There's a joke on the internet that if you can Google various nefarious terms, the FBI probably has a file on you somewhere. This joke is based on a grain of truth, as the Federal Bureau of Investigation has a history of keeping files on people for all sorts of reasons, many of which don't seem to rise to the level of criminal behavior that you'd think would require such a thing. Some of the people they have files on, and the reasons for having them, are almost unbelievable.
10. The FBI investigated Borat
When Sacha Baron Cohen was making the first Borat movie, he was in the news more than once for insulting or allegedly deceiving people who were trying to file him to court But that was just the tip of the iceberg. His behavior also brought him to the attention of the FBI, because satire, even when performed by a fairly well-known actor playing a fairly well-known character who existed years before the film was made, is hard to pin down.
During the filming of the 2006 movie Borat, the character drives around in an ice cream truck. Because of his dark appearance and odd behavior, it seemed to rub a lot of people the wrong way. Cohen told comedian Marc Maron on a podcast that the FBI had started getting complaints about the terrorist in an ice cream truck .
At some point, the FBI arrived at the hotel where the film crew was staying and forced Cohen disappear , so that he would be safe, just in case.
9. The FBI had files on Elvis
Elvis Presley was, and arguably still is, the biggest name in rock and roll, even though he's long since passed away. They didn't call him the King for nothing. But he had his share of controversies throughout his life, including some that escalated into a federal investigation. So what could have prompted the FBI to investigate the King of Rock and Roll?
IN large files, The FBI files on Elvis mention all sorts of unsavory details, including the fact that he had shoulder-length hair and an exotic wardrobe. He was later declared a danger to the security of the United States, mainly because " arouses sexual passions "teenage youth."
Elvis's files weren't all bad, however. The King was very fond of FBI Director Hoover and went to great lengths to meet him, including assuring the FBI that he was drug-free and concerned about the welfare of America's youth. He blamed his problems on the Beatles, Jane Fonda, and the Smothers Brothers.
8. George Carlin had an FBI file
Comedian George Carlin, a man who was never afraid to speak his mind, also fell foul of the Bureau for mocking J. Edgar Hoover in his act. Carlin appeared on The Carol Burnett and Jackie Gleason Show and rubbed Hoover the wrong way. He mocked the FBI and, in particular, on Hoover, which led to the creation of a 12-page file on the comedian.
Carlin himself filed a petition before his death. Freedom of Information Act request, to obtain the files and found memos that essentially accused him of influence-seeking without taste. The FBI had previously said it had no files on Carlin, so when they surfaced there was no immediate explanation.
7. Stanley Kubrick received a complaint from a naval admiral
Famous film director "Shine" And "2001: A Space Odyssey" Stanley Kubrick drew the ire of the FBI with another of his films: "Doctor Strangelove" .
Kubrick's file states that he was friends with a man whose name was redacted but who allegedly had communist friends However, this was only one potential problem, as retired Navy Admiral Burke made a special request to study Kubrick because his film denigrated the US military and considered it, along with several other films and books, to be detrimental to the country.
Despite the complaint, the file says they have no negative information about Kubrick.
6. The FBI had a dossier on monkeys
The Monkees were one of the most wholesome music groups of the time, but that didn't stop the FBI from monitoring them over allegations that the band was inserting subliminal messages into their music condemning the Vietnam War. In 2011 was made public edited version file, which bizarrely referred to the band as "The Monkeys," spelled like an animal, but it left out a lot of information.
In 2022, band member Mickey Dolenz filed a lawsuit against the FBI to obtain any files related to him, his bandmates, or their group. He says another investigation related to the group has been completely redacted and wants to know what it is about.
5. Bill Russell had a very small business.
If you're a fan of basketball history, you know Bill Russell, whose legacy on and off the court is legendary. He was 11-time champion and one of the greatest players in the history of the game. He also became a coach and participated in movementfor civil rights , which is his other great legacy. He spoke out against racism at a time when he was the victim of some of its most brutal forms imaginable. He spoke out against segregation; he protested the Vietnam War and, in later years, was an ardent supporter of Colin Kaepernick.
As you might imagine, much of what he did in the '60s and '70s was anti-establishment, and his anti-Vietnam activism in particular would have put the FBI on his trail. But their files on him raise more questions, including some that seem surprisingly petty and bigoted.
After receiving death threats for an article he wrote, Russell contacted the FBI himself. Years later FOIF request He showed that the FBI called him an “arrogant black man” and referred to the fact that he did not give out autographs to white children.
4. Trent Reznor's "Murder" Was Investigated
Trent Reznor is probably best known as the frontman of Nine Inch Nails, though he also works as a producer and composer, and has scored a number of films and TV shows. So he's a bit of a musical renaissance man.
Nine Inch Nails rose to fame in the '90s and often performed alongside the likes of Marilyn Manson and Tool. Basically, any band with a dark aesthetic. So perhaps it's not surprising that the FBI might open a file on someone like this, since they have a history of targeting musicians they fear might corrupt youth, engage in counter-culture messages, or encourage drug use. But none of that has anything to do with why the Bureau opened the film on Reznor. They had a dossier on him for investigation into his murder .
You can't blame the FBI for having files on famous murder victims. The problem with that was that Trent Reznor is still alive. No one killed him, so the investigation into his murder was something of a misfire.
The story begins in Michigan, where a weather balloon crashed in a farmer's field. But this was no ordinary balloon, it had a Super 8 camera attached to it. When the farmer called the police, they took the camera and looked at the footage. It showed two men in leather standing over a mutilated, decomposing corpse. Weird, huh?
For two years, the FBI pored over the footage, looking for clues about where it was filmed and who the people in it were. Besides, why would some leather-clad killer film his crime with a weather balloon? Unable to figure it out on their own, they finally turned to the public for help and almost immediately received a tip from a college student. The dead man in the video was Trent Reznor. He wasn't dead, either.
The video the FBI had was almost identical to the video Reznor made for the song " Down In It». Apparently no one at the FBI was watching MTV at the time. The weather balloon footage was their first attempt at a low-budget video, but they apparently lost the footage. Since Reznor was still alive, the case was closed.
3. The FBI had Grateful Dead files
The FBI opened a file on the Grateful Dead in 1970. The file, which is heavily redacted, says the Bureau was contacted by someone they clearly weren't familiar with, which they described as "appearing to be some kind of rock group."
There were suspicions that the Dead might sell LSD at their concerts, so the FBI opened a case. Much of what happened after that was covered up, there are entire pages in the official case that are blacked out, but since nothing came of it, it's hard to say what they determined or why. Suffice it to say, they seem to have given up on it, and Jerry Garcia and the boys were fine.
2. The song "Louie, Louie" by the Kingsmen
The Kingsmen's "Louie, Louie" was released in 1963 and reached number two on the Billboard charts. The song has been covered many times, and the Kingsmen's version was itself a cover, but the 1963 version was the most famous and, as it turned out, the most controversial.
The problem with the song is that no one knows what the hell it's about. The lyrics are mostly unintelligible, and when people can't figure out the meaning right away, they have a bad habit of making up meanings. People wrote to the FBI about the song, concerned that it conceals ugly, vulgar messages. Indiana Governor banned this song as pornographic. One parent wrote to the FBI and said the text was so dirty they couldn't even write it down in a letter.
FBI several months listened to the song, trying to figure out if it was obscene. Their final conclusion, in a 119-page document, was that no, there was nothing obscene about the song. People just couldn't get it.
1. They have a file on Bigfoot
All the people the FBI has files on, you can at least say with some degree of certainty that they are mostly real. And then there's Bigfoot. The FBI investigated Bigfoot, and you can read their full dossier on the cryptid online if you want. It's the full 22 pages , making it a little longer than many others.
The Bigfoot case dates back to 1976 and includes newspaper clippings, witness statements and other information about the creature. It mainly concerned hair samples , sent to the Bureau for analysis by the Director of the Bigfoot Information Center, who requested more information about what the hairs were, presumably at the end of verifying that they belonged to the big guy.
The request comes two years after the infamous Patterson-Gimlin footage of Bigfoot walking through the woods, which remains popular despite its refuted (although not everyone believes it).
It later turned out that the FBI didn't bother to analyze the hair samples at first because that's not the FBI's job. You can't just send them stuff out of curiosity. But sometimes you can, if it's a worthy scientific endeavor. So the assistant director of the FBI's scientific and technical division actually analyzed the hair. It belonged to a deer.
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