FBI had a conspiracy theory about Richard Feynman

[Gillianren]

Government paper trails are enormous, because they are supposed to save everything.

[stutefish]

Naturally they would want to keep documentation of serious allegations. They don't have to believe them to do that. Imagine if they get questioned about the allegations later, how do you think it would look if the response was "Maybe there were allegations, but we don't know, we threw away all our documentation on it"? That could look suspicious if not just incompetent, and could have forced a pointless investigation and caused more trouble for Feynman. After all, the person who made the allegations might have taken it to another level, sending their claims to newspapers and so forth, or done other things against Feynman. You don't throw away documentation on something like that.

Isn't there another thread about that around here somewhere?

Something about how an FBI agent put a memo into a dossier, and the memo said that some guy said that some informer told him that somebody who claimed to be an Air Force insider totally knows all about the alien UFOs at Roswell or something?

And decades later, the memo is trotted out by UFO nuts as proof that the FBI and/or the Air Force knew about aliens all along?

[goodnightsnookieukums]

Richard Feynman's FBI Files Released
Slashdot
June 06 2012

"The FBI files of noted physicist, esteemed author and all-around geek Richard Feynman have been released. Feynman and the FBI had an extended encounter after the Bureau discovered he had been invited to speak at the USSR, which set off a flurry of investigations into his loyalty — even as he pestered the State Department for guidance on whether he should or shouldn't go, guidance they only gave belatedly. Of particular interest to the FBI was his avid devotion to the art of lock picking, his high school membership in a socialism club (for social reasons, he swore), and the fact that he was a godless scientist who loved his bongo drums. Original documents are available. One other element? A seven-page letter detailing a conspiracy theory that Feynman was a sleeper agent for enemies unknown, but probably communist ones."

Interesting guy, but no friend of humanity, American or Soviet inventing WMDs. these guys are in a sense criminals.

[publiusr]

Oh good grief. Personally I'm angry at the wet job that ended Gerald Bull's brilliance. When I see flags wave, they are just gang colors on a bigger scale.
Let every child be his own standard, every woman her own banner--and every man his own flag.

[Swift]

Oh good grief. Personally I'm angry at the wet job that ended Gerald Bull's brilliance. When I see flags wave, they are just gang colors on a bigger scale.
Let every child be his own standard, every woman her own banner--and every man his own flag.

I'm not sure what you are talking about, but it sounds inappropriate. Anyway, this thread is closed