We’ve Got A File on You
J. Edgar Hoover authorized and helped compile a fairly thick file on Hemingway. The file is 127 pages long, with 15 pages completely withheld or blacked out from public view, supposedly as a matter of national defense. The file was compiled over thirty years, beginning in October 1942 and continuing until 1974, thirteen years after the author’s Death.
There are also references in the file that suggest that Hoover had been keeping tabs on the writer for close to a decade, even before compiling the file. Hoover’s exact reasons for targeting him are still classified, but evidence suggests Hoover believed Hemingway was a Communist and a radical, as he did many other writers of the time.
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