Philip Dick

[Bob Lyons]

At 09:35 AM 1/27/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi all--
>
>just finished ...electric sheep. one of the best stories I've read in a 
>while.  what are your top three p dick favorites...hehe, no duff beer jokes ;)
>
>Rich


         That is a good read.  I saw this on scifi.com yesterday:

Dick Told FBI About Fears
F writer Philip K. Dick once told the FBI that he feared he was being
coerced by a secret world group to spread the word about a new syphilis
epidemic. The surprising claim is found in letters Dick wrote in 1972 to
the FBI and that are contained in the bureau's files, according to the
APBnews.com Web site.

Dick wrote that he was being asked by a secretive world health
organization to spread the word about "paresis, an alleged new strain of
syphilis sweeping the United States, which caused quick death."

Dick was prompted to write the letters because he said he feared for his
life after a burglary to his Marin County, Calif., apartment. Dick feared
that the burglar was Harold Kinchen, a Nazi sympathizer who had been
under investigation by the Air Force, and who Dick believed had links to
the secret health organization. Dick reportedly moved to Canada to get
away from Kinchen. There is no sign the FBI investigated Dick's claims.

Anne Dick, one of Dick's five ex-wives, dismissed the conspiracy and
questioned the reality of any break-in. "He was a little paranoid," said
the woman who once wrote a biography of the author.

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