voiceofthewhirlwind's Journal: What's New excerpt

2. 17 YEARS AGO IT WAS THE FBI'S "LIBRARY AWARENESS PROGRAM."
Unfortunately, the goal of the program was not to improve the
literacy of agents. WHAT'S NEW stumbled on the story first in
1986 after a trench-coated FBI agent asked a student working at
the University of Maryland Physics Library for the record of all
books checked out to a visiting foreign scientist. The agent
resembled Inspector Clouseau more than Elliot Ness. The student
called the science librarian. Maryland is one of 38 states in
which library records are protected by law, and in the absence of
a court order, the librarian refused. After the New York Times
picked up the story a year later, the FBI ran checks on 266
people who had been publicly critical to see if they were part of
a Soviet plot to discredit the program. The full story of the
infamous Library Awareness Program is told by librarian Herb
Foerstel in "Surveillance in the Stacks"(Greenwood Press, 1991).

What's New is a weekly email one-sheet... it's frequently humorous and highly critical of the current administration as well as pseudo-science kooks.