--- Max Sawicky <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> Paul Krassner, editor of The Realist, liked to
> remind people
> that the FBI kept a file on Helen Keller. (she was
> an IWW symp)
>
> mbs
>
>
Speaking of which..the NY Times reported that Einstein was on the FBI watch list too...going through his garbage and all that:
New Details Emerge From the Einstein Files By DENNIS OVERBYE
Women pursued him, celebrities sought him out, politicians courted him, and journalists followed him through the streets.
But, as Einstein was well aware, there was a darker posse on his trail. For many years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies spied on him, acting on suspicions as disturbing as a tip that he had been a Russian spy in Berlin; as vague as an unease with his support of civil rights and pacifist and socialist causes; and as goofy as claims that he was working on a death ray or that he was heading a Communist conspiracy to take over Hollywood. Full Text: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/science/physical/07EINS.html
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