and so randy goodman and terry taylor and i purchased at a newsstand in one city and some others laterrbacks. we had two batches in all. when we came back through jfk airport in new york, we had one batch in our luggage which, no problem, we shipped the others with camera equipment and unaccompanied baggage to boston, and that is where customs spotted them and turned them over to the cia and it resulted in the cia and the government talking about indicting us for possession of classified documents. these were public things, distributed all over the world, nothing private about them any longer. and the seized them aclu took up the case, and over a period of a year, we got the documents back and they dropped all talk of prosecuting us, which had been ridiculous to begin with, and settled out of court for $16,000 in damages. >> and yet it is interesting how the boston globe played it in march of 19 -- >> 1982, i think. quicker march of 1982. it says i'm a "the justice department has dropped plans to prosecute a freelance journalist for possession of purported copies of secret american doc