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Clickbait tripe. It begins: "Hemingway’s friends and loved ones believed he was insane when he told them the FBI was following him, but the truth turned out to
by elefanten 5y ago
Clickbait tripe. It begins: "Hemingway’s friends and loved ones believed he was insane when he told them the FBI was following him, but the truth turned out to be far worse than anyone could’ve expected."
But the big reveal is that a 1980's FOIA request showed that the FBI was indeed surveilling him and conducted 50 unspecified "searches" over the last ~14 months of his life.
The article also shares that he:
-was an FBI asset for a long time circa WW2
-that he went eventually parted ways with them after a period of going out of his way to talk shit about them and troll them
-that he moved to Cuba, got close to Castro and loudly proclaimed support for the rising communist faction
Take all this together and it's pretty easy to understand why, particularly in that era, the FBI was surveilling him.
So what's "the truth" that turned out to be "far worse than anyone could’ve expected"?
His last days were sad, but there's no scandal here.
- smcameron 5y agoThe article drops this in, "At the time the United States was neck-deep in the Red Scare, and communism was like atheism to the US government and the FBI." without comment, as if everyone just knows that atheism is the worst thing ever.
- beepbooptheory 5y agoI agree this is clickbat trash, but the only thing that doesnt make this a scandal is the sad fact that we implicitly accept the extra-political power (and cruelty) of US intelligence agencies at large. If it wasnt a scandal, why did it take FOIA request to reveal the measures the FBI were applying to a huge American citizen cultural figure?
- creato 5y agoHow else would the information come to light? I don’t expect the FBI to periodically dig up old data to publicize without a reason.