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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, 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.

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  • (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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