It's a fact.
Between 1940 and 1980 the FBI in the United States was investigating some high profile Hollywood movie stars, famous singers and one eminent scientist.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, DC has released a large number of archives under the federal Freedom Of Information Act, for anyone to access using The Internet.
It is rare for the FBI to release archived records for public view.
The Freedom Of Information Act is quite revolutionary in this respect and it brings a certain transparency to American public life.
It allows U.
S.
citizens to lookup their public records online using third party tools such as Net Detective and the 'Complete Investigation Service' -- both being web based data searching systems.
The era of The Cold War was a time of spying, intense fear and even of governmental paranoia.
The Vietnam War erupted out of these feelings and a strong belief that communism was about to spread to some Asian countries like a row of collapsing dominoes.
History showed that these fears were ungrounded.
The eminent scientist, who will remain unnamed, was under federal investigation in the USA because he was an active member of the communist party.
An extremely popular Italian singer from the 1950s was being watched and placed under investigation by the FBI for his alleged connections with the New York Mafia.
Organized crime was rampant in the states during that decade and police corruption was absolutely rife.
About two decades later, a famous rock singer-songwriter was brought to federal notice for having contributed $75,000 towards a group intent on disrupting a Republican Party conference.
During those tumultuous years it appears that the FBI may have sometimes been an organ used for supporting the incumbent political party, in addition to being an agency for law enforcement and for the fighting and prevention of crime.
The FBI archives make for some really fascinating and intriguing reading, especially when viewed from the perspective of the Twenty First Century.