Today in 1955 Albert Einstein died.
For twenty-two
years the FBI tapped his telephone, read his mail and went through his garbage.
They spied on
Einstein because he was a spy for the Russians. So said his bulky police file.
The file also said he had invented a death ray and a robot that could read
minds. It is said Einstein was a member, collaborator or fellow traveler of
thirty-four Communist front organizations between 1937 and 1954, and was
honorary chair of three Communist organizations. It concluded: “It seems
unlikely that a man of his background could, in such a short time, become a
loyal American citizen.”
Not even death
saved him. They continued spying on him. Not the FBI, but his colleagues, men
of science who sliced his brain into two hundred forty pieces and analyzed them
to find an explanation for his genius.
They found
nothing.
Einstein had
already warned, “I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious.”
~Eduardo
Galeano, Children of the Days
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