Confidential Files in Room 6527
The FBI has been hiding sensitive records of American eavesdropping
operations from parliamentary scrutiny for decades. FBI director J.
Edgar Hoover (right) gave orders in 1948 for tricky political papers to
be stored away in Room 6527 – known as the Confidential File Room - at
its Washington headquarters. The records did not show up in any index so
that the FBI would be able to deny any knowledge of the relevant
documents should a parliamentary control commission ever start to ask
questions.
Along with records of US eavesdropping on friendly states,
Hoover also stashed away documents about Eastern Block spies or reports
about the unusual sexual practices of senior Communist officials and
politicians. There were so many documents that they began to threaten
the vast official building’s structural mechanics. An internal FBI memo
from September 1961 notes that secret papers had to be immediately
transferred to other rooms due to the weight of Room 6527’s 26 filing
cabinets. Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request, the
SonntagsZeitung and
Le Matin Dimanche have gained access to these historic and previously unpublished intercept records.
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