The Freedom of Information Act and the National Security State

Greg Price is a cultural anthropologist and author of Cold War Anthropology. His new book American Surveillance State goes deep into the intelligence agency's overlapping with academics in his field, anthropology. He says he started out by making Freedom of Information Act requests for records on anthropologists but soon found himself looking at public intellectuals as well. "I was surprised how much anthropologists were being spied on by the FBI or harassed by the FBI"