FBI campaign against Einstein revealed

[gnosis_within]

By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online science editor


A new book reveals the 22-year effort by FBI director J Edgar Hoover to get Albert Einstein arrested as a political subversive or even a Soviet spy.
Uncovered FBI files are revealed in a book by Fred Jerome who says it was a clash of cultures - Einstein's challenge and change with Hoover's order and obedience.

From the time Einstein arrived in the US in 1933 to the time of his death, in 1955, the FBI files reveal that his phone was tapped, his mail was opened and even his trash searched.

Einstein became world famous in 1906 for his Special Theory of Relativity that deals with light.

His General Theory of Relativity, published in 1919, deals with gravity and has been called mankind's greatest intellectual accomplishment.

Derogatory information

The Einstein File begins with a request by J Edgar Hoover in 1950: "Please furnish a report as to the nature of any derogatory information contained in any file your bureau may have on the following person."

That person was Albert Einstein, and the request intensified a secret campaign to discredit him.

Hoover was worried about Einstein's liberal intellectualism and his dabbling in politics, something that has been forgotten today. It has been overtaken by Einstein's absent-minded professor image.

But Einstein was outspoken against social injustice and violations of civil rights.

The fledgling state of Israel once offered Einstein its presidency. Einstein declined.

The broad outline of this story has been known since 1983, when Richard Alan Schwartz, a professor of English at Florida International University in Miami, obtained a censored version of Einstein's 1,427-page FBI file.

But Jerome uncovers new material.

He sued the US Government with the help of the Public Citizen Litigation Group to obtain all the documents in the Einstein file.

Stalin comparison

The new material shows how the bureau spied on Einstein.

"It is like the agents got up in the morning, brushed their teeth, opened other people's mail and tapped some phones," he told the BBC.

After he left Germany, appalled by the barbarism of the Nazis, Einstein lent his name to a variety of organisations dedicated to peace and disarmament.

Because of this, the Woman Patriot Corp wrote a 16-page letter to the State Department, the first item in Einstein's file, in 1932, arguing that Einstein should not be allowed into the United States.

"Not even Stalin himself" was affiliated with so many anarchic-communist groups, the letter said.

Fred Jerome reveals that the 1,800-page document prepared about Einstein by the FBI shows that the agency even bugged his secretary's nephew's house.

The files reveal that for five years J Edgar Hoover tried, and failed, to link Einstein to a Soviet espionage ring.

The Einstein File by Fred Jerome, St Martin's Press, New York, 272 pages.

[zelazny]

eeehm
this almost sounds like an unashamed sales ad for a book, can i bash him shatzy?
can i? can i?

[SHATOUSHKA]

HB is a free message board provider.
if you are registered, you can post.
if you moderate, you can edit/delete.

be my guest.

[penisvelour]

Good point Shatzy, too often forgotten by members.

Like that gaming clan in this category. Guess that European Hardcore Wrestling rollplaying kid learned where the delete button is, cause the "Genaral Discussion" thread is gone. There're lots of other more appropriate categories on HB (Games, Fantasy, Sports, etc.), but if he thinks that's "hardcore", let him.

That Preteen Password forum is pretty creepy, a hella load of non-English speaking people drooling over pics of nude pseudo-seductivly posed children on password-protected sites with banners & popups for legit porn. Creepy, hell yea! Illegal, nope. There likely ARE a few child molestors floating around that forum, but as long as the kids aren't shown flashing pink (ie; Hustler Magazine-type photography) or being penetrated with a toy, finger, use-your-imagination, it IS legal. Distasteful, perhaps, but legal. Should keep an eye on their posted sites though; the way they're tossing around URL's & passwords, an illegal image (something not photoshopped) might slip in there & get HB busted.

[SHATOUSHKA]

LOL...

i'm about to say something quite profound.
(brace yourselves)

my whole beef with the pre-teen forum...

everyone knows they are wackin to it.
they know it, i know it, everyone knows it.

this whole BS they are posting is nothing
more than BS.

for once in my life, i'd like to see someone
have the fucking nuts to stand up for what
they are really doing.

if you are posting links to porn sites...

<font size=30>ADMIT IT!!!</font>

they lost all my respect when they showed
their cowardice.
now its just fun to play with the babies.

[TastinGood]

I KNEW I should have turned that damn web cam off before visiting the preteen site!

[penisvelour]

I'd say putting their forum in the ADULT category kinda explains their intentions well enough (so long as they remember to hose down the keyboard every night). Hahaa, but coming-out with that "IT'S ART!!!" excuse was about as poorly-conceived a reply as anybody coulda spouted! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

For the couple days the forum had new posts, BOYLOVE didn't make many excuses. Sure, they distanced themselves from pedophilia & underage sexual activity too, but they at least had the sack to say "we like boys".

[SHATOUSHKA]

AGREED!

as you and i both know, i tried to
post on the boylove forum too.
(as well as you, tard)

maybe i have a twisted humor,
but i love messing with them.

*grins* [img]graemlins/devil.gif[/img]

[Tard]

Shucks!

http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/ult...pic&f=1&t=1509

Wanted to get a bonfire burning to roast these preteen-picophiles in, but Steven doesn't want to throw wood on the potential fire.... [img]frown.gif[/img]

[SHATOUSHKA]

here is my demented thinking:

steven is the aloof general that
quietly stands atop a hill to survey
the battlefield.

i'm (or we, as posters) are the jackass
slack-jawed privates.

steven waves the strangers in his
territory, keeping close eye on the turf.

we are the battle line paced 100 yards
out.

in some cases, when its best to create
a peace treaty, when the other side has
potential to offer you something. so,
you send your best men to approach the
opposing forces... greeting them with flags
and shit like that.

in other cases, the occasional jackass
private runs across no-man's-land shouting
insults in a language they cannot understand
just to rile things up a bit.

i'll let you decide which team you wanna
be on. [img]wink.gif[/img]

*slides a pack of smokes into her helmet*