FBI Memos Suggest Agency Had Moles in Media

FBI Memos Suggest Agency Had Moles in Media
The FBI seal is attached to a podium at a news conference at FBI Headquarters in Washington on June 14, 2018. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
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Investigator Roger Charles was combing through records of the FBI’s Oklahoma City bombing investigation more than a decade ago, when he discovered a memo suggesting that someone working at ABC News provided a tip to the bureau a day after the deadly April 19, 1995, domestic terrorist attack.

It appeared that a senior ABC News journalist had been doubling as an FBI informant. The memo made a few headlines in 2011, but quickly passed through the news cycle with little effect and hardly any coverage by major outlets.