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Yes, you'll need documentation to establish your right to a US passport - probably more documentation than if you simply claim US citizenship. The assumption will be that, if you aren't a US citizen, then you must be the citizen of some other country and you should be getting your passport from that other country.
They don't just give passports out to anyone who asks. US passports are extremely important documents, and smugglers, fugitives, and terrorists are certainly eager for a US passport -- if not their own, most of them would gladly kill a US tourist and take his.
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