Federal Bureau of Investigation
Albert Einstein: FBI surveillance file
Case file · written 1932 · released April 2011
Why this matters
More than 1,400 pages recording two decades of FBI suspicion of Albert Einstein, starting in 1932 with a patriotic group's petition to keep him out of the country. The Bureau tracked his pacifism, his civil-rights advocacy and his alleged communist ties, and turned up nothing. It is a detailed study of how McCarthy-era anxieties reached even the most famous scientist in the world.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation. "Albert Einstein: FBI surveillance file." 1932. Released April 2011. https://vault.fbi.gov/Albert%20Einstein (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0011).
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