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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: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:07PM (#449959)

    If there's one thing that came out of the Cold War, it was the undeniable fact that government is merely a work program for society's knuckle-dragging bullies.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:35PM (#449969)

    I wish they were knuckle draggers, and they employ a fair share of those, but sadly the majority are rather intelligent. This is worse because you can't just sidestep their stupidity. They are smart enough to screw us over, and dumb enough to do it badly. Blech.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:38PM (#449972)

      Just because a creature drags its knuckles doesn't mean it can't be taught to perform some sophisticated behaviors. They are unwitting and expendable cogs in a giant, indifferent machine whose sole and nearly sentient purpose is to maintain (if not expand) its existence.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @12:05AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @12:05AM (#450001)

        ... as opposed to...?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @01:59AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @01:59AM (#450042)

          You mama........... bish

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by butthurt on Friday January 06 2017, @12:06AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Friday January 06 2017, @12:06AM (#450003) Journal

    > [...] government is merely a work program for society's knuckle-dragging bullies.

    Dr. Feynman worked for the government.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @12:14AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @12:14AM (#450008)

      That proves it then! He was either a knuckle-dragging bully or very strongly pro-knuckle-dragging bully.