Sunday, May 02, 2010

From LIFE.com: Groucho Marx

Could it merely have been his last name that made the FBI raise eyebrows? The comedian's files include conflicting intel about his involvement with communists (a connection to the Party was never proved). Reads one confidential summary from 1963: "In so far as informant was aware, MARX was not a member of the Communist Party but that he appeared to be sympathetic thereto. Informant bases this on the recollection that MARX was an avid reader of such publications...

- Rob

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