"Used for propaganda purposes" Lana Peters' (Svetlana Alliluyeva)'s FBI file
When Lana Peters - AKA Svetlana Alliluyeva, AKA Josef Stalin's daughter -died in Wisconsin at 85, she had accrued a Federal Bureau of Investigation file over 200 pages long. But the FBI’s involvement with her was limited, mostly capturing their sideline vantage the year she defected to the United States of America, beginning two decades of something like her American Dream.
...At a time when civil rights activities at home and communist finger-pointing were still cash crops for the Bureau’s investigations, Alliluyeva’s file - released to MuckRock user Robert Delaware - is not an investigatory one, and so is devoid of a lot of common file elements: subject description, for example, or interviews with known associates.
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