3/25/2016 0 Comments Paleofuture.Gizmodo.Com: FBI Claims They Don't Have a File on the Inventor of Email, David Bowie, And Many Others[Editor's Comment: Including Ray in this list of people some popular icons, others notorious scoundrels shows the price of fame. If I had written the headline, I would have replaced the next to last word with "Most". Sorry Ray...] by Matt Novak FBI Claims They Don't Have a File on the Inventor of Email, David Bowie, And Many OthersSometimes I’m more surprised by who doesn’t have an FBI file than who does. Yesterday I got a letter from the FBI in response to my Freedom of Information Act request for any records they might have on Ray Tomlinson, one of the inventors of email. They insist that he doesn’t have a file.
I’m not saying that Tomlinson ever did anything wrong or illegal that should’ve attracted the attention of the FBI. But typically people who work on high-level, government-financed technology—as Tomlinson did while working at BBN as a DARPA contractor—get at least a brief once-over from the FBI. Below, I’ve compiled a short list of people about whom I’ve submitted FOIA requests to the FBI, and have turned up nothing.
Now, of course, some of these aren’t so surprising. But others are a bit suspicious. Many of the FBI files that I’ve received over the years have little more than clearances for military projects. And the fact that a man like Paul Baran, one of the most important and visionary inventors of the internet, doesn’t have an FBI file seems strange to me. I guess the FBI can’t keep tabs on everybody.
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