print email comment close Remarks by Herbert Foerstel URL: http://www.aaas.org/spp/secrecy/Presents/foerstel.htm Description: A summary of the Library Awareness Program, which ran from 1973 to the late 1980s, in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation expected librarians to "report on 'foreigners' [who were] using America's unclassified scientific libraries." Text from a speech by Herbert Foerstel, the author of the book, "Surveillance in the Stacks: The FBI's Library Awareness Program." Extra Keywords FBI Library of Congress Subject Headings: Librarians -- Professional ethics Libraries and immigrants Libraries and state -- United States Library science -- Political aspects United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation LII Database Information: Record 443 created by Karen Schneider on 06/03/2003 Last modification on 04/13/2006 Published: 06/03/2003   Republished: 04/13/2006 Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/443