Exhibit 1070 ยท Internal FBI newsletter (document from the 1971 Media, PA burglary)
New Left Notes - Philadelphia, Edition #1, 16 September 1970, 'An Agent Behind Every Mailbox' (document taken from the FBI resident agency at Media, PA)
There was a pretty general concensus that more interviews with these subjects and hangers-on are in order for plenty of reasons, chief of which are it will enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles and will further serve to get the point across there is an FBI Agent behind every mailbox.
Internal Philadelphia newsletter reporting a Bureau conference at SOG on 10-11 September 1970. Records a 'pretty general concensus' that more interviews of New Left subjects were in order because they would 'enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles' and 'further serve to get the point across there is an FBI Agent behind every mailbox.'
- Source
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, Philadelphia Field Office; published in 'The Complete Collection of Political Documents Ripped Off from the FBI Office in Media, PA, March 8 1971' (WIN, March 1972)
- Date
- 16 September 1970; compilation March 1972
- Quoted from
- Compilation PDF p. 28 (read from page image; 'enhance' is hyphenated across a line break in the print)
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://archive.org/details/the-complete-collection-of-political-documents-ripped-off-from-the-fbi-office-in
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Leaked-document rule (EDITORIAL INF list): authenticity is established by the Church Committee, whose Book III quotes the same Philadelphia memorandum of 16 September 1970 and the phrase 'there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox' (exhibit church-1976-book3-informants-mailbox). The words 'enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles' appear only in this compilation copy, not in the Church text. Say how the material reached the public: taken in the 8 March 1971 burglary of the FBI's Media, PA office and mailed to newspapers; the burglars were not identified until 2014. Replace with the FBI Vault MEDBURG copy if it carries the page.