<p>| FBI Wiretapped Hemingway<br />|   from the rights-and-writers dept.<br />|    posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 02, @16:55 (Books)<br />|   <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/2049206/FBI-Wiretapped-Hemingway?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/2049206/FBI-Wiretapped-Hemingway?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]Hugh  Pickens writes "On the fiftieth anniversary of the death by<br />suicide of author  Ernest Hemingway, his friend and biographer A. E.<br />Hotchner writes in the NY  Times that the man who 'had stood his ground<br />against charging water  buffaloes, who had flown missions over Germany,<br />who had refused to accept the  prevailing style of writing but, enduring<br />rejection and poverty, had insisted  on writing in his own unique way,<br />this man, my deepest friend, was afraid —  [1]afraid that the FBI was<br />after him, that his body was disintegrating, that  his friends had turned<br />on him, that living was no longer an option.' In the  midst of depression<br />and under treatment at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester,  Minnesota,<br />Hemingway was convinced that his room was bugged, his phone was  tapped,<br />and suspected that one of the interns was a fed. Decades later,  in<br />response to a Freedom of Information petition, [2]the FBI released  its<br />Hemingway file. It revealed that beginning in the 1940s J. Edgar  Hoover<br />had placed Hemingway under surveillance because he was suspicious  of<br />Ernest's activities in Cuba. The surveillance continued all through  his<br />confinement at St. Mary's Hospital, making it likely that the  phone<br />outside his room was tapped after all. 'In the years since, I have  tried<br />to reconcile Ernest's fear of the FBI, which I regretfully  misjudged,<br />with the reality of the FBI file,' writes [3]Hotchner, author of  Papa<br />Hemingway and Hemingway and His World. 'I now believe he truly sensed  the<br />surveillance, and that it substantially contributed to his anguish  and<br />his suicide.'"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/2049206/FBI-Wiretapped-Hemingway?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/2049206/FBI-Wiretapped-Hemingway?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href="http://hughpickens.com/">http://hughpickens.com/</a><br /> 1. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/opinion/02hotchner.html?_r=4&amp;pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/opinion/02hotchner.html?_r=4&amp;pagewanted=all</a><br /> 2. <a href="http://vault.fbi.gov/Ernest%20Hemingway%20/Ernest%20Hemingway%20Part%201%20of%203/view">http://vault.fbi.gov/Ernest%20Hemingway%20/Ernest%20Hemingway%20Part%201%20of%203/view</a><br /> 3. <a href="http://simplycharly.com/hemingway/ae_hotchner_papa_hemingway_reviews.htm">http://simplycharly.com/hemingway/ae_hotchner_papa_hemingway_reviews.htm</a></p>