The FBI is surprisingly responsive and &quot;human&quot; for FBI file (e.g. dead people records) requests, at least for the non-controversial ones. For example, MuckRock sent a records request for &quot;Leslie Nielson&quot; with no proof of death and yet the FBI (as far as I can see in the message chain) didn&#x27;t give them a hard time about it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.muckrock.com&#x2F;foi&#x2F;united-states-of-america-10&#x2F;fbi-file-of-leslie-nelson-278&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.muckrock.com&#x2F;foi&#x2F;united-states-of-america-10&#x2F;fbi...</a><p>I recently sent in a request for Paul Newman and got nothing back (which was both very disappointing and surprising, given Nixon&#x27;s well-known hatred of Newman, and Newman being an all-around big name and businessman)...the only hold up was that they required a snail mail address to send things to. I thought they had dropped my request but realized they had sent the &quot;no records found&quot; letter to my mailbox well before the required deadline.