As I was growing up I was fascinated by radios. I would listen to my grandpa’s short-wave radio all hours of the day and night listening to radio transmissions from all over the world. I would often write the radio stations and ask for QSL cards (verification of reception), as well as for programming schedules and information about their country. Most of the stations would comply and I received copious amounts of information from each station. That became a concern for my mother (and apparently some of her friends and other family members) when I started getting a lot of propaganda from communist occupied countries such as Cuba, Russia, and China. I even received pocket sized copies of the Constitution of the Communist Party of China and Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book in the mail. My mom swears there were men sitting in large cars with tinted windows down the street from our house and she suspected they were watching us. So my mom sent the following letter to the FCC to clarify if I was doing anything wrong. The FCCs response was typewritten, very curt, and wasn’t signed. Its funny now, but at the time we were at the peak of the cold war.