FBI Papers on Kerry Stolen from Marin County Author

A North Bay man who had uncovered evidence the FBI (news - web sites) tailed presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) for months in 1971 says some of the files were stolen this week.



Author Gerald Nicosia told police Friday that three of fourteen boxes of once secret FBI files he obtained through the Freedom of Information Act were taken from his Corte Madera home some time Thursday. He says investigators do not have much hope in finding the missing files. "They said it would be almost impossible to try to track fingerprints because we did have CNN people handling the boxes and with the amount of people that have handled the boxes it's almost impossible to get any useable prints off of it. Basically they showed me how the guys got into my house but beyond that there's not much they can do," Nicosia said.
It was the Los Angeles Times that first reviewed some of the author's documents and reported it in the March 23rd edition that FBI closely monitored Kerry's post war activism.






http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/kpix/20040327/lo_kpix/9582

there's an inside joke for ya.

Seriously though, isn't it just publicly available under the FOIA? Why bother to steal them when you can fill out a form? :shrug: Were these files research done on the FBI files?

Reelection Campaign or the RNC was behind this?

I know he didn't have the originals.