doing at georgetown law school and how did i like this particular course and what about my friends. here am i just putting it in context. i was a very junior member of a junior member of the house on an investigation that mattered to them greatly and he is disclosing to me that he knows a lot of personal information about me. that maybe my opinion that say i expressed to his colleague, which he knew all about maybe weren't the right ones. maybe with my bright future i should consider other options other than a conspiracy theory. i didn't want to overreact. i was young at the time and mentioned it to a few people on the staff but it was certainly unnerving an chilling in a rather subtle -- you didn't know if he was a rogue intelligence agent or what, but for someone in my position doing the work i did, it was a bit unnerving. >> michael, does that surprise you at all? how significant was it even, given the context of the time, that the house panel opened this investigation? >> well, it was almost inevitable because in the mid-1970s, that's when americans learned for the first time about