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gained access to these historic and previously unpublished intercept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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