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July 26, 2025, 07:54:08 PM

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Just fill in the italics in this form letter with the appropriate information, get your signature notarized, send it off, and you're in business!

Your Name Today's Date
Your Address
Line 2 of Your Address

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Records Resources Division - Attn.: FOIA/PA Office
J. Edgar Hoover Building
9th & Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20535

This is a request for records under both the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act.

I request a copy of any and all records at the FBI that mention me, such as documents, reports, memoranda, letters, electronic files, "See Also" files, "Do Not File" files, "Official & Confidential" files, "Personal & Confidential" files, photographs, audio tapes & videotapes, electronic or microphone surveillance (ELSUR or MISUR), or photographic surveillance, "June mail", "Obscene" Files, "Subversive" Indexes, bulkies, mail covers, trash covers; and any index citations relating to me or referencing me ("see also") in other files. Please search all your indexes, and interpret this request broadly. This should include an ELSUR search. I also request a copy of the "FOIA Search Slip" generated as a result of this request.

My full name is: Your Name. My date of birth is: Your Date of Birth. My place of birth is: Your Place of Birth. Optional: My social security number is: Your SSN.

FOIA/PA statutes provide that even if some of the requested material is properly exempt from mandatory disclosure, all segregable portions must be released. If the requested material is released with deletions, please mark each deletion to indicate the exemption(s) being claimed to authorize each particular withholding. In addition, I ask that your agency exercise its discretion to release records which may be technically exempt, but where withholding serves no important public interest.

I hereby agree to pay reasonable costs associated with this request up to a maximum of $30. Please notify me if the fees are expected to exceed this amount. I am aware that this request may take slightly longer than the time limit of 10 working days provided by law.

Sincerely,
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If you don't have a file, asking for your file will create one awesome, for real

Last I checked, a request like that can cost quite a bit more than $30 if you DO have a file. I believe they charge something like $10c or $25c a page for "photocopy costs"

When did you last check and how much did it cost?

I checked on the cost, not on my FBI file :)

Mine is fairly large because of all the clearance paperwork and background investigations from that paperwork. Anyone who holds a clearance is going to be in there. Except CIA. I don't think they share their records with FBI.

Quote from: bhodi on March 18, 2009, 07:04:06 AM

FBI still does their initial security clearances and has authority for counter-espionage investigations. But the CIA handles more of it internally since the Aldrich Ames episode (FBI's head of counter-espionage turned out to have been working for the Russians).

--Dave

I would imagine that I probably know most of the stuff that they have on me. I'm more interested in paying for their information on other people. I'm sure they have a deniable outlet through one of the neutral country information brokers. Fear not, only the guilty need worry about what anybody does with it.

Quote from: Righ on March 19, 2009, 01:32:55 PM

I would hope most people know what information the FBI has on them.

As for information on third parties, have you ever tried pipl.com? I was kind of surprised about what it pulled up on a random sampling of friends.

I love how that site pulled up practically nothing of note on me (without paying, anyway).

Wow, a 10+ year old hotmail account, my amazon account, facebook, and my name and address? heh, not too impressed, but maybe the stuff you pay for would give more revealing info?

One thing I DID find, when searching for my username, besides some kid in AUS who has been using it for a few years....

Some punk on steam stole my avatar and is using it as his own. What a jerk! And it's retarded because his name doesn't match the one in the avatar.

It didn't kick up much under my legal name, either (I use my middle name), only one thing that might have been me (it's somewhere I used to live, but the date is off by several years). Under my middle name, it brought up lots of online game related stuff from me in the web trail, but all the public records and such were for other Dave Rickey's (mostly the one in CA that runs a chip company and the one in Alabama who works in PR).

--Dave

Quote from: Oban on March 19, 2009, 02:48:54 PM

As for information on third parties, have you ever tried pipl.com? I was kind of surprised about what it pulled up on a random sampling of friends.

Hmm, it was all me save two results when searching under my name. Picked up the usual like blog posts and Amazon, Flickr, MySpace, and Facebook accounts.

Interesting things were the minutes to my college district's Board of Trustees meetings where I was a speaker a few times and apparently an article on the iPod Mini I wrote for my high school newspaper (maybe?) forever ago.

That only got two links for my name. An obit for my grandmother and an organization page for which I am a board member. Not even the staff directory where I am listed.

Lol... 1 thing showed up, was for an ancient Amazon.com profile I used about 5 years ago to buy a boxed set of WoT books, then pretty much never even signed into again. I NEVER use my real name online anymore.

Pipl is interesting but pretty lame. They don't try very hard. Basically just aggregates a couple of different searches.

Thankfully, there are plenty of folks out there with my name, so I only show up from my LinkedIn profile!

But it searches the deep web!