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BY LARSTON D. FARRAR
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i taxicab driver recently brought
a beautiful young blonde to a Chicago police
station. The driver explained that when he
picked her up at a railroad station, she
mumbled to him incoherently. After making
sure she wasn't intoxicated, he had brought
her to the police.
The young woman, staring dazedly at the
officers who questioned her, was unable to
give her name or address. A search of her
handbag produced only one clue a ticket
stub from an Albuquerque, N. M., theater.
On a hunch, a detective placed the woman
before a typewriter.
As if working automatically, she slowly
typed out the words, "Now is the time for
all good men to come to the aid of their
country," followed by "Albuquerque, N. M.,"
and "Women Army Corps, U. S. Army."
At a Chicago hospital, doctors agreed that
she was suffering from amnesia.
The police department, working on the
theory that she was either a present or
former employee of the Federal government,
sent her fingerprints via speedphoto trans
ceiver to the identification division of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, where some
144 million fingerprints are on file.
In a matter of minutes, the fingerprints
were reproduced on photographic paper in
Washington, and the picture developed. FBI
files revealed her name, age, place of birth,
and address in 1954, when she had been
fingerprinted at the U. S. Atomic Energy
Commission in Albuquerque.
The information was telephoned to the
Chicago Police Department that same day.
"The Case of the Forgetful Blonde," as
this one might be called, was solved in a few
hours, thanks to the records kept by Uncle
8 Family Weekly, April 21, 1957
Sam. It is only one of thousands of instances
that take place each year in which informa
tion, gathered through the years by the Fed
eral government, is used to help both local
agencies and citizens in all walks of life.
How much money did you earn in 1946?
Did you join the church in 1942? How can
you prove you were born, if you don't have
a birth certificate?
There is someone perhaps a number of
someones who can get the answers to these
questions, and very easily. They are em
ployees of the various agencies of the Fed
eral government who are authorized to dig
into Uncle Sam's voluminous files to get
needed information about citizens in general
or o citizen in particular.
If all the files that Uncle Sam maintains
were placed in one warehouse, it would be
bigger than the island of Manhattan, with
perhaps a good part of Staten Island thrown in.
With some - 2.4 million employees, Uncle
Sam is the keeper of the greatest storehouse
of information on his citizens ever collected
by any government, in history. Fortunately
for some citizens, and perhaps unfortunately
for some investigators, not oil this informa
tion is gathered in a central place. Nor is it
fed into a giant electronic computer so that
every little detail of information about any
one person can be studied at one time. .
In other words, Uncle Sam's many agencies
gather separate information and are pre
cluded, except under certain safeguards,
from exchanging data with one another.
The fortunate part of this is that many of
us have a tendency to tell "white lies" at
one time or another. For instance, a man
files his income-tax return, showing his
salary as $4,476 for a certain year. But when