He was a dirty little Communist in his early career, remember.
The website also filed a FOIA request with the FBI, who obliged, sending 19 pages of redacted documents pertaining to Hitchens. The first documents relate to Hitchens’ immigration records as he went through the process of becoming a naturalized American citizen in 2005. The documents get more interesting, though.
On June 29, 1970, a secret FBI document, obtained from a “secret and delicate source,” reads:
We have recently learned that the above-named [Christopher Hitchens] has been given a travel scholarship by Balliol College to go round the Universities in the United States.
Whilst a student at Oxford, HITCHENS was a member of the International Socialism (Cliff) Group of Trotskyists and the Oxford Revolutionary Socialist Students. He took an active role in several demonstrations and was arrested and fined on two occasions.
Other documents are so heavily redacted that there’s virtually nothing to read. And so it goes with the rest of the secret FBI documents, including several which relate to Hitchens obtaining a press pass for “admittance to the White House.”
Click the link to read the rest.
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