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My Family’s Long and Painful Relationship With the FBI
I never knew my uncle. Marvin Risen, my father’s brother, died long before I was born. He was an FBI agent in Nashville and was killed in a plane crash in 1943. But decades later, when I was growing up, something about Marvin’s death still troubled my …