"That" FBI Letter about Milliman

On the blog written by Shadow Deputy is a reproduction of a December 3, 2010 letter, purportedly from the FBI to Undersheriff Andy Zinke of the McHenry County Sheriff's Department. Get out your microscope or magnifying glass, or just click on the image to enlarge it; then click on the Back button on your browser to come back here.

First of all, take a good look at the letter. Check out its appearance. If that doesn't raise a suspicion of authenticity, then you'd better go back to Detective 101 class. Or check it out at http://shadowmcsd.blogspot.com/

Doesn't it look to you like it was typed on an old Underwood typewriter? Not even on an IBM Selectric. Look at the font. Look at the worn characters in the letter.

Secondly, where is the File Number? Notice in the upper left-hand corner where no File Number is entered? Since when does the FBI mail out official correspondence without a file number?

And then ask yourself... why is this letter sent to Zinke and not to Sheriff Nygren? And why isn't it sent by, and signed by, Robert D. Grant, Special Agent in Charge? Wouldn't you think that the top dog in the Chicago FBI office would be the one writing to the top dog at the McHenry County Sheriff's Department?

How nice that Angela carefully reviewed Zinke's December 3rd letter? And ...?

Why would the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office "out" a confidential informant? Isn't their position that they neither confirm nor deny the identity of confidential informants? Why would the FBI reveal anything about the findings in an investigation?

Notice that nothing in the letter mentions Sheriff Nygren. But didn't the sheriff's department say that the FBI had cleared Nygren? Not according to this letter.

And a ten-space indentation for each paragraph? That hasn't been used for years, if ever.
And is "Sincerely," the formal closing for an official FBI letter?

I think someone ought to ask the FBI to authenticate this letter.

Next, what is www.fbinaa-illinois.org/? Although membership criteria are not explained on the website, one can guess that the members are those who have attended FBI courses. The Treasurer of the FBINAA Northern Illinois Division is the undersheriff of the McHenry County Sheriff's Department. Glad he has time to serve in that capacity.

A quick check of the records of the Illinois Secretary of State's online records did not find FBINAA of Illinois, Inc., which is the name of the Association as shown after "Copyright" at the bottom of its homepage. The Association is registered with the Illinois Secretary of State as F.B.I. National Academy Associates of Illinois, Inc., and it is an Illinois not-for-profit corporation in good standing. If you look it up, be sure to look for "F.B.I. ... (including the periods)", not FBI ...