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Thurmond, FBI had cozy ties, records show.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Lauren Markoe and John Monk
WASHINGTON _ For more than 50 years, U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond and the FBI _ director J. Edgar Hoover in particular _ mutually benefited from a close, hidden relationship that gave the South Carolina politician access to the FBI's secret files.
The relationship is documented in Thurmond's FBI file, parts of which the bureau released Monday in response to requests by The State newspaper and other media. Such releases are made only after the subject of a file has died or when a living subject gives permission.
Monday's release is about 600 pages, weighs nearly 6 pounds and covers the period from October 1938 _ ...
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