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Join MuckRock this Thursday as we discuss “Scientists Under Surveillance: The FBI Files” at the MIT Press bookstore
In the Boston area? Join MuckRock’s JPat Brown, Beryl Lipton, and Michael Morisy this Thursday, April 18, as they discuss their latest book “Scientists Under Surveillance: The FBI Files” at the MIT Press bookstore as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.
![The nightmare fuel hidden in Richard Feynman's FBI file](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/06/07/Cov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
The nightmare fuel hidden in Richard Feynman’s FBI file
Two hundred pages into the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s copious file on the famed physicist Richard Feynman, and the reader is treated to a quite the surprise: A bizarre collage of what appears to be Feynman’s face alongside large swaths of redacted text, with a few cryptic phrases like “doubt everything” and “is a God” left intact. It is unclear if the redaction are original, or are the work of the FBI.
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B(7)e Mine: MuckRock’s FBI file crushes
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, MuckRock staff is declassifying their infatuation with figures from our FBI Files project.
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Richard Feynman put himself on the FBI’s Do Not Call list
Richard Feynman’s sprawling FBI file covers two-thirds of the legendary physicist’s career, from drama over his invitation to speak a Soviet science conference to an unnamed colleague citing his hobby of cracking safes at Los Alamos as evidence he was a “master of deception and enemy of America.” But the file stops abruptly in 1958, and for a very Feynmanian reason: Feynman asked them to.
![MuckRock Podcast: The Feynman Files](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2016/08/27/Feynmanheader.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
MuckRock Podcast: The Feynman Files
For the past few months, we’ve taken a small team at MuckRock aside to work on a special project unlike anything we’ve ever done. Today, I’m excited to share the results: The MuckRock podcast, season 1, episode 1.