Aamused in Austin, TX

04-18) 16:20 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Not long after columnist Jack Anderson's funeral, FBI agents called his widow to say they wanted to search his papers. They were looking for confidential government information he might have acquired in a half-century of investigative reporting.

The agents expressed interest in documents that would aid the government's case against two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, who have been charged with disclosing classified information, said Kevin Anderson, the columnist's son.

In addition, the agents told the family they planned to remove from the columnist's archive — which has yet to be catalogued — any document they came across that was stamped "secret" or "confidential," or was otherwise classified.