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Article: GROUCHO MARX WAS TARGETED BY THE FBI.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 13, 1998
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He did more than smoke cigars and leer at women. He defended free speech and U.S.-Soviet friendship. He had opinions on everything from the New Deal to the United Nations.
So when Groucho Marx wiggled those eyebrows and cracked wise about the Establishment, a few Establishment eyebrows went up as well.
Documents recently made public show the FBI kept detailed files on the comedian, ranging from his supportive quote about the Scottsboro Boys in the 1930s to jokes made on television in the '50s and '60s.
With the unintentional humor of a Marx brothers villain, the bureau is still withholding several pages ``in the interest of national defense or ...