerry.documents/index.html