Historian: Kerry FBI files stolen
From Phil Hirschkorn
Sunday, March 28, 2004
CNN) -- FBI documents about FBI surveillance of John Kerry in the early 1970s have been stolen, according to their owner, a historian who lives near San Francisco, California.
Gerald Nicosia, who spent more than a decade collecting the information, said three of 14 boxes of documents plus a number of loose folders containing hundreds of pages were stolen from his home Thursday afternoon.
Nicosia reported the theft Friday to the Twin Cities Police Department, which covers Larkspur and Corte Madera in Marin County, where he lives. The police report found no sign of forced entry.
"It was a very clean burglary. They didn't break any glass. They didn't take anything like cameras sitting by. It was a very professional job," Nicosia said.
"Was it a thrill-seeker who wanted a piece of history? It could be," Nicosia said. "You'd think there was a very strong political motivation for taking those files. The odds are in favor of that."
Nicosia, author of "Home At War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans Movement," had obtained about 20,000 pages of FBI documents through Freedom of Information Act requests.
The documents center on FBI surveillance of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), which Kerry represented as national spokesman. In April 1971, the decorated veteran testified in televised hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and led a large protest of veterans in the capital.
Nicosia estimated that 20 percent of his documents are missing.
"It's heartbreaking, after 11 years trying to get them," he said.
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According to the police, they didn't think they were stolen and there would be no investgation because he sould not let them process the crime scene, there were no signs of forced entry and he failed to advise the police that people from Kerry's campaign had been there like 2-3 days before. It is suspected that he gave the docs to Kerry and callled the police. He told reporters and the police that this is just like Watergate.