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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."

3 of 351 comments (clear)

  1. Re:No surprising. by dj28 · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:More FBI files by Iamthefallen · · Score: 3, Informative

    At http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex.htm, where you'll also find Einsteins and various others FBI acts.

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  3. Re:Fifties flashbacks... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Right now the Europeans are looking quietly at one another, and at the Russians, and the Chinese, and thinking... If the USA chooses to make itself the singular enemy of all mankind, where does one stand for security?

    The better-informed Europeans realise that Russia and China also oppose the International Criminal Court.