When do or don't I ask the FBI for the records of more than one person in the same file?

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When do or don't I ask the FBI for the records of more than one person in the same file?

Asked by David Bixenspan on September 12, 2016.

1 answer from Jack R-W.

David Bixenspan 09/12/2016

Last night, I was watching Masters of Sex on Showtime and realized that, at least as far as I know, there’s no FBI file in the wild for the real William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Given the era, you’d think that they were investigated, so I figured I should do a FOIA…but I don’t know if I should do one for Masters and Johnson or separate ones for each of them. Given the circumstances, I’m guessing I should just do one FOIA, but I wanted to make sure.

Also, does it vary at all by the agency?

Thanks!

Answer 1 · 2016-09-12T21:22:58.251268-04:00

Jack R-W 09/12/2016

It’s up to you, really. If you ask for two people and they deem them to be two different requests, they’ll split them, probably.