The FBI

Published in The Immanent Frame

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“Dear Professor Martin,” the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) wrote to me, “This is in response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.” I could not believe the FBI responded to my FOIA request for Reverend Charles E. Fuller (1887–1968) so quickly. An initial response to a FOIA request normally takes twenty business days. Miraculously, I received a response in just five days. If the FOIA office continued with such speed, I thought, my research project on the history of the FBI and religious broadcasting would be completed more quickly than I, or anyone else, had imagined. This was going to be smooth sailing.

I could not have been more wrong ...

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