Sophie Jeannopoulos — FBI FOIA File NY140-18428

Nineteen pages on a Polish-refugee biologist that the FBI compiled in the early Cold War years. File NY140-18428, released under FOIA on May 11, 2026 — declassified after more than seventy years. The file covers Sophie’s early years in the United States and the surveillance interest that attached to many Eastern European refugees with Iron Curtain family ties. For the Jeannopoulos record, it is the source that finally recovered the names of her parents — Josef Jakowski and Maria Świergocka — and the camp where her father died (Majdanek), names that Sophie’s own 1960 autobiography had described in detail without ever speaking aloud.