Bobby Fischer believed that he was being spied on by the KGB. Of course he was paranoid, both Bobby and his mother had been spied on since his childhood. The thing was . . . it was not the KGB who spying on Bobby Fischer. In 2002m it was revealed that it was the American government, which was spying on Bobby Fischer.
TIME: Monday, Jan. 27, 1975 Director William E. Colby admitted last week that the Central Intelligence Agency may have made "some missteps" in its 27-year history. Former Director James R. Schlesinger said that the agency had committed a "small number of misdemeanors," then corrected himself and called them "inappropriate actions." But no matter how cautiously Colby and Schlesinger chose their words, their meaning was clear: they were acknowledging that the CIA had spied for years on an undisclosed number of American dissidents within the U.S.
New York Times: Records Show FBI Probed Chess GreatBobby Fischer, the eccentric chess prodigy who dueled Soviet grand masters and won a world title in 1972, was investigated by FBI agents who suspected his mother was a communist spy.....( AP, 17 Nov 02)
Bobby Fischer believed that he was being spied on by the KGB. Of course he was paranoid, both Bobby and his mother had been spied on since his childhood. The thing was . . . it was not the KGB who spying on Bobby Fischer. In 2002m it was revealed that it was the American government, which was spying on Bobby Fischer. TIME: Monday, Jan. 27, 1975 Director William E. Colby admitted last week that the Central Intelligence Agency may have made "some missteps" in its 27-year history. Former Director James R. Schlesinger said that the agency had committed a "small number of misdemeanors," then corrected himself and called them "inappropriate actions." But no matter how cautiously Colby and Schlesinger chose their words, their meaning was clear: they were acknowledging that the CIA had spied for years on an undisclosed number of American dissidents within the U.S.
New York Times: Records Show FBI Probed Chess GreatBobby Fischer, the eccentric chess prodigy who dueled Soviet grand masters and won a world title in 1972, was investigated by FBI agents who suspected his mother was a communist spy.....( AP, 17 Nov 02)