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FBI Files

I took all this skeptically until I
talked later with a guard. He
warned me not to visit Frank
because it would be "bad" for me. I
am sure they would have my face
on FBI files the moment I was
placed on his visiting list, but I
remembered the twenty or more
times I was photographed at the
Counter Conference by
quasi-hippies with Nikormats and
thought, what the hell! I asked the
guard if it weren't possible that
Frank really wasn't a murderer
especially since he had been
cleared. The guard looked at me
knowingly and said, "He may not
be, but you can bet your ass that
he's done a hell of a lot that he's
never had to pay for, so don't waste
your sympathy."