Buckminster Fuller's FBI File

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Ultimately, pretty anodyne. Doesn't really seem like there is a story here. It seems more like a reporter made the FOIA request. Not much contentet came back, reporter wrote article anyway.

The short version goes something like: unknown person tells FBI that Fuller has had some contacts with soviet people. FBI sits on the info. After some further contacts and some trips to Moscow, FBI decides to interview Fuller. Fuller is completely cooperative, and talks the FBIs ear off. End of file.

Respect to them for following up and publishing an article anyway though. Just like statistically insignificant experiments, sometimes the absence of a major headline is worth sharing, and it's nice to know that in an era when security services were particularly aggressive in pursuing alleged "fellow travellers", the FBI were able to refrain from persecuting at least one prominent eccentric.

This just makes me like Fuller even more and I have a tattoo of a buckyball net on my arm.

I'm curious what your tattoo looks like. Pics, or it didn't happen!

It looks like Orlando.

http://i.imgur.com/1Vy6Edr.jpg

And he delivers!

I think this has relevance in the present age because it seems anyone who professes to wanting to change the world through intelligent revolution is going to get a file opened on them by those who are only interested in maintaining the status quo.

It makes me wonder what all these people would do if there were really a revolutionary change in civilization such that the power is removed from the elite.

I wonder too. I suppose we'll have to bring about said change ;)

Actually I think the fact that we don't know an answer to that question means we're not ready to start the revolution ..

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