Savetz Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 In July I filed a freedom of information act request with the FBI, asking for files relating to the Coleco toy company. I was hoping for something interesting about Colecovision or ADAM. Instead, I got 227 pages about the theft of 890 Smurf Power Cycles from a truck stop in Virginia. They didn't have any files about ColecoVision or ADAM. The full text of my request and their 227-page reply is here: https://archive.org/details/Coleco_FBI_FOIA_Request_Response --Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddlepaddle Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Must not be any political value left in sheilding perpetrators of The Great Smurf Power Cycles Caper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phattyboombatty Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Maybe if you'd requested docs from "Coleco Electronics", you'd have gotten different results? I'm not certain about that, but this might have been a different subsidiary/money pot from other Coleco holdings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Very good point about using "Coleco Electronics" and it would be very interesting to see if something turned up. I don't recall off-hand and may be wrong, but seems to be that Coleco didn't start using "Coleco Electronics" until sometime in early 1984... as far as the ColecoVision and ADAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Yurkie Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Wouldn't one want to request info on "Connecticut Leather Company"? To me Coleco would be to Connecticut Leather Company, what Quarter Pounder is to McDonald's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted December 22, 2014 Author Share Posted December 22, 2014 Wouldn't one want to request info on "Connecticut Leather Company"? I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValkerieSilk Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 They never did catch me... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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