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posted by on Thursday January 05 2017, @07:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-you-know-who-i-am? dept.

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.

-- submitted from IRC


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by butthurt on Thursday January 05 2017, @09:08PM

    by butthurt (6141) on Thursday January 05 2017, @09:08PM (#449934) Journal

    Here's a link to a PDF of the letter (from which the last 13 pages are redacted) which, as mentioned in the summary, called Feynman a "master of deception." Its writer also wrote:

    I believe that Richard Feynman is either a Communist or very strongly pro-Communist [...]

    -- http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1958-08-08-Feynman-FBI-file-smear.pdf [nuclearsecrecy.com]

    It's linked from an article about the letter:

    http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/07/11/smeared-richard-feynman/ [nuclearsecrecy.com]

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:11PM (#449962)

    I believe that butthurt is either a Radicalized Muslim or very strongly pro-Radicalized Muslim.

    • (Score: 4, Funny) by butthurt on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:31PM

      by butthurt (6141) on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:31PM (#449968) Journal

      Apparently my ex has discovered SoylentNews.

    • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday January 06 2017, @01:35AM

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 06 2017, @01:35AM (#450033) Journal

      Why isn't there a -1 Idiot moderation? That's not only the wrong decade, it's the wrong century.

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