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Kungfu
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 Posted: Wed May 08, 2002 8:53 am Post subject: Death Ray Fear Reason FBI Hounded Einstein for over 19 Years |
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FBI\'s Einstein theory: he\'s a spy
May 8 2002
Albert Einstein ... FBI worried he had a death ray.
For almost 20 years, the FBI and other agencies spied on Einstein.
They were tipped off that he had been a Russian spy in Berlin, they were uneasy about his support of civil rights and pacifism, and they worried over claims he was working on a death ray.
And when he wasn\'t busy with all that, they suspected he was heading a communist conspiracy to take over Hollywood.
Einstein became an international celebrity in 1919, when observations of light bending during a solar eclipse validated his general theory of relativity, which rewrote the laws of space, time and gravity.
New material obtained by the writer Fred Jerome spells out how the FBI spied on Einstein and his associates and identifies some of the informants.
The agents went through garbage and monitored mail and telephone calls. The investigation turned up nothing. Nevertheless, the agency dogged Einstein\'s footsteps until his death in 1955.
Jerome, whose The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover\'s Secret War Against the World\'s Most Famous Scientist will be published this month, contends that Einstein was a savvy and politically astute champion of the underdog who made hardheaded choices about what organisations he would support.
He moved to the United States in 1933, when Hitler seized power in Germany, but his support for the anti-fascist forces in Spain raised hackles.
The file sheds some light on Einstein\'s involvement, or non-involvement, with the atomic bomb. He wrote to President Franklin Roosevelt warning that such a weapon was possible and that Germany might be working on it. The letter helped set the stage for the Manhattan Project, yet Einstein never worked on it.
Through a spokesman, the FBI declined to comment specifically on the file, saying it was up to the public to evaluate the material.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/08/1019441506041.html
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