FBI: Records On Cronkite Destroyed In 2007

Washington, D.C. (AHN) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation has admitted destroying records of the late Walter Cronkite in October 2007 when the CBS News anchorman was still alive but ailing.

The admission was in response to a request by USA Today to obtain the records under the Freedom of Information Act after Cronkite died in July at the age of 92.

The agency did not say what records it had on Cronkite and why these were destroyed. The records may not be about FBI’s investigation of Cronkite but rather letters complaining of extortion and requesting for investigation, according to Scott Hodes, a former top lawyer in the FBI’s records office.

The FBI cited a policy of keeping and destroying records since 1981.

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