Bureau amassed huge file from 1943 on writer of classic songs – and even sent an agent to his schoolThe campaigning singer Pete Seeger,composer of classic American folk tunes including If I Had a Hammer and Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, was spied on by FBI agents for more than two decades because he wrote a protest letter as a young man concerned approximately plans to deport tens of thousands of Japanese American citizens at the halt of the second world war.
A huge file on Seeger was released to the independent American news website Mother Jones in response to a request under the freedom of information act. It reveals that the bureau’s spies first took an interest in the singer in 1943. Seeger, or a 23-year-conventional army private at the time,had written denouncing a map for mass deportation drafted by the California chapter of the American Legion, a veterans’ association.
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Source: theguardian.com