in the 1970s. Anderson also used a staff of "legmen" on his payroll, who earned little but gained valuable reporting experience. Among Anderson's legmen—reporters who went out into the field and gathered the information, forwarding it to writers such as Anderson—was Brit Hume, later a television reporter for ABC News and Washington managing editor for the Fox News Channel. Death and aftermath Anderson was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1986. In July 2004 at the age of 81, Anderson retired from his syndicated column, Washington Merry-Go-Round. He died of complications from Parkinson's disease on December 17, 2005. In April 2006, Anderson's son Kevin said that some FBI agents had approached his mother (Jack's widow), Olivia, earlier that year to gain access to his father's files. This was purportedly in connection with the Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal. FBI spokesmen said that Anderson's archives contained classified information and confirmed that they wanted to remove the papers before they were made public. The agents claimed to be looking for documents pertaining to American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as part of an espionage investigation. In November 2006, the FBI quietly gave up its pursuit of the archive. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that the archive contains Anderson's CIA file, along with information he had compiled about prominent public figures such as Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Dodd, and J. Edgar Hoover. Books Nonfiction McCarthyism: The Man, the Senator, the “ism” (1952) Washington exposé by Jack Anderson (Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1967) The Case Against Congress, with Drew Pearson (1969) American Government ...Like It Is, with Carl Kalvelage (1971) The Anderson Papers (1973) Confessions of a Muckraker, with James Boyd (1979) Alice in Blunderland, with John Kidner (1983) Fiasco, with James Boyd (1983) Inside the NRA: Armed and Dangerous (1996) Washington Money-Go-Round (1997) Peace, War and Politics: An Eyewitness Account, with Daryl Gibson (1999) Fiction The Cambodia File, with Bill Pronzini (1983) Control (1989) Zero Time (1990) The Japan Conspiracy (1993) Millennium (1995) The Saudi Connection, with Robert Westbrook (2005) References Further reading External links FBI file on Jack Anderson 1922 births 2005 deaths American investigative journalists American male journalists Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting winners American Mormon missionaries in the United States American people of Danish descent American people of Swedish descent Deaths from Parkinson's disease Neurological disease deaths in Maryland People from Murray, Utah Writers from Long Beach, California Writers from