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Einstein's 1,427-Page F.B.I. File

Posted by timothy on from the suspicious-pipe-user dept.

meow meow cat chow writes: "Fred Jerome of the Gene Media Forum has recently written a book called "The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against the World's Most Famous Scientist." The book talks about how the FBI spied on Einstein and identifies some of the people who said he was a spy. Jerome sued the government to obtain access to the 1,427 page file which can be found at (http://foia.fbi.gov/einstein.htm) The New York Times has an article about the book."

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  1. Re:No surprising. by Spoing · · Score: 3, Funny
    Did you even bother to read the article? He wasn't being investigated becuase he was against nuclear weapons. And they just didn't "assume" he was a communist. He, in all actuality, was a communist. If you read the article, you would know that he was affiliated with 34 communist front groups between 1937-1954, and was a chairman in three of those groups. The government had every right to be suspicious about him. Read the article before you rant about something you have no clue about.

    Yeah, Communism is so obviously an effective threat against Capitalism that it was...erm...never mind.

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  2. The FBI is nothing compared to Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ku Klux Klan - 91,800 pages

    Aryan Brotherhood - 2,630 pages

    Adolph Hitler - 34,600 pages

    Adolf Hitler - 195,000 pages

    Hell's Angels - 21,300 pages

    Martin Luther King Jr. - 613,000 pages

    Black Panther Party - 21,100 pages

    Gay Activists Alliance & GLA - 549,621 pages

    Abbie Hoffman - 19,800 pages

    Albert Einstein - 481,000 pages

    1. Re:The FBI is nothing compared to Google by PD · · Score: 3, Funny

      Precious Bodily Fluids : 5810

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  3. Re:HELLO, people, the FBI was *right*, okay? by Thing+1 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Emphasis mine:
    All of these people posed (and the AFSC still poses) a clear threat to the welfare of this nation.

    Waitaminit -- these people are leftists, right? You'd think they'd be for welfare, wouldn't you? ;-)

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