FBI Kept Files On N.Y. Times Writer
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Newly-released documents show the late reporter and author David Halberstam was tracked by the FBI.
Students at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism obtained the FBI papers by filing a Freedom of Information Act request.
The documents show the bureau monitored the city native and Pulitzer Prize-winner's reporting, and occasionally his personal life, for at least 20 years from the mid-1960s until the late-1980s.
But the agency released only 62 of 98 pages on the writer, citing security, privacy and other reasons.
Halberstam won a Pulitzer in 1964 for his coverage of the Vietnam War for the New York Times.
The FBI refused to comment on why it tracked Halberstam, who was killed in a car crash last year.