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Wednesday, September 21, 2005
And You Thought Gossip Columnists Are Nosy Liberace liked to gamble? Bette Davis was a communist sympathizer? Actor Victor Mature had a stalker? All sorts of allegations and insinuations are emerging from a six-inch stack of FBI documents obtained by the Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act. The AP asked for every "High Visibility Memorandum" from 1974 to 2005 and got 1,500 pages on all sorts of famous folks, including Louis Armstrong, Lucille Ball, Walter Payton and Albert Einstein. Story. Feel safer knowing the Bureau kept a watchful eye on Groucho Marx (above), Walt Disney and the TV show The FBI? Wonder if the FBI has a file on you?
