NP Einstein's FBI file

[Doug Millison]

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/science/physical/07EINS.html

"[...] A look at Einstein's file, available at foia.fbi.gov/einstein.htm,
shows more about public - and bureau - attitudes toward scientific genius
than toward the genius himself. [...] H oover sent back a letter
summarizing Einstein's antiwar and leftist activities and an unsigned
undated "biographical sketch" that some historians suspect was influenced
by right-wing German sources. The sketch described Einstein's apartment in
Berlin in the early 1930s as "a Communist center" and his country house in
Caputh as "the hiding place of Moscow envoys." [...] On Feb. 13,
coincidentally or not, Mr. Jerome reports, the morning after Einstein had
appeared on the first broadcast of Eleanor Roosevelt's television program
to discuss the dangers of the arms race, Hoover ordered a full
investigation of the scientist, requesting all "derogatory information."