People are just realizing the FBI held 1,427 secret files on Albert Einstein
Few know that Albert Einstein, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was under FBI surveillance for over 20 years. After fleeing Nazi Germany in 1932, his outspoken views on pacifism, civil rights, and critiques of capitalism made him a target. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover suspected him of being a communist, amassing a 1,427-page file by the…