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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) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday January 06 2017, @02:36AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday January 06 2017, @02:36AM (#450060) Homepage

    I prefer to explain it as following you around in meatspace, everywhere you go except inside your house and when you go Inside your house I'm peeking through your windows and listening. If you have to use a public restroom I'm following you in there, too, just in case you're up to illegal activity.

    Then I bring up the "privacy is a necessary dignity" line and say that without it we're just animals in a zoo.