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University of Utah political scientist Tim Chambless, who years ago cataloged 85 boxes of Jack Anderson's papers for use in his research, calls the FBI's demands "a fishing exped- ition." The documents he reviewed included some that "were politically embarrassing to a few people." But he said, "There was nothing in there with regard to national security." Chambless also wonders how much trolling the government has done in Anderson-related documents that had been in the public domain. When he was in Maryland recently, Chambless spent two days at the National Archives looking through declassified documents dealing with Anderson. He said he was concerned to find a number that had been removed from the file. "No reason was given as to why the documents were pulled, no date was given as to when they were pulled or by what agency or individual. This is very troubling to me," Chambless said Tuesday. "I asked specifically [who removed the documents], and that information was not provided to me." He declined to speculate whether the missing papers were part of a seven-year-old secret program, disclosed in news reports earlier this year, to reclassify thousands of documents at the National Archives. The New York Times reported the effort by the CIA and five other agencies had removed from public access more than 55,000 previously declassified pages. - Robert Gehrke