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!["Eccentric with a slightly gruff manner." Philip S. Foner's FBI File](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/fonercov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
“Eccentric with a slightly gruff manner.” Philip S. Foner’s FBI File
After an 11-month wait, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has finally released the file it maintained on renowned Marxist historian Philip S. Foner. Although the file is short - only 45 pages - it is heavily redacted, with even most of the dates blocked out. A document dated 1984 makes reference to a “security matter case” that prompted an investigation in 1946 - however, those files appear to have been entirely withheld.
![The FBI spent decades tracking mathematician Paul Erdős, only to conclude that the guy was just really into math](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/erdoscov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
The FBI spent decades tracking mathematician Paul Erdős, only to conclude that the guy was just really into math
A Hungarian born in the early 20th century, Paul (Pal) Erdős, mathematician, was well-known and well-liked, the sort of eccentric scientist from the Soviet sphere that made Feds’ ears perk up in mid-century America. But, try as they might, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was never able to find much motivation behind his movements and acquaintances beyond the math of it all.
![FBI declined to investigate Hannah Arendt over man's claim she "corrupted" his daughter](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/arendtcov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
FBI declined to investigate Hannah Arendt over man’s claim she “corrupted” his daughter
Despite a distraught father’s fears that she had “corrupted” her daughter with European wanderlust, the FBI declined to investigate Professor Hannah Arendt in 1956.
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