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The Quantico Book of the Dead

Rob Beschizza at 10:01 am Mon, Jan 16, 2012

Kindle

Via a FOIA filing, Government Attic yielded the FBI's official list of notable dead people. (PDF link)

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Mujokan

They didn’t put down Keynes as a Communist! The FBI has been taken over by the collectivist conspiracy!

(Already trying to break the Boing Boing election year commenting policy)
- AllyPally
  
  … and they haven’t listed Khrushchev as a communist.
  - Mujokan
    
    That’s more understandable.
    - http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan
      
      Are the FBI more sophisticated than I gave ‘em credit for?
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They had a file on Abbott, but not Costello. I bet Lou Costello was paid by the FBI to keep on eye on Bud Abbott.
They also had files on all the Marx Bros, including Zeppo and Gummo.
- Mujokan
  
  That must be why the Sopranos referenced that statue to him in NJ.
Donald Petersen

My life’s ambition: to end up on this list. Preferably boldfaced.

My more likely fate is to end up an atherosclerosis statistic, but one can dream.