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Surveillance in the stacks: the FBI's Library Awareness Program

01 May 1991

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Foerstel, Herbert N, Westport: Greenwood 1990, 184 pages ISBN 0-313-26715-4, $39.95. The book addresses the library surveillance and the FBI's Library Awareness Program that requested confidential information on library users. Relying heavily on previously classified FBI reports the work traces the recent history of library surveillance and documents the media and Congressional response to the Bureau's program.

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