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Article: BOBBY FISCHER, THE FBI AND US.(FRONT)(THE TALK)(Column)

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January 2, 2004
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Byline: Doug Moe

Editor's note: Doug Moe is on vacation today. This column, which originally ran Nov. 22, 2002, is a classic he chose for his readers to enjoy today. The Talk will return Saturday.

IN J. EDGAR Hoover's America even paranoids had enemies.

When Bobby Fischer, the young and troubled chess genius, went to Moscow for a match in 1958, Hoover's FBI had already been tracking his mother for 16 years. Regina Fischer spoke eight languages and heard voices in all of them, according to a psychiatrist who pronounced her paranoid in 1943. Regina's FBI file grew to 750 pages, and it is that file, recently declassified, that eventually led two ...

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