FBI Releases Ben Bradlee's File
The Newsweek article that set off a decades-long icing of a relationship.
The FBI released its 52-page file on storied Washington Post editor Benjamin Bradlee, who passed away on Oct. 21 at the age of 93. The file was made public thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request, according to Politico‘s Nick Gass.
The FBI’s notes begin in 1951, when Bradlee was applying to work for the Voice of America. The FBI didn’t find anything problematic with Bradlee then, though it did note his working with “some other young liberals who were interested in breaking up a newspaper monopoly in Manchester, N.H.”
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