J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI denied that they had ever investigated
novelist John Steinbeck, yet for decades the FBI maintained a file
on Steinbeck, which included the recommendation by the U.S. Army
Counter-Intelligence Branch (G-2) that Steinbeck was unfit to be
commissioned as an officer in the Armed Forces during World War
Two. (Despite the evaluations by the California G-2 agent-in-charge
that Steinbeck did have the honesty, loyalty and integrity to be an
officer in the Armed Forces....) The FBi files on Steinbeck include
vague references to communist tendencies, the fact that the
communist press approved of "The Grapes of Wrath" -- and some other
Steinbeck novels -- the fact that he had read the communist
newspaper "The Daily Worker, " notations of the fact that
Steinbeck's second wife had once registered to vote as a communist
and, even later, critiques by the FBI of the character of police
officers in Steinbeck's 1961 novel, "The Winter of Our Discontent."
John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1962, yet the FBI files show a pattern of
distrust and guilt by innuendo. J. Edgar Hoover's denials of an
investigation of Steinbeck were, at the very least disingenuous, at
worst, an outright lie.
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