Review clears FBI in Eagleton case
A newspaper review of more than 1,000 pages of internal FBI documents on Thomas Eagleton found no evidence that the agency leaked information about his treatment for depression, a revelation that ended his vice presidential campaign in 1972.
Some questioned whether the FBI, which had kept tabs on Eagleton since the 1950s, had shared his medical information with the media or others. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch requested Eagleton’s FBI file through the Freedom of Information Act after the March 2007 death of the former Missouri attorney general and U.S. senator.
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