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Article: BOBBY FISCHER, THE FBI AND US.(LOCAL/STATE)(THE TALK)(Column)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- November 22, 2002
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Byline: Doug Moe
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 Philadelphia reporters to an archive in the Wisconsin Historical Society here, and the startling discovery, revealed in archived letters, that Bobby Fischer's father was likely not ...