The page is a clever parody of an FBI surveillance file summary sent to an adminstrative supervisor by a field agent or lower level national office agent. It is actually promotional material for Janis Ian's new album. Having read over 100,000 pages of FBI surveillance files, I can attest that as a parody it captures some of the prose and form of an actual FBI document, complete with file numbers for the subversion category. The Minuteman reference is a bit jarring, however, as Kelley caught. It doesn't fit.
-Chip Berlet
file ferret
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> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of kelley
> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 4:10 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Janis Ian's parents and the FBI
>
>
> this might be especially for chip berlet, but anyone else.... i was
> looking for something, stumbled across as site for janis ian
> <http://www.windham.com/artists/Janis_Ian.html> and read
> this, below. i
> was a little surprised to see "minute men" lumped in with the
> SDS. anyone
> know anything about any of the below at all. just curious
> really. thanks
> --kell
>
>
> <<The song may be about an undercover agent as Jolene is
> referred to as "
> the life of the party" several times, although which
> political party is not
> mentioned. "When You Love Someone" is reflective of Ian's childhood
> surrounded by left-wing parents (see file # NY 100-25214) who ran a
> subversive children's camp (see files on The Minute Men, SDS,
> WEB DuBois
> organization, and infiltration of voter registration drives
> in the South by
> this field office during the 1960's.) >>
>