Richard Feynman's sprawling FBI file covers two-thirds of the physicist's legendary career, from drama over his invitation to speak at a Soviet science conference to an unnamed colleague citing his hobby of cracking safes at Los Alamos as evidence he was a "master of deception and enemy of America." But the file stops abruptly in 1958, and for a very Feynmanian reason: Feynman asked them to.
After decades of Bureau inquiries, it appears a fed-up Feynman simply pulled the "I made the atomic bomb" card and asked to be left alone.
To their credit (and perhaps due to Feynman's not inconsiderable clout), the FBI obeyed Feynman's wishes, with Hoover even writing a chastising memo reminding agents not to bother the man without a damn good reason.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Zz9zZ on Thursday January 05 2017, @07:59PM
I still want to mod you down for even jesting about that so called "argument".
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday January 05 2017, @08:04PM
It is a very correct argument though, since the whole US economy is based on getting (or feeling that you have) as many things as possible so you can be trapped by the fear of losing them
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:56PM
US economy? That's just mortality.