The Einstein File by Fred Jerome - A Must Read, published 2002
Albert Einstein was harassed and later targeted by the FBI beginning the day he stepped into the US until (after) the day he died.
Over 1800 pages were recovered under the FOIA from the FBI, with at first 25% of the text blacked out. Unsuccessful at destroying the universally popular icon for genius because of his political activism against nuclear proliferation and McCarthyism, after his passing the US government subsequently sanitized his image of politics, seeking to rewrite history.
Hoover had files on almost 10 million Americans. The FBI actively recruited former Nazis into its ranks.
This is an important book. The author himself was son of a man who served three years in prison in Pennsylvania convicted for Communist sympathies during the early Red scare, and in preface recounts FBI agents following his own family during childhood. Well researched with first-hand documentation and evidence.
Wanting more letters to read on Einstein's experience from the Einstein Collection in the National Archive Library in Jerusalem, I was given this book for further background.
© Copyright 2006 Dean Levinson
Albert Einstein was harassed and later targeted by the FBI beginning the day he stepped into the US until (after) the day he died.
Over 1800 pages were recovered under the FOIA from the FBI, with at first 25% of the text blacked out. Unsuccessful at destroying the universally popular icon for genius because of his political activism against nuclear proliferation and McCarthyism, after his passing the US government subsequently sanitized his image of politics, seeking to rewrite history.
Hoover had files on almost 10 million Americans. The FBI actively recruited former Nazis into its ranks.
This is an important book. The author himself was son of a man who served three years in prison in Pennsylvania convicted for Communist sympathies during the early Red scare, and in preface recounts FBI agents following his own family during childhood. Well researched with first-hand documentation and evidence.
Wanting more letters to read on Einstein's experience from the Einstein Collection in the National Archive Library in Jerusalem, I was given this book for further background.
© Copyright 2006 Dean Levinson
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