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Article: The secret world on Groucho.(investigation of Groucho Marx)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- September 28, 1998
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No, they didn't confuse him with Karl. In 1953 the FBI really did want to know if Groucho Marx was a member of the Communist Party. Apparently the bureau was not familiar with Groucho's famous motto, "I don't care to belong to any club that accepts people like me as members." In response to my Freedom of Information Act request, the FBI released 186 pages of its file on Groucho, who died in 1977 at 82. It contains a lengthy report to J. Edgar Hoover dated December 1953 on "the affiliation, if any, of GRAUCHO 40 [sic] MARX with the Communist Party."
Most of the Groucho file concerns a 1937 copyright infringement case having nothing to do with politics. But the ...
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