"it made the newspapers because of Bell’s allegations of “extreme cruelty” by Feynman, including the notion that he spent all of his waking hours either doing calculus and playing the bongos."
I find it hard to imagine a world where the eccentric behaviors and personal lives of practicing scientists would receive newspaper coverage.
55 comments in 2014 on HN:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024982" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024982</a>
I suspect form the viewpoint of the F.B.I. that it's not only someone's allegiance that is important, but how verifiable that allegiance is.<p>Given that the most clever and intelligent among us could be better prepared for subterfuge, it perhaps makes the question of "Is Feynman trustworthy?" rather difficult.
Wouldn't surprise me if Feynman was at least sympathetic to communism, at least to anarchism for sure, on some of the lectures when he talks about his father teaching him about equality and the disdain for prizes and titles.