Re: I Married A Communist

[Barkley Rosser <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

      A curious upshot of the FBI's focus on the Red Diaper babies
was that it often distracted them from things that were really going
on.  Thus, when Robert Meeropol was a grad student in economics
at the University of Wisconsin in the late 1960s and early 1970s,
the FBI focused huge resources on watching him rather than on
other campus activists, although others were also watched.  He
was certainly involved in anti-war activities, but was not nearly
as important or central as many other folks, and when bombings
happened on campus, he had nothing to do with them and the
resources expended on watching him even more closely were
ridiculously wasted.
Barkley Rosser
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] I Married A Communist


> http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,970822,00.html
>
> Born in the eye of the FBI
>
> It is 50 years since Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed as spies.
> Their son Robert was just one of the 'red diaper' babies - children of
> communists, targets of McCarthy. Gary Younge tracks them down
>
> Saturday June 7, 2003
> The Guardian
>